Review Memory: where was Yanxi taken?

About this game

Developer: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Publisher: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Cel-shaded & anime · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

A deduction mini-game built out of a map: the game asks a single factual question, where was Yanxi taken?, and the player answers by searching their memory of the palace against a plan where only the plausible locations carry colour and names. Grey for the irrelevant, gold for the candidates: the map's palette is the first hint, and the five diamonds at top-right price being wrong. It is a small, confident piece of design, no timer theatrics, just a question, a document, and the player's own recollection as the mechanic. Frame at about 1:05 in the Announcement Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0029.png at 64.5s); the caption line across the bottom is the trailer's, the screen is the game's.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

map-overlay location-label

Components

Parts on screen.

Document Log Map Marker Button prompts

Screen inventory

• the deduction posed as a question in plain text at top-left: 'Where was Yanxi taken?', REVIEW MEMORY is the mode's name, the five violet diamonds at top-right its remaining attempts or confidence
• the palace as an ink-and-gold plan: most of the grounds washed grey, the candidate locations in colour, The Jade Pavilion, The washhouse, The cafeteria, Vacant chambers, each with a black ring marker, the selected ring lit with a blue laurel circle
• the map is drawn on a physical sheet, brush annotations in the margins, memory as a document the player interrogates, matching the Case Files notebook
• prompts along the bottom (Select / Event Log / Pause / Open Notebook, and a Recover action on triangle) tie the mode back to the notebook system

Top 3 colors

#0f0805 24%#797771 21%#5f5c50 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD., The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother screenshot: The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD..

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0029.png, 64.5s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled memory-review screen, question text, location labels and ring markers sharp; the trailer's caption across the bottom edge is disclosed in the study note

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-21); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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