Among the best narrative mystery games of all time. Every scene is a treat, filled with character and light-hearted humor, while building up to a hard hitting conclusion. I loved every single character, their writing, their designs, their animations, Ghost Trick does the character-focused narrative genre right in every way.

Over the last few years I played through every Zero Escape game as well as the AI: The Somnium Files games (ending up as some of my favorite games of all time), and while I wasn't expecting to return to a DS game's remaster to get a similar hit, Ghost Trick fits right up with the best of them.

Don't be like me and accidentally buy a game called "Ghost or Trick" thinking it was the game people were talking about, then immediately realize the game has a 0/10 English translation and be unable to refund it because you bought it a month ago.

Intense disappointment. When comparing to Danganronpa, there's still interesting murder mysteries to solve, but the characters are less interesting, there's significantly more "play minigame to solve case", and a lack of a strong beginning hook.

Also, to say it's a technical dumpster fire is an understatement. Sub native render resolutions for some parts of the scene, frame rate is constantly around 20, the usage of Unreal's graphical effects look terrible for the obvious toll it's taking on the frame rate, awkward loads, awful rumbles.

I don't understand how this title was only released on switch in 2023, and I don't understand how it's this terrible technically when AI: The Somnium Files was developed under the same roof(?) and is an incredible experience.