Memento Mori seemed to generate some level of anticipation in the lead-up to its release, but after playing it, i think the hype is mostly unfounded. it does the traditional point & click style quite well with a perfectly adequate interface, pleasing visuals and cutscenes, decent character designs and nice music.

the voice acting is ok, but i found the strong european accents a bit jarring. puzzles are on the easy side. i never got stuck. the 3D locations are well implemented, but i much prefer it when adventure games utilise hand-painted 2D backgrounds.

the main problem is that for all but the last of 18 (!!) (short) acts, the gameplay and story are quite pedestrian and devoid of anything resembling its intention to be a gripping and mysterious religious conspiracy thriller. i never cared much for the generic plot or the plight of the characters, so when there was a late twist which threw an intelligent spin on proceedings, it didn’t have the impact it deserved.

oh and the frequent narrator’s interjections contain some of the most overacted melodramatic drivel that i’ve heard in a long time (wait, it’s actually not that long since i watched ‘the spirit’

i found memento mori to be just one more in the long list of mediocre and stereotypical adventure games.

I played this game for around 7 hours and I can’t really say i feel very motivated to continue it. The story is boring, the characters are dull and the linearity is really bad. The opening puzzle at the museum was an example of this, stuck in 4 screens with practically nothing to select and **puzzlespoiler** you have to try and use your cell phone at a specific place to get obvious instructions. I hate those kind of puzzles, when you are smarter than the protagonist in such a manner. No I would avoid this title all-together because it’s yet another game in the uninspired mediocre puzzle-games a la Art of murder.