Memory loss - Too big a cliche?

[papillon]

Traumatic memory loss is a kind of controversial topic, because of all the messes created by therapists who were trying to "help" and ended up implanting memories in people rather than recovering them. There's currently zero evidence, as I understand it, that it's possible to forcibly recover specific 'repressed' memories at all.

Look up 'disassociation' for a good starting point on things the brain can do under stress.

[Chansel]

Hmmm.. It's not a too big cliché, as long as it's well written.
But since it's an idea that's been used a lot before, people are probably going to try and compare it to other stories witch use memory loss.
Not that that's a bad thing, just a small warning ^^

[Miyoshi]

The only Visual Novel where I encountered a memory loss was in "ef -a fairy tale of the two-":
Here I explain the memory loss, how it happend and who has it, but nothing more.

The girl Chihiro was hit by a car which cause a memory defect and she lost her right eye.
Her memory defect is that it works ony for 13 hours, in other words with every second that passes she looses one second of her momory. But she can still remember everything before the accident happend, which means her mind is now just like frozen.

[linkdragon0]

I know nanatsuiro drops, at the end of Fuuko's arc in CLANNAD, AIR.

I'm sure there are a few more but that's all I remember.

[Wintermoon]

Visual novels where something causes loss of memory: Clannad, Lyrical Lyric, To Heart 2: Another Days, Shuffle.
Visual novels where a main character has forgotten something important before the story begins: Clannad (again), Lyrical Lyric (again), Kanon, Triptych, Shuffle (again), Katahane, Ever17.

It seems that most of the commercial visual novels I've played fit into either category A or category B, if not both.

[DonSketch]

My story is about a guy who lost his memory before the actual game starts.Also it is not a fantasy story "something" happened that made him
loose his memory.He seeks for his memory and never gives up (I think...haven't planned that far ahead).So with these facts do I think my story is cliché?Hmm if I say it this way then yes it might sound cliché...However every story is different in fact I never thought my story was cliché until I read these posts.I'm still going on ahead with this project because it's a story I want to share with people.What I mean to say is who cares if it's cliché as long as it's a good story.

[Glasskitten]

Trauma can definitely lead to memory loss. Repressed memories and all that.

Like so? http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubma ... /Recovmem/