Saturday!

Remember Me is, I’ve concluded, really good. Half of it, you’ve played before. Jumping around on buildings like Assassin’s Creed or Prince of Persia, getting in fights and perfecting your combos like Assassin’s Creed or God of War, cut scenes between to take you on a dystopian storyline… this is well-trod ground and Remember Me handles it competently. There are pretty much two things that the game does that I’ve not seen before:

1) The combos are combos like you’d expect (X, X, X or Y, X, Y, X, Y) but you can choose what you want each individual blow to do… for example, in my game, I’ve set X, X, X to be my “heal myself” combo. If I find myself in trouble, the Xes are the “heal me” Xes. Y, X, Y, X, Y is set to be the FORCE OVERWHELMING combo. This is the combo where each blow does a great deal of damage culminating in a *HUGE* amount. But, if I were so inclined, I could swap these keys around and make it so that the former was a power combo and the latter was the healing combo.

2) Remixing Memories. This is the dynamic that sold me on the game in the first place and, jeez, it’s *REALLY* awesome. You only do it a handful of times, though. You go into the various memories of people and, by changing their memories, you change how they see the world. Turn an enemy into a friend, say. (There’s a scene where you use the trick to, effectively, commit murder. This scene is downright chilling.) I’m sure that Remember Me 2 (Ugh, I hope they don’t call it that) will have six or seven of these scenes rather than just four.

And “The Last Of Us” is set up to be played right after that.

So… what are you playing?