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The piece concludes that games like Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright represent compromises between the interactive nature of games and the unresponsive presentation of books - terms like 'novel' and 'interactive' don't quite capture the experience the games try to convey. At Dusk Hotel Hollywood we make every room fit for Hollywood royalty, but without the blockbuster budget. Solving them requires the otherwise not as sociable man to investigate the lives of various people. Kyle comes across numerous mysteries that turn out to have connections to incidents of his own interest in most cases. In the games, he appears as a bitter ex-detective who works as a salesman for the company, Red Crown. Interestingly, he suggests that interactive elements like branching dialogue are the prime culprits in not only seperating the game from a novel, but preventing it from telling a story on par with the best of books. Kyle Hyde is the protagonist of the Kyle Hyde Saga. This is a story set very much in the real world, but with, well, rather a lot of coincidences. There’s no denying that Hotel Dusk is a very, very linear game. However, despite this impression, Hotel Dusk isn't going anywhere near any of that. That said, its still an enjoyable, solid adventure gaming experience, and I definitely recommend it to DS owners with a penchant for story-driven games. Fortunately, the story is sufficiently good, and so brilliantly presented, that it is hard to object to being led through it all by the nose. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is by no means the amazing, innovative experience I was led to believe based on the hype its received. Is Hotel Dusk a game or a novel? While the general consensus is that the DS adventure is somewhat of a novel game (see what we did there?), the copious amounts of text, glacial pacing and rigorous story lead Thompson to believe that the distinction between Hotel Dusk and an 'average airport novel' is less than clear. Hotel Dusk walks a very fine line between being an adventure game and being a straight-out read-through of a story. In his attempts to solve the enigma buried within the story of Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Wired's Clive Thompson gets caught up in another mystery entirely.

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