History VideoGame / RememberMe

* UncannyValley: The omnipresent Valet robots. A Mnesist document you can find describes them as "reassuring" due to their human proportions and "serene" face, but they are just incredibly creepy, especially the parts of their bodies that look like exposed muscle tissue.

* TomatoInTheMirror: In trying to remix [[spoiler: her father's]] memories to help him see the error in his ways, Nilin learns [[spoiler: her father remixed her to forget the accident when she was a little girl. No doubt she's pretty devastated to learn she's not the prodigy who thought up remixing memories. Ironically, for being the master of remixing memories, she was actually the very first guinea pig in the practice.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: In trying to remix her [[spoiler: father's]] memories to help him see the error in his ways, Nilin learns [[spoiler: her father remixed her to forget the accident when she was a little girl. No doubt she's pretty devastated to learn she's not the prodigy who thought up remixing memories. Ironically, for being the master of remixing memories, she was actually the very first guinea pig in the practice.]]

** The achievements provide an astounding number of [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]]:

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:When remixing Charles Cartier-Wells' memories, your objective is to change it to where he inadvertently kills his own daughter with a Memory Bug instead of purging her memories of a traumatic car accident.]]

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: From the Bastille trailer:
-->'''Nilin:''' I can ''feel'' the power that scares them so. The power to take what someone is, to rewrite their history. To play God.
** When put into context within the game itself, however, Nilin sounds more apprehensive about having such power.

''Remember Me'' is a 2013 action-adventure game from Creator/DONTNODEntertainment and Creator/{{Capcom}}, released for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

* SexBot: Valet Robots come in several types, including this.

Not to confuse with the song with the same name in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''.

*** [[Film/LordOfTheRings "Lord of the ring"]]

** Two of Nilin's moves are found in another Capcom's [[StreetFighter franchise]]. They are the Shoryuken and the Spinning Bird Kick.

[[caption-width-right:350:I'll certainly remember [[MaleGaze''that''...]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:I'll certainly remember [[MaleGaze''that'']]...]]

[[caption-width-right:350:I'll certainly remember ''that''...]]

** One of the 3D models in the Extras menu is Nilin and Kid X-Mas playing ''StreetFighterII''.

''Remember Me'' is a 2013 action-adventure game from Creator/DONTNODEntertainment and Creator/{{Capcom}}, released for PC, PlayStation 3 and XBox 360.

* CaptainErsatz: Despite the fact that it is supposed to reference ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' (see below), the environment is actually much closer to ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''. [[spoiler:Doctor Quaid is turning the mentally-deranged into slaves. Even further, Edge could be considered a reimagined copy of John the Savage.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Nilin makes it onto the streets of Neo-Paris, she can encounter a street preacher talking about [[spoiler:God manifesting Himself through the collective memories of humanity. The final boss, [=H3O=], is an ArtificialIntelligence spontaneously born from the memories stored within the Conception Cube.]]
** What is Johnny Greenteeth wearing when you first see him? [[spoiler:An outfit almost identical to the one Dr. Quaid wears. Later you find out that Johnny Greenteeth is a former Bastille doctor who Quaid experimented on]].
** [[spoiler:Edge keeps calling Nilin "sis", which is apparently common among Errorists. Given that [=H30=] is also the "child" of the Cartier-Wells, it's also literal.]]
* FinalExamBoss: The final boss tests your understanding of most of the S-Pressens, your mastery of combos, your knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of every enemy you've faced thus far, and is capped off with the omnipresent [[ActionCommands quicktime events]].
* FinishingMove: "Memory Overload", where Nilin grabs a stunned enemy, palms their back of their neck, and directly accesses their Sensen implant and overloads it with junk data such that they are rendered practically catatonic. Comes complete with a "gunshot" style particle effect spray in augmented reality.
** Most bosses have to be finished off with a "Terminate" sequence.

* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: "Welcome, Dr. Green." [[spoiler:Why did that door in the Bastille open for Nilin and identify her as 'Dr. Green'? Simple: it didn't. It identified someone else entirely - someone who can make themselves invisible to Sensen. When the Bastille identifies Nilin, she's actually identified as "Nilin". While walking through the Bastille in Chapter 7, you may have noticed the tell-tale flickers of an invisible Leaper darting through the halls and when she entered the elevator, the interface showed two people aboard. This is because ''Johnny Greenteeth'', [[WasOnceAMan formerly known as Dr. Green]], soon-to-be-known as ThatOneBoss, was ''following Nilin'' through the Bastille. And it's entirely possible -- even likely -- that he'd been stalking her since the train crash. And you had ''no idea'' until right near the end. [[FridgeHorror If he hadn't needed Nilin to open many of the doors for him]]...]]
* IAmTheNoun: Done twice. [[spoiler:First, Edge does this several times, calling himself Edge, then [=H3O=], then the father of the Leapers. Before the FinalBoss, [=H3O=]'s other parts call themselves first by name, then "Sensen", then the Leapers.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Captain Gabriel Trace is a proud graduate. The odd thing is that when he's not toying with Nilin, he's a crack shot, able to aim the gunship's weapons with pinpoint precision the second she sticks her nose out. Alternately, the gunship's weapons are computer-aided, and he ''deliberately'' changed the settings to aim ''around'' Nilin.

* PowerCopying: Over her journey, Nilin assimilates other Hacker Gloves' moves into her own.

* PressXToNotDie: Most boss fights end this way, which is irritating as the player is given very little warning.

* RareCandy: The SAT Patches, Focus Boosts and Scaramechs, which are hidden away in each area. They increase your maximum health, maximum focus, and give a healthy experience boost, respectively.
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: One of the Memory Bugs in Frank's memory remix scene involves him tossing his pistol with the safety off onto a desk, whereupon it goes off and shoots him dead.
* RegeneratingHealth: Subverted. The only way Nilin can heal is either by using the rarely found SAT Stations or by performing the Regeneration Moves in combat, which have to connect with an enemy in order to heal her a bit.

* SequentialBoss: All bosses besides [[spoiler:Johnny Greenteeth]] have three stages.

* ShockwaveStomp: After you shoot both its arms off in its final phase, [=AV78=] Zorn robot will attack by releasing suppressed kinetic energy as this.

* AirborneMook: The ''AV-48S Seraphim'' security robots. These fly safely beyond the reach of your melee attacks and fire energy projectiles. There's also the ''AV-48N Nephilim'' robots, which are protected with [[DeflectorShields shields]] most of the time, forcing you to time the long-range [[HandBlast Spammer]] shots to when they have to lower the shields to get them recharged. Luckily, both are glass cannons and are destroyed with just two [[ChargedAttack Junk Shots]].
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Subverted. Nilin looks that way, but her ancestry -- [[spoiler:1/2 white, 1/4 Ethiopian, 1/4 Indian]] -- is explicitly stated when you unlock some journals in Episode 5.
* AmbiguousRobots: The Zorns are definitely robots, but two very unrobotic things characterize them. First, they're smart enough to taunt you in battle--they say some very demoralizing things. Secondly, they often unleash a terrifying howl, complete with a hologram of a screaming mouth (with the word "warning" on its side). These are both likely because the Zorn is designed to intimidate you into surrendering.
* AndThisIsFor: Nilin gets an impressive one when overloading [[spoiler: Captain Vaughan]]
-->'''Nilin:''' [[spoiler: This is for everything you've done to me, and this is for the things I can't remember.]] %% I hope it's not just in the French.
* ApatheticCitizens: The well-to-do citizens of Neo-Paris, and fully [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by Sensen technology. If something is bothering them, some pang at their conscience or worry, they can pay for the EasyAmnesia to just forget it, and this has been made so accessible that they can just ignore any concerns practically at will. [[spoiler:Once much of the city becomes flooded, they find that a bit harder to just forget...]]

* AssholeVictim: Vaughn, who abuses his power as a guard in La Bastille for various purposes and implies that he has raped some of the prisoners. Frank as well; the memory Nilin reads and remixes shows him as a verbally abusive lover, at least when he's drunk.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The final boss even goes so far as to tell you where its weak point is. [[spoiler:Justified because he wants to die]].
* AugmentedReality: Surprisingly ubiquitous, since Sensen allows it, and Sensen is virtually mandatory in society. Virtually every store, kiosk, and a few robots use AR displays. Even areas that have been abandoned for years -- or ''flooded'' for ''decades'' -- have AR tags scattered throughout.
* BackgroundBoss: The final boss is large (6-10 meters) and will attack by hitting you with its hands, creating projectiles and summoning other enemies. It is not possible to close distance with him until the finishing cutscene.
* BackStab: One of Nilin's S-Pressens gives her the ability to [[PerceptionFilter spoof opponent's Sensen implants such that they are incapable of perceiving her]]. This gives her thirty seconds to get behind an enemy and execute a [[FinishingMove Memory Overload]], after which everyone snaps back out of it.

* BilingualBonus: There's a lot of French in the game, on signs and street graffiti, and if you know French it adds to the already vast world created by the atmosphere.

* BullfightBoss: Kid X-Mas is this during his first two phases, charging after you and occasionally using the Spammer in his second phase. By the time he gets to third phase, he stops doing that and will instead just shoot and deploy mines.

* CaptainErsatz: Despite the fact that it is supposed to reference ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' (see below), the environment is actually much closer to ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''. One very close example is [[spoiler:the MadScientist ''intentionally'' making people stupid to become slaves]], something that is very close in application with the society of said book. Heck, Edge could even be a [[spoiler:reimagined copy of John the Savage]].

* DiegeticInterface: A mixed example - some of the interface elements are augmented reality features that it's implied Nilin can see in-universe, while others are only for the benefit of the player.
* DivideByZero: You cannot force a person to be killed in their own memory, since that creates a paradox where they remember they were killed and they cannot be alive even though they remember being killed. The loophole for this is that when you're in the memory, you're usually tasked with killing their beloved/whathaveyou. The final remix, which is a DreamWithinADream, abuses this by having you glitch the remix so that it causes this paradox, and kills [[spoiler:both versions of Nilin]] in both remixes.
* DopplegangerSpin: In the boss fight with Madame, Madame will create copies of herself in the second stage. Hitting the wrong one injures you. Hitting the right one stuns her for a combo. The right one is posed slightly different than the rest, though it can be hard to tell without knowing what to look for.

* DrivenToSuicide: Using Nilin's ''Memory Remix'' ability on specific targets, she can alter their memories to push them into doing this, as witnessed in the demo [[spoiler:where she convinces Frank he killed his wife.]]
* DualBoss: The only other time you encounter Mourner Leapers after Johnny Greenteeth is when two of them appear at a boss fight, with its own special theme, [[spoiler:after they steal Trace's memory]].

* EliteMooks: Several. There are the Prison Enforcers, who can perform a [[ManaDrain Brain Lock]] grappling attack and Reconversion Leapers, which are tougher than common Prowlers and immune to your stun skill. There are also the [[GiantMook Skinner Leapers]], [[ShieldBearingMook Heavy Enforcers]] and Elite Enforcers.
* ExpositoryGameplayLimitation: The game will sometimes slow the player down to a walk and prevent them from doing anything else, usually during dialogue sequences.

* HardLight: Some of Nilin's abilities seem to be this. Particularly the "Junk Shot" that forms a bunch of holograms around her arm that create a cannon that destroys physical objects.

* MagicAIsMagicA: Apart from one definite and one possible exception, the rules of the setting are rather consistent: Everything beyond the mundane happens because of the ubiquitous Sensen implants. You're not magically stunning people, you're overloading their implants with a Denial of Service attack. And you're not becoming invisible either, you're manipulating other people's vision. The exceptions are the Junkbolt which can destroy unpowered physical objects and possibly the Mourner Leapers, assuming their teleportation abilities are real rather than a combination of illusions and ranged attacks.

* ShieldBearingMook: The second half of the game sees the appearance of Heavy Enforcers, whose riot shields will block all of melee attacks. The only way to deal with them is to destroy the shields beforehand with the Junk Shot.

* SuspiciouslyCrackedWall: Here, the walls, locks and other things like this are highlighted with a ''Structural Weakness'' notification in your augmented reality as a sign that they can be destroyed/broken through with the Junk Shot.

** Right after you get the Junk Shot from Headache Tommy, you'll have to collapse the tunnels from which Leapers are attacking in under 45 seconds. Luckily, there are only three of them, so it doesn't mean much.
** In the subay, you have to disable two door controls to hold Johnny Greenteeth back. Wait too long and he kills you.

* BossInMookClothing: In spite of their name, Elite Enforcers are closer to this due to their electrified armour, which will literally damage Nilin back with every strike, and require the use of Regen Pressen-based moves to defeat them. This in turn requires you to keep a certain amount of charge, which will also only gained by successfully landing hits on enemies with ''non'' Regen Pressens moves. Have fun! Mourner Leapers are this in universe, commanding other Leapers and able to turn invisible, camouflage as humans and can even teleport. However, there are only encountered twice, and each time as a boss.

* CallAHitPointASmeerp: The experience points you receive are known as PMP(procedural memory points).

* ChekhovsSkill: During your first remix, which also serves as a tutorial, you will learn how to cause a Memory Bug, and why you shouldn't do this. You can trigger Memory Bugs in all remixes; though you can't succeed with such a remix [[spoiler:save the last one]] you are given a trophy/achievement if you trigger these at least once in all remixes. Other than that, the skill seems to be merely for HundredPercentCompletion purposes... [[spoiler:until you get to the final remix, where you have to trigger this in the DreamWithinADream sequence.]]

* {{Combos}}: Customizable combos form the core of the close-combat system. With each command you entered acting in a specific way like gaining attack bonus or charge up your S-Pressen on hit for example.