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Is this a video-game or a book? I've never done so much reading in my life so I'm sure it's not a video-game. Trace Memory is one of the early Nintendo DS titles and it seems to have been made to showcase the DS features as any kind of enjoyable gameplay has been totally thrown out the window.
You play a very cute Japanese girl (the white hair thing is cool)called Ashley Mizuki Robbins on the day of her 14th birthday, since she shared the same birthday as me I am assuming that the personalised DS changes it for each player. She journeys to Blood Edward Island to reunite with her estranged dad but when she arrives he's not there and you must find him. So begins a long, long and even more tedious game of looking everywhere and talking to other characters and a ghost kid with loads and loads and loads and loads of reading dialogue. Dialogue that there is no button simply skip by and get on with the game. It's a bloody pain in the ass I tell you.
Each of the DS features is used at least once in the game, such as blowing on the screen to help Ashley blow dust off an old mirror or folding the screen together to solve some sort of reflection code. But where the hell is the enjoyment? And get this, not only is this game torture to get through, but you actually have to complete it TWICE!
You solve all of the mystery regarding the missing dad but then you start at the beginning again in what they call a 'starred' game in which you must do THE EXACT SAME THING again (including reading all that bloody dialogue) only to have a slightly different ending in which the ghost kid remembers his past. Well he can 'live' the rest of his death in ignorance because I ain't wasting my precious time helping him. There are better games out there than this. I mean, the graphics are nice and it's a very summery looking but the generic music, slowness, endless reading and dull plot make a game that's more of a sleeping pill than a fun experience.
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Graphics A- Sound C Gameplay C- Lasting Appeal D.
- Publisher:Nintendo
- US
- Genre:Adventure
- 26th Sep 2005 (USA)
24th Jun 2005 (UK/EU)
Richard and Sayoko Robbins are prominent scientists with important research that can change the world. The couple is specially recruited and employed by the government for their lab. But one day, both mysteriously disappeared and were presumed dead. This truth has been hidden, no one in the world can know what happened in that laboratory.
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Ten years later, Ashley, their daughter suddenly receives a letter from her father and its content says he is still alive and sequestered in a lab on Blood Edward Island. The girl begins to fumble and searches for the letters and suggestions of the message to find out where her father is being held. Sometime later, Ash found the island and found out the secret that her parents were working on a memory-generating computer called Trace. On that journey, Ashley is acquainted with a ghost named D, and it is also searching for the truth about his life and death. The spirit has lost all memories of his life, and all that remains with it is just a little strength to maintain the state of limbo and wander the island. The two of them together on the road to rediscovering the truth for the past has been overshadowed by time.
This island is a vast and mystical place designed with beautiful 3D graphics, top-down viewing angles. Players will easily control their characters on the roads and discover everything. Their final mission is to find a secret about the past and rescue Ashley’s parents, as well as what Trace is trying to figure out. They will move around, talking to different people to find suggestions. After that, the player will face challenges and puzzles to overcome it. The world in which the construction game is messy and complicated, players will have to embark on the most dangerous places they did not expect.
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