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Mini Review: A Memoir Blue – Annapurna’s Latest Is Short But Just Not Sweet Enough

Front crawl, back stroke, ego stroke.

We’d be lying if we pretended we hadn’t experienced impressive games published by Annapurna Interactive in the past; What Remains of Edith Finch, Outer Wilds, and Sayonara Wild Hearts are just scratching the surface of the critically acclaimed titles that have passed through their avowed art-game doors. The hit factory though, such as it is, seems to be on a bit of a stumble lately. The hotly-anticipated Twelve Minutes was the dampest of damp squibs, your mileage will absolutely vary with The Artful Escape and now we’ve got A Memoir Blue, a “interactive poem” (red flag emoji) about a competitive swimmer’s relationship with her mother.

Is that too cynical? Perhaps. We fear that these introspective games — while certainly having their place in this enormous, diverse, joyous hobby — need to offer a little more meat on the bone to be truly worthwhile. And we don’t mean in their core gameplay, necessarily; storywise, this is a flaccid experience, on top of being mechanically uninteresting. We can forgive one, but not both.

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