Sensation Engine
Look at us slowly trucking along as I fall asleep at my laptop in spite of all my upcoming deadlines and stress induced nightmares. Living the dream man, living the dream. So, cyberpunk. This genre always kinda confused me so please bare with me as I struggle to make sense of things and get my memory straight (HA!) So it just now occurred to me that the Fifth Element, a movie I adore would qualify as cyberpunk, but I've already made up my mind and Remember Me deserves more recognition anyways.
So Remember Me is a game about memories, in particular a world where people can delete painful memories and proficient others can remix memories to their whim. Of course, it wouldn't be cyberpunk without things advancing to the point where the future is awful and so the story is set many years after the introduction of the sensen or sensation engine so humanity has already found a way to mess it all up by the time of the main story. A few people have become addicted to getting rid of terrible memories and replacing them with fake, new ones, overwhelming their sensens and causing them to become Leapers.
Nilin, our main character, is slowly revealed to be the daughter of the current CEO and granddaughter of the creater of the sensen. Due to the sensen also allowing people to upload their memories online in addition to the ability to change some of them, it unintentionally creates a rather surveillance state where people can be monitored and charged based on their memories. It is due to this unintentional side effect as well as the fact the Nilin herself has intimate knowledge of remixing that makes her the optimal person to change the state of affairs.
It's really the bleak future of 2084 in Neo-Paris that really cements the horrors because the beginning of the game starts in a maximum security prison before scrambling through the sewers and lower class areas riddled with the equivalent of people on bath salts. The differences between classes is completely wild and it's not hard to see that if you're not rich, the world is rather closed off and there's not much one can do to make an impact.
So Remember Me is a game about memories, in particular a world where people can delete painful memories and proficient others can remix memories to their whim. Of course, it wouldn't be cyberpunk without things advancing to the point where the future is awful and so the story is set many years after the introduction of the sensen or sensation engine so humanity has already found a way to mess it all up by the time of the main story. A few people have become addicted to getting rid of terrible memories and replacing them with fake, new ones, overwhelming their sensens and causing them to become Leapers.
Nilin, our main character, is slowly revealed to be the daughter of the current CEO and granddaughter of the creater of the sensen. Due to the sensen also allowing people to upload their memories online in addition to the ability to change some of them, it unintentionally creates a rather surveillance state where people can be monitored and charged based on their memories. It is due to this unintentional side effect as well as the fact the Nilin herself has intimate knowledge of remixing that makes her the optimal person to change the state of affairs.
It's really the bleak future of 2084 in Neo-Paris that really cements the horrors because the beginning of the game starts in a maximum security prison before scrambling through the sewers and lower class areas riddled with the equivalent of people on bath salts. The differences between classes is completely wild and it's not hard to see that if you're not rich, the world is rather closed off and there's not much one can do to make an impact.
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