Developed by some of the big names behind the Ace Attorney series, Capcom's upcoming Ghost Trick is a puzzle-adventure hybrid that scoffs at death. Instead, it takes that familiar catalyst for failure and builds an entire game around it.
Ghost Trick is what you’d get if the film Ghost met Groundhog Day. Directed by the creator of the Ace Attorney Franchise, Shu Takumi, Ghost Trick makes death a puzzle you can play over and over a la Edge of Tomorrow. The core mystery at the heart of the game is your main character’s death. Who killed the red-suited Sissel right before the beginning of the game and why?
After the little scuffle over Bioshock a couple of weeks ago, I'd hoped to not have to come back around to this topic again soon. Oh well, two weeks is a pretty good run, right? The latest publisher to pull a game from the purchase histories of customers who bought it is Capcom, and the game in question is Ghost Trick.The game was pulled from the App Store months back after an update fixed the game in one way and broke it in another, but the main app was still available to redownload via the purchase history tab up until this weekend, as near as I can tell.
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For the most part, the losing conditions in games follow a pretty standard format. You lose all your health or lives, or the time runs out, or a plot-central character dies – and then the controller breaks because it’s been thrown savagely against a wall.
Something about a game over screen conjures up loads of negative emotions. There’s frustration, if you’ve just lost a particularly close fight; despair, if it’s been a million years since the last save point; or even pure anger, when the AI is blatantly cheating you out of your rightful victory. It’s even worse if it happens very suddenly – all that steady progress gone in the blink of an eye.
