Touch Detective investigates DS
Nintendo's handheld offers a chance to try on another hat – a fedora perhaps?
The DS must surely be the most empathetic of consoles. To date, Nintendo's console has put you in the shoes of a lawyer (Phoenix Wright), doctor (Trauma Center), and spy (Alex Rider: Stormbreaker). And soon you'll be able to slip on the gumshoes of yet another professional, as Touch Detective enables you to play as a private eye.
Due for release this autumn, the mystery adventure casts you in the role of Mackenzie, a young girl who inherits her father's detective agency when he passes away and who must solve four cases to prove herself a worthy successor. As you'd expect, this means gathering evidence, talking to witnesses and using and examining a wide range of items.
As you might not expect, however, the whole game is set in a bizarre world packed full of mechanized butlers, walking skeletons and friendly mushroom men, and the cases are rather odder than those that faced Columbo. For instance, one concerns the tracking down of a stolen dream.
Right now that's about all we have to go on, apart from the screenshots from the first case which you can browse above. But you can be sure we'll be running our magnifying glass over Touch Detective for a closer inspection in the coming weeks.
