It's out, I bought it the day it came out, and I just finished it up today.

The stories and games that Shu Takumi crafts are perfect. This is no exception. He covers everything and intertwines so many different variables perfectly without plot-holes, and it shines in Ghost Trick greater than it ever did in Phoenix Wright. The gameplay is linear, but you're here for the story, pretty graphics and great musical score. The Phoenix Wright series never had much in the way of gameplay, Ghost Trick at least makes the environment interactive. Length-wise the game took me around 15 hours or so. There were plenty of times where I was stumped until I had a "Eureka!" moment, which was always satisfying. The game proved finishable without any use of a walkthrough, thankfully (Hello Phoenix Wright).

There was great care taken here, even with the translation. I only spotted one grammar issue (An I'll instead of an I'm which lead to a silly sounding sentence), and despite all of the crazy time traveling going on the text was always clear enough to make everything understandable in the end.

Rating: Highly recommended. $30, and absolutely worth it.

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