What Gamespot Users have to say about Hotel Dusk: Room 215
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Rating:8
"The name's Kyle Hyde. I used to be a New York cop, but three years ago I gave up my badge..."
Start with a blunt, sarcastic, disgraced cop who spends most of his time at the bottom of a flask of whiskey. Add some campy detective humor, a cast of memorable characters, and old-school adventure gameplay. The result ... Read Full Review
7 of 7 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:8.5
A great point-and-click adventure, but there's no lack of flaws...
You are Kyle Hyde, an ex-cop whose partner has gone missing after a turn of events leading to you shooting him. You were fired from the force, and you took up a job as a door-to-door salesman. Yes, really! But your bos... Read Full Review
3 of 5 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:8
Hotel Dusk is a refreshingly playable and story-driven adventure game.
+: Excellent presentation; interesting mystery story; neat use of the touch screen. -: The puzzles could use with just a little more complexity. The adventure genre has pretty much lost all of it's influence over t... Read Full Review
2 of 4 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:7.5
A very text based game.VERY.....It is like a digital storybook.
Playing Hotel Dusk Room 215 feels like reading a Noir Detective Novel.In the game you play as Kyle Hyde,a police turned salesman.But being a salesman,he still does investigating,mainly searching his old buddy who turned ... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:9.5
Hotel Dusk has a thrilling, engrossing plot that - just like a book - you won't be able to put down.
An adventure game is a hard thing to pull off. You need to have, above all, a good plot with deeply layered characters, along with clever puzzles and items. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 ticks all the right boxes, although you mi... Read Full Review
5 of 7 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:9
Naturally thrilling. You love Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot? You gotta try this.
Wow wow wow, this is one of the earliest games I play on my DS, and I found it quite thrilling. Honest. Hotel Dusk has a room, number 215 nicknamed "Wish". Yes, every room (maybe the suite is an exception) in Hotel Dusk... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:9
Hotel Dusk 215 is a great story driven adventure game that may be the best game for the DS in 2007.
Story: You are Kyle Hyde, and you've ended up at Hotel Dusk. What appears like an average night at the hotel turns in to an wonderful dark mystery. This aspect of the game is definiely its strongest, and is the best s... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:9.5
If you're a sucker for a great story and don't mind a slow paced, puzzle filled adventure, Hotel Dusk has a room for you
Reinventing a genre is no easy task, as most titles tend to take a specific garden variety of gameplay and do nothing to further its overall development. This leaves us with a very sterile and very dull era of gaming - n... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:8
Fresh adventures are hard to come by these days, lets hope it signals the beginning of a new movement on the DS.
There are some games that just stand out, and you just know from the second you start playing that you're in for something special. For that feeling to stay with you for the duration however is a little rarer and I'm ple... Read Full Review
1 of 3 users found the following review helpful -
Rating:9.5
Hotel Dusk is one of those games you will not want to put down until everything has been solved...
Hotel Dusk is one of those games you will not want to put down until everything has been solved. If you like misteries and crime stories you've come to the right place. This was the first game I got for the DS and ... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful
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