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{{quote| ''Kagome, Kagome...''<br />
''The bird within the cage...''<br />
''When, oh when, will you come out?''<br />
''In the evening lit by the dawn...''<br />
''The crane and the turtle slipped and fell...''<br />
''Who's that behind you?'' }}
 
The third game in KID's ''Infinity'' series of visual novels., '''''Remember 11''''' follows the stories of two characters.
 
The first is the story of Fuyukawa Kokoro, a psychiatric student traveling to the SPHIA (Specified Psychiatric Hospital for Isolation and Aegis) facility to interview a patient residing there. Following an accident in which the plane on which Kokoro was traveling crashed in the mountains, the survivors of the crash attempt to survive in the mountains with limited supplies until they can be rescued. The other survivors include Mayuzumi Lin, Yomogi Seiji, and Kusuda Yuni.
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The second ongoing story follows Yukidoh Satoru, a resident of SPHIA, where he resides with Utsumi Kali, Inubushi Keiko, and Kusuda Yuni. Satoru's story revolves around several incidents which make it appear as though somebody is trying to kill him, as well as Satoru's investigations into the mysterious "personality transfer" phenomenon which causes his and Kokoro's minds to swap between the two of them...
 
See also: [[Never 7 (Visual Novel)|Never 7]], [[Ever 17 (Visual Novel)|Ever 17]], and [[Twelve Riven (Visual Novel)|12Riven]]
 
This game is part of the ''Infinity'' series, so expect [[Mind Screw|spoilers]] while reading the tropes list.
 
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=== This Visual Novel contains Examples of the Following Tropes: ===
* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: As revealed by the tips, {{spoiler|Utsumi, who going by the timeline would have had Junichi when she was fourteen}}.
** {{spoiler|1=One of the Drama CDs explains this by revealing that Junichi was an accident from the one time Yomogi and Utsumi had sex before they were married. Otherwise, the relationship was mostly sexless.}}
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* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Utsumi is half-Japanese, half-Indian.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Satoru and Kokoro fail to convince their companions of the personality transfer, although most of them do recognize that the two of them have multiple personalities.
* [[Class Reunion]]: Yuni [[Discussed Trope|mentions the cliché turnabout]] at the beginning in the plane.
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** {{spoiler|The Tips reveal that Enomoto is working for a not-explicitly-named German/Japanese pharmaceutical company which has recently started [[Ever 17|funding an amusement park and researching biological weapons]]}}
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* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Yuni most of the time, when he isn't being... well, see above.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: When compared to other Infinity titles like [[Never 7]] and [[Ever 17]].
* [[Dark -Skinned Blond]]: Utsumi Kali
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Twin Sister]]: Sayaka to Satoru, which is only revealed in the TIPS. She's also the real reason for the space time transfer experiment. Satoru blames the Transcendental Will aka "Self" for her death and he's looking for a way to get even/get her back}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Satoru
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* [[Drink Order]]: {{spoiler|Enomoto}} repeats a few different times that he very much prefers black coffee (and yes, this actually becomes important in the Apoptosis ending). Satoru mentions that he does as well.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Kokoro in one ending; feeling responsible for Yuni and Yomogi's deaths, she takes the only way out.}}
* [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma]]: It's unclear due to {{spoiler|Satoru}} [[Unreliable Narrator|being unconscious/delirious at that time]], but apparently {{spoiler|Keiko rapes/takes advantage of Satoru while he is in drug-induced stupor}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Dummied Out]]: In the game's data, full sprite sheets for the real Hotori and Sayaka (with a lot more expressions than in her one scene) can be found, suggesting they might have had a bigger part in the story. Furthermore, "Extra Voices" much like the ones in Ever17 can be found in the data, but were never implemented.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dying Dream]]: Several Bad Ends turn the whole game into one, as a result of a [[Time Paradox]] created by those endings.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Fetus Terrible]]}}: Subverted with {{spoiler|Yomogi and Utsumi's children -- they appear to be this due to their actions in Kokoro/Satoru's bodies, but the TIPS reveals that they aren't aware of what they're doing or that it's wrong.}}
* [[Fission Mailed]]: Satoru's good ending finishes with the same message given on all of the bad endings.
* [[Four -Philosophy Ensemble]]: The 4 characters trapped in the shelter cabin can be categorized as such:
** The Cynic: Lin
** The Optimist: Kokoro
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** {{spoiler|Satoru and Enomoto exchange personalities either sometime before or during the prologue.}}
* [[Freud Was Right|Jung Was Right]]: complete with color-coded OP credits!
* [[Freak -Out]]: Satoru goes through two of these- {{spoiler|once after Enomoto finishes his explanation about how the transfer phenomenon works, and again in Bad Ending 28 when he comes face to face with his past self (actually Enomoto in his true body).}}
* [[Fridge Logic]]: {{spoiler|Junichi was born in 1999. Utsumi is only 27 in January of 2012. Do the math.}}
** In-universe example: {{spoiler|Kokoro and Satoru realizing that [[Oh Crap|Keiko is in control of her body in the ending]].}}
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: There are over 30 endings, and most of them [[Downer Ending|aren't happy]].
** Many are also extremely difficult to access if you don't know what you're doing. to And god help you if you decide to try for 100% completion, which, due to a few events that occur at random, may be literally impossible without a guide.
* {{spoiler|[[Half -Identical Twins]]: Yomogi and Utsumi's twins. Surprising, considering how [[Ever 17|other]] [[Twelve Riven12Riven|games]] in the series avoid this trope.}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: {{spoiler|Enomoto}} takes his coffee with HOYAY.
* [[Hyde Plays Jekyll]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. One of Inubushi's victims had just turned nine when he was killed. {{spoiler|We later find out that he was Yomogi and Utsumi's son. Additionally, the game ends with Hotori/Inubushi holding ''another'' one of their children with a crazed look on her face.}}
* [[Insanity Defense]]: Due to having Dissociative Identity Disorder, Keiko Inubushi was merely sent to SPHIA instead of being jailed.
* [[Inspired By]]: The event that sets the first part in motion may have been inspired by the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123:Japan Airlines Flight 123|Japan Airlines Flight 123 disaster]], in which a 747 crashed into a mountain after losing control, leaving only four survivors out of the 524 passengers and crew on board.
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: Keiko frequently sings ''Kagome, Kagome'', a song used in a Japanese children's game of the same name.
* [[I Will Find You]]: In the past, Mayuzumi and Satoru had a conversation that pretty much boiled down to this and was referred to a few times during the game. {{spoiler|The timeline shows that the transfers were initially set up as a gambit by Satoru (with Enomoto's and Yuni's help) to save Mayuzumi in particular, as well as everyone else, from dying on the mountain, making the entire game a quasi-amnesiac extension of this}}.
* [[Kill 'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Yomogi and Mayuzumi}}, in certain bad endings.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Keiko Inubushi.
* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: Satoru
* [[Laughing Mad]]: {{spoiler|Kokoro}} in the Location X Avalanche End.
* [[The Load]]: Mayuzumi. A ''huge'' reason for her status as [[The Scrappy]].
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** {{spoiler|Mayuzumi}} gets one too in one bad ending -- "Sorry."
* [[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: {{spoiler|Naoya Enomoto}}, an unusually creepy example.
* [[May -December Romance]]: Yuni, described as being 11-12, and Kokoro, who's 20.
** To a lesser extent, {{spoiler|Yomogi and Utsumi}}; the Tips reveal that, despite outward appearances, he's nine years older than her.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The original Roman alphabet spelling of Yuni was "Uni" -- he's the one character who exists in both {{spoiler|2011 and 2012}}. His last name, Kusuda, also comes from [[The Trickster|his archetype]] -- pronounced in Japanese, it's "To-ri-KU-SU-TA".
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* [[Rescue Romance]]: According to the Drama CDs, {{spoiler|Yomogi and Utsumi's}} relationship is a result of this.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Lin Mayuzumi, treated this way in-universe as well (except by Satoru).
* [[Self -Fulfilling Prophecy]]: {{spoiler|Kokoro reads the newspaper from the future that says that she and her companions will be killed 1 km east of the cabin, and concludes that they must have gone there in the "original" timeline to pick up emergency supplies. She concludes that the presence of the newspaper would cause her to reach the conclusion earlier, thus allowing her to pick up the supplies before the avalanche. This results in the group being in the path of the avalanche when it occurs}}
* [[Serial Killer]]: Keiko Inubushi (although she technically is a spree killer)
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]
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** {{spoiler|The TIPS reveal that this is a combination of the shock Hotori is experiencing from the aftermath of the plane crash and her naturally shy personality.}}
** {{spoiler|Hotori actually gets better by the end of Satoru's route, only to lose her speech ''again'' after getting caught in the avalanche.}}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: The romaji from the japanese version of the game spell the main heroine's name "Cocoro", while the translation patch uses the more common "Kokoro".
** Not to mention Yuni, whose name was written in the original OP movie as Uni.
* [[Split Personality]]: Keiko Inubushi. Kokoro and Satoru use this as an explanation for their personality transfers (which isn't necessarily a lie, [[Jedi Truth|but isn't the entire truth]])
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* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Utsumi}}.
* [[Team Dad]]/[[Team Mom]]: Yomogi and Utsumi, respectively, each in a different location. {{spoiler|Unsurprisingly, they're married.}}
* [[Third -Act Misunderstanding]]: Mayuzumi taking the rations that everyone else has pooled together as just Yomogi's rations and assuming that he was holding out food on her.
* [[Third -Act Stupidity]]: Once you recover from the [[Third -Act Misunderstanding]], if Kokoro guards the remaining rations, she finds after another switch that the she's somehow eaten the rations and thinks that Satoru ate them in an act of this. {{spoiler|Subverted. When you see that switch from Satoru's point of view, he's already found the rations to be gone and assumes that Kokoro ate them. Like most of the inexplicable occurences, this is actually to be blamed on one of Utsumi's twins (the male twin, specifically), who got into Kokoro's body before Satoru, and not knowing any better, gobbled them up}}.
* [[Timeline -Altering MacGuffin]]: The newspaper from July, 2011.
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]/[[Tomato Surprise]]: As revealed in the tips, the one who's responsible for everything that's going on is {{spoiler|Satoru. Seriously.}}
** {{spoiler|Bad Ending #28 also reveals that the character we really thought was Satoru all along was actually Enomoto, and that the two switched bodies before 2012.}}
* [[Trauma -Induced Amnesia]]: Satoru, probably? This is part of the [[Mind Screw]].
** {{spoiler|Judging from hints given throughout the game, it seems likely that the Satoru the player plays as (I) is in fact Self, and therefore he has no memories, apart from what they've learned from Kokoro's route about him. Furthermore, Satoru's original personality (''I'') has left his body, thereby taking all his memories.}}
* [[Tsundere]]: Mayuzumi, for Satoru. Type A.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Played straight up until the plane crash. Afterward, there are two plots running simultaneously, but they're both being observed by a single viewpoint character as they switch between bodies
* [[Very False Advertising]]: The bottom of the can of hard tack reads "[[Gratuitous English|This is very delicious emergency rations]]". They are not.
* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Subverted- while this appears to be the case with Kokoro and Satoru, it seems that it's just for the convenience of the reader, as Satoru leaves voice recordings to Kokoro on her recorder, and the voice is still Kokoro's (though with a deeper pitch).
** {{spoiler|Either played straight or subverted in Bad Ending #28: Original!Satoru in his own body (Enomoto's by 2012) is still voiced by [[Takehito Koyasu]], while Enomoto in his own body (Satoru's by 2012) is still voiced by Shunsaku Nishigaki. Whether this is also for the convenience of the reader or not is unknown.}}
* [[Volleying Insults]]: Between Yuni and Lin.
* {{spoiler|[[What Year Is This?]]: Satoru asks this to confirm that the personality-swap is also accompanied by a time-jump.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: {{spoiler|"Apoptosis" [[Bad End]]. It's one long chain of [[The Reveal|reveals]], concluding with Satoru being killed by his own past self (which actually is not even ''his'' past self).}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: The last line of the game:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Mayuzumi:''' You're not... the Yukidoh Satoru I knew...}}}}
** In a similar vein, one of the last lines of "Apoptosis" [[Bad End]]:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Past!"Satoru":''' Don't you agree?... ''YUKIDOH''?}}}}
* [[White Void Room]]: {{spoiler|The Hotarubi Mine transfer point room. Justified as it was specifically designed this way so that no one inside could tell where they were.}}
* [[Wild Mass Guessing]]: Practically required in order to understand the game.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Utsumi. {{spoiler|This is horribly subverted when you learn her plan is to kill Keiko in revenge for her dead son.}}
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: {{spoiler|many of Kokoro's bad endings come from trying to avoid being killed in the January 17th avalanche, and [[Self -Fulfilling Prophecy|getting killed by their actions to avoid them]]. Averted in the True Ending}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Specifically averted. With the exception of Utsumi {{spoiler|and her twins}}, everyone in the game has a natural hair color.
 
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