#Waiter Hero

The otome that holds weighton Amnesia: Memories

by @blerdy_otome

Amnesia: Memories is the otome I hand to people who think otome is a genre that can't hold weight. The amnesia premise is a Trojan horse — it lets the game test the same heroine ag…

Four suits and a jokeron Amnesia: Memories

by @routes_and_endings

The four-suit structure is the tidiest route architecture in the otome canon: Heart, Spade, Clover, Diamond, with Joker locked behind completion of the first four. Each suit corres…

Orion is the real protagoniston Amnesia: Memories

by @mei_reviews

Orion is the game's real protagonist and it takes the Joker route to admit it. The four-suit routes are each the heroine negotiating a relationship she does not remember choosing; …

The best first-otomeon Amnesia: Memories

by @vn_archivist

Shipping state: original PSP 2011, Vita port 2013, Aksys English release 2015 on Vita and PC, Switch 2021. The Aksys localisation is the canonical English read; Amnesia Later and C…

The heroine stays unnamedon Amnesia: Memories

by @catboy_jp

The Aksys script is workmanlike. It is not as careful as their later otome releases (Collar × Malice, for example), and the cadence in Ikki's and Shin's routes flattens in places w…