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Why Robin Makes Batman Better The critically acclaimed adventure game Ghost Trick has arrived in the Apple app store, where iPhone and iPad gamers can play it… for free? Well, the first two levels are free, anyway. After that, it’ll cost you. Chapters 3-7, 8-13, and 14-end will cost $5.49 apiece, or you can download the whole shebang for $10.49.
While game news is light, and we’re reminiscing on a gaming year gone by, I thought I’d take the time to write about the games that defined my year. They weren’t necessarily classics — some I absolutely hated, some I fell head over heels for, but they’re all worth discussing. First up: Ghost Trick.
If you’ve been taking notice of the Talk Amongst Yourselves post, you’ll know that I’ve started longboarding, and fully intend to die a glorious death while riding one. That’s what I’ll be spending my weekend doing – in amongst playing LittleBigPlanet 2 – but what are you guys up to? And what games are you planning to play?
This was one of the most difficult competitions I’ve had to judge – mainly due to the ridiculous volume of entries, but also because of the quality. When I go through these things I usually rustle it down to a shortlist. This time the shortlist had 25 posts. Choosing the final five was very, very difficult. But anyway – down to business. The winners are…
Being perfectly honest, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to muster up any excitement about a DS game. Strangely enough the last game that interested me was Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, which works as a convenient little segue into the game I spent a good couple of hours playing last night – Ghost Trick.
At the beginning of Capcom’s Ghost Trick you die. Then the action really starts heating up. I got a chance to play a new level at Gamescom last week, and now I’m going to tell you all about it.
