Memories Off 5 Encore

For a while, NCS assumed that Memories Off 5 Encore would never get released since KID declared bankruptcy late last year and shuffled off the gaming landscape. CyberFront saw an opportunity however and snapped up KID's game brands and resumed development on Memories Off 5 Encore earlier this year.

Taking place six months after the events in Memories Off 5, a 20 year-old named Haruto Kawai reprises his role as a film student at Chihaya University. In the original Memories Off 5 game, Haruto's fellow auteur Samasuke Hina was killed and Haruto abandoned a film he was making due to despondency. He later learned from Samasuke's sister Asuka that a girl named Mahiro Sendou was responsible for his death. In Encore, both Asuka Hina and Mahiro Sendou return but they're joined by a third gal named Akina Ichijo who's a 17 year-old photography buff. Asuka is a cheerful girl who's studying for her college entrance exams while Mahiro is the same age as Haruto and is a mothering sort. Played like other romance games, gamers interact with the girls and build an affinity with one of them. Each girl offers multiple game routes with good endings and bad endings at the conclusion of the adventure. «more»