Posted on: February 1, 2017
TravelDemon
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4 Stars if you know what you're getting
First, let's get the ugly out of the way. Memoranda suffers badly from one of the two chief iniquities of P&C adventure games: illogical puzzles (the other, pixel hunting, is not a problem here, thanks to a handy system that highlights all interactable objects on screen). Some of the solutions are so baffling that it's hard to imagine someone finishing the whole thing without a guide (I sure needed one). There are also problems with which specific item you must use to accomplish a goal, for example, at one point you must stoke a fire, but liquid propane is not an acceptable item for this, instead you have to use dried grass, because the liquid propane needs to be used to... combine with orange juice? Yeah. The game is also very goalless. There were many times when it wasn't that I was stuck on a particular puzzle, but that I simply had no idea what I was even supposed to be doing or trying to accomplish. Basically, if you don't use a guide, you will be forced to resort to the old P&C tactic of using everything on everything until something happens, and given that this is a fairly large game, that could become very frustrating. Now, the strength of this game is definitely it's mood. If you're wondering if they managed to capture the essence of Murakami's works, the answer is yes. There is a certain dream-like quality to his works that I hesitate to call surrealism, but the word that always comes to my mind is "floating". The narrator is superlative. The inflections and cadence of her speech are mesmerizing. The criticisms of the gameplay become boons to the tone. The directionlessness, the strange item combinations, serve to accentuate the "floating-ness." There is something so beautifully melancholy about wandering around, speaking to acquaintances past. There's more I want to say about the accomplishments of this game, but GOG's Draconian character limit prevents me from doing so. If you enjoyed the tone of the trailer though, you will probably enjoy this game.
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