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Since: Sep, 2012

A character, through some kind of incident, forgets about a critical event. The story revolves around them piecing together what that event was.
For example, in OMORI, the player slowly learns over time how Sunny accidentially murdered Mari in the real world and tried to hide his tracks.
Edited by c1beat7per9minute