An AI game character can remember the player’s name and still fail continuity.
The harder problem is not isolated recall. It is preserving the relationship between facts, promises, emotional residue, and gameplay consequences after a long session has crossed several scenes.
A useful test artifact is a continuity ledger: a compact, auditable record of what must survive between dialogue turns and scene transitions. It sits between raw conversation history and the next generated response.
The ledger is not a transcript summary. It is a list of claims that the game can verify.
The direct answer
