First details of Capcoms Ghost Trick

This mystery adventure game has you retracing your forgotten past as a soul to work out why you died

Capcom didn’t just show what Okamiden was in the latest Famitsu; they also revealed another DS game, named Ghost Trick, which is coming to Japan next year. The title is being led by two prominent individuals in the game design world. Producer of Mega Man 9 and Zack & Wiki, Hironobu Takeshita, will again be taking the producer role for the game, while the main designer and writer of the Ace Attorney series, Shu Takumi, will be its director.

You play a fellow named Sisel who just got shot to death. However, he remains in soul form, without his memory, and has to work out the mystery of his life, and unfortunate death, in a few hours before he fades away completely. How could you do this, you ask? Well, using the stylus, you’ll be able to help Sisel ’possess’ objects to contact the real world. He can even communicate with the hitman who killed him!

"I first thought of this idea about five years ago," said director Shu Takmumi. "We were working on the third Ace Attorney and figured it was time to start thinking about the next thing. So I came up with a plan to make a new type of mystery, something different in style from Ace Attorney. I chose a portable platform because it matches well with the style of my games — the close range between you and the small screen creates this in-the-game-world effect which I like."

While Ghost Trick appears to be releasing sometime in 2010 in Japan, we don’t know if or when it will be arriving here.

Source: Cubed3