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Ghost Trick
The more I play games, the more I become enthralled with the more... "unusual" stuff. Maybe it's a weakness of mine - I've been burned before by the likes of Fairytale Fights - but with my share of hits like Sega's gritty Madworld and Aksys' 999, either the fringe games and genres are growing in popularity or developers are willing to push some creative boundaries. Thankfully, this "Let's try somethin' weird!" trend is spreading, because now we have an adventure-mystery called Ghost Trick. Why Ghost Trick? Because those tricks are what the main character, Sissel, uses to get around and manipulate the environment. He only has until morning to figure out just what happened to him before he disappears into oblivion for good. Sissel can't come back to life, but he can affect the world around him as he saves the lives of other people by figuring out the puzzles put in front of him. It's not because he's a great guy (though he certainly might be); all of the characters he meets along the way hold a piece to the larger puzzle he's trying to solve... who he is, why he's dead, and who killed him. Ghost Trick is told from the third-person point of view, but follows Sissel around the city to help decipher what lead to his death.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
One of the things players dislike most in adventure games is meeting with an unexpected death. Eager to address this concern, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective removes it entirely by starting just after the player character has died. In the latest handheld adventure from Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, players control a non-corporeal wraith who has just one night to solve the mystery of his sudden, violent death. Fortunately, the game proves a lot more substantial than its protagonist, featuring an excellent use of the DS touch screen, an intriguing story that keeps you guessing right to the end, and creative gameplay that is thoroughly pleasing, whether you are actively trying to solve a puzzle or simply tinkering with the many optional possibilities. Early one evening, in a junkyard at the edge of an unnamed town, a man lies dead. With no memory of his past life or even how he came to die, a disembodied blue-flame spirit wakes to find, not only this sad sight, but also a hitman intending to add to the body count. At the prompting of a possessed desk lamp, the spirit discovers that he too can possess certain inanimate objects and use the titular 'ghost tricks' to control them.
Ghost Trick Review
Designing a video game around the most tired of all narrative crutches - an amnesiac protagonist - is a beguiling decision. It's almost guaranteed to have the critics scowling, so why do developers consistently do it? Still, it's further proof of Shu Takumi's creativity and imagination that Ghost Trick's hero ultimately manages to succeed where so many foggy-brained characters have failed.As the game's title suggests, our hero is a ghost. Becoming conscious in the middle of a junkyard shortly after midnight, the crimson-suited, sunglasses-wearing and Jedward-styling Sissel realises he's staring at his dead body. The amnesia is quickly explained: Sissel has been recently murdered, and the deceased seem to have a hard time remembering the specifics of their former lives.With the friendly advice of a bouncing nearby lamp, Sissel learns that he's inherited a cache of swanky supernatural abilities - his ghost tricks, if you will, which neatly ties the purpose of the game with its enigmatic title. He's also told he'll disappear from existence at dawn, which adds the requisite sprinkles of urgency to the tale.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
There's a conspiracy afoot, involving a pack of blue-skinned assassins, a murderer on death row, a music box, and a rookie detective who with a knack for stumbling into danger. Sissel is the one man capable of untangling the knots of this caper, but there is one small hitch. Sissel is a goner, face down on the pavement with no memories of his recently extinguished life. That won't stop him from trying though. Sissel doesn't know why he deserved such an end, or even if he's the good guy or the bad guy. He simply wants answers, and his best bet for finding them, Detective Lynne, has hitmen gunning for her head. Using his newfound powers of the dead, the ghost of Sissel can leap to nearby object and sometimes manipulate them in an effort to move around the environment and interact with the living. Unfortunately, stopping a gun-toting killer isn't easy when your best parlor tricks include flipping light switches and activating TV remotes. Sissel's inability to leap to every object, nor leap very far, makes a simple task like crossing a room into a brain-bending affair, and leads to wonderfully imaginative puzzles of the Rube Goldberg sort.
Ghost Trick Review
Ghost Trick isn't the first story to start off with a dead protagonist; but instead of reliving the events that lead up your death, you're taken on a journey to find out why you're dead, who killed you, and to save several other people along the way. The friends you meet have a proclivity for dying (sometimes over and over again), but your central spectral character not only has the poltergeist-like ability to knock over glasses and turn on sprinklers, he can travel back in time (four minutes to be precise) to before somebody's death in order to change the past. Aside from the paradoxes and occasional plot holes this conceit creates, Ghost Trick presents a story that feels more like a television sitcom than a game. The chapters pass by quickly, the dialog is snappy, and the plot twists and cliffhanger chapter endings effortlessly pull you along the convoluted (but easy-to-parse) plot. Though its a very different title from creator Shu Takumi's work on the Ace Attorney series, its easy to see how his earlier efforts have helped shape and refine this current project. As always, his plot juggles a wide variety of over-the-top characters, but this time nobody has a ridiculously punny name.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Review
Dead men, the saying goes, tell no tales. Luckily, this old adage doesn't apply to the recently deceased central character of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. In Ghost Trick, you take control of a soul who has no memory of his prior life and is desperate to uncover the truth behind his mysterious death. This investigation takes the form of a unique adventure game filled with terrific characters, compelling puzzles, and a labyrinthine mystery that keeps you guessing and that pays off in a big way. Don't let the fact that the main character is dead mislead you: this lively adventure is a breath of fresh air. You've never played a game quite like Ghost Trick. Disoriented, you come to in a junkyard on the outskirts of a city. You don't remember much, but one fact is abundantly clear: you've just been killed. Presumably the crumpled body of the pointy-haired blond gentleman lying amid the garbage was yours--and if you don't do something quickly, the young woman being held at gunpoint over your body will soon be dead, too. This intriguing opening sets the stage for Ghost Trick, all of which takes place during the course of one long night. You soon learn that your name was Sissel, but everything else about your past remains a mystery you are determined to solve.
Ghost Trick Review
In Ghost Trick, you're better off dead. Stepping into the spirit of a recently-deceased fellow with no memory of who he was or why he was murdered, you have one night to unravel these mysteries. Luckily, your new status among the non-living has granted you some useful supernatural abilities that will help in your quest for justice. This clever adventure game from the makers of Phoenix Wright provides one of the last great hurrahs for the Nintendo DS. The best reason to play Ghost Trick is for the amazing animation. The 2D sprites move more fluidly than even some cartoons and it's a joy to simply watch characters dance around onscreen. It's probably the most impressive animation I've ever seen in a video game. Ghost Trick was very obviously developed in Japan -- characters are flamboyant, reactions are over exaggerated, and there is some awkward dialogue. It's not a translation issue; there are just some things that are meaningful to the Japanese that don't carry as much weight in our culture. These details won't bother fans of Japanese games, but not everyone appreciates them. It's also very wordy.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Because they're light on traditional gameplay, interactive adventure games need compelling stories, characters, and puzzles in order to work. Getting this formula right is what made the Ace Attorney series successful, and getting it wrong is what makes Ghost Trick a failure. Considering that Ghost Trick is the latest project from Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, the game's bizarre premise shouldn't come as a surprise. You play as Sissel, a recently deceased spirit who can manipulate inanimate objects and travel four minutes into the past. Combining these two abilities allows you to participate in Rube Goldberg-style setups where Sissel flips, opens, and rotates various objects in order to save people from their imminent deaths. The concept is cool, but I was disappointed to discover that Ghost Trick doesn't have nearly the same charm as the Ace Attorney series. Sissel falls flat as a hero, the story uses convenient amnesia as a constant crutch, and a series of predictable twists deflate the overall mystery. In a game that depends on a strong narrative to keep players engaged, these shortcomings are difficult to forgive. To make matters worse, Ghost Trick also stumbles in its puzzle design.
GamePro
01/2011
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
This quirky adventure-puzzler from Capcom luminary Shu Takumi boasts a charming sense of humor and a unique, if sometimes frustratingly implemented, gameplay gimmick. Calling do-overs is usually the last resort of a sore loser, but the main character in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective has plenty to be sore about in only the first three minutes of gameplay: Shot dead in a junkyard for reasons unknown, with absolutely no memories to clue him in. Fortunately, Sissel (who doesn't remember his real name, either) has the mystical power to call "do-overs" in a way that takes him back four minutes in time before a person's death. Using magical "ghost trick" powers in the past, he can possess objects and manipulate them in a way that off-sets the chain of events leading to a person's untimely end. The only problem is, he cannot work his own magic on himself -- and nearly everyone he comes into contact with over the course of the game winds up dead at one point or another in connection with some big mystery that ultimately lies at the heart of his own death. The premise sounds silly -- especially if you try to articulate it to somebody on public transit who asks you what the game is "about" -- but once the story gets going, Ghost Trick gets pretty exciting, and the solid gameplay backs it up.
Ghost Trick (Preview)
You wake up. You can't move. You're dead and you can't remember who you are. This is the situation that players find themselves in at the beginning of Ghost Trick, the newest game from Ace Attorney creator, Shu Takumi. Players take on the role of Sissel, an amnesiac who finds himself deceased and disembodied, with the power to manipulate objects around him. In the opening scene he saves a young girl from a mysterious hitman and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a vast conspiracy. Unable to communicate directly with humans, and under the threat of complete spiritual extinction, Sissel is forced to befriend other spirits and household pets in order to unravel the conspiracy, save the girl and her family, and find the cause of his own death. The game takes place in 2D. Sissel can inhabit most of the objects in the environment, but can't exist in a disembodied state. Instead, he must hop from object to object. With a limited jump distance, a large number of the game's puzzles involve manipulating the environment to make it possible to move across the room. Once in an object, he can manipulate it in a pre-specified way. For example, if inside a wheeled cart, Sissel can roll it across the room. Sissel has one additional ability--time travel.
GamePro
06/2010
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Preview)
Capcom had a large presence at E3 with Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Dead Rising 2, but their most intriguing game might be Ghost Trick, a spooky mystery story with a ton charm. GamePro reviews editor Tae K. Kim sat down with director Shu Takumi (of Ace Attorney fame) to find out a little more about this fascinating DS title. What weâ??re talking about: When previews editor Andy Burt returned from Capcomâ??s annual Captivate event (held this past year in Hawaii), he came back with two things: a bad sunburn and nothing but good things to say about a quirky DS title called Ghost Trick. Of all the games he saw, that was the one he wouldnâ??t shut up about, and after seeing it in action, itâ??s plain to see why. Where we saw it: I was given a demo of the game by the director of the game Takumi-san at Capcomâ??s booth. Also on hand was producer Hironobu Takeshita. What you need to know: Point in the development cycle: Itâ??s pretty close to being done as the game is set for release soon in Japan, but US gamers wonâ??t be able to get their hands on this haunting mystery until the winter months. My take: I loved the Ace Attorney series, so Iâ??m definitely looking forward to this one. The mystery/puzzle nature of the game seemed right up my alley and the quirky, off-beat sense of humor looked spot on.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Preview)
What if you had the chance, in the afterlife, to make things better for others. As a ghost, you could wander through the world, fix mistakes, save lives, maybe even redeem yourself for what lays beyond. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is on the Capcom roster for a fall release for the DS and after spending some hands-on time with the game, it seems that this platform/puzzler has a lot of potential. The character the gamers play as begins the game dead. A young woman sees the crumbled body, stoops to help and is confronted with the man who was hired to kill the protagonist. Well, as the scene (opening level, which is basically an introduction to the game as well as a tutorial) plays out, the woman is shot and is mostly dead (in a Princess Bride sort of way), but the main character can reverse time, inhabit inanimate objects and, working quickly during the last four minutes of the woman's life, she can be spared. The fundamental game mechanic here is the moving into cores in ghost mode, performing ‘tricks' to activate them and then using them to jump to other cores. Even the demo level at Capcom's Captivate 2010 event proved that like any good puzzler, gamers will have to think ahead, have a plan, and move quickly.
GamePro
04/2010
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Preview)
Ghost Trick is an adventure game unlike anything else on the DS at the moment. It hearkens back to the golden era of adventure games, when story was king and rotoscoped character animations were commonplace, while at the same time introduces a plethora of DS-specific mechanics that feel both fresh and familiar. With all the clamor over the announcement of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and a ton of other big name games on hand at Capcom's Captivate event, it could've been very easy to completely overlook an amazing little DS game called Ghost Trick. Conceived by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, the game has all the trappings of a classic adventure game like Another World or Flashback, containing a healthy dose of humor and extremely detailed rotoscoped animations for each character. Players control Sessil, a man who "awakens" to find out he's been killed, left in a gutter with his backside sticking up in the air. If that wasn't bad enough, soon after he wakes up he witnesses the murder of a young girl, shot by presumably the same nefarious hitman who knocked off Sessil. With the aid of a self-aware lamp nearby (yes, a lamp) who informs Sessil of his unique abilities, Sessil sets off to discover why exactly he died, and to do everything in his ghostly power to prevent the death of the girl.
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Ghost Trick : Phantom Detective : (8/10)
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