Well, I found a game today. Remember Me by Dontnod Entertainment. The game got crapped on by critics, if I remember right. But, despite some small flaws, it's a fun game.

The basic premise is that you are a lady named Nilin who has most of her memory wiped by a company that is producing an item called a Sensen, which is supposed to help you relive your best memories. But it's all a coverup for what's really going on: people playing God and stealing/erasing people's memories.

Nilin, after a long struggle, starts to get her powers back so that she can try to not only rally people for her team, but gain all her lost memories back as well.

The game is one part fighting, one part platforming, and one part memory rewriting. The fighting is top-notch although at first it will seem repetitive. You customize your combos with these items called Pressens that you get when you level up. Each Pressen, depending on which slot you adhere it to, gives you a different attack, and some will restore your life upon hit, or restore your focus gauge. Your focus gauge is used to string together powerful attacks, and when it runs out, it gets a timer over it. This timer can go back to normal in about a minute, or, if you have a focus restoring Pressen, just use the combo that contains it and it'll knock about 20 seconds off the timer.

The catch with Pressens? You have to do the specific combo, with the right timing. You can't just mash buttons or they won't work. Scratch that, you CAN mash buttons to win fights, but it makes them last longer and you won't get the bonuses.

There's also the memory overload feature, which also restores the focus gauge. It's as it sounds, she reaches into the opponent's neck and overloads their memory so that they die.

Now, this memory rewriting thing..... it basically works as an interactive cutscene. You can rewind or fast forward through, checking for things to activate or mess around with to screw with the person's memories. The first one involved a woman who was trying to kill Nilin. The objective was to rewrite her memory to make it so that her husband was killed by the doctor who was treating him. I could explain more about why she was trying to kill Nilin, but it'd be a spoiler, and it's also very subtly shown why she was trying to kill her (without actually mentioning why) when you watch the scene. After you activate the different triggers to make him kill the woman's husband, the story changes and the woman joins your cause. Personally, I think this mechanic is kinda cool. It's scripted, but it's never been seen before in any game I've ever played.

Should mention the platforming too. This aspect was one of the ones that got crapped on. I can't see why, since it's basically like Assassin's Creed + Yaiba (if anyone has played Yaiba). The controls for it work just fine, and shimmying around and jumping from pole to pole is actually pretty fun.

I think it's a pretty cool game so far. Bought it for 12 bucks, and haven't regretted it yet.