adventure

game review: norco

“pushes the boundaries.” in 1988, konami released snatcher, written and directed by hideo kojima. snatcher was a curious game, both in its era and now. graphic adventure games had made their way to japan from the US with the portopia serial murder case. snatcher was an evolutionary step towards the adventure game’s most uniquely japanese form: the visual novel. snatcher featured very limited action gameplay, restricted to a handful of shooting segments.

game review: ghost trick: phantom detective

“travels back in time to undo the death of the adventure game.” ghost trick is a 2010 nintendo ds adventure game developed by capcom and directed by shu takumi, the director of the first three ace attorney games. this was actually part of the reason i’d avoided playing it. i had heard very little about it, and assumed that was because it failed to live up to the quality of the ace attorney games.