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Game Overview

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is one of those DS games that sticks with you—part detective story, part moody character drama, all wrapped in this sketchy, noir-ish art style that feels like flipping through someone’s private notebook. You play as Kyle Hyde, an ex-cop turned salesman who stumbles into this weird, half-empty hotel on a job. At first, it seems like just another overnight stay, but then people start acting cagey, conversations take weird turns, and suddenly you’re digging into secrets nobody wants uncovered.

What’s cool is how you hold the DS sideways like a book, with the top screen showing first-person views of rooms while the bottom screen lets you move around in a top-down style. Talking to guests is where it gets tense—you pick questions carefully, sometimes pressing them when they hesitate, but push too hard and they’ll shut down or even throw you out. The puzzles mix things up, too: fiddling with locks, piecing together torn notes, stuff that actually makes you feel like you’re poking around a real place.

And that art style? It’s all rough pencil sketches and washed-out watercolors, like a detective’s case file come to life. The whole thing has this quiet, late-night vibe that makes the hotel itself feel like a character. If you like slow-burn mysteries where every conversation could flip the story, this one’s worth losing a few nights to.