Synopsis
Sigmund Corp uses technology that can create artificial memories. They offer this as a “wish fulfillment” service to people on their deathbeds. Since these artificial memories conflict with the patient's real memories, this procedure is only legal to be performed on people without much time left to live. Sigmund Corp. employees Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts was tasked with fulfilling a lifelong dream from the death of Johnny Wyles. Johnny wants to go to the moon, although he doesn't know why. The doctor immerses himself in an interactive compilation of memories and traverses backwards through his life through reminiscences.
With each jump to a key moment in Johnny's memory, they learn more about him and what brought him to his current position in life, including a mostly happy marriage to his childhood sweetheart, River. After reaching his childhood, doctors tried to pin down his desire to go to the moon. Supposedly, Johnny's mind will create new memories based on that wish, and Johnny will die believing he lived without regrets. However, in the memories Johnny does not create new memories as planned. Dr. Watts and Dr. Rosalene must solve the problem to fulfill Johnny's almost dying wish to go to the moon.
Finally, it is revealed that Johnny and River met as children at a carnival. They looked at the night sky and it consisted of a constellation: a rabbit with the moon as its belly. The two agree to meet at the same place the following year, with Johnny promising that should he forget or get lost, the two will "get together again on the moon". That night, Johnny gives River a toy platypus that River treasures for the rest of her life. Shortly afterward, Johnny's twin brother Joey was killed in an accident.
Johnny's mother gave him beta blockers to induce memory loss of the tragic event, also causing him to forget his first meeting with River. He then happened to meet her again, and eventually married her, and River only realized later that he had forgotten their meeting at the carnival. (Johnny admits that he approached her at school because she was different, and reveals that he thought it was their first meeting) River, diagnosed as an adult with Asperger's syndrome (although never directly stated, the game references Tony Attwood, who wrote many books about Aspergers ), does not tell Johnny directly about their first meeting; Instead, she tries not to immediately jostle the memories by cutting her hair and crafting paper bunnies, including a dual-colored one representing the constellation they made during their first meeting, combined with the blue and yellow dress she wore at their wedding.
River is unable to make Johnny remember before he dies, and Johnny is left with lingering feelings of guilt and an inexplicable desire to go to the Moon. At this time, Rosalene and Watts finally implant a memory sequence in which Joey does not die, and lives to became a popular writer, and Johnny did not meet River until they started working together at NASA. As real life comatose Johnny begins to die, he imagines going on a moon mission with River. During the launch, River reached out to him.
The moon appears through a window on the ship, and Johnny takes her hand to his dead heart monitor. In the epilogue, Johnny and River finally marry, and build and retire to the same house where the real life Johnny and River lived. Back in the real world, Rosalene and Watts look at Johnny's grave, which is placed adjacent to River's. They reveal to the public that Johnny wants a house for his nanny, Lily. Rosalene received a phone call, and their second patient was next. As Watts leaves, he stops and the screen briefly flashes red, the same way it does when Johnny feels pain. Watts took some painkillers, then continued on.
Minimum PC Specifications
Processor:Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
RAM :512 MB
Video Card :1024x768 High Color +
Hard Drive:100 MB
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