Interactable items light up after you scroll over them to indicate they could be something worth looking at. ES88 can dive into clients’ minds and investigate the highlighted items in their memories. One of the PAX West reps described it as a “love letter” to older Japanese mystery adventures like Famicom Detective Club.

NEURODIVER works like a point-and-click visual novel. They may or may not have something to do with Crow and his friends’ faulty memories. ES88 sets out to hunt a rogue esper with help from returning characters from Midboss’ previous game, 2064: Read Only Memories. The Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER demo doesn’t dig into the “Golden Butterfly,” but that’s what the mystery is about. Ultimately, it comes across as a visual novel with colorful graphics, intuitive gameplay, and an intriguing premise. GATE tasks ES88 with investigating the truth behind what happened between him and his friends in an overarching mystery. She introduces her to Crow, a human-animal hybrid who suspects his memory was altered 10 years ago during a deal gone wrong. Thanks to an artificial lifeform called a Neurodiver, which is basically a psychic slug with feelings, psychic detective ES88 can enter others’ memories.ĮS88 is studying for her Neurodiver licenses exam when her friend GATE interrupts her with a special request.

Yet here we are: Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER dives into a neon-lit world where espers and hybrid creatures roam freely. I never thought I’d use the term “brainpunk” to describe anything other than Scarlet Nexus.

Shin master of monsters