![]() The plot is worth it for those of you who’re looking for a storytelling experience, just don’t expect anything exceptional. The thing I had the most trouble with was lifting up a cabinet to get a piece of paper stuck underneath, because lifting it too far made it come crashing down. I hesitate to say the game has ‘puzzles’, because they’re very simple. And with the game being so linear, you can easily find yourself walking around for ages looking for the item you need to pickup or examine, or simply where the next conversation takes place. The trouble is that the between sections tend to slow down the momentum that gets built up in these sections. The range of characters is nice too, given that the main character is a rugged ex-cop, you may be expecting a veritable Rogue’s Gallery of criminals, snitches and policemen but instead the hotel residents are a fairly ordinary bunch that have mostly tangential relations to the larger conspiracy. To its credit once it picks up and starts to actually get into the history and motivations of the various characters the stories are fairly compelling, though never really affecting. The plot takes a little while to kick in, and things don’t get properly interesting until a few hours in. The writing is at least above par for most games, and the whole thing’s designed for drama and credibility rather than humour. This will probably put a lot of people off, especially seeing as it lacks the visual, auditory and story flair that Ace Attorney had. Gameplay really does consist of a lot of talking, item collection and simple puzzles. And so you have on night to solve all the mysteries and gain some closure on just what made you leave the force. Some poking around reveals that the dark and troubled past of the hotel’s occupants is related to Hyde’s own dark and troubled past. Hotel Dusk puts you in the well-worn shoes of misanthrope ex-Detective Kyle Hyde as he checks into the titular establishment to collect certain items for a client of his news boss under the guise of working as a travelling salesman. For those of you unfamiliar with the genre of visual novels, it’s where you read a lot and occasionally wheel the character round to another conversation, item collection or simple puzzle. Hotel Dusk is a Japanese visual novel for the Nintendo DS that was released way back in 2007. Seeing as my last review made that the highest viewed day I’ve had, I’m willing to take the self-esttem hit of reviewing a game I want to talk about but nobody else will really care about.
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