Advantages: Stylish, Good Storyline Disadvantages: Hard to get into, need patience
...for the DS.
Overview:
To best describe Hotel Dusk you could say it is an interactive novel in which you guide the main character Kyle Hyde through a storyline that is strife with mystery and betrayal. Ingeniously, whilst playing you have to hold your DS vertically, like a book. The two screens are then cleverly split so that the left hand screen shows a first person view, while the touch screen shows a plan view of the are through which you ...
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Advantages: Good combination of stories into one, mixture of characters. Disadvantages: Long game play, cheesy music, needs some patience.
...Smith - The owner of Hotel Dusk. A little grumpy at times
and likes to tell fairy tales about the rooms.
Jeff Angel - A guest at Hotel Dusk who stays in Room 213. He is the guest
who brings Mila to the hotel. Maybe more to him than meets the eye?
Melissa Woodward - A very young girl staying in Room 219 with her father. She's
looking for her mother.
Kevin Woodward - Melissa's father and a surgeon. He tends to yell at Melissa
quite alot. ...
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Advantages: Very well written dialogue and story. Beautiful graphics Disadvantages: Can plod on a bit, little replay value.
Welcome to Hotel Dusk!
You play through this film noir-esq mystery/puzzle game as former police detective now dodgy salesman Kyle Hyde.
During your overnight stay in room 215 you'll use all the DS functions (Touch Screen, microphone, even closing the DS at one point) to interact with other guests, explore the hotel and solve the numerous puzzles you'll come across.
The story centres around Hyde and his obsession with finding his former partner ...
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Advantages: Original storyline, great art and graphics. Disadvantages: Hardly any puzzles.
...Bradley. Kyle Hyde comes to Hotel Dusk to complete a job and discovers several clues that could lead him to Bradley, every single guest has a secret and you must unravel the lies and find out the truth.
Each room is called a different name (wish,angel ect) and the wish room is rumoured to grant wishes to whoever stays there, now guess what room Kyle got? (Wish)
Each bit is broken down into chapters (Around 10 chapters.) The characters are done ...
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Advantages: Interesting and enjoyable plot, atmosphere, level of interactivity Disadvantages: Slow paced and no extras so no reply value
...task has taken him to Hotel Dusk. His own backstory involves a search for his old, dead partner who he believes to be alive. Upon arriving at the hotel you are immediately thrown into the mystery, Kyle's name was used by someone that stayed at the hotel previously.
There are various other guests at the hotel and instead of taking the easy route of divulging backstory about each guest with limited immersion, the game forces you to discover the ...
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Advantages: excellent plot, great graphics Disadvantages: linear, possibly repetitive sound (whether it annoys you or not)
...chat with people in the hotel and the story unfolds. It is that story that drives this game to greatness. It felt like a novel or comic with a strong plot and while it delivers it much like a novel it is still great.
I cannot recommend this to someone who is not willing to read lots. You will walk about, maybe do a puzzle but have many conversations on the way. The characters are colourful and for one of the few times your character you control ...
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Advantages: Addictive gameplay with an interesting story and plenty of puzzles Disadvantages: Needs better guidance
I would recommend Hotel Dusk to anyone who enjoys puzzle-based role playing games but not if you are impatient. You play the part of Kyle Hyde, an ex-cop staying at a strange hotel, trying to solve a mystery from his past and work out what is going on at the hotel. You hold the DS like a book and use the stylus to move around, investigate objects and talk to other characters.
The game is divided into chapters of one hour (game time) and you have ...
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Advantages: Able to waste your time without noticing Disadvantages: Very poor game play
...sent to stay in this hotel over night. Whilst there he met an ex con who he used to know. Found someone who might know her long lost son. Sorted out a young lads life. And then established that everyone else staying in the hotel was connected to an Art Gallery and a mobster gang.
Wish I had never bought this game, had to finish the game though, which I have done - and now sold it. ...
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Advantages: Complete control over the game, fun, good storyline Disadvantages: Some of the puzzles are a bit easy
I took my time getting this game because I had read a lot of reviews and thought it would be very boring, as everyone was saying there's so much reading to do. Well, I've played and enjoyed Phoenix Wright, and after that, nothing's a lot of reading! I really got into this game very quickly, and found the reading to be minimal. I really enjoyed the fact that you actually move the character around, and can examine anything, it's exactly what I was hoping ...
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Advantages: gripping story, brill puzzles Disadvantages: very sloppy sylus using
First things first. WOW!
i fell in love with this game as soon as i started( well, you cant really call it a game, its more of a E-book) i got deep into the twisting and gripping story and couldnt get off it!
you are Hyde who is on a kinda mission in a place called "HOTEL DUSK" and you walk around in first person talking to people and hopfully finding out there secrets. it also has amazing puzzles which are incredibly hard but incredibly genius! ...
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Advantages: Brilliant graphics and storyline Disadvantages: Limited longevity, sounds a little limited
...and you have come to Hotel Dusk in search of your ex- partner called Bradley. You shot Bradley years ago, but the player does not know why until the very end. There are very strange coincidences at the Hotel, such as someone you arrested years ago appearing as the bellboy there. The first chapters are a little boring, however, towards the end the story becomes so gripping you will find this game impossible to put down! When you have completed the ...
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track down a missing friend. Clues lead to an eerie old hotel rumored to have one very strange room - a room where wishes are granted. Players check in and get rea...