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Another Code: Recollection

Another Code: Recollection is a 2024 puzzle adventure game developed by Arc System Works and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. Released worldwide on January 19, 2024, it is a remake of two point-and-click adventure games originally developed by Cing: 2005 Nintendo DS title Another Code: Two Memories, and 2009 Wii title Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories. Players control protagonist Ashley Mizuki Robins as she searches for her father in Blood Edward Island, and clues of her mother in Lake Juliet two years later. Along with updated visuals and gameplay, the remake's versions of these titles saw several narrative changes to streamline their respective stories, with the plot of the latter game also diverging heavily from the original.

Another Code: Recollection is a 3D puzzle adventure game. Players control protagonist Ashley Mizuki Robins to explore and solve puzzles in Blood Edward Island (Two Memories) and Lake Juliet (Journey into Lost Memories) in a third-person view. In both stories, through Ashley, the players can operate a "DAS" (Dual Another System), a handheld device that resembles the Nintendo Switch, through which they can utilize a camera, view photos and character biographies, and scan QR coded origami crane messages. In addition, the "DAS" unlocks card reader locks around Lake Juliet via "RAS" (Reboot Another System), a wristband-like device Ashley receives at the beginning of the latter game. Interactions with non-player characters still retains the visual novel style format from the original games, but with the addition of voice acting, fully 3D models and comic book-style panel and speech bubbles. The remake introduces an optional escalating hint system to assist the player if they ever get stuck or miss a puzzle.

On February 24, 2005, a day before her birthday, a 13-year-old Ashley Mizuki Robins arrives on Blood Edward Island with her aunt Jessica, after she receives a letter from her father, Richard, who was believed to be dead, along with a handheld device called "DAS" (Dual Another System). After they arrive, Richard is not there to greet them, so Jessica goes to look for him, but when she does not return, Ashley ventures out to search for both of them. While exploring the island, Ashley encounters and befriends a 10-year-old ghost named D, who has lost his memories and wants to learn the truth behind his death. Together, they enter the Edward Mansion and search for clues on Jessica and Richard's whereabouts and D's memories.

In the mansion, Ashley and D learn the history of the Edward family, and his past: D's real identity is "Daniel Edward", a young boy from the Edward family and son of Thomas Edward, who both visited the island during his great-grandfather, Lawrence's illness, and befriended a girl named Frannie, the daughter of his uncle Henry. At the same time, Ashley meets her father, Richard, in the drawing room, where he asks her to retrieve three keys to "Another", which is a device with the ability to replace someone's real memories with false ones, which was created by Ashley's parents while they worked as memory researchers at MJ Labs. While retrieving the keys, Ashley eventually learns that her mother, Sayoko, was murdered on the night of her 3rd birthday. Ashley questions her father about her mother's death, but Richard angrily shouts at her for not giving him the keys, and soon after, a saddened Ashley rebukes him.

Ashley later finds Jessica trapped in the wine cellar, who reveals that Richard and Sayoko's old colleague, Bill Edward, had dragged her there. Ashley later realizes that the imposter she encountered earlier was Bill, soon after reuniting with the real Richard Robins in an "Another" lab. Realizing Bill had altered Richard's memory from "Another", Ashley uses the "DAS" to recover his true memory of the night of her mother's murder, which reveals that he was not the killer. Ashley and Richard confront Bill in a cave, where at gunpoint, she realizes that Bill is the true culprit of her mother's murder. Bill explains that because of his jealousy and his rage over Sayoko's "betrayal", he broke into their family home to steal back "Another", shooting Sayoko. As he tries to shoot both of them, D's sudden appearance shocks Bill and causes him to fall a nearby drop to his death.

Bill's death causes D to remember his death: after he had witnessed his uncle shooting and killing his father in a misunderstanding over the inheritance, D ran in fear from his uncle to the cave, where he fell to his death while seeing his uncle's outstretching hand. Shortly after, Ashley finds out on Bill's laptop that he had successfully transferred "Another"'s data to an unknown chat user named "j.c.valley_0013". Before Ashley, Richard, and Jessica depart the island, Ashley bids D farewell as he departs to the afterlife, content that he found his answers.

Two years later, on August 24, 2007, now 16-year-old Ashley Mizuki Robins arrives to Lake Juliet after receiving a call from her father, Richard for a camping trip and sends her the "DAS". Ashley arrives, but becomes frustrated after her bag gets stolen by a 13-year-old boy named Matthew Crusoe near the bus stop. At the campsite, she and Richard briefly argue, as she states that she made plans with her bandmates for the upcoming band contest, but her father reveals that he wanted to show Ashley the lake again, as her mother, Sayoko had visited the lake 13 years prior. Much to Ashley's surprise, she admits she's been having flashbacks of her mother when she arrived. He later gives Ashley the "RAS" (Reboot Another System), a wristband-like device that was built by Sayoko before her death.

After the camping trip, Ashley frequently encounters a mysterious guy named Ryan Gray, a J.C. Valley employee who claims to have known her mother. Soon after, Ashley encounters Matthew again, and befriends him, after learning that he's a runaway in search for clues of his father, Michael, who had disappeared. While searching for clues, they learn that Michael was a lottery winner that attempted to turn the lake into a beautiful resort, but overnight was mysteriously framed by the residents and tourists for pollution on the lake. Soon after they re-activate the clock tower's bell, Matthew remembers his sister, Kelly's death, who died by falling off the clock tower five years ago, and suppressed it ever since. Soon after, Greg Davis, a journalist trying to prove Michael's innocence, appears and informs Matthew that his father had woken up from a coma.

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