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Reverse Memories: Superficially, Reverse Memories is a light romance, but the true story involves a painful event in the past, a series of lies and misunderstandings that stem from that event, and the subject of repressed memories. It's pretty well done, considering its casual length, maybe 5 hours long, and being budget title as well. It takes two playthroughs to learn the real story, but that's by design. Reverse Memories is very linear, with only two instances requiring player inputs. Both times the correct choice was obvious and both times, the game ended with the bad choice, so save on the choice screens if you want all possible pathways. The character designs were fine, typical of a high school romance VN. The soundtrack was subdued piano music and quite calming. The game doesn't have tons of extras, just a gallery of CGs. The voice acting is in Chinese, which I actually prefer to Japanese, but be aware if you are unfamiliar with Chinese voice acting. Also, the subtitles are a little clunky, with a handful of run-on words and a few awkward pauses between lines of dialogue, but it's nothing game-breaking. Overall, Reverse Memories was an enjoyable VN experience and worth the purchase.

Essentially this is a budget Elder Scrolls and I really enjoyed it. It's open-world, with simplistic combat- basically hit/block/repeat, and you can grind your way to being overpowered. It's graphics are somewhat ugly- think Morrowind models with Oblivion textures, but the music is great and the enemies are interesting- hunt boars for meat, huge bears, even dinosaurs. Is it flawed? Yes. You run faster moving to your left than to your right, and horse riding is really... budget. Also, there is a lot of pop-in- backgrounds grow and appear as you walk. Even enemies pop in- You may be standing alone in the swampland when suddenly, three giant Carnosaurs just pop in on top of you. But in spite of its flaws it's still fun to play. It's a budget Elder Scrolls game, it takes about 7 hours to beat, and there's replayability in it's different weapons and skill choices. Well worth the price.

A very enjoyable VN experience, beautiful animated backgrounds, good character designs, fun dialogue, 5 different girl/routes plus the Truth route to wrap everything up. One thing I would change would be having the ability to skip the prologue, but overall, it's a very engaging game.

I was fine with the bad graphic, lack of textures, poor collision detection, and the terrible enemy AI, but reached my breaking point with the escape from the tripod level. Just unplayable!