Forgotten Anne

It looks like they misspelled Forgotten

I'm a sucker for this highly stylished animated games and when I watched the trailer I just had to get it. And it was a beautiful 6-7 hours playing through it. Basically the main character Anne is the Enforcer, pretty much a police for Master Bonku who builds an Ether Bridge to get everyone back to the Ether. The Ether is our world and Anne and Bonku are trapped in the Forgotten world where forgotten items ends up and get sentient life as forgottlings. The game starts with a rebel group performing some attacks on crucial infrastructure and Anne as the Enforcer has to find the rebels and bring them into justice so they won't stop the Ether bridge.

Now, pretty much from the get-go I guessed that Master Bonku is in the wrong. Mostly since everything Bonku built to ensure the project screams 1984 to me. He installs mirrors that keep tracks on the populace for their own security. Only 100 forgottlings are promised to follow Bonku back to the Ether and only those that do their duty have a chance and as soon as an item gets to become a forgottling they are assigned a job to further the project. Pretty much a facist dictatorship. 

Pretty much a puzzle plattformer where you jumps around to get around the world and solve puzzles. What makes the game interesting is that you during the game gets the choice to roleplay Anne's character. You can play as a hard-boiled cop that only does the master's bidding and "distilling" any adversary or be a reluctant enforcer who wishes to give people second chances, doubting the very project itself. It works pretty good. I started full on mission duty (with a few hiccups like I missed distilling the first rebel you meet since I wanted to see if you just could scare them by almost draining their life force), playing fair even though I could roughen rebels up a bit, but due to the hiccup I played no kill scenario. As the story unfolds you learn Anne and Bonku's history, the reason the rebels fight their fight and learn the big twist of the game, which pretty much was the only way the story could go.

The twist is that to get energy for all machines and the Ether Bridge, Master Bonku distill all (as he sees it) worthless forgottlings and take their energy to power it all. He does this with the Arcas he and Anne possess. The Arca is two-parts from a crystal that is a cornerstone of the world. The guardian of the cornerstone, the Caretaker, tells Anne her background, an infant left by her mother in a box on the river as she couldn't care for the child and the supposed father wanted nothing with them. Also that going through the Ether Bridge would lead to the current forgotten world to be destroyed.