Trace Memory
DS- Publisher: Nintendo
- Release Date: Sep 27, 2005

- Summary:
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- Developer: Cing
- Genre(s): Adventure, General, General, Point-and-Click
- # of players: 1 Player
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 51
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Mixed: 30 out of 51
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Negative: 1 out of 51
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Trace Memory is a cracker-jack adventure game developed and beautifully suited for the DS system. It's not at the level and complexity of the best adventure titles for the PC, but it's not reasonable to expect that from a handheld title. What it does bring to the table is an engaging, wonderfully done and integrated story with facilitating puzzles.
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What it does offer, though, is a game that takes advantage of the full capabilities of the Nintendo wonder-machine. It couldn't exist on anything else in anything other than a truncated form.
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While some players may be disgruntled by the lack of action and lack of length, fans of the point and click adventure genre will be thrilled with this artistically-inclined entry from Nintendo.
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Not a game without its problems: its short length, its stilted dialogue, its murky 3D graphics, its ridiculous name (seriously, what will the sequel be called?!); and yet there is an ineffable quality to the game that transcends these shortcomings.
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If you’re not the biggest adventure fan in the world (like myself) then the various puzzles will often have you slamming the DS shut in frustration, but for some strange and unapparent reason I kept coming back for more.
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It won’t start a second coming. What it does is showcase what the DS is capable of for this genre, and does it very well indeed. It’s also a very fun, if short-lived, experience and a very satisfying one. Just don’t be disappointed when you finish it in less than six hours.
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The puzzles (if that’s what you want to call them) are either ridiculously easy or they are completely devoid of logic and impossibly hard.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 20
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Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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KonradM.Jun 15, 2005Best game ever, in true RPG style.
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PetteriK.Jul 4, 2005
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[Anonymous]Jun 30, 2005
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