DS Adventure games

[Candall]

The Phoenix Wright games are incredible.  I'd find myself running crime scene scenarios in my head to try to figure out what would and wouldn't work with the evidence presented.  The presentation of the game didn't matter in the least to me, slideshow or not.  As for linearity, sure... but that doesn't hurt the first playthrough.

I also love Hotel Dusk.  The character dialogue was some of the best I've seen in a video game.  While it truly does play more like an interactive novel than a video game, the novel was definitely good enough to warrant continued play... and though few the puzzles were, most of them were well executed.

Trace Memory was a blast to play as well.  The story elements, as mentioned, were not up to par with Hotel Dusk, but it shined in the "puzzles" department even though there were several that came across as clumsy.  I refer to pretty much anything that required the use of the stylus in order to "throw" an object.

Touch Detective... did not thrill me.  It has its merits, but I found them to be seriously outweighed by the very sketchy puzzles, most of which required that you wander around talking yourself blue.  You may rightly wonder how I could love Hotel Dusk if I hated Touch Detective for that particular reason, and the reason is that Hotel Dusk did it successfully.  Hotel Dusk was a game that was built around the concept... Touch Detective pretended to be a graphic adventure, but used that technique excessively within its own formula.  And the graphics, while colorful and fun, were largely cheap.  The pre-rendered characters had the lo-poly look (not really forgiveable for prerenders) and were minimally animated.  That being said, my wife loved it.

[enkerro]

I enjoyed Phoenix Wright: AA. And I can't wait to play PW2.
I've been trying to recreate those court sequences (with some actual results!) in AGS

As for Hotel Dusk.. Its seems interesting but I haven't bought it yet

[LimpingFish]

Tendo Doktura 2 has been translated into english, and will be published as Lifesigns: Hospital Affairs.

Woo!