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I didn't find myself thinking of hyperthymesia as I played Extreme Exorcism, because there isn't really much time to think about anything when Extreme Exorcism is going on. As soon as I had finished, however, that's when I thought about hyperthymesia.And in keeping with the spooky context, hyperthymesia is both a blessing and a curse. Wouldn't it be brilliant to have an amazing memory, eh? Wouldn't it be great if you never forgot anything? Actually, wouldn't it be kind of awful? The world would be filled with your memories, every trip to the shop you had ever taken crowding in when you headed into town, every film you had seen converging as you went to the cinema, as you sat down on the sofa. The world would be filled with ghosts. That's hyperthymesia: a condition that describes people who are unable to forget anything.
Extreme Exorcism allows you to poke at such horrors from a safe distance, though. It's a side-scrolling arena action game, in which you race through cluttered single-screen levels picking up weapons and doing in enemies to earn points. The twist is that every enemy after the first is a ghost - a ghost of your previous movements. Extreme Exorcism is a game about hunting your past selves down before they can give your present self a shoeing.
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