Remember Me: COMPLETE.

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We will conclude Remember Me with a VERY SPOILER FILLED conversation I had with a friend. SPOILERS. Seriously. Huge ones. REALLY HUGE ONES.



You page, "...well." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "?" to you.
You page, "I just finished Remember Me." to [REDACTED]
[REDACTED] pages, "And?" to you.
You page, "... I'm pretty sure Nilin just saved the world by Falcon Punching the shit out of the thirty foot tall personification of Wikipedia." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "What." to you.
You page, "And then she gives a speech about how memories are like a fortress, and the world needs both good and bad memories to function, except that she's going back to a world where her parents are the two richest people in the universe and everyone else is about to be severely traumatized by having their negative memories suddenly reappear in their brains, including her mother (who hates her)." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "So she's kind of a huge troll." to you.
You page, "...I... Here, have a real plot summary. *link*" to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "Soooo the entire technological advancement of manipulating memories was Bad For Srs, Guys and should be put in the ground and nuked." to you.
You page, "I'm about 99% sure the ultimate lesson of the whole thing is that this NEW TECHNOLOGY is INHERENTLY EVIL AND WRONG and nobody should ever use it and it should be destroyed forever and never recreated, just like all those times in reality we've successfully destroyed an entire branch of innovation and never returned to it." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "I am tired of that plot." to you.
You page, "Yeah I'm worried I'm going to start typing my writeup and just derail into fifteen paragraphs of "FUCKING STOP IT"." to [REDACTED].
You page, "More, the entire technological advancement of manipulating memories centered ENTIRELY AROUND HER at all times." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "I....you know I almost would have liked to see them reveal that almost EVERYTHING was actually implanted memories in Nilin's mind, and she had absolutely no idea what was real any more." to you.
You page, "That said, I really liked this, but it was -- uhm. French. So fucking French. If you gave David Cage a decent art guy and a team of really good editors, this is something he would come up with. Normal games don't end with a crying woman on fire and streaking towards a giant digital construct made out of negative emotional memories." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "Yeah. It sounds VERY artistic and avant garde" to you.
[REDACTED] pages, "Which I am the okay with." to you.
You page, "Yes. I would take two games like this over one "sane, normal" game." to [REDACTED].
You page, "Re: "Everything is implanted memories", remember I mentioned the trailer made me think it was going to be a different game? That is what I THOUGHT we were doing. The trailer has Nilin yelling "GIVE ME BACK MY MEMORIES!" at a helicopter while glitchy digital artifacts flicker and it makes it look like an action movie where she's forgotten she's a terrorist or... has forgotten she's Jason Bourne, or something." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "Yes." to you.
You page, "I got really into the emotional content of this. It felt very earnest. Nilin doesn't dwell a lot on what she's doing until she starts getting her memories back and error-checks them against what she's learned since and kind of realizes "I was a really dogmatic, not very good person. Why? Could I be something else?" And then she finds the whole thing is really -centered- on her and kinda loses it for a few minutes. I genuinely like her. It's a shame her story's pretty solidly over." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "Ah well." to you.
[REDACTED] pages, "I'm pleasantly surprised by this game." to you.
You page, "Yeah, I really liked it in spite of itself. It had so many moments! Such visuals! Very jumping puzzle! And then combat and meh fucking buttons mash mash whatever. I should've played on "Easy" which explicitly says "THIS IS FOR STORY ONLY IT TRIVIALIZES COMBAT" because fuck y'all your combat is pretty trivial ANYWAY." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "I think I remember someone explaining this game, and they made a point that the combat was TRYING to be a combo-puncher-kinetic-parkour-martial-arts thing but didn't do it very well." to you.
You page, "Yeah that is accurate." to [REDACTED].
You page, "Y'mind if I basically just cut/paste this conversation to the journal as a summary/final post on the subject? I could write a real one but I am le lazy." to [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] pages, "Go aheads." to you.
You page, "And my n-- oh. ... Well looks like the Francothon continues." to [REDACTED].

ANYWAY.
Let's see what I draw next -- Oh. The France CONTINUES TO FLOW with--


No box art, all the ones I found were too big.

Y'all ain't controlling me over Twitch though. Screw a big ol' bunch of that.

[EDIT]: One thing I AM thinking, though... I know some of y'all have Pokemon Y and sometimes even other pokemons. If you want: Hit up the day care and breed an egg or two. I may do a team where I lean on hatched pokemon from my friends, like a "Mystery Egg" run.

Remember you next time!

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Whenever I see an aesop about the horrors of technology, I am reminded of this one Dresden Codak comic...