Gaming Saturday #7: Ghost Trick
Hey there, I know it’s not Saturday anymore by far but I actually don’t care at all. The League of Legends servers are down due to the Skarner-patch and I’ve been waiting for Skarner to be released for over three patches now so I’m too excited to play something else.
As you can already see by the box-art I posted, today’s game is called “Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective”. In Ghost Trick the player controls the ghost of the recently died Sissel. Sissel lost his life during a murder and lost his memory when he died. Unfortunately he can only travel through the world by using cores certain objects have in the ghost-world. But soon…with the help of a possessed desk-lamp he figures out that he has the powers of the dead and he uses those to save a girl named Lynne. His powers are described really fast but they offer deep gameplay. Sissel’s ghost is able to manipulate every object he currently possesses and by touching a dead human he is able to rewind the time to 4 minutes before the death occurred and then manipulate the surroundings to save the person that would have been dead.
I will stop talking about the plot here because it is really to spoil the gaming experience if I say too much. The plot is written very well and you keep wondering yourself what is going on until the last chapter, sometimes it took only a split second to change the way I think that stuff has happened. At the beginning I had a motivation problem but after my friend Rio convinced to go on I trusted him and gave the game another chance. Suddenly I hit a point in the game where nothing made sense anymore and I really wanted to know everything so I didn’t stop playing anymore.
I think everyone out there who has the ability to play Ghost Trick should at least give it a try. Especially if you played and liked Ace Attourney/Gyakuten Saiban because Ghost Trick is produced by the same developer. The riddles in the game are sometimes challenging but easy enough to be manageable without a walkthrough. The plot is literally amazing and somehow makes sense in the end.
I’ll leave you for today with two trailers of Ghost Trick and wish you a lot of fun playing it on your own.
Until we meet again
~Mirodir
