Shadow of Memories（PlayStation 2）
🕰️ Organizing clues and possessions around causes of death
How to connect information and items found during exploration to the death you need to prevent.
Shadow of Memories — what should I check first in Clues and possessions?
Conversations, scenes, and objects provide many clues during exploration. Grouping them by the death they might concern helps reveal the next action. Retain information with no clear connection in a pending category; it may connect in a later chapter, and keeping it avoids overlooking it.
| Phase | Objective | Checklist |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction: understand the death | Identify precisely the conditions of the death you must prevent |
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| Investigation: travel into the past | Locate the factors that cause the death along the timeline |
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| Prevention and branching: choosing an ending | Choose actions that change fate and lead toward an ending |
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1. You keep dying in the same scene, however often you retry.
Cause: You are confusing the immediate cause of death with its underlying cause.
Solution: Start with the cause of death in the present and work backward through the timeline to identify the past event that produced it.
2. You cannot decide which period to visit next.
Cause: Your clues are not connected to the unresolved cause of death.
Solution: Arrange possessions and conversation notes by cause of death, then prioritize the period containing the information you still need.
3. You reach an ending other than the one you intended.
Cause: You have not recorded the choices and actions that determine the outcome.
Solution: Keep a separate save just before a suspected branch, change your choice, and compare the results.
Conversations, scenes, and objects provide many clues during exploration. Grouping them by the death they might concern helps reveal the next action. Retain information with no clear connection in a pending category; it may connect in a later chapter, and keeping it avoids overlooking it.
- ▸ Group clues by your hypotheses about the cause of death.
- ▸ Keep information with unclear relevance pending.
- ▸ Mark questions you want to investigate first.
An item may change circumstances when used in a particular scene or period. Even when its purpose is unclear, comparing it with the current cause of death and unresolved questions can suggest a use. Reviewing possessions alongside the periods you plan to visit helps avoid missing opportunities.
- ▸ Compare possessions against unresolved causes of death.
- ▸ Note the period in which you expect an item might be useful.
- ▸ Keep items with unknown effects and reconsider them later.
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