When comparing Ghost Trick vs Detective Grimoire, the Slant community recommends Ghost Trick for most people. In the question“What are the best murder mystery video games?” Ghost Trick is ranked 6th while Detective Grimoire is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Ghost Trick is:
The technical ability of the game to show smooth animations for hand drawn sprite based graphics is far and above many games of similar style of a handheld game. Definitely one of the best animated games to be released on the DS.
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Pros
Pro Graphical animation is great
The technical ability of the game to show smooth animations for hand drawn sprite based graphics is far and above many games of similar style of a handheld game. Definitely one of the best animated games to be released on the DS.
Pro Allows for a lot of experimentation
The puzzles in the game require the user to experiment with different ways to solve them as not every scenario is obvious. This makes for lengthy gameplay as the game needs a lot of trial an error in order to advance the story.
Pro Easy to navigate
The whole game is laid out in an intuitive manner, from the menus to traversing each level. What's more the player is able to easily see where they need to go through highlighted objects on the map as well as receive hints when stuck.
Pro Well written and acted
The characters are fleshed out well through good writing and great voice acting, which makes for an immersive experience that feels believable even though the games story is a bit outlandish.
Cons
Con Text heavy
There is a lot of text dialogue in the game which breaks up the gameplay quite often. For those that would like to get to the meat of the game the constant interruptions can be frustrating.
Con Could be more challenging
Traditionally point and click adventure games have a difficult edge to their puzzles but sadly Detective Grimoire contains puzzles that are often easy, making for not much of a challenge for those that are fans of the genre.
Con Poor mix of easy children aimed content and an adult theme of murder
The games looks may appeal to children but sadly the content contained withing revolves around murder, which is not much of a kid friendly topic.