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    Another code:2 memories (AKA trace memory); For Nintendo DS (yes, i'm english...)
    Topic Started: Aug 2 2005, 02:47 PM (2,257 Views)
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    developer:Cing/Nintendo
    Genre:Point and click adventure/puzzle
    Players:1
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    Ashley Mizuki Robins lives with her auntie. Both her parents disappeared when she was 3. One day, she receives a package from her dad, containing a letter, telling her to meet him at blood Edward Island, and a machine called a DAS. On the day before her 14th birthday, she goes with her auntie to blood Edward Island, but her father is nowhere to be found. Ashley is soon separated from aunt Jessica, and goes to explore the island on her own. She meets a ghost named D, who has no memories of his life, and they explore the mysterious island and the Edward family's mansion together.

    Along the way, you have to solve a lot of puzzles, some of which are obvious, like one of those slidy puzzles, but other are less obvious, for example, one puzzle requires you to reflect a picture off one screen on to the other to show a reference number for a library book, while another has you taking photographs with your DAS, which stands for Dual Another System (which looks like a DS, but has a lot more cool functions), and overlaying the too to make a code for a door. Also, at the end of each level, or 'chapter' you must answer questions about what happened, what murders you discovered, who wrote a letter to who, and stuff like that. There is really two stories: one involving D trying to remember his past, and the tragedy that killed him, which you discover through letters, wills, and memories, and the one involving Ashley, Bill, Sayoko, Jessica, Ashley's father, and a mysterious object codenamed 'another'

    Luckily, it's easy to control all this. The entire game can be controlled with the touch screen (I rarely used buttons), with an incredibly simple control method: touch in the direction you want Ashley to go, press the button in the corner to do stuff like take pictures, and double-tap to investigate an object. The graphics are very simple as well. Although it's all in 3d, you only see most things from a bird-eye view, and when you see characters they are often drawn anime-style. The occasional 3-d cutscene are impressive, but rare. The sound is also impressive, although even at the climatic ending it is calm, so in some places it seems out of place.

    The only real bad points of the game are that it finished too soon, and the ending is actually quite disappointing. There was no really hard puzzle near the end; it was really just a cutscene and a few questions. It is also annoying how you often have to backtrack to get to the right place, but luckily the area the game is set in isn't that big so the longest it could take is about 10 minutes... although the small game world itself is a bit of a problem...

    Graphics:8/10
    Sound :8/10
    story: 10/10
    Gameplay: 9/10
    innovation:6/10
    lifetime:5/10

    Overall:[size=14]87%[/size]
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