I can't believe it's taken me this long to play this. I was expecting just an above average story but nah this is a Good Game. Shit got me like Danny Devito i get it now gif, you know?
Ok, from the top. I played this on my trusty old DS, which has a screen resolution of about 4x3, and not only that but this is a 3D game, on a console that quite frankly, struggled pretty hard with passable-looking models. So you would expect the game to look like shit but nah, man, it's great. Super stylish, from the portraits to the transitions, but the animation in particular is so expressive and carefully crafted, I'm genuinely mind-blown at how well it manages to convey each character's personality despite you not even being able to see their faces. Music's great too, for the record.
I'm not a puzzle game guy but I know a good idea when I see it, and Ghost Trick is quite genius. All of the mechanics make perfect lore sense and play into the storyline, which right after playing Layton and the Unwound Future (good game but it ties its puzzles into its story as subtly as a lego block ties into an unaware child's heel) was quite the whiplash, but even beyond that it just works. The core loop of "figure out how person died, rewind time over and over to save them" works super well and is built upon in many nice ways throughout the game, with the exception of a really annoying stealth level in the middle of it.
The story is good and I can't talk about it without spoilers but every character has their own really believable and engaging arc which all ties together extremely nicely, the world's supernatural mechanics are very consistent and cleverly used, there's a super cool twist that I was kinda spoiled on but was still super good also there's a dog and he's really cute go play it 👍
Ok, from the top. I played this on my trusty old DS, which has a screen resolution of about 4x3, and not only that but this is a 3D game, on a console that quite frankly, struggled pretty hard with passable-looking models. So you would expect the game to look like shit but nah, man, it's great. Super stylish, from the portraits to the transitions, but the animation in particular is so expressive and carefully crafted, I'm genuinely mind-blown at how well it manages to convey each character's personality despite you not even being able to see their faces. Music's great too, for the record.
I'm not a puzzle game guy but I know a good idea when I see it, and Ghost Trick is quite genius. All of the mechanics make perfect lore sense and play into the storyline, which right after playing Layton and the Unwound Future (good game but it ties its puzzles into its story as subtly as a lego block ties into an unaware child's heel) was quite the whiplash, but even beyond that it just works. The core loop of "figure out how person died, rewind time over and over to save them" works super well and is built upon in many nice ways throughout the game, with the exception of a really annoying stealth level in the middle of it.
The story is good and I can't talk about it without spoilers but every character has their own really believable and engaging arc which all ties together extremely nicely, the world's supernatural mechanics are very consistent and cleverly used, there's a super cool twist that I was kinda spoiled on but was still super good also there's a dog and he's really cute go play it 👍