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Topic	Board 8 #sports Discord Ranks Their Top 100 Video Games Finale: THE TOP 10
MrSmartGuy 03/06/21 12:41:52 PM #74:	#5 - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (DS, my GotY for 2010) Ghost Trick is a game from the mind of Shu Takumi, the man behind a lot of the Ace Attorney games. You play as Sissel, a man who has recently bitten the big one and now occupies the ghost world. He quickly learns that he now has the power to possess small objects and manipulate them. However, this isnt even close to the limits of what he can do. If he comes across a recently deceased person, he can then travel back to their final 4 minutes and use his ghost tricks to try to save them in some way. Hes going to have to make the most of these powers to obtain clues and testimonies from the people around him to remember who he is and why he was killed, and he only has one night to do it. This is probably the easiest game on my entire list to explain why it is where it is. Ghost Trick is quite simply my favorite video game story of all-time. Its just a wonderful tale about a couple of good [REDACTED] saving all their friends. And thats great. It also has a pretty great game surrounding it. After Undertale, this is probably the game closest to being absolutely perfect for me. The puzzles you solve when saving people are pretty nifty. The level design is stellar. Everything is very meticulously placed and it leads to some fantastic solutions. The graphics arent anything special, but my god, the animations are ridiculous. Its unbelievable that this game came out over 10 years ago on a mobile gaming machine. All of the characters look really, really good in motion, but Im just gonna post the absolute star of the show. Look at this slick motherfucker: https://i.imgur.com/XhgEd.gif https://66.media.tumblr.com/a14ee01335887d1193619d95edf4e7ef/tumblr_inline_pr0e6tv4kv1r2vvqk_540.gif https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/bb/8d/74bb8dcf6d74caf3f1b435e1f2cdf4ea.gif I dont know what exactly is happening in any of these, but Id be lying my ass off if I said Im not super entranced by every one of them. Even the supporting cast is so full of life. Bailey the prison guard is my all-time favorite character of no importance whatsoever. The musician plays a riff on his guitar every time he takes a step and its just wonderful. All these tiny little characters that do nothing have personalities and you can just watch them be themselves and its great. And the music is great, too. The second half of the game is filled to the brim with absolute bangers. I would post some, but the thumbnails in the recommended videos are just as filled with massive spoilers. Also, this games plot goes some places. One of my most hated writing decisions is to just drop a plot twist or a story element out of nowhere with no provocation. Only Arti will understand this segment, but its why I dont like F/GOs stories that much, and I want to rant about SE.RA.PH real quick. Uh-oh, we fell down a very long chasm what do we do oh never mind someone just magicd a five kilometer wire out of nothing. Wait whaaaaaat the big bad of the story was disguised as a random employee because I dunno just so we could have a plot twist I guess?! Fuck F/GOs stories, theyre all fucking like this and I hate it, and yet I keep playing anyway. God Im stupid. .. What was I doing again? OH RIGHT. So plot twists. I enjoy some really good foreshadowing in my stories. And Ghost Trick is basically Foreshadowed Plot Twists: The Game. There are an insane number of little tidbits along the course of the story. Youre bound to find at least 3 little breadcrumbs every single chapter, trying to guide you to what the game is about to reveal to you. I want to go on and on about how much I fucking love this games story, but I cant, or Id spoil everything. So I will anyway! Yay time for the black bars! EVERYONE IS NICE AND IS FRIENDS YAAAAAY GOOD JOB LITTLE ANIMALS YOU ARE TRULY WONDERFUL. I KNOW YOU PULLED A GUN ON A LITTLE GIRL BUT THAT WAS JUST CUZ OF ACAB ITS OK YOU CAN STILL BE OUR FRIEND LETS HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY DURING THE ENDING CUTSCENE WHERE THE MOM IS STILL OK AND THEN THE DOG WILL COME SPINNING THROUGH THE DOOR WHEEEEE ~~I don't just like the story~~ ~~because~~ it's a story where everyone is nice, it's because it's a story where everyone is nice, but because of the way it's told, it only seems like everyone in the game is at odds with each other the entire time. Then when more and more of the underlying motives of everyone gets revealed, and/or more people can start to trust the mystery ghost man, only then does everyone realize they're ultimately working toward the same goal and can begin to work together. It's masterfully told, and I'm sorta sad that the way the story unfolds makes Ghost Trick completely incompatible with a potential sequel. It exists as an entirely isolated story, and you know what? I'm OK with that. It's a perfectly isolated story and it just means a shoed-in sequel can never ruin it. CHARACTER RANKINGS: Missile > Sissel > Lynne > Justice Minister > Bailey > Cabanela > Pigeon Guy > Jowd > Chicken Kitchen Chef > Yomiel > Temsik Park Hippie > Kamila > Undercover Waitress > Nearsighted Jeego > Romance Novelist > Foreign Guy That Hits The Buttons Then Smacks The Podium > Sausage Head Also, this game has a very obviously bad guy named Sith. Who couldve guessed hed be a bad guy?! --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif <cite>MrSmartGuy posted [p:951410294] in Board 8 #s... [t:79323228]...</cite> <quote>#5 - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (DS, my GotY for 2010) Ghost Trick is a game from the mind of Shu Takumi, the man behind a lot of the Ace Attorney games. You play as Sissel, a man who has recently bitten the big one and now occupies the ghost world. He quickly learns that he now has the power to possess small objects and manipulate them. However, this isnt even close to the limits of what he can do. If he comes across a recently deceased person, he can then travel back to their final 4 minutes and use his ghost tricks to try to save them in some way. Hes going to have to make the most of these powers to obtain clues and testimonies from the people around him to remember who he is and why he was killed, and he only has one night to do it. This is probably the easiest game on my entire list to explain why it is where it is. Ghost Trick is quite simply my favorite video game story of all-time. Its just a wonderful tale about a couple of good [REDACTED] saving all their friends. And thats great. It also has a pretty great game surrounding it. After Undertale, this is probably the game closest to being absolutely perfect for me. The puzzles you solve when saving people are pretty nifty. The level design is stellar. Everything is very meticulously placed and it leads to some fantastic solutions. The graphics arent anything special, but my god, the animations are ridiculous. Its unbelievable that this game came out over 10 years ago on a mobile gaming machine. All of the characters look really, really good in motion, but Im just gonna post the absolute star of the show. Look at this slick motherfucker: https://i.imgur.com/XhgEd.gif https://66.media.tumblr.com/a14ee01335887d1193619d95edf4e7ef/tumblr_inline_pr0e6tv4kv1r2vvqk_540.gif https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/bb/8d/74bb8dcf6d74caf3f1b435e1f2cdf4ea.gif I dont know what exactly is happening in any of these, but Id be lying my ass off if I said Im not super entranced by every one of them. Even the supporting cast is so full of life. Bailey the prison guard is my all-time favorite character of no importance whatsoever. The musician plays a riff on his guitar every time he takes a step and its just wonderful. All these tiny little characters that do nothing have personalities and you can just watch them be themselves and its great. And the music is great, too. The second half of the game is filled to the brim with absolute bangers. I would post some, but the thumbnails in the recommended videos are just as filled with massive spoilers. Also, this games plot goes some places. One of my most hated writing decisions is to just drop a plot twist or a story element out of nowhere with no provocation. Only Arti will understand this segment, but its why I dont like F/GOs stories that much, and I want to rant about SE.RA.PH real quick. Uh-oh, we fell down a very long chasm what do we do oh never mind someone just magicd a five kilometer wire out of nothing. Wait whaaaaaat the big bad of the story was disguised as a random employee because I dunno just so we could have a plot twist I guess?! Fuck F/GOs stories, theyre all fucking like this and I hate it, and yet I keep playing anyway. God Im stupid. .. What was I doing again? OH RIGHT. So plot twists. I enjoy some really good foreshadowing in my stories. And Ghost Trick is basically Foreshadowed Plot Twists: The Game. There are an insane number of little tidbits along the course of the story. Youre bound to find at least 3 little breadcrumbs every single chapter, trying to guide you to what the game is about to reveal to you. I want to go on and on about how much I fucking love this games story, but I cant, or Id spoil everything. So I will anyway! Yay time for the black bars! EVERYONE IS NICE AND IS FRIENDS YAAAAAY GOOD JOB LITTLE ANIMALS YOU ARE TRULY WONDERFUL. I KNOW YOU PULLED A GUN ON A LITTLE GIRL BUT THAT WAS JUST CUZ OF ACAB ITS OK YOU CAN STILL BE OUR FRIEND LETS HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY DURING THE ENDING CUTSCENE WHERE THE MOM IS STILL OK AND THEN THE DOG WILL COME SPINNING THROUGH THE DOOR WHEEEEE I don't just like the story because it's a story where everyone is nice, it's because it's a story where everyone is nice, but because of the way it's told, it only seems like everyone in the game is at odds with each other the entire time. Then when more and more of the underlying motives of everyone gets revealed, and/or more people can start to trust the mystery ghost man, only then does everyone realize they're ultimately working toward the same goal and can begin to work together. It's masterfully told, and I'm sorta sad that the way the story unfolds makes Ghost Trick completely incompatible with a potential sequel. It exists as an entirely isolated story, and you know what? I'm OK with that. It's a perfectly isolated story and it just means a shoed-in sequel can never ruin it. CHARACTER RANKINGS: Missile > Sissel > Lynne > Justice Minister > Bailey > Cabanela > Pigeon Guy > Jowd > Chicken Kitchen Chef > Yomiel > Temsik Park Hippie > Kamila > Undercover Waitress > Nearsighted Jeego > Romance Novelist > Foreign Guy That Hits The Buttons Then Smacks The Podium > Sausage Head Also, this game has a very obviously bad guy named Sith. Who couldve guessed hed be a bad guy?! --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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