Palette

is a psychological horror adventure game that was made with RPG Tsukūru 95 by Nishida Yoshitaka (西田好孝). The game was highly acclaimed in the Fourth ASCII Entertainment Software Contest, awarded a Grand Prix of 10,000,000 yen, which resulted in remaking the game for PlayStation by Enterbrain. That version, entitled Forget me not -Palette-, saw the release on April 26, 2001 exclusively in Japan. Gameplay In Palette, the player controls Dr. Shianosu B. Shian (シアノス・B・シアン), a renowned psychologist specializing in memory, and his patient, an amnesiac girl known only as "B.D." Communicating using the telephone in Shian's office, Shian guides B.D. as she explores a maze-like dreamscape of her traumatic memories. At first, each memory is missing crucial details, which are filled in as B.D. investigates the memory. As B.D. fills in her memories, new paths open in the dreamscape, allowing her to explore new memories. Some fragments of her memory are in hidden in the dreamscape and must be taken to the correct one. With each of these pieces B.D. discovers, the maximum length of a gauge on the right of the screen is increased by one. This gauge essentially represents her mental health. As she travels down paths of her memory and breaks down barriers, it decreases. If it reaches zero, she gets a painful headache and the telephone call ends. When Shian redials B.D., she must restart the journey from the first room, but the details in her memories she fills in, the fragments she collects, and the maximum length of her gauge are permanent. There are also circles of light in the dreamscape that recover B.D.'s gauge when she steps into them. These will usually only appear if her gauge is low enough, so in some cases the player must find a way to intentionally damage B.D. so that the circle will appear, allowing her to heal and make further progress. Some rooms also have hidden passageways that the player can discover.