The GhostTrickPhantomDetective HD remaster highlights just how creative and innovative Shu Takumi's magnum opus still is.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is the kind of game that’s always mystified me. Despite owning a Nintendo DS and being pretty tuned into the industry when it launched in North America in 2011, the game entirely slipped under my radar. I wouldn’t learn about Ghost Trick until many years later when I found it ranked surprisingly high on a “top 250” games of all time list determined by user scores.
It’s all connected Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is an unusual cross between a visual novel and a tactile puzzle game. It was very clear that I was in for something eccentric right from the start as I met the story’s hero: a corpse. Yes, I was stepping into the shoes of a dead detective trying to solve his own murder by the end of the night.
That’s still an incredibly impressive feat in 2023, as the story ties together several leads in a surprising way that works. It all makes for a moving story about the complex ways that different lives can connect with one another, creating a chain reaction that can sometimes link unsuspecting strangers together whether they know it or not. And that narrative is even reflected in its creative gameplay hook that reminds us how what you do in a game can still communicate something.
“The biggest challenge was adjusting the user interface of the game,” Maruyama tells Digital Trends. “In the game, where and how information is displayed has a large impact on the gameplay. Within that, a particularly difficult element was displaying information relating to the ‘trick’ action. It’s very important to understand whether you can trick an item after possessing it, and what you can do.
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