The retail edition of To the Moon is available in retail throughout the UK and Ireland from today. The retail edition includes the full videogame as well as the highly praised soundtrack on CD.
To the Moon is a unique storytelling project, involving gameplay elements of classic point-n’-click adventures as well as role-playing games (RPGs). Independently funded and developed by Kan Gao and his team Freebird Games, tells a story of a technology that allows to alter a person’s memories. 
Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts have rather peculiar jobs: they control this technology that allows doctors to weave artificial memories, such that a patient can request attempts to alter their mind, and wake up with memories of things that didn’t actually happen.
However, since these new memories are permanent, the conflict between them and the existing authentic memories clash in such a way that it ceases the person’s ability to properly function. Thus, the operation is only done to people on their deathbeds, to fulfil what they wish they had done with their lives… but didn’t.
The technology requires the doctors to step into the memories of the patient, which are reconstructed as interactive scenes. The doctors then gradually traverse backwards through memories of the patient’s life until they reach childhood — at which point, the wish of the patient in present time would be transferred over.
Along with the doctors’ influence, the patient (as a child) could then lead an entire different life inside their head, working toward and fulfilling their dying wish themselves. And if all goes well, they would wake up, having lived the dream life they never had, and embrace a brief moment of blissful fulfilment. Shortly after, they’d draw their last breath.
John, the protagonist of To the Moon, is a patient of Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts, and both doctors are about to fulfil his last wish: To weave the memory of having become an astronaut and visited the Moon.
To the Moon is available at retail stores throughout the UK and Ireland from today, with a recommended retail price of £14.99 GBP. Additional retail releases follow on 31st August 2012, in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, as well as further territories worldwide, and Electronic Theatre will keep you updated with all the latest details on To the Moon.
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