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'Read Only Memories: Type-M' Review: Welcome to the World of Tomorrow



Read Only Memories: Type-M [Free] finally brings the cyberpunk, Snatcher-inspired point-and-click adventure to mobile, years after its Kickstarter project promised a mobile release. Since then, the game has seen release on pretty much every other system under the sun, including the Ouya and Vita, but mobile players have not had their chance to explore 2064 Neo-San Francisco for themselves. Now they can, with Read Only Memories: Type-M. This futuristic point-and-click adventure has you tagging along with the robotic AI Turing, who is trying to discover what happened to their creator, Hayden. By solving puzzles and interacting with people, you wind up uncovering a deeper conspiracy that goes into Hayden's disappearance.

Read Only Memories creates a distinctive world of the future. Developer MidBoss puts a lot of work in to make sure that a lot of things in the world are normalized, particularly the use of non-binary pronouns that's never really commented upon. While gene splicing and hybridization are a hot topic in the game, characters from outside the gender binary go largely unremarked upon. This is futuristic San Francisco, after all. While the game is coming from a very particular perspective, it's uniquely not a judgmental one. It would have been easy for the Human Revolution group in the game would be presented from a one-sided perspective as an evil group. Instead, the game tries to make its point that some of the hybrids in the world have really good reasons for und...
Source: Touch Arcade
URL: http://toucharcade.com

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