Review: Remember Me (360)

 

There are memories we'd all like to forget. For me, a big one I'd love erased from my head was Mitch Williams of the Philadelphia Phillies delivering a big, fat gopher ball, a World Series-losing gopher ball, to Joe bleeping Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays in 1993. Yeah, that's one I could do without.

Preview: Remember Me (360, PC, PS3)

I'm a sucker for "lost memory" stories even though I think it's a trope full of lazy cliché, especially in games. Too often it's a matter of convenience and makes it feel like the designer didn't quite know how to begin a story so he or she washes the main character up on a beach with a healthy case of amnesia. The character innately knows how to summon a two-headed, acid-breathing dragon, SURPRISE, which is the only way to defeat the evil sorcerer, SURPRISE!

The player is never surprised.