12/1/2023 0 Comments Melon journey bittersweet memoriesWe adored travelling through the town, over and over again, just to see who was out and about. While Hog Town isn’t huge, the constant churn of people makes miraculous use of the space. Complete a task, and when you return to the police stations, parks and slums of the game map, there might be completely new people in the area with tasks to be solved. The towns and villages just feel so alive. It’s the way that Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories handles its play-space that we love the most. We were never privileged enough to play it, but we hear Earthbound shares similarities too. ![]() If you enjoyed the process of solving villager’s problems by chatting to people and swapping goods, then you’re in the right place. It reminded us of the item-swapping sequence in Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, with the added bonus of also looking like a Gameboy game. The lack of gameplay is going to be disturbing for a few people. You will find something or someone that is the key to the problem, and then insert it into the lock. Think of Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories as a massive green and black rolodex, where each problem needs to be resolved by considering who is best suited for the task. The challenge comes from knowing who will be able to help you at a given moment. There are no minigames to play, no puzzles to solve, no combat to chew through or even many screens to explore. Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is not interested in gameplay beyond walking about and talking to people. That comes in the form of fetch quests, and those fetch quests are rarely anything more than travelling to one person after another. It’s not a game that gets places directly, and you’re going to need to do some meandering makework to reach your destination. It’s the most divisive part of Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories, we suspect. This isn’t a hero’s journey by any means: you’re going to have to get used to passing the heroism to others, instead being the maid, messenger and handyperson. ![]() We get the sense that we’re a sidekick to all of them, as we retrieve their violins from overbearing critics, sabotage an open air concert for them, and reunite them with their long-lost parents. But the best is an over-eager ghost who can’t convince the gang to fully accept them, so they send it out on impossible fetch-quests that make you wonder – just a little – that maybe they’re doing the same to you.Įveryone in Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories has main-character-syndrome and it’s what makes it sing. The leader is a washed up singer who just wants another chance at the big time, while a snake and mouse keep making eyes at each other. ![]() They might pretend that they’re threatening but they’re adorable, and we would happily have spent the entire time hanging out with them and kind of, but not really, committing crimes. The best of these surround the Cavity Crew, the local gang who you get involved with. Instead, we found ourselves half-forgetting that the bigger plot existed, because it’s the smaller stories that make Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories juicy. You can probably guess who the big bads are from the short synopsis we’ve given. There’s nothing revelatory about the story in Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories, but that’s okay. Slowly, it becomes clear that Cantaloupe is wrapped up in something bigger, and you get drawn along with him. ![]() Finding Cantaloupe forms the lion’s share of the objective, and you will be completing side quests of the fetch variety to gather scraps of evidence. Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is primarily a mystery.
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