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Game Overview

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is one of those games that sticks with you—part murder mystery, part supernatural puzzle adventure, and all charm. You play as Sissel, a ghost who wakes up with no memory of his past life, just in time to witness a girl named Lynne getting shot. The catch? You’re already dead, but you’ve got this weird ability to possess objects and mess with them (like flicking a switch or tipping a chair) to alter events. Oh, and you can rewind time four minutes before someone dies to try and save them. It’s like being a spectral detective with a ticking clock—literally, since you’ve only got until sunrise to figure out your own death.

The puzzles are clever without being frustrating, and the story unfolds in this weirdly satisfying way, full of twists and characters that feel straight out of a noir comic. The animation’s got this smooth, exaggerated style that makes every little movement pop. At first, I wasn’t sure how much I’d care about saving random strangers, but by the third chapter, I was fully invested in unraveling the whole mystery. If you liked Ace Attorney’s storytelling, you’ll dig this—same writer, same knack for drama that somehow stays funny even when things get dark.

It’s the kind of game where you’ll catch yourself grinning at some ridiculous solution you stumbled into, like using a falling billboard to distract a guard or rewinding time to see how many ways you can mess with the same scene. By the end, you’ll either feel like a genius or like the game outsmarted you—in a good way.