Rihards Unplugged

As I already mentioned in the Contra 4 post, I recently bought “Hotel Dusk: Room 215″ for the DS and have been having a lot of fun with it. “Hotel Dusk” is a detective adventure game, and one of the coolest things about it are the graphics, not the 3D view, or the top view, but the story panels and also the dialogue bits.

Another really cool thing about it, which you can see by looking at the screenshots, is that you hold your DS like a book, that is sideways, as opposed to pretty much all other games. It’s small things like this that make the game really interesting. That and of course the fact that this game isn’t kiddy oriented either.

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Holy cow, that’s one game franchise that I would have never thought that it would be resurrected. But it has happened, and I’m really happy that it’s for the Nintendo DS. Makes perfect sense really, considering that Contra is a side-scroller that relies more on the gameplay (or rather on being unbeatably hard game) than on the graphics.

And even then I must say that the graphics really look great. Sure it’s not 3D, doesn’t have the polygons and special effects that the DS can handle quite well, but it still looks great. Really colourful and lush backgrounds, and if the animation is good as well, then I’m really looking forward to buying this game.

Who am I really kidding, even if it ends up being a crap game I’ll buy it anyway, only so that I could play some more Contra, and probably die (and get angry) many times in the process.

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