One of the best games on the DS and one of the better adventure games in a long time.

User Rating: 8.6 | Hotel Dusk: Room 215 DS
Hotel Dusk is a new take on the old point and click adventure genre that is done very well. The graphics are nice enough but its more the presentation that won me over with characters animated uniquely and beautifully. The music eventually gets old though and makes your ears bleed but it doesnt detract at all from the titles brilliance.

Theres no action here but more conversation and puzzle solving. The hotel is well designed as are its occupants and the story (while a little convoluted and sometimes convenient) is fairly good. The puzzles are almost always inventive and intuitive while not necessarily simple. Sometimes there was a little too much wandering around with little to no idea what to do next but those
moments were rare. Another problem is that sometimes a poor dialouge choice can bring about a game over screen, however sometimes its not clear why your answer brought about the result it did. Its hard to put your finger on just what makes the game so great as in addition to what I listed above the game is quite linear. But its also immersive and interesting and different. Each character is well designed and well written, the puzzles make excellent use of the DS, the protagonist is perfect, and the story is great. Not really a very lengthy game but just long enough.