

Choose whichever choices you want, then scribble on the paper with the stylus. The better ones are the ones that really utilise all the features of the DS and make you think outside the box but on the most part they simply use the stylus. Tap the bell three times to get Dunning to come. My only nag at this game is that there is not nearly enough puzzles and that they seem too easy. It’s amazing how some of the puzzles really work on your imagination, meaning that you do not necessarily use your stylus to complete them. Puzzles are intuitive to the DS features. A lot of the time, this is how you enter puzzles. Sections of the scenery are interactive and you can move the 3D view to the touch screen so that you can look at things. The other screen shows the 3D representation of what your character can see which helps to make the scenery seem more real. The touch screen displays a bird’s-eye view of the room you are in and you guide your man around by touching him and moving the stylus in the direction you want to. This may sound like a fault but it works perfectly to keep the eerie feeling alive.

There’s no denying that Hotel Dusk is a very, very linear game. Fortunately, the story is sufficiently good, and so brilliantly presented, that it is hard to object to being led through it all by the nose. The animation of the characters is really well done like really nice comic book sketches that are constantly animated in a very unfinished way. Hotel Dusk walks a very fine line between being an adventure game and being a straight-out read-through of a story. There is a lot of dialogue but you are rarely bored with it.

There’s an incredible air if mystery around every character and the Hotel and it’s up to you to work them out.ĭialogue in the game is extremely realistic and adds to the thrill of the story. This is like a detective novel that you can control and the narrative is brilliant. You end up in Hotel Dusk where each of the other suspicious guests keep you entertained, each with a story somehow linked with your own. The story revolves around the character Kyle Hyde, ex Detective, and his attempts to find his old partner who betrayed him on their last case.
