#32 - Hotel Dusk: Room 215 / #31 - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective / #30 - Ace Attorney Investigations: Prosecutor's Path - Nintendo DS
DS was a neat thing for adventure-puzzle games.
Hotel Dusk has a fucking amazing atmosphere, thanks to its hand drawn presentation, the beautiful, melancholic soundtrack, the story is fantastic, all the smaller stories from each character you meet are great, and Kyle Hyde is such a cool lad. It left quite the impression on me, not just from the story, but from a lot of the puzzles that uses the DS capabilities to their absolute best. What a joy of a game, god damn it Bradley.
Ghost Trick is arguably the best story from Shu Takumi as a standalone, the twists and turns in the story are all fantastic, and the possesion puzzles and how they all flow within the context of the game are both a visual treat and a good brain teaser, one of those games I would stay up until very late just because I wouldn't be able to sleep without knowing what happens next.
There is a perfect Ace Attorney game out there, and Capcom doesn't let me give them money for it. Investigations 2 is beat for beat, every case, simply perfect. It gives resolution to the turmoil of emotions that is Edgeworth as a character, and it does so with one of the greatest over arching stories and casts of characters in the series, how it starts with a bang in case 1, 2 and 3 remain really interesting while setting up all the threads to follow, and the last two cases being such a fantastic climax to the story, there isn't a single moment I don't like in this game.
