Trace Memory Game

One of the first adventure games on Nintendo DS, Trace Memory puts you in the role of young girl trying to unravel the clues of a painful family mystery.

Nintendo's new game lets you point and click (and scribble, and blow) your way through a mystery adventure.Cing, the company that produced Glass Rose for the PS2, returns with a Nintendo-published adventure designed to showcase the system's touch screen abilities. Ten years ago, while researching human memory for a secret government lab, Ashley's parents disappeared suddenly. Now, a single clue leads her to the mysterious Blood Edward Island to piece together the traces of her past. Twists and turns await around every corner.

It's up to players to figure out the truth from the clues on the island. Trace Memory's rich story will appeal to young and older audiences alike. As players move around the 3-D map, the touch screen displays a breathtaking birds-eye view of the action, while the top screen shows a first-person view of scenes and conversations. To advance in the game, players must to solve innovative puzzles that take advantage of the DS's unique features: touch screen, dual screens, mic and stereo sound.

Game Storyline: While researching human memory for the government's secret lab, scientists Richard and Sayoko Robbins suddenly disappear and are presumed dead. Ten years later, their daughter, Ashley, receives a letter from Richard, telling her that he is still alive and sequestered in a lab on Blood Edward Island. Ashley traces the letter to the island to find the truth behind her parents' mysterious disappearance. Once there, she discovers that her parents had been working on a memory-generating computer called Trace, but the connection between Trace and their disappearance remains unclear.While searching for Richard, Ashley befriends a ghost named D, who is looking for answers of his own. Having lost all his memories and any recollection of his death, D is destined to remain in limbo and wander the island until he recovers them.

Together, they set off to find the truth of their pasts. Characters: Ashley, D and a host of characters from the past and present. How to progress through the game: Players explore the island, talk to different characters and solve puzzles to advance the story. The game world is intricate, and players will find clues and information in the most unexpected places. Special powers/weapons/moves/features: Trace Memory takes full advantage of the DS's dual screens to guide players through Blood Edward Island. The game play takes place on the touch screen, where players get an aerial view of the game world.

Meanwhile, the top screen shows a first-person view of scenes and conversations. Players can tap on any area on the touch screen to get a closer look.

I miss graphic adventure games. Titles like LucasArts' Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road and Sierra's Space Quest, King's Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry series were what got me interested in PC gaming so many years ago. And the death of the genre (after Myst came along and destroyed it), is what got me disinterested in PC gaming.

Numbers provided by the markers are references to the walkthrough - Each collectible, apart from being marked, has been described and shown in a screenshot. Each type of collectible has been marked in a different way, to make it easier to tell them apart. If you have any problems finding a specific collectible, find it in the walkthrough by its number on the map. The map of the location presents whereabouts of all the collectibles that you can obtain in a given area. Collecting all of the items and completing challenges is required to explore the location in 100%.Soviet installation is the first sprawling map.

For fans of the old 'point-and-click, gather an inventory, and solve puzzles' style of gameplay, there really hasn't been much to do lately. Potential new releases like get prematurely cancelled, and even old standbys that do see a new game release are (i.e. The games suck and they aren't even graphic adventures). Since the release of Nintendo's DS, some people have speculated at how perfect the system would be for the graphic adventure genre. After all, the games are traditionally played on a PC with a mouse, and the DS's touch screen would do a fine job re-creating that control scheme. And now, here we are with, a game that not only revisits this oft-forgotten genre, but mixes it up with a few puzzles that take advantage of the DS's unique capabilities.

Teen Drama In Trace, you play as Ashley Robbins, a 14-year-old girl who has traveled to the mysterious Blood Edward Island to track down her father, a man who she believed to be dead for a decade, but who has just contacted her and told her to come to the island. During her adventure, she'll befriend a ghost, uncover a murder-filled plot, and discover the secret behind Trace, her father's memory manipulating invention. This adventure plays out like most graphics adventures.

You're free to move Ashley around the world, which is seen from a bird's-eye (and fully 3D) view on the DS's bottom screen. You can either use the D-pad to control her movements, or use the stylus to point to where you want her to go. The top screen shows a 2D picture of the environment depicting your location. When you walk up to something on the bottom screen that's worth exploring, the 2D image moves to the bottom screen where you can point to what you want to investigate more closely.

Here, you'll find all sorts of items that will aid your quest.