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FORGET ME NOT
Pressen the issue in REMEMBER ME
picked Remember Me for a
couple of reasons. Firstly, it
Iloosely fits with the theme of
‘time’, which seems appropriate as
we urge our collective self towards
the end of the century. Secondly, I
thought it’d be terrible. But,
annoyingly, I quite like it.
Everything is absurdly striking.
Neo-Paris is gorgeous: a cascading
mix of old and new. I like the
integration of tooltip descriptions as
adverts and shopfronts, even if I do
spend some time mistakenly trying to
interact with them. And the
characters all look like they’ve
spin-kicked their way off the catwalk:
Nilin’s wanted poster could be an
advert for hyaluronic acid and even
the mutants resemble those angular
models you see at some of those
haute couture fashion shows.
Everything apart from the design
in Remember Me, however, is rather
Someone steal this idea and
make a Russian Doll game.
MINIT
he pitch for Minit is that your
Tcurious little duck-thing
protagonist picks up a cursed sword
that kills them every 60 seconds. The
reality is that you’ll die far more often sashay out of buildings while things
than that – sometimes by accident,
but more often because you press the
insta-death button when you realise
you’ll never solve the next puzzle in
time. This means the genuinely
original idea ends up featuring more
waterfowl slaughter than an
especially brutal episode of
Springwatch. It’s stylish, smart, and
satisfying, even when the ticking
death clock become more of an
inconvenience than a challenge. And
there’s a sense of relief when
you get past a puzzle with 72
seconds to spare.
ordinary. There’s a wonted amnesiac
plot, mysterious hooded handler and
sinister, sting-pulling corporation
complete with its own paramilitary
force for Nilin to pummel. There are
some attempts here to find Nice to see they still have
originality: you build your own Shoezone in Neo-Paris.
combos using ‘Pressens’ – Remember
Me’s version of punches and kicks, If Jean Paul Gaultier did
and a word I find annoying – but the prisoner restraint systems.
flexibility is limited.
And then there’s the Memory
Remixes, which allow you to alter
people’s recollections – a cool idea
that in practice feels like rewinding a
three-hour VHS recording of your
parents’ wedding. But despite this,
I’m into it. It’s like a sexy clicker
game where you clamber through a
fabulous future city and uppercut
goons on repeat. Nilin would fit well
into a 7/10 Smash game NEED TO KNOW
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Extra points for being the easiest
game to screenshot ever.
SUPERHOT
A right royal gritty reboot.
ollywood action sequences
Hwould have us believe it’s
possible to sidestep bullets, brain PRINCE OF PERSIA:
baddies with thrown projectiles, and
THE WARRIOR WITHIN
explode behind us. And Superhot
brings that delusion to life with
swaggering panache, but also: it ou can’t talk about time in games
doesn’t. Because if I’ve learnt Ywithout talking about Prince of
anything playing Superhot, it’s that Persia. But instead of the charming
action heroes don’t dither. John Wick 2003 reboot, let’s take a look at the
doesn’t get decision fatigue when he’s angsty sequel instead. Warrior Within
choosing which mafioso to punch. still has the elegant combat and
Jason Bourne never had to phone a thoughtful puzzles, but it’s even
friend when carrying out an harder to take the prince seriously
assassination (good job, since they’re now than it was 15 years ago. The
probably all dead). But in spite of my prevalence of nudey bits makes this
wobbling lack of decisiveness, feel like gaming’s version of
I still feel unreasonably cool 82 that scene in Spider-Man 3 60
playing Superhot. when Parker goes edgy.
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