2064: Read Only Memories (2015)

Initial impressions:
Gameplay-wise, so far it's half-adventure game, half VN. Unfortunately, the introductory puzzle was very dull (pick up some headphones, pair them with two home devices, write and submit a review of them, go to bed), and the VN dialogue is cute and well-written but goes on for too long. I suspect this, and possibly the VO issue, is just a standard aspect of the VN genre - all you've got is talking, so let's put as much of it in there as possible - and the adventure game aspect is making me a little itchier to get through the dialogue than I should be.
The presentation is cute, though it's mildly irritating to have the graphics take up so little of the screen! The interface is a little annoying: it often takes more clicks than it should to do something, even before the standard VN dialogue clicking (why do I have to open a verb coin then select use for each icon on my computer rather than just click on them?!); there's voice acting and the text always runs slower than the VO so you either finish listening to the line then have to wait for the text to catch up or you're clicking to get the text up immediately and you've read the whole thing before the VO has got halfway through - it feels like one of those escort missions where the NPC's walking speed is halfway between your walk and run speeds, and it's yet more clicking!

Welp, it crashed, there's no autosave, and I can't be bothered to spend like ten minutes clicking through all that dialogue again to catch back up to my latest manual save. I got an hour or so in. It's fine, but it's incredibly linear and the adventure game stuff doesn't actually have any heft, it's more like a minigame to break up the VN clicking. It feels like a 'my first cyberpunk story' and/or 'my first VN', probably better suited to a 13 year old Hot Topic customer. Everything about it is good - the voice-acting, music, art, writing - but it's all very cutesy (your robot pal sounds very much like Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun) and can get wearing fast. If it were a game within a game, like something that Chloe plays in Life Is Strange or something, it'd be amazing (assuming it didn't crash and fail to save!). Or even as a portable game, something to play on your phone while you commute. (Looking at Wikipedia to see if it was originally a DX game or something, I see it was first released on PC, but also that it only later got a port and a voiced update - with the "2064" bit being added on at that point - so that might explain why the VO and text aren't very well synced.)

Rating: nicely made, but a bit basic and some UI irritations.