Review: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (DS)

This is a cracking little game to welcome in the New Year and one that was quite obviously dreamt up by somebody with a great imagination.

Ghost Trick is a highly stylized puzzle game with an excellent storyline which has you playing as the ghost of a murdered protagonist who must try and discover who killed him.

To do this you can investigate, solve puzzles and clues and posessing inanimate objects to aid you.

You can also interact with the recently deceased and aid them in the minutes leading up to their death and try and change their fates.

The main emphasis of the game though is the problem solving with each different scenario giving you a problem to overcome.

As you progress through the puzzles you get to learn more information and listen to conversations in the quest to find the truth.

It is a brilliantly quirky visual style and a charming one at that and there is a real uniqueness to the game and a feel all of it's own.

I have really enjoyed playing the game so far - it is totaly different and very fresh feeling.

Well worth a look!