Memo (2010) – Visual Novel Review

Memo, by Doomfest, is a short freeware original English language visual novel (“OELVN”) first released on February 7, 2010. I initially became aware of it while collecting visual novel review candidates for The New Leaf Journal in or around 2021, but I later discovered that it was a somewhat notable freeware OELVN when it was released in 2010. I decided that it would be a fun candidate to tackle for a review. The title screen gave me the odd feeling that Memo had designs on selling character body pillows. Memo is set in a Japanese high school. The player is put into the shoes of a transfer student who is returning to a city where he had once lived. Unsurprisingly for the genre, it may be the case that there is someone waiting for him. Note on Screen Captures I collected all of the screenshots during gameplay. I did not notice until after the fact that I captured the cursor in a number of the screenshots. I decided to leave the screenshot that is, which explains why some include my…

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