
Then you have to go back and have the conversation over again and try different responses. And, in the name of realism, sometimes you don't find out you've messed up until you venture into the lobby and find cop-shy hotel owner Dunning livid because a guest has grassed you up for snooping. This is most frustrating when you have to repeat large sections of the game because you chose the wrong response to a question. Sometimes it can drag on a bit, especially when you just want to move onto the next puzzle, and it does get repetitive. During conversations, Kyle's face is shown on the left screen while the character he's chatting to is on the right.įor the most part, the scripted dialogue is absorbing – typically revealing something the other person might not have wanted to divulge, or hinting at what you should do next.

(It's also why we've split the screenshots into single screens in our viewer). At least half of the game demands that you read long conversations with other characters, so it's fitting you have to hold the DS vertically like a book. This also helps you understand the motivation of the characters as you can more easily see the subtle changes of expression during your conversations.Īnother interesting feature is the way Hotel Dusk changes the way you use the DS. The visuals are particularly grown-up, with characters having a pencil-sketched look that makes them seem like they're in a moving graphic novel. There's nothing shabby about its presentation, for example – this is one stylish DS game. Not everything about Hotel Dusk is rundown. But as he investigates, why do so many of the clues point back to a 30 year-old murder mystery, and what's it got to do with the disappearance of his friend, Bradley – the very reason he left the police force? Of course, it doesn't take long before Kyle's rusty detective skills tell him not everything is as it seems.
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Maybe he'll get the chance to flog some shoddy portable sewing machines while he's there? A disgraced New York cop turned cynical door-to-door salesman, he's been sent to Hotel Dusk to collect a package for a mysterious client. Its owner, Dunning Smith, might not be a cross-dresser but he's definitely hiding some secrets in those low-rent rooms. Out in middle of the Californian desert, Hotel Dusk is one such place.

But, yeah, totally jossed.When it comes to holiday accommodation, the Marriots, Hiltons and Holiday Inns of the world might be boring, but we prefer them to the sort of downmarket motels where the owner keeps a loaded shotgun under the counter, and at night, dresses up in his dead mom's frocks.

and lead to a mindblowing, bittersweet reunion in the future. This would give them a connection that hasn't been explored yet.
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This is important.ĭid Danny send Summer to the dusk knowing he'd run into Louis - in the same way that Bradley guided Kyle there?And it's made even more interesting when you take into consideration the photos of Hotel Dusk characters that appear in Another Code R - Louie appears at the lake with his arm around an unknown man who fanon speculates is actually Martin Summer. (And why would they reuse the name if it weren't important? The only other time a name in Hotel Dusk has been duplicated is in the case of Bradley's deceased sister also being named Mila, which is a MAJOR PLOT POINT. Who else do we know who's named Dan - and is shady enough to not be above a little blackmail and extortion? Summer is at the Dusk because 'Dan' told him to wait there. Danny is alive.After you've almost gotten Summer to tell you why he's at the Dusk, and admit that he plagiarized his first book from his gifted friend Alan, he'll shout about "That treacherous Dan!" who has been blackmailing him with that information.
