[Game] Trace Memory

Title : Trace Memory
Release Date : Sep 27, 2005(N.A)
Developer : Cing
Executive Priducer : Satoru Iwata
Genre : Adventure / Click-Point Adventure
Voice : UnAvailable
OST : Available
Platform : Nintendo DS
Language : English(N.A Edition)
Homepage : Trace Memory( http://www.tracememory.com/ )(Feb, 2007)


Trace Memory
The game which suggestd evoultion of new adventure to use NDS which is new machine. It was created by CING which was established by main members who worked for Riverhill Soft which went bankruppt created Murder Club and Will of Amber in the past.

The name in Japanese Edition and Korean Edition is Another Code : 2 Memories, the name in North American edition is Trace Memory.

This adventure for NDS is advanced adventure game from point-click adventure which is typical style of japanese adventure. Especially, they made full use of features of NDS which has dual-screen and touch-screen, besides using a microphone which was include NDS. It shows it's possible to create such as this style using NDS.

< Typical Point and Click Adventure >

Although the short playtime and lacking story made it feel bad, the puzzles of the novel idea made it that if you have NDS, you should play this game, and you'll be satisfied to buy NDS.

Reference
: Post-Adventure(어드벤쳐 게임)( http://www.postadventure.com/ )


Plot
In 1991, while researching human memory for the government's secret lab, scientists Richard and Sayoko Robbins suddenly disappear. The circumstances surrounding their disappearance are mysterious, and eventually the pair is presumed dead.

Their daughter, Ashley, grows up with Richard's younger sister, Jessica, in the suburbs of Seattle. With her parents' disappearance unresolved, Ashley is often haunted by a recurring dream. In her dream, she is a little girl again, hiding in a dark place. Someone calls her name and reaches out a hand. At this point in the dream, Ashley always wakes up.

< Always repeats nightmare, What happened to her in the past? >

Years pass with no news, good or bad, about Richard and Sayoko. Then, shortly before Ashley's fourteenth birthday - and almost eleven years after her parents' disappearance - she receives a package from Richard. The package contains a birthday letter and a mysterious device called a DTS, which is keyed to Ashley's biometrics so that only she can unlock it. The DTS displays a message from Richard that reveals that he is sequestered in a lab on Blood Edward Island.

Now, Ashley must trace the package to Blood Edward Island and discover the truth about her past.

Sourse : Trace Memory Instruction Booklet.


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by Young
Don't you know why NDS is great machine? If you did, you should play this game. Definitely, you can feel yourself what NDS is.(Of course, it's my opinion.)

After NDS released, Various games which make full use of Touch-Screen and Dual-Screen that unique feature of NDS released and was given a favorable reception. The shock one of them is Nintendogs. Of course it depends on, but it makes me affirmative to think about NINTENDO, even I just watched Trailer.

< What does it have? N.A edtion Tracy Memory >

When I played Trace Memory, I got a difference shock from Nintendogs. I could guess potential of NDS through the trailer of Nintendogs, then I confirmed potential of NDS through the Trace Memory.

Why is it great?

The basic rule of this game is "Point and Click Adventure." It's the typical pattern of Japanese Adventure, click a mouse, select, watch a screen, read script and the end, like that. But, in the feature of NDS Machine, instead it was not played by a mouse, it was played by a Touch-Pen.

< The screen was controled by Touch-Pen >

it's simple difference between a mouse and a touch-pen, but the influence of the difference is very huge. The mouse control that give the wrist a power by force is that it can't request by force why the feature. But, the touch-pen control support a convenience interface which is far from that. it's the time to confirm power of Dual-Screen and Touch-Screen.

But best thing is to appear the unique puzzle. it used the Touch-Screen, we should fold NDS, we can solve the puzzle, and it used the Dual-Screen, we should use upper screen and lower screen, we can solve the puzzle, and how can they create the puzzle which was solved to use include Mic.

Of course there are simple puzzles and confusion puzzles, but to make puzzles such like this, this game is not simple Point and Click Adventure.

In my case, I got a shock from the puzzle to stamp a seal, and the puzzle to blow dust. but, you know, if we try a new thing, we always miss another things.
 

< Vain Story >

This game miss the story line. The prologue made a player exciting, but the conclusion left him with a sense of futility. and i don't understand why two memories appeared unnecessariness. Past memory was moved by D and the memory which Ashley has. I think two memories didn't relate to each other. And if it has, i get a feeling to set to story by force.

That's why the story is vague. Instead of that, I supposed if it has one story line, it's better than now. This game was a little bit boring which a Point and Click Adventure has, but whenever you solved each puzzle, you will be suprised from the idea.

Key Script
Captain : Don't become one of those boring adults who doesn't ask questions.

D : Don't forget the way you felt when you first got to this island. Real sadness comes from not knowing the truth. I should know.

D : Ignorance is bliss.

Bill : Sometimes, the closer you are to someone, the more it hurts when things so wrong.

Captain : Part of growing up is being tired. It's a sad fact of life.

Game Data Room


Graphic : ★★★☆
Sound : ★★★☆
Scenario : ★★★☆
Value : ★★★★☆
Total : ★★★☆