Hotel Dusk: Room 215

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 Description

The old 'point and click' genre's been getting something of a renaissance thanks to the DS. Between Capcom's Phoenix Wright titles and Cing's previous effort, Trace Memory, things have been looking up for the interactive novel. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 from Nintendo is another title to use the DS's touch screen functionality to draw gamers into a mystery. And lets face it, who hasn't wanted to wander through a Philip Marlowe novel at one time or another? The year is 1979. You don the trenchcoat of Kyle Hyde, a former cop who hung up his badge and moved on to pastures new. More specifically, he's become a travelling salesman with a side gig in freelance sleuthing. When he calls in at the mysterious Hotel Dusk, a veritable web of mystery reveals itself. Before long he's dallying with eye-patch-wearing old women, mute girls and figures from his past, all the while staying in a room that grants wishes: Room 215. Making the most of the DS touch screen, Hotel Dusk is played with the console held open like a book. Players use the stylus to navigate an open environment with the touch screen while the main screen shows the action in a stylised 3D view.

Players hold their Nintendo DS like a book and use the touch screen to grill characters, search for clues and solve mystifying puzzles.

Players follow the plot twists and turns as they hunt for their missing friend and investigate the mysteries of Hotel Dusk.