Hotel Dusk has a bunch of stuff to love.
The music is continuous bliss, the film noir visuals are stunning from start to finish, and the story, and the writing that accompanies it, feels connected like nothing else I've ever read. Seriously, I'd love to see if there was some kind of visual guide they created while coming up with this story, because the web that it creates by the end is mind-blowing. While only a few puzzles impress, namely the ones that require more than a button press, and the game sometime requires some ridiculously random things, like making sure you check everywhere evidence isn't before an NPC will talk to you, Hotel Dusk is still a game that I found myself loving while playing, and loving even more when I thought about it later.
9/10
Game #6 of 2024, January 21st
The music is continuous bliss, the film noir visuals are stunning from start to finish, and the story, and the writing that accompanies it, feels connected like nothing else I've ever read. Seriously, I'd love to see if there was some kind of visual guide they created while coming up with this story, because the web that it creates by the end is mind-blowing. While only a few puzzles impress, namely the ones that require more than a button press, and the game sometime requires some ridiculously random things, like making sure you check everywhere evidence isn't before an NPC will talk to you, Hotel Dusk is still a game that I found myself loving while playing, and loving even more when I thought about it later.
9/10
Game #6 of 2024, January 21st