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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories

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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories puts you in the shoes of Honeydew, a bunny headband-wearing employee of a melon soda factory who's on a mission to find her recently missing best friend. But is it really that safe traveling to a town where melon possession can land you in the slammer? And why is there a hamster so preoccupied with sneaking into the Kitten King's castle?

Uncover the mystery in this latest story-exploration game from developer Froach Club. Explore a charming, pixelated world - filled to the brim with eccentric characters, criminals, and a plot as weird as it is cute.

Mystery at Every Turn

Comb every inch of Hog Town to collect clues, trail shady characters, and sneak your way through the seedy underworld, using your keen observational skills and quick wit to piece together the whole picture before it’s too late.

Silly Characters with Intricate Backstories

While looking for your missing friend, you’ll encounter dozens of curious creatures with unique personalities and sometimes tragic backstories, adding additional mysteries for completionists to unravel.

Jazzy Lo-Fi Soundtrack

While you’re on the case, enjoy more than 90 different electronic and jazz-inspired tracks from composer markeryjane.

Gorgeous Retro-Style Graphics

The green-tinted, monochrome world is filled with loving detail, a nostalgic ode to the classic handheld generation with plenty of modern twists.

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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is a story-exploration game about revisiting a town full of adorable animals with eccentric personalities. Yet under its cute and nostalgic surface lies a dark tale of crime and corruption... Play as Honeydew, an employee of a huge melon factory, and travel to Hog Town where melons are illegal. While searching for a missing friend, you'll have to explore the town and its surrounding areas, and speak with suspicious characters in dangerous situations to uncover the truth.

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In a gaming world filled with violence and war, it’s nice to sit back and relax in an adorable universe like Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories. So, if you are looking for your next cozy game, you should absolutely pick it up for a meager price and get to know all these adorable characters. But be sure not to overindulge too much in those sweet, juicy melons.

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All in all, we loved Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories for taking us back to our roots and reminding us of simpler times when games were much more limited and required a unique type of creativity and imagination in their nostalgic design and witty storytelling. Short but sweet, if you're looking for a well-written little adventure that walks a dark path, you'll enjoy this evocative, melon-choly journey.

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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is a unique journey into an interesting world. There's a lot to uncover and enjoy as you explore, with neat retro graphics and soundtrack. This is one to check out, although a glitch (which is hopefully now patched) does mar things slightly-be sure to save regularly.

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At the end of the day, I'm not left with much to remember about Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories. The charm of its characters and writing are readily apparent, but there's simply not much to do in places like Ham Town and Hog Town. While the hard crashes certainly put a damper on my experience, it was the fact that I really had to force myself to keep picking up the game that speak volumes. Those looking for a light and chill story-centered adventure may enjoy the handful of hours you can sink into Melon Journey. Others may want to stick to watermelon for their sweet memories.

With a story full of twists and social criticism alongside charismatic and interesting characters, Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is an excellent adventure that awakens our nostalgia with its pixel art graphics and jazz lo-fi soundtrack. The lack of a portuguese localization may alienate some players, but even so, this indie remains one of the pleasant surprises of the year.

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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories stands out by presenting a really fun and lighthearted story, offering mystery, crimes and other serious issues with critical humor. Its graphics and soundtrack are special highlights, as they represent what a game from the nostalgic Game Boy would be with [high] fidelity. The absence of Portuguese text is an issue since the adventure is focused on reading but it doesn't diminish the shine of a pleasant and compelling game.

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With simple gameplay and a humorous plot that also touches some serious themes, Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is a great addition to the Switch library, giving the player moments of laugh and thoughtfulness in equal measures. Sadly, the lack of a Portuguese translation may be a barrier for some people to have access to this excellent product.

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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is a delightfully presented game with a short story that manages to be insightful without deviating from its cute aesthetic. While I personally feel the price of the game does not justify the length and unambitious gameplay, I can see others enjoying Bittersweet Memories if they don’t mind the cost of entry.

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Summary Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is a story-exploration game about revisiting a town full of adorable animals with eccentric personalities. Yet under its cute and nostalgic surface lies a dark tale of crime and corruption... Play as Honeydew, an employee of a huge melon factory, and travel to Hog Town where melons are illegal. While ... Read More

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• OS: Windows 10
• Processor: 1.6 Ghz
• Memory: 256 MB RAM
• Graphics: 256 MB
• OS: Windows 10+
• Processor: 2 Ghz
• Memory: 512 MB RAM
• Graphics: 1 GB

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Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories Review (Switch eShop)

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• review by Austin Voigt Fri 14th Apr 2023

We are living in an unprecedentedly competitive attention economy, one in which time and energy are increasingly finite and precious. Because of this, it can be easy to overlook games which appear simple and unassuming at first glance: retro monochromatic Game Boy-style graphics, cute-but-childish anthropomorphic characters, 8-bit chiptune soundtrack — Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories is an old-school adventure RPG nostalgia trip, sure, but it reconnects us to a simpler gaming time and it's got all the hallmarks of a future hidden gem.

The original Melon Journey was a small RPG maker game created over a decade ago by indie team Froach Club. It quickly became a cult classic, with a sold-out 'Pocket' version being released for Game Boy later this year by Limited Run Games. This new entry with the 'Bittersweet Memories' subtitle was created as less of a sequel to the original, and more of an expansion on the previous bite-sized explorative adventure.

Like many of the best things in life — cats, Kirby , or Super Nintendo World during a power outage — Melon Journey is cute on the outside, but dark on the inside. It's got all the trappings of a children's game (talking animals, fruit-themed storylines, cheery music) but within the first few moments of play you realize there's something much more sinister happening at the melon factory. You control Honeydew the bunny as they search Hog Town for their missing friend, Cantaloupe. The best part of this game is the intriguing storyline, so we'll avoid spoiling anything. Suffice it to say, some very mature themes are dealt with, and they only become darker as you progress. While playing, we were frequently reminded of one of our other favorite games, EarthBound — if you're a fan of the Mother series, we think you'll enjoy Melon Journey.

The world presented here is small, but it's filled with detail and completionists will find a familiar joy in checking each and every green-tinted pixel for easter eggs, hints, and hilarity. In many instances, investigating things more than once is not only a compulsion, it's a requirement for completing certain tasks, and will reward players with countless new discoveries. Certain side quests and cutscenes in the game will only be accessible when specific selections are made, which means checking everything multiple times over as you play.

It definitely has a satirical side that anyone familiar with the Game Boy era will appreciate. Humorous nods to the all-green color palette, moments where the audio skips or pops in and out with sound effects and scene changes, or even instances of NPCs breaking the fourth wall to comment on the sheer ridiculousness of their outdated world, this is knowing nostalgia done well. There's even a secret song hidden in the 90-title jazzy soundtrack that features real vocals and is pretty catchy. There's a depth and a soul here that many modern games seem to lack, replaced instead by flashy open worlds. While both styles have their merits, Melon Journey feels like a timely reminder that not every world needs to be open.

In the world of art and creativity, there is a now-familiar concept referred to as the “constraint mindset” in which creative thinking is highly activated when there are fewer resources to work with, and that approach is one which Froach Club and XSEED have mastered here, stripping the core adventure back to 2-bit-style pixel art, bare-bones D-pad and A/B inputs, and chiptune audio, but with a passionate focus and attention to detail on the story that many more superficially complex games lack.

On the subject of D-pad input, you'll quickly realize that the analogue stick isn't the best way to play, as the constraints on in-game movement are very authentic to the gridded systems of the 8-bit era which can be tricky to control with a stick. You'll want to grab your Pro Controller or anything with a directional pad for the best experience.

In addition to the minimalism inherent in the gameplay and design, Melon Journey's length is also a breath of fresh air, taking only five-ish hours to roll credits (or more, if you're like us and compulsively check all of the things, over and over and over again). While some might feel the game is too short for their liking, we found it a refreshing change of pace.

Of course, nothing is perfect, especially in art; twice while playing, we experienced game-breaking bugs that caused crashes, and with a lack of modern features we've all grown accustomed to, such as autosave, this did become a bit frustrating. You'll quickly find yourself slipping back into the habit of repeatedly re-saving your progress after each new scene and discovery made — again, nostalgic, but annoying. We imagine these bugs may be fixed with the planned day-one update, but nonetheless they broke some of the magic for us in the moment.

The team behind the game definitely went all-in on their commitment to the monochromatic color palette and 8-bit-style soundtrack, too, so be prepared for both your eyes and ears to experience some graphical and audio fatigue through repetition. It's catchy and cute at first, but has the potential to become tiresome after a few hours — which makes it doubly important that Melon Journey doesn't outstay its welcome.

If you're someone who finds yourself speed-reading through dialogue and skipping cutscenes, avoiding investigation of every single nook and cranny, then Melon Journey is NOT for you. This is a great little story-driven, exploration-based mystery RPG, plain and simple. Do yourself a favor and avoid this particular journey if you are not a serial completionist who lives for dialogue and NPC interactions. You have been warned.

All in all, we loved Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories for taking us back to our roots and reminding us of simpler times when games were much more limited and required a unique type of creativity and imagination in their nostalgic design and witty storytelling. Short but sweet, if you're looking for a well-written little adventure that walks a dark path, you'll enjoy this evocative, melon-choly journey.

About Austin Voigt

Austin started gaming at 2 years old and has been addicted ever since. Her Zelda, Mario, Pokémon & Animal Crossing obsessions freak people out. She habitually carries a mini projector around to play her Switch in console mode in weird places. Her favorite gaming snack is pizza rolls, because greasy controllers are her bugaboo.

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• Fri 14th Apr 2023

Ended up adding a physical copy of this to a Play-Asia other to push it up to free shipping so I should have my copy in a few weeks. Probably won't be playing it for a while so hopefully they can polish up the glitches by the time I get around to it. Looks like a fun little game.

Game breaking bugs, especially on a game this short; this low tech, should never get an 8 imo. Developers should be held to task for their game TODAY - not for patches they may or may not put out in the future. It emboldens them to skip game testing.

So is this game basically a visual novel/walking sim?

I'm getting distinct Meg's Monster vibes from this — not really an RPG, more of a visual novel with some feather-light RPG window dressing. It was a neat little diversion, but just a tad overlong, at about 6-7 hours - plus it did that thing I'm really started to get tired of, where... (medium-level spoilers)

...the third act makes you replay parts of the game again.

• somnambulance

Man, I’m really tempted by this one… I love the style and look of it.

• lemonjellydude

Got my copy on its way from play Asia , just really love the vibe on this one

• LadyCharlie

@BenAV @lemonjellydude Thanks for the info! I clicked this review to see if there was a physical release. This game looks like a really nice one to have on my shelf, and I know an XSeed game will cost a pretty penny in a year or two.

Hope the bugs will be fixed (or have already been fixed with the day-one update), but I'll eventually get it regardless since everything else about it is right up my alley!

• LEGEND_MARIOID

Cute. But not for me I think. I like visual novel RPGs usually, but I have to much to play and to consider for future purchases. Enjoy.

Cheers for the review.

• Impossibilium

I didn’t think I’d be interested in this, until I looked at the text boxes in the screenshots. That is my kind of humour. The fact that my OCD would be rewarded with more witty dialogue seals the deal. Still gonna just put this on my wishlist while I wait awhile for a few patches.

• Princess_Lilly

Bite sized are right up my alley, I was just thinking how a short hike was a great game and I would love to bite some bite sized bytes

• Sat 15th Apr 2023

I can get this when it hits a good sale. I love the fact it's witty and respects your time. For me it sounds like a good tweener game to play between more intense games.

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