To kick off the weekend I combed my library of what feels like infinite entertainment, and decided to give an indie called A Memory Of Us. I picked it up in a charity bundle a few months back, and it seemed to be one of the more interesting ones in the bundle. It tells the tale of a young girl that loved to read all kinds of stories about robots and the like, but grew bored of these same tales and ventured off to yonder book store to find a new story to dig into. You find an old man sleeping on the other side of the desk, and through chat balloons and dream speak he tells you to venture upstairs to find stories. I had to drag a ladder to the other side of a room to find the book of plot device (not the actual name of the book), and encountered a bug preventing me from dragging the ladder with my controller. I even tried mapping my Steam Controller to behave like a keyboard, but the arrow keys didn’t seem to register on the analog stick, will need to science that out another time. This game is playable with a keyboard, but this would be a perfect candidate for relaxing on the couch or in bed (or if you play in the bathroom like select Nintendo Switch users and the gaming laptop owners before them). Getting over my peripheral hurdle I found a book and brought it to the old man, and he finds a picture contained within showing a younger him, as well as a girl that looks oddly like the young girl before him. He has a flashback to his childhood, where he first meets her after outrunning cops and hiding in a garbage can you fall/hide in.
You play as both characters, and rely on one another to solve puzzles and other obstacles; such as stealing a slingshot to shoot apples down into a basket, or using a pocket mirror the boy picks up to blind a drunkard, and who knows what else I’ll find? I’ve left off at outrunning the police… I do that a lot for some reason.
Other than the game not being controller friendly I like the rest of it, at least thus far. I’ll return to it again when I’m not feeling like I could sleep for an entire week.