Hotel Dusk 215
 

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/e3_200...usk/img/01.jpg

This game looks fucking awesome.

Here are some pictures:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/e3_200...dusk/ss01.html

And here is a video:
http://movie.nintendo.co.jp/data/wmv/ds/hoteldusk.wmv

I really like the art style; it reminds me of the hybrid overdrawing they're using for the movie version of A Scanner Darkly.

Plus, I <3 detective games so much. Anyone else just jizz their shorts like me?

I adore the visual style and design. The movement system looks neat too and I love the way you hold the DS sideways, like a book.

It's from the guy who made Another Code if I understood correctly, so I have high hopes indeed.

::cue a dozen people whining about how it'll be "too short"::

EDIT:
Just watched the .wmv trailer and noticed the sound is a lot worse than the .mov version I had:
http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles...ADhcZeCdUt.mov

This one has an ESRB Rating Pending notice at the beginning, hopefully that means HOLY SHIT ENGLISH RELEASE IMMINENT

The background music is really nice. Hope the rest of the soundtrack is as good as that. :)
The game itself also looks very interesting. I wonder what the story is like.

Information from Nintendo's website:

This sounds freaking awesome. Phoenix Wright, but you're an awesome detective, and it's in a gritty more awesome style.

OMG!

I still need to pick up Trace Memory sometime.

This game has me interested. I love games like this.

I got moist. DRIPPING. I thought Cing's Another Code/Trace Memory was such a fantastic game, and I was hoping there'd be a sequel at E3, but a totally new adventure game by them, that's better!

The art style is incredible, and even the 3D seems to be pretty top notch stuff considering it mostly looks like vomit on DS. I cannot fucking wait. KEEP BRINGING ON THE ADVENTURE GAME LOVE~

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...rap/hotel1.png
"I WANT PIZZA WITH GUMMI BEARS ON IT"
"They don't sell that around here you stupid idiot"
"SHUT UP, GET SOME"

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...rap/hotel2.png

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...rap/hotel3.png
"Hello Mr. Three Question Marks, I would like a large pizza and a bag of Gummi Bears"
"NO. I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND MY KEYS TO UNLOCK MY BASEMENT"
"What's that got to do with anything?"
"SHUT UP, GET THEM"

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13...rap/hotel4.png
"Jigsaw puzzle piece, perhaps this is related to the murder of my wife that hasn't happened yet.."

Alright, more adventure games for the DS :D
When will we see Monkey Island DS :/

You know what this reminds me of?

Does anyone remember this quirky little detective game on the NES called Deja Vu? I see these screenshots and I swear thats like, the first thing that comes to mind (I suppose because detective games are so few and far between.) Of course, Deja Vu was also as old school primitive as you can get in many cases

This really looks neat and interesting though.

This kind of reminds me of a lot of point-and-click Flash games I play online, like those room escape ones. That alone makes me really interested in this, because I love those games. The screens look cool, I really like the character art. Definitely gonna keep my eye on this one!

I can't picture a scenario in which this game wouldn't work for me.

K, that's not true, but i have faith. After Trace Memory i'm more than ready to try this company again. This game looks like it's going to serve up something amazing (like a plate of guitars or something).

Anyways, yeah, i'll deffinetly be keeping an eye on this one.

This is brilliant, exactly what I wanted from Cing. This is my most anticipated DS game! Another Code was awesome, but now they've thrown in gameplay, and the story / music seems even better. Good to see Cing doing what they do best.

This looks very intriguing. I think I'm going to have to ask for a DS Lite for my Bday.

This game looks delicious. Hotel Dusk, being the spiritual successor to Trace Memory, (Another Code, what have you) hopefully will not take 4 hours to complete. What about the left-handed minority? Is Cing considerate enough to flip over the images for us or do we have to take this game in the ass? (though part of me won't mind the latter)

The music is creepy, >_>

Anyway, this looks pretty good. I'll keep my eye on this game, along with the other millions of DS games announced just this week.

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?...t%5Fid=T000577

Figured I'd bump this to re-prod the interest. Also, I see the release, at least on Gamestop, as December 1, 2006. 4th Quarter like promised.

Of course, this is Gamestop, so take it with a grain of salt.

December 1 sounds like a placeholder date to me, until the real one is announced. Hopefully it's still this year

This thread will wise from its gwave. =o There's a new trailer! It takes about seven thousand years to load. Everything about this game looks to be SO THUMBS UP. It's due out next month in the land of America!

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3...shroomjet0.jpg http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/...V33749184_.jpg

Looks pretty neat. Since I adore Trace Memory (and thank heavens I'm not alone in that regard :D ) I'm definitely picking up this one too.

http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/

The Japanese logo text is so much better than the US's shoddy photoshop text... but I like the art on the US version. Less minimalistic, but it shows the style of the game well~

Looking forward to picking this up :D

Got this and Phoenix Wright 2 to pick up :megaman:

Cing's Glass Rose was an amazing adventure game.Tight suspense, and unique way to play. GlassRose is an underdog, negelected gem.

I am planning to buy DS next year, waiting for price drop. Need to play some adventuregames like this.

Immediate buy. No questions. Trace Memory was amazing, and left me breathless.

I really hope this one can match the level of atmosphere that Trace Memory had. They have some serious living up to do with this title.

This is something I'm definitely going to buy. The artwork is amazing.

Just over a week to go till the US launch guys. :guitarist: EGM gave it 8/8/10, and even though that's a joke magazine that has more to do with advertising Nike shoes than video games, it's still worth typing! JapanesenesSNESenes TV advert. Still no Euro release date, which is odd considering Another Code was released there months before America. Comes out here next month though, insert another guitarist smiley here.

I went and pre-ordered this today, if only because it looks unique as hell. I also bought Touch Detective, which is on the way right now. So much DS goodness to play at college while waiting for classes to start.

Was that ever released outside of Japan? More specifically, in Europe?

Ah, got this gem booked over at VG+ (Anyone noticed how cheap it was for a new game?)

I have high hopes, this could be insanely great. And I heard something about an 8/8/10-grade from EGM. Next week will be <3.

this game looks really interesting. I'm hoping its as good as it looks from these shots.

:)

I need to get this one since I love detective stuff and the whole mystery genre of movies and things... This will be cool I just know it.

OK WTF. Does Nintendo not want this game to sell or something? There's only like on review for it on both metacritic.com & gamerankings.com. It's suppose to be out today, yet 3 of the 5 EBgames I went to, didn't even know what "Hotel Dust" was. One store was sold out cause they only recieved two copies. Local target and bestbuy say they're gonna get it on the 26th.

>=/. Grrrr!

This game is awesome and I'm totally buying it.

YouTube Video

Holy crap, thanks for the awesome YouTube video Elixir! Makes me want to play it NOW. Darn it. I so am looking forward to my gamefly in the mail.

Wow. I knew it'd be good, but WOW. Playing Phoenix Wright 2 presently, but I am GOING to buy this fucker on Friday.

Damn, this looks great. Actually, I just bought it this afternoon, but I probably won't play it until next week due to a couple of imposing school projects.

So only one EB Games/Gamestop had it in a 20 mile radius of where I'm at. But I managed to pick it up today and have been playing it ever since. I'm in love with the art and style of the game play. It's clearly going to be one of those sleeper hits that make this a must have for any DS owner.

So VG+ delivered this game to me today, I've spent around 5 hours on it.

Wow.

Totally above what I expected. Great dialogs (really!), amazing animations and nifty gameplay (forget phoenix wright, this is more DS-adjusted). And the style, just wow. I look forward to really getting into this.

So I just finished the first chapter. Meh. Don't see what all the fuss is about. Seems pretty standard as far as point and click style adventure games go. Phoenix Wright had me hooked from the very start, not the case here. Yeah it's got a novel and unique art style but that alone doesn't magically take it from a standard mediocre game to a great one.

Phoenix Wright for me was a nice story, but it was all clicking on the same place to keep the dialog going. I think Hotel Dusk have some more problem solving and uses the DS's functions way better.

A proper review came in. This one makes the game sound frustrating.

YouTube Video

It's impossible for a point and click game to NOT be trial and error.

Fuckin' horrible reviewer.

Obviously, the folks who reviewed it despised the classic "Adventure" genre. Muddy graphics? Crude 3D? Dude, it's a HANDHELD CONSOLE. I think that the fully-rendered 3D display looks dynamite considering the system. It's not the damn PS2.

Trial & Error is the POINT of Adventure games =( Otherwise, what the hell is the purpose of playing? You're supposed to explore and think lots.

I hate his rant on "missing texts" and not being able to re-read them. Shitloads of games have this same sort of feature, wherein once a message is gone, you can't get it looped.

The game looks fantastic, and the review footage makes me want it all-the-more. Seems like something that oldschool gamers like myself will enjoy.

Goes to show that review sites and what-not are out of their gourd 99% of the time on reviews.

"You can spend an hour searching for a clue, and the clock won't move, which can get a little frustrating"

What? The point of most adventure games isn't to get stressed and race against time, it's to keep the story (set timelines or not) rolling. I hate it when they put the wrong guys on reviewing certain games.

Okay, so the primary thing that is preventing me from being interested in this game, is that everyone compares it to Trace Memory. I've seen a lot of people who liked Trace Memory. I'm not one of them, however. It was just SO. FUCKING. MORBID. There was a loli and an in-game DS and everything, but the game was just so boring and slow and, well, I guess morbid is the perfect word here... that I just couldn't get into it.

To anyone who has played both games - is Hotel Dusk as morbid as Trace Memory/Another Code?

If anyone has played this game, I am interested to hear how it is. I was considering picking it up at the store. I love old school adventure/mysteries, It has been a while since I have played a good one.

Old school adventure is about right =D Has a few dark-humor chuckles in my opinion. The choices for dialogue are either kind/passive to downright cruel.

Some scene I just went through had a kid bawling on the stairs that I was trying to go up. One choice was to console her, the other was "Dammit, get the hell out of my way!"

The cynical cracks about the dingy hotel by the main character are quite funny, and to boot, the main character has a shady past. I just played it for a bit and I think it was money well-spent.

The artwork and character animations are slick. This one dude walked out of his room with a rather glum look on his face, and the first response was "why the long face?" The guy's face then changed, as he tried to dodge the topic.

It reeks of noir-ish stuff, which is what I hoped for. Burnt out cop who retired three years prior is now a salesman. A traveling salesman, which, in this era, was incredibly rough. Living out of a suitcase and that old chestnut.

He's paged on a beeper and contacts his boss, Ed, who tells him to head to Hotel Dusk for sales. Also tells him to wait there on a package. Pretty much how the game starts. Once you get to your room, you talk to a girl who is Ed's secretary. Kind of gives you a glimpse into the main character's background and personality a bit more.

I'd use more names, but I keep forgetting 'em. OH WELL. I think it's great ;D Recommended if you enjoyed old NES adventure games or PC P'n'C.

The last game like this that I played was The Dig on PC. I can't wait to check this out :)

Ooooh. The Dig <3 I suggest you try Grim Fandango, to boot, for humor.

But yeah, this is a rather dark game. Don't expect light-hearted jokes that often =o Unsure what the secrets are of the hotel, but you can tell immediately that there are some things buried, per se.

Sadly, I'm gonna have to say yes. I still like both games, but they share the same sort of pacing. You probably want to try it out before purchasing if possible.

This game totally succeeds Trace Memory/Another Code, though. It's still well worth the purchase.

I played any other DS game since I bought it.

Do yourself a favor and pick this game up. The story's much more mature than Trace Memory and it's got great character developments and suspense. The use of DS' touchscreen isn't something you haven't seen, but they are pretty neat to mess around with. But that's not all, the best selling points about this game are its music and translation. If you think PW:AA's localization is slick, you can't go wrong with this one.

This game surpasses Trace Memory in everything except puzzle difficulty. I'm still not fond of those impossible to fail even if you wanted to end of chapter quizzes, but I guess it would be too much to try to remember every single detail.

Finally Finished this yestreday, definitely a worthwhile purchase, but I couldn't get the final scene. Anyone here able to get it?

It's supposed to appear after you save your game the last time. something with mila and rosa.

Depending on what you do/say in game, you may get an extra scene. There are some different endings, some possibly including someone leaving with you...or someone not leaving...or someone showing up out of the blue. I don't know how many confirmed endings there are, but I've seen three of them so far.

I finally completed it. Picross had me for a while, I was right in the middle of Hotel Dusk when I got Picross for Valentine's day gift. Needless to say... Picross got me hooked... darn puzzles. But as soon as I was done, I fired up Hotel and started from where I left off which wasn't too hard.

I actually remember what it was... but anyway, I like the whole game. I just don't like clicking through it whenever you know you messed up. TEXT TEXT TEXT, OH MORE TEXT, THEN finally questioning the character again. ;)

I certainly didn't like ONE thing where you wonder about the laundry cart. That is SO vague there's no other clue besides oh "Jeff came out of that hallway". :\ But that's like the ONLY time I ever looked up on gamefaqs for this game. Amazingly enough I managed to solve Helen's puzzle after a few tries, took me a while to figure out what she meant by ONE COIN ONLY.

Sorry from resurrecting this topic from the dead, but I finally got and beat Hotel Dusk (a good year after everyone else did apparently).

Definitely a change from what I'm use to, though I can't complain about the characters and much of the story (and the art :3:). Although the start was a tad slow (introducing everyone and what not), it definitely paced well after that with a great resolution in my eyes.

I'm so happy I grabbed this on chance.

I stole this game from a friend a while back... I never really got around to finishing it. I suppose I'll start again, considering everyone's praises about it.

Another Code was my DS game of the year in 2005 and in a similar vein, this is, for me, my DS GOTY.

It's just too fantastic, leaves Pheonix Wright for dead gosh.

This is actually my Game of The Year.
Just amazing.

Thirding the GOTY notion. I can't even count the number of nights I stayed up to like four in the morning playing this game.

I seriously hope Cing gets to work on another DS game soon. I have no qualms saying that they're my favorite game developer for the DS right now, so it sucks that they haven't announced anything yet.

Not my game GAME game of the year, but certainly my DS game of the GAME year GAME game. I celebrated this amazing victory a little while back by forcing myself to survive a few hours of Cing's first game, Glass Rose. I didn't make it and died (in real life). It's amazing how far they've come.

Hmph. I'm still trying to find a copy of this. It's like some ultra-secret game and you can't have it unless you know the special handshake.

I've heard nothing but good things. I've thus far managed to avoid spoilers and most screencaps but I don't know how long I can hold out.

Seriously? I can find this game everywhere used. <.<

I have to restart my file on this since my friend messed with my file. This game is absolutely superb though. :3: