The main character, who spends the entirety of the game in a state of total shock and surprise anytime somebody so much as crosses the street, has to prevent his own death through a time machine granted to him by a demon homunculi. The story is a completely insane mess about time travel, fate, alchemy, death and mysticism. Sure, that’s not exactly a rave review, but ‘fairly competent puzzles’ is the best of what this game provides.
As it stands, Shadow of Memories is a fairy competent puzzle/adventure game. If it were, the whole experience could be written off as ‘basically not worth it’. See, unlike a lot of awful games, the gameplay in this one isn’t that bad. Called Shadow of Destiny by our North American counterparts (which… kinda makes more sense), this is one of the greatest worst games ever made. Shadow of Memories is an outright terrible game. But the company we shall be focusing on today is the monolithic and hatred-inducing Konami, a company who appear to be capable of only making outright fantastic games, that they then punish their developers for, or outright terrible games… that they then punish their developers for.
The country has produced games ranging from the epic fantasy stories of the Final Fantasy games, to the outright weirdness of games like Catherine. Japan has also bred some of the greatest development companies active today such as the whimsical, fun and rainbow-vomit-inducing Nintendo and the great Square Enix. Gaming may well have embedded itself into many cultures, particularly in western society, but no nation has been more impacted by the medium than Japan.
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