Hotel Dusk: Room 215 review video (DS)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a gritty graphic adventure of the point-and-click kind for the Nintendo DS with a story taking place in Los Angeles, 1979. You are Kyle Hyde, an ex-cop turned salesman trying to track down a missing friend. Clues lead you to an eerie, old hotel rumored to have one very strange room – a room where wishes are granted.
It’s up to you to unravel the mystery in Hotel Dusk: Room 215. Players hold their DS like a book and use the touch screen to grill characters, search for clues and solve mystifying puzzles. Players follow the plot twists and turns as they hunt for their missing friend and investigate the mysteries of Hotel Dusk.
From Cing, the creators of Trace Memory AKA Another Code, comes their second DS adventure with a great story and excellent puzzles, this game brings back the adventure genre while adding enough new twists of its own to keep it fresh. Find out all about it in this Hotel Dusk: Room 215 video review.
To quote the video review: “You’ll need to look everywhere to get through some parts of the game, and when the game gives you the zoomed-in view you have a slider that lets you pan around the area. However, some important objects will barely appear on-screen so you really have to keep your eyes peeled. The touch controls are fairly subdued. You’ll take items from other characters, and otherwise make incredibly simple gestures to solve some puzzles, but it’s not a huge part of the game.
Hotel Dusk is an interesting game. Its design and gameplay are from the stone age, yet the story, writing, and characters are so interesting that it beckons you to keep playing, hoping to see what’s around the next corner. As a handheld game, the ability to save at any time, coupled with its text-heavy presentation, make it an excellent choice for commuters. Ultimately, though, it fails to transcend the trappings of the genre. Making it an excellent point-and-click game, but a chore by any other standard.”
Story — 9.2
Design — 7.8
Gameplay — 7.0
Overall — 8.1
