Never Forget Me Bewertungen

I've "only" played through three of the routes, Aaron, Eddy and Hugh, but I think that's more than enough to have an opinion on the game. As a little heads up, there will be spoilers in this review. I don't like it. At all. english isn't my mother tongue, so please excuse any mistakes I might make. I first played through Aarons Route, simply because I wanted to go from left to right. In the first game, Always remember me, Aaron didn't have much of a personality. Which was fine, he had amnesia. His route was more about Amys love for Aaron than the other way around. But even with Aaron not remembering much, he had a core aspect to his personality: he was kind. In this game, Aaron is still nice, but not really kind. The game tries to excuse this by being 'realistic', but it goes beyond being realistic and lands straight in stupid. Aaron and Amy have a new neighbour, Abigail from the first game who tried to convince the back then amnesiac Aaron that they were a couple. Aaron seems to be fine with Abigail as a neighbour, saying that everyone makes mistakes! That's only human! Which is, in my opinion, everything BUT realistic. If someone tried to do that to me I would never talk to them again, let alone invite them to my wedding. Which he did, by the way. To be nice. Over and over the games tries to convince the reader that right now Amy is hard to live with. She's writing her second Novel and, apparently, very moody all the time. She has her 'creative process' which Aaron allegedly doesn't respect. I say allegedly because the reader never really sees that. It's all hearsay. What we get to say is Aaron listening to Amy when she tells him to please not play guitar while she is writing and then, when his bad guitar playing sparks some creativity in her,´plays for her for hours. If the reader decides to not confront Aaron about the guitar playing, Amy plugs in some noise cancelling headphones, doesn't manage to get her wordcount for the day and falls asleep on her desk. At this point Aaron comes in to check on her and then proceeds to carry her to their bedroom. Very respectless, if I dare say so myself. What a horrible guy. But, to be fair, Aaron does have his flaws. He not only enters Abigails flat to help her with her router problems and doesn't tell Amy about it if she doesn't confront him, he also starts an affair with her. Yes. In one of the Bad endings it is revealed that Aaron cheated on Amy with Abigail. That's why he was late to their meeting. That was the point I started to hate Aaron because, and I can't stress this enough, he is late at the end everytime. He does give an excuse about oversleeping or something, but Amy herself says that this is very strange for him. I am convinced the little sh*t cheats on her in all the endings. Next is Eddy. He was my favorite of the first game. A bit clumsy in social interactions, but a nice guy. In this game he was still nice, but they made him a workaholic. Even though he and Amy work together at the same hospital, most people don't seem to know that they are married. That's just strange considering that nurses have a training period of a few years. Three years where I live, but I'm not american so I can't say if it is different over there. Eddy and Amy barely spend time together because Eddy is always away at some doctor conventions, something that, seeing how frequently he goes, maybe should have been mentioned in the first game. Amy is Big Sad about being always alone and while the conflict in Aarons Route was on both of them it is solely on Eddy in this route. I really can't say much about this Route because it was honestly very forgetable. The whole thing gets resolved in the end by Eddy realising that he needs to work less and that having a fullfilling career will not make him less... depressed? Something that was... never mentioned before. Amy is also very much pregnant in this route and decides to not only continue working as a nurse (which is simply not allowed where I live because it's really dangerous for pregnant woman to work as a nurse??), she also consumes caffeine, which is something pregnant people should avoid. As a nurse she should have known that. She also doesn't tell Eddy she's pregnant. In Hughs route, Amy is a Designer working at his company. I really don't know what the writer had with Amy and her guys having to work and live together, but here we are. In this Route Amy is not only s*xually harrassed by some guy named Louis, she also... liked it? Because she feels neglected by Hugh. Honestly, Hugh would have been the best guy in this game if not for him also cheating on Amy in the end. Because of course he does cheat on his wife with a canonically r*tarded model. His reaction to Amy getting molested was consoling her that it wasn't her fault and that he will have Louis blacklisted in the industry - something that eventually falls flat, because, in Amys words, "we wouldn't blacklist a perfectly fine model just because of something like this'. Somethin like this being s*xually harrassing a woman. And then doing it again because yes, he does it again. Twice. He first corners her on the street, kissing her unprompted yet again (but it's okay guys, he loves her! Honest! And she also secretly liked it!) and then, in the end, makes her drunk (maybe roofies her? Who knows) before they sleep with each other (or not, it depends on the players choice). I'm genuinely disgusted by Amy in this route. No matter how drunk, cheating is a no go. But what can she do? He's just so hot! And seeing how Hugh cheats on her as well with Molly, something Amy then has the guts to be butthurt about, I think those two deserve each other. I didn't play the last route, but one of the ending names implies that there's also some cheating going on, so yeah. Some other things: The Lore is inconsistent with the first game. Amy is somehow not an Orphan anymore and Aaron and her are childhood friends all of a sudden. There's a lot of Typos. The character portraits aren't new. That wouldn't have annoyed me if it wasn't for the new characters portraits. Seeing those very different Artstyles next to each other was jarring. In one of the routes Amy, who is literally paperthin, gets called chubby. What the hell? The Art at the start of the game is not reflective of the Art in the game at all. It looks like three Artists worked on this game and they didn't communicate at all. Or maybe it's two and the years between Game one and two had their Artstyle evolve. The writing is very misogynistic. I noticed this in the first game at occassion (Amy commenting on Abigails looks, how her Make-Up was perfect and Amy hated her for it), but this game took the cake. Amy openly mocks Abigail for having had a boobjob, she calls the models of her agency stupid and arrogant (because that's how models are! Totally not a problematic take!) and in Eddys Route is a female doctor, Lorna, who hates Amy for... getting praised for her skills by another doctor? I'm sorry, but whoever wrote this must hate woman. A lot. The one thing I did like about this game is that it had a Visual Novel mode, which meant that I didn't have to play through all of those stupid mini-games over and over again. To get the secret super special epilogues you do have to play through them, though. Before I bought this game I read some of the reviews that said the game is garbage. I thought to myself that it couldn't be that bad. And I was right! It was worse! Much worse. Always remember me wasn't a masterpiece, but it was entertaining enough. Never forget me is not entertaining. I genuinely feel disgusted at every character but Eddy - and with him I simply couldn't muster up enough annoyance to hate him. The price of the game wasn't much, but I can't tell anyone to buy it in good faith. This game ruins the first with its "realism" (which isn't realistic at all, woman don't feel secret pleasure about getting molested wtf).

Ich hab mir so sehr eine Fortsetzung gewünscht, ich war schon echt neugierig, was mit Amy dann noch so los ist. Ich finde, das ist ein würdiger Nachfolger und in jeder Route und Geschichte steckt so viel Liebe zum Detail . Ich bin sehr begeistert *.* Ich habe lieber die Visual-Novel-Form gespielt, aber auch die andere Form mit den Statuswerten ist super gemacht, daher habe ich da nichts zu meckern. Die Achievements sind schaffbar, die Musik ist schön, die Zeichnungen sind wie beim Vorgänger, also nicht vom Titelmenü abschrecken lassen ;) Sehr schönes Spiel :)