![]() ![]() It’s not fair to criticize Touch Detective simply for being a light hearted and surreal adventure game. It looks like if I want anything close to noir on the DS, I’m going to have to wait for Hotel Dusk. The first and third just mind me roll my eyes and sigh in annoyance a lot. The second is my favorite, with the fourth (which I don’t want to bring up in case of spoilage) is a distant second. The second case is about a kidnapping, and the third is about saving a snow fairy from melting. One involves the robbery of someone’s dreams. I was highly disappointed that the mysteries were geared towards teenaged Goth Girls in style and plot. I loved the format of 4 1-2 hour long adventure games on one cart. My big issue is that I simply did not like the cases. Also, I’d like to bring up that having a Brit use “Cor Blimey!” is like having an American says “Gosh Golly Gee Willikers.”This is merely a minor annoyance, but one I felt like bringing up. TOUCH DETECTIVE 3 ATLUS HOW TOI can honestly say as an ex resident of the UK, Americans do not know how to use, “Sod” in its proper context. The writers also threw in really bad Americanized British speech and profanity patterns. “Most of the character grated on my nerves with dialogue that was an attempt to be a poor man’s cross between Invader Zim and Gloomcookie. Your cast includes Cromwell, the creepy British inventor turned butler to you, Funghi, your pet living humanoid mushroom, Chloe who is a very annoying and violent girl you have a friendly rivalry with, and Penelope who is my nominee for “character who most needs to be hit with a bag of bricks in 2006. You end up playing through four cases, a tutorial, and some in-between episodes bonus one offs in order to become a fully respected and licensed detective. You play as MacKenzie, a young girl taking over her father’s detective agency. After all Adventure games usually have amazing plots, and Atlus games usually have amazing plots, so the two together should almost guarantee me a great game right? So obvious weirdness of the title aside, I was quite optimistic. Right now adventure games hold both my worst and best game of the year position in my brain (That’s Crime Stories and Barrow Hill respectively). I love point and click games and will play through most. TOUCH DETECTIVE 3 ATLUS PLUSAnd niche title plus adventure genre gameplay usually equals horrible sales in the US market. With it’s Nightmare Before Christmas style graphics and it’s very bizarre case files, it was obvious that this would be a very niche title to me. I was quite surprised to learn it was a more eccentric than that. I’ll admit I was expecting something more akin to Deja Vu when I was told this would be a Detective game. It was no wonder that I was looking forward to Touch Detective being released by good ol’ Atlus, publishers of Megaten, the GBA remake of Shining Force, and Trauma Center. The former offered a wacky story and a novel idea for a plot, while the latter really showcased what the DS could do. Phoenix Wright and Trace Memory are two of the better ones. I’m quite pleased with the amount of Adventure games that have hit the DS. ![]()
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