Well, this is about as niche as any game on this list will get. Ever since I got Phoenix Wright for my DS, I was always interested in mais mystery games for the handheld device, stuff like Professor Layton and Ghost Trick. But… I never got to play either of those games. But one I did get to play was one that was very unique in its style, known as Hotel Dusk: Room 215.
Hotel Dusk follows the protagonist, Kyle Hyde, an ex-detective and now salesman who visits a small hotel in Nevada known as Hotel Dusk, where room 215 is said to make your wishes come true. As he explore the hotel, he hopes to find clues pointing to his missing partner who was involved in a massive heist years ago. The game has all the characters drawn in these rough sketch art, and yet it really looks nice for the DS. Sure, the rest of the game is the typical 3D plane graphics of the DS, but the sketch art really makes the characters stand out. The story is also really gripping, with each character having their own backstory to them and their own plight, with each one following a sort of theme of betrayal, where they either betrayed someone or they felt they were betrayed themselves, and it makes each character interesting, some mais than others, sure, but they all have a unique character to them that makes them worth looking into. And the puzzles are so much fun in this game. You got a few simple ones, but as the game goes on, you get a ton of crazy difficult puzzles that you need to solve. They are tough, but if you use your brain and think hard enough, you’ll have the puzzle figured out in no time. All it takes is doing some thinking (Or a walkthrough). Some of my favorito puzzles are having to connect the dots to get a code for a combination or having to solve the puzzle in a computer to escape a death room. That last one really puts you on edge and makes you want to get through it as quick as possible.
Hotel Dusk is one of the few games that I wish got mais recognition. It’s a classic among mystery games, and yet no one talks about it like Ace Attorney or even Ghost Trick. It did get a sequel, but never released in America. Guess I gotta cough up a few dollars to get an English version from Europe.
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Two of the most well known horror writers ever, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, have created some of the most twisted and most macabre horror stories that we all know and amor like Call of Cthulhu, The Black Cat, Shadows Over Innsmouth, The Tell-Tale Heart, Mountains of Madness, and the Fall of the House of Usher. They both have made very influential work, yet what makes them so interesting is how different they are. So, what is it about these two that make them so different. Well, that’s what I wish to talk about with you today.
We’ll start with Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was a writer...
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We’ll start with Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was a writer...
Well, here comes a game even I wasn’t expecting to talk about till I played it. When I was surfing through the indie titles of the nintendo Switch when I had little to no games for it, one game that caught my attention was The friends of Ringo Ishikawa. I remember hearing there was a sort of River City Ransom esque game and I thought it was this. The trailers made it look that way. Little did I know that I was completely wrong. And despite that, I couldn’t be happier with what I had played.
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa follows… Ringo Ishikawa, a young Japanese high...
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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa follows… Ringo Ishikawa, a young Japanese high...
So yes, I have had the name for five years. I have always talked about Wind Waker and it being my favorito game ever. And I have talked about it endlessly and why I loved it so much. And even with all the games I have ever played, with all of the games I have experienced and loved, they still never compare. I am aware that they are all better games, technically. Dark Souls has better combat, Resident Evil 4 has mais polish, and Metal Gear Solid 3 has a better story. But Wind Waker is different, cause it was the game that came at the right time.
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker follows Link...
When I was a kid, I never watched a whole lot of Nickelodeon. I was mais of a Cartoon Network kid, honestly. But from time to time, I would always switch the channel to watch Spongebob Squarepants, a classic from mine and a lot of kids childhoods (Up until season 4, but we try not to talk about that). The show was popular enough to get a few video games based on it, and I heard they were pretty good. And being the child I was, I was able to get one of these games, and I was told it’s the best one. And it was. Introducing one of the few licensed games on this list is Spongebob Squarepants:...
