Annoyingly linear gameplay and a flat and incomprehensible story stop Jake Hunter from being the next Phoenix Wright. At least the chiptunes-y soundtrack's kinda nifty.
Available on:
DS
Genre: Adventure Release date: June 10, 2008 Published by: Aksys Games Developed by: ARC System Works
This gumshoe beats the street to find where the leggy dame's old man got 86-ed
Apr 29, 2008
Text-y point-and-click adventure games are making a comeback on Nintendo's can-do handheld. With hits like Ace Attorney and Hotel Dusk along with lesser titles like Touch Detective, the time is right for solving mysteries on the DS, which makes room for some very obscure, if long running, titles to be localized for the first time. That brings us to Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles, the first US release of a Japanese detective series that is more than 20 years old.
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ESRB Rating
Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles is rated: Teen
Drug Reference,
Language,
Mild Violence,
Use of Tobacco,
Mild Blood