Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
2023
- point-and-click
- puzzle
- adventure
- action
- fantasy
- comedy
- mystery
- single player
The story
"Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective" was created by Shu Takumi, the creator of the Ace Attorney series, and is now back in a long-requested HD remaster of the original 2010 release!
What it’s like
Bright, cartoonish hand-drawn art in saturated colour, with a jaunty, playful sensibility that makes even the grimmest rooms feel like a storybook. Night-time city streets glow in sodium amber and neon blue, and the camera stays fixed on each scene as you possess objects and drift through them, so the screen becomes a stage of small, legible tableaux: a dripping lamp, a tilting chair, a fountain pen waiting to be nudged. Music is brisk and melodic, a bouncy chiptune-tinged score that swells into a lighter comic mood when the mystery shifts. The vibe is whimsical noir, playful and wistful at once, with a steady rhythm of quick cause-and-effect puzzles and quirky dialogue. Violence is off-screen and cartoonish, with a murder at the centre of the story handled through mystery and tension rather than gore; the mood stays mostly light, with occasional spooky or sad beats. It suits a rainy Sunday, a comfort replay, or an evening playing on the sofa, and is well suited to people who love clever point-and-click puzzles, quirky characters, and a gentle detective story with a warm, offbeat sense of humour.
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