izigame.me

Bright Memory: Infinite is pretty much the final version of what Bright Memory is meant to be. If you bought the latter back when it was still in development, you pretty much get this game for free. You use Sheila, who's pretty much trying to investigate some convergences between worlds, while being pursued by General Lin and his army (what happened to Carter though...). Along the way she has to fight against enemies, whether its General Lin's troops, or some ancient Chinese warriors with strange abilities. She has various guns, each with secondary mode of firing, in addition to her exoarm that is capable of telekinesis, or just being able to land devastating blows. You will collect some orbs and reliquary to upgrade Sheila's weapons and skills, to boost their effectiveness as well.
Unlike Bright Memory, there is a clear Chinese theme here, from the character names, the environment, buildings and even the monsters here, which is pretty much given, as the developers are from China after all. There are also changes to some gameplay here, such as skills having pretty much have no cooldown here, instead they are kind of limited by your exoarm energy, which is a pretty nice change compared to the cooldown present in Bright Memory. Double jump here is done by tapping jump twice, instead of holding jump in Bright Memory. She also can parry attacks, which helps to refill her exoarm energy bar, and replenish ammo as well. Wall run are present in some places for manuevering purposes, albeit not much. Scoring system is no longer present here, and lastly, you can reconfigure key layout here. Finally.
Unfortunately, it kinda suffers from one big problem as Bright Memory; its too damn short! For a full game, you can complete it in 2 hours. There's also some weird checkpoint mechanics here where if you die, you will restart the checkpoint... with the amount of ammo you had left right before you died, instead of how much ammo you have when you reached the checkpoint. Some part also have unskippable cutscenes, as it may have some QTE, which is a bit annoying.
Despite that, I did enjoy this game. It's not too bad, and its quite fun. As in Bright Memory, the Japanese VA for Sheila is still Yui Ishikawa, which is a well known VA. Coupled with workshop mods, you can use a 2B mod for Sheila and it will fit really well with the voice. If you want to get this game, perhaps you wait for a Steam sale to try it out.