$7.99Bright Memory
Bright Memory is a very short, very fast first-person shooter with swords. As agent Shelia you land on a floating island full of reanimated beasts and soldiers, and you cut through them with guns, a blade and wild combo skills.
Is Bright Memory worth it?
Bright Memory is worth it if…
- you like short, fast arcade shooters you can finish in one sitting
- you like mixing guns and swords into your own combo strings
- you like replaying short games to upgrade skills and chase scores
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Guns, a sword and combo tricks
You shoot in first person with an assault rifle, shotgun and pistol, then close the gap with a sword slash. Skills like a time freeze and an EMP blast let you juggle enemies and stack your own combinations, and you spend points to upgrade them and keep the upgrades across replays. You drop a freeze, swap to the shotgun, then finish with the blade. It is quick, flashy and best played at full speed.
A floating island stuck in the past
A quantum transporter accident throws Shelia from an SRO lab to an airborne continent near the North Pole, asleep for over 1000 years. The place mixes science fiction labs with old Chinese ruins, built in Unreal Engine 4, and the dead things there have been reanimated by the Soul of Jiu Xuan. You push through a few linear stages, solve small puzzles to open the way forward, and meet at least two tough bosses that want you to learn their timing.
A 40-minute prologue with a cliffhanger
This is the maiden adventure of Shelia, a 21-year-old SRO agent chasing stolen data about two 1000-year-old relic swords. The plot involves a terrorist army called SAI, a transporter mishap and a lot of names dropped fast, and it stops on a cliffhanger that leads toward Bright Memory Infinite. Think of it as episode one. You finish one run in under an hour, then replay it to max out skills and chase combos.
Good to know before you play?
Does the story connect to Bright Memory Infinite?
Only loosely. This ends on an unresolved note with soldiers found hanged upside down and questions left open, and Infinite retells the setup rather than continuing it directly. Buy this to sample the combat, not to start a saga.
Is it hard?
The shooting is easy to learn, but the bosses punish rushing and some combo challenges are strict, with occasional bugs getting in the way. Keep moving, spend your points between runs, and swap weapons if you respawn low on ammo.
