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Hotel Dusk!
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Ok, so it's come to the point in my summer where I must ride a subway for about roughly 2-4 hours a day. In lieu of sleeping, I would like to pick my DS back up again. I loooooved (<3 
) Hotel Dusk, with the perfect blend of story telling and artistic style.
I'm currently playing Broken Sword DS, and enjoying it thoroughly. Are there any recommendations for games that I might enjoy? It would be greatly appreciated!
P.S. Long train rides suck.
) Hotel Dusk, with the perfect blend of story telling and artistic style.I'm currently playing Broken Sword DS, and enjoying it thoroughly. Are there any recommendations for games that I might enjoy? It would be greatly appreciated!
P.S. Long train rides suck.
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Touch Detective and Touch Detective 2 and a half are more point and click goodness if a tad surreal for some.
And finally the Phoenix Wrights are as awesome as their reputation suggests.
Yeah, its mostly a fun game about bizarre and absurd court scenarios. But, if that sounds at all appealing they're atleast worth a look-see.
Thirding/Fourthing whatever phoenix wright. This is how I tried to describe it to someone else who hadn't played it, if it sounds interesting then go for it -
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Let's see, good games to play after it... Henry Hatsworth is supposed to be really great, and Phoenix Wright as well. Pokemon isn't too bad of a timewaster if you don't mind the 'childish' stereotype attached to it. I haven't played it, but The World Ends With You is supposedly a good game.
And Trace Memory that's by the same studio
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Speaking of which, the Trace Memory Wii sequel is apparently out over here (Europe) in a fortnight.
It most definitely is a great game. While it's a lot of fun and an all around great game it might be a little difficult or awkward to play while riding a train since battles require heavy and excited use of the stylus.
Not awful adventure games.
Not great, but fun, ish.
Another vote for Phoenix Wright, which I really enjoyed despite not really being a fan of Japanese games in general. Massive credit to whoever did the localization, it's solidly entertaining and actually quite funny in English.
Alas, it is rarer than a spotted owl and harder to find than a shadow in a pitch black room
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I was wondering about this game. Could you elaborate a bit on the gameplay?
I saw it won "best story" for 2008 on one of the adventure game sites, and I found it exceedingly weird that I had never heard about it.
http://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Dusk-Room-215-Nintendo-DS/dp/B000KRXA28/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1244631057&sr=8-1
I don't understand how many people will claim something is impossible to find just because it isn't physically in stock in a shop they walk into. It's called the internet people!
Really? I can't remember if I still have my copy or if I sold it on.
I got an email from Play Asia about a game called Jake Hunter, which seems to be in this vein, but it's being massively criticised. This quote's from 1UP:
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Well it wasn't in stock when I looked last alright?!
Jeez
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I enjoyed Trace Memory, but I didn't have to pay for it (borrowed it from my sister), and that was long before Hotel Dusk existed. It pales in comparison, but it might still be fun if you can find it for super cheap.
Phoenix Wright and the following three games are some of my favourite games for the DS. I love this series so much.
Touch Detective is fun although there are a lot of obscure adventure-game style solutions. You know the kind where you have to use a glow-stick on a tree or something and the only way to figure it out is to look it up or do it randomly. I didn't play the sequel.
Professor Layton is wonderful. I anxiously await the sequels.
By the way, I liked Hotel Dusk but was disappointed in its lack of a real ending.
I bought it to play on the plane when I was going abroad, finished it that day, and took it back, disgusted.
There was something in there that made me want to play for a few hours straight, but the ending was completely half-assed and left a very bad taste behind.
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I liked the atmosphere and I liked the puzzles. The ending seemed fine to me. Maybe you got the Bad End.
That game had multiple endings. I apparently got the "good" one and didn't have any complaints. I remember hearing other people complain, though.
Hotel Dusk also had alternate endings, but they weren't much different. It wasn't a big deal if you missed something, there.
I don't mean the ending ending. I'm talking about
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I freaking loved Time Hollow. It's my favorite adventure game for the DS, although, like all adventure games it's lacking in replayability. You're a teenager who wakes up one morning and find that your room looks different, your parents have been missing for years and you're the only one who remembers it differently. Your pet cat has a note from your missing dad and a pen with no ink (the Hollow Pen).
The gameplay is all about using the hollow pen to change the past. Some one has changed history and you need to get it back to the way it was. Everytime that you or someone else changes the past, you see images of things that have changed. If you can find the place time and details of one of these images you can draw a hole in time at that spot to make your own changes. However, you can only send things through or pull things back, you can't go to the past yourself for reasons that the excellent plot will divulge.
The story starts out light and gets seriously dark as you move along. You're not the only one who can change the past, and not everyone is so happy to save lives and make things right...
Also, the game features fantastic anime cutscenes for major events in the storyline. Here's the opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sACLmz5j3BQ
Ever.
Hotel Dusk was a pretty good game that missed out on big potential. It's hard to say much without spoilers, but I thought the ending was lame, given the sort of characters we saw throughout the game.
It's really true. I just wish more people would make games like this to perfect the formula.
Yeah I'm really looking forward to the Wii sequel. I loved the original even more than Hotel Dusk despite its length.
[EDIT]: and now I've been sold on Time Hollow. Thanks guys!
Funny really. I seem to remember the point-and-click adventure genre to be almost exclusively Western and now it looks like it's going to be largely Eastern.
Then again... maybe it just seems that way since it used to be pretty darn hard to get Japanese games over here (other than the usual big titles, obviously).
I think I'll give that a spin after Broken Sword
And yes, IMO, Hotel Dusk is the best game ever made, next to Tetris.
First of it's kind in story telling. Just perfect, like a book.
EDIT: And I also love the Phoenix Wright series.
I kinda left it after a while though, I lost track of how many games there were in the series.
I know Edgeworth got his own game coming out in a bit.
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I agree 100%.
AlienCowThatMoos said it best already, but everyone reading and responding to this thread should play Time Hollow. I think it came out during a time that completely hid it under the rug, but it is a fantastic game (especially if you like anime) and the soundtrack is pretty nifty too. From what I recall, there isn't a lot of stylus gimmicks like Hotel Dusk had (besides time hollows) but I enjoyed the storyline. I guess you could say it was sort of close to interactive fiction as a genre.