WIRED Gorgeous animation, creative and enticing story, bouncy dialog. ![]() Ghost Trick has no eurekas, only “Oh … is that it?” Part of the appeal of the Ace Attorney series is the “Eureka!” moment, that feeling of brain satisfaction that can only come out of solving a particularly grueling puzzle using nothing but your wits. Getting through each stage requires a lot of trial and error. There’s only one possible solution to each problem, and they all involve manipulating the right objects in a certain order at very specific times. The puzzle-solving also feels like menial work. It’s eternally frustrating to be confined to linear paths due to a constricting gameplay mechanic, not unlike the experience you’ll face in Final Fantasy XIII. ![]() You’ll have to continuously possess and manipulate each object as you move along, unfolding doors and opening umbrellas in tedious fashion just to get from scene to scene. Your only method of transportation is through conveniently placed objects you can possess at will. Since you’re a ghost, you can’t walk around like a normal person. When he learns he’ll disappear forever by sunrise, the ghost decides to figure out who he is, how he was killed and why he was targeted. Ghost Trick is broken up into 18 chapters, in which you guide Sissel as he prevents other people from winding up like him. The gameplay mechanic, on the other hand, is inherently flawed. ![]() ![]() Designed by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi, Ghost Trick features the same kind of crazy characters and twist-filled stories that make Takumi’s legal-adventure games so appealing. That’s the premise of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a Nintendo DS game released Tuesday. If he finds a fellow corpse, he can travel backward through time in order to change history and prevent that person from dying in the first place. Rising from his lifeless body as a ghost, Sissel discovers that he can now possess and manipulate objects, using them to affect the world of the living and influence the course of events both past and present. Fortunately, he hasn’t disappeared from the earth just yet.
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