Remember Me

It's funny that you get to see the Capcom logo while Remember Me loads; you might actually think you are about to play a good third-person action game. That illusion will be quickly dispelled. The camera behavior during the fights is so atrocious I nearly quit and deleted the game out of frustration several times (I did eventually do that, but for a different reason that I will get to in a moment). You might as well be blind half the time, and I'm not even kidding. The combos that you get to use are sequences of the X and Y button presses that have to be rather precisely timed, so that you will be looking at the prompts at the bottom of the screen more than the actual fight. The sequences are predetermined, although you get to choose what effect each button will have. There are also super attacks that you can use after gaining enough "focus" and that have a cooldown. In some fights, the enemies are only affected by super attacks, so you will find yourself running around for two minutes, dodging the enemies and waiting for the cooldown timer to reach zero. Not the kind of action I expected, I can tell you. To be fair, some enemy mixes will require a specific strategy to defeat, and coming up with one is fun. The trouble is, that strategy is sometimes so tedious it takes all the fun out of the game. Case in point: the final battle, which made me quit and uninstall the game when I was an inch from completing it. In the battle, you face a large group of enemies, one of whom keeps teleporting and cannot be killed, and you have to destroy a specific object, which can only be done with a super attack. You have to keep hitting enemies to gain focus, but also to restore your health. Since you are getting hit almost constantly, long combos are out of the question, so you have to keep moving and using weak two-hit combos to restore a pathetic sliver of your health, which will be lost with a single wrong move. If you do somehow manage to progress to the next stage, an area-of-effect attack that only affects you will be added for your pleasure, and the object you are meant to destroy will rise into the air, where you are supposed to shoot it, except you can't because of the crappy aiming mechanism that will keep targeting enemies on the ground. This was more than I could bear. I hope Dontnod Entertainment goes bankrupt and never makes another game.