Remember Me

Remember Me builds a fantastic dystopian world over the course of the intro.  I was in from the opening cut scene.  Sensen is a corporation that can take and grant memories, the pitch was that you could effectively keep a loved one alive in you if the passed by the shared memories, how it would complete you to have the memories of your partner and know/feel how much they loved you.

Cut to ... you are being drained of your memories as an 'errorist' in order to be refabricated into a productive member of society.

Escaping from the facility has you slowly learn who you are and you abilities to rewrite memories.  This skill is used to effect significant change on your adversaries, you would be able to "rewrite" their motivational memory and modify it in some small ways that would change the outcome.  If your reason for being a bounty hunter was because you needed the money for an operation, but then your memory was adjusted to think that the person was killed -- you no longer have the motivation to go after the bounty.

Lots of platforming and "rooms of people to beat up" though in between epic moments.

... and I wonder if there will ever be a game where you play as a protagonist woman and are frumpy ...