Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories

Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories[a] is a 2009 point-and-click adventure game developed by Cing and published by Nintendo for the Wii console.

First released in Japan on February 5, 2009, and in Europe on June 26 of the same year,[1] it is a sequel to 2005 Nintendo DS title Another Code: Two Memories.

[b] Set two years after the first game, returning protagonist Ashley Mizuki Robins joins her father at the fictional Lake Juliet, solving the mystery of her mother at this location.

At the end of the summer holiday, Ashley Mizuki Robins, now 16-years old and an aspiring musician, receives an invitation with a package of newly modelled "DAS" (Dual Another System), containing a message from her father that he wants to bond with the two on a camping trip at Lake Juliet.

After a brief argument with her father, Richard, he reveals that he came to the lake to know why her mother, Sayoko was doing here 13 years ago, which much to her surprise, Ashley's been having brief flashbacks as soon as she arrived.

Richard leaves after getting an emergency call from the lab, then Ashley meets with a man named Ryan Gray, a scientist who's employed at J.C. Valley that knew of her parents, especially Sayoko.

After camping with him, she meets a 13-year-old boy named Matthew Crusoe, who is a runaway that came to search for his missing father, Michael in Lake Juliet.

After slowly unravelling the mystery inside J.C. Valley, Ashley learns that one of the employees named Sofia Callaghan is in league with Ryan to search for Sayoko's pendant, and is also helping him reactivate the prototype "Another".

After Sofia escapes, Ashley learns the truth of her mother from Rex Alfred: The lab's late-director Judd Fitzgerald had summoned Sayoko and gave her an ultimatum, which she chose her family over being a scientist.

[23] GameCentral on Metro UK called the game a "hidden gem of the Wii", praising the graphics, animations, soundtrack, puzzles, and in particular, the story and Ashley's "realistically written" character.

He stated that Another Code: R's story sandwiches exciting, large moments between hours of tedious conversations, in a way that allows the game to thrive on this, by making players experience the "beauty of real boredom [...] the color of a natural life", in a way that is "unexpectedly intoxicating".