I cried big time, 10/10

Short but very sweet game.

I learned a lot during this game, first and foremost that I am, apparently, an unfeeling clutz because the story did absolutely nothing for me. I found the main protagonists annoying, the humor was juvenile and did not fit the theme of the story, and frankly, the story itself was also at best ok-ish. And the gameplay and mechanics are simply atrocious.

It's a complete mystery to me why this game has an overwhelmingly positive rating.


As the blurp says, you play as two doctors who go backwards through a dying man's memories to artifically fulfill his last wish. That sounds great, but in practice it means that you visit scenes from this man's life that were significant to him but, in-game, you are just an observer, it is all very surface-level. You do not interact with the man or the other characters (with very few exceptions), you can't really investigate anything, you are just dropped into the scene, read a few lines of dialogue (no voice-over), and that's it.

At one point, you manipulate his memories, and then skip through his life events again, this time in the right direction, to see how this manipulation affected his "life", and if you managed to "fulfill" his last wish. But, and there lies the main problem for me, it does not actually affect anything. It manipulates a dying man into misremembering his whole life (on his request). What you see didn't and does not happen, and could not have happened in reality.

It is a bit sad if you think about it, but you do not get to know any of the characters well enough to get emotionally invested, at least in my opinion.

The memory scenes are presented through the eyes of the two doctors, who are the real protagonists, and I found them pretty much insufferable. They were clearly intended as comic relief, and they are constantly squabbling in a mean-spirited and at times childish way. I think there's supposed to be a romantic undertone but the inane dialogue completely ruins it.


The actual gameplay consists for the most part of you dropping into a scene, trying to find the very few points that you can interact with, and collect five "memento" points and a core memory. If you have found everything, you can leave the scene and have to solve a mini-puzzle. It is always the same type of puzzle, and it is neither difficult nor fun.

There is no indication which parts of the scenery are walkable and which aren't, and there is no logic behind the mementos, so you are randomly clicking everywhere to either move somewhere else or find one of the mementos.

This is even worse in the few "action" sequences, in which you can run around with the arrow keys. There is no excuse for having such buggy and clunky controls even in a game from 2011.


Currently, the game is tagged as "emotional". In my case, that emotion is annoyance.

I do not recommend this game.