But don’t forget to watch your back!Įnter the cyberpunk City that buzzes with the technology. Walk through the alleys barely lit by the light of neon.
Solve the mysteries that cast a shadow upon the innocents, and collect the transfer when the job is done. You say that it’s dirty money? I say – it doesn’t matter in this city of sin.įeel the noir atmosphere and let yourself sink into this world of beauty and bestiality. Your pitiful apartment is filled with pungency of decay and misery. You may try to get dressed, but you will only find one semi-white shirt, a pair of not-so-new shoes and a tattered tie. It is still smelling of whiskey and if you lift it up, the round stain will remain on the wood.Īlways try to move objects and ferret through the stuff – the clues may be hidden right under your nose! Nevertheless, inspecting the room can provide you with many intriguing details such as the empty glass lying on the table adjacent to the window. Markets, suspicious shops and dark corners stinking with sewage. All of these are crawling with drug dealers, hookers, cyber gangs and young hackers. Walk by them or interact with them as you traipse through the city. Either way, all roads lead back to the familiar, eye-catching neon. It’s always nice to spend some time in a pub, drinking to the point that you no longer remember about this wicked town. You don’t want to miss a hidden opportunity! While strolling, don’t forget to look into every nook and cranny of the City, even if it doesn’t seem plausible. How else could you explain waking up next to the beautiful woman covered only in sheets, combined with fact that she’s just given you the commission? How did you ended up here? And does it even matter? The only thing you have to chew on is this woman’s tragic story. It is filled with love, affair, money, abuse – and is just like the ones you’ve heard before.Ĭhoose the job and mystery that appeals to you! Hear the stories of the people and get to know them better. The feeble scent of the woman’s perfumes is still palpable on your stained, old shirt. It’s a shame more people haven’t played it, but for anyone who still owns a DS, this is a quiet classic that’s more than worth revisiting.Are you going accept her commission, or will you resist those large, mournful eyes? You have to remember that the amiable intentions are one thing, but another are high-stakes – people can offer you really good money. If there were a handful of different paths to success that rewarded creativity and experimentation, this would be even better.īut we won’t quibble – not when Ghost Trick is already so good in its own right. It’s a shame that the methods of actually completing each chapter or plot point are cast in stone, because the only thing holding Ghost Trick back from reaching for the crown of greatest action-puzzle game ever in my eyes is the rigidity of its solutions. But while the opening few chapters just require you to ring a bell or drop a wrecking ball at the right moment, as the game goes on, you’ll need to experiment against the clock to try and find ways of distracting, spooking, or provoking people, and discovering the solutions to these puzzles is enormously satisfying.įor my money it’s one of the best-looking Nintendo DS games, too – the animations are so slick and smooth, and the characters all have their own little unique quirks and personality flairs that really come alive in this art style. To save those lives and solve your own mysteries, you need to take control of various objects and manipulate them in the right way and at the right time.
You can also travel backwards in time by four minutes before someone’s death and try to save them from their untimely demise, and the lives of nearly every member of the Phantom Detective cast ultimately lay in your hands at one time or another. There are more benefits to being dead than you might imagine, however, because you can inspirit and manipulate a range of different parts of the environment. Given this is a Capcom creation, who are better known as the architects of the Phoenix Wright series, you don’t need to be told that Phantom Detective is a beautifully animated, distinctively designed puzzle-action game, pitting you as Sissel – a ghost that has until sunrise to determine who he was, who killed him, and why. But be in doubt that this is one of the most innovative, interesting, and charming games on the console. It’s a real shame that Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective was released at the back-end of the Nintendo DS’ life span, because when you look back on all the best games from the system, few think of Ghost Trick.
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