Wired: Sissel isn’t having a very good day. He can’t remember who he is, where he is, or anything about his life. Also, he’s dead.
Fortunately, he hasn’t disappeared from the earth just yet. Rising from his lifeless body as a ghost, Sissel discovers that he can now possess and manipulate objects, using them to affect the world of the living and influence the course of events both past and present. If he finds a fellow corpse, he can travel backward through time in order to change history and prevent that person from dying in the first place.
That’s the premise of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a Nintendo DS game released Tuesday.
Ghost Trick is by far one of Capcom’s most unique and clever games, and it's now finally widely available after spending nearly a decade and a half as a portable exclusive.
I think I'm going to have to dust off the ole Switch to try this game. One of those games that everyone seems to like and isn't the normal game I tend to stay away from on Nintendo.
"Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a perfect resurrection of a mystery-puzzler that knows when to play the fool and when to play on the feels."
- Stuart Cullen, TechStomper
WTMG's Oliver Shellding: "Ghost Trick is a game unlike anything else, and it simply continues to delight and enrapture, years later, far removed from the console where it started. If I could, I would develop my own 4K, dual screen handheld to cram this game onto, but I have no money and no talent, so here I am. Instead, I am imploring fans from all walks – the visual novel crowd, the detective crew, the Pomeranian fanatics – to come and take this ride. It’s charming, it’s complex, it’s lovingly crafted and it honestly surprises me that Capcom gave so much care to a game that seemed to slip under so many radars. It’s only till the sun rises, though, so make haste to take your time. You may only have one chance to find out the truth."
