Hotel Dusk: Room 215 2007

Is it still worth playing?

Cing's 2007 point and click adventure for the Nintendo DS, set in a rural Nevada hotel, in which the salesman and former detective Kyle Hyde searches for his missing police partner. He checks into Room 215, which is rumored to grant wishes. You hold the DS sideways, like a book, and move with an icon on the touch screen map or the D-pad, with a first person 3D view on the other screen. Puzzles use the touch screen, the microphone and even the closing of the clamshell. Most of the work is questioning. You ask about items you have collected or topics, and the right questions reveal what you need. Wrong questions, assumptions, rude behavior or entering restricted areas can anger or frighten characters and end the game. Conversations that can go wrong still make a quiet mystery tense today.