About two weeks ago now I bought Hotel Dusk: Room 215 for the Nintendo DS. Today I finished this game, and I must say that I am incredibly unsatisfied with the game's conclusion. The basic plot-arc was resolved, but due to several choices I made, or lack thereof, I did not get two other scenes which give a much more satisfying conclusion to the game's ending. There's an alternate version of the main ending based on something you need to do nearing the end of the game which I did not think of. It involves a trick using the DS and this is not the first time this game totally screwed with my mind and its DS tricks. That's probably one of the things I liked the best about this game was the unique ways in which it makes you not only use the touch screen but the DS itself, which kind of boggles the mind. Needless to say I feel like an idiot for not realizing what I was supposed to do with the DS seeing as how the game actually FORCED me to do the same things earlier on in the game.  In this situation there were two different things I could do and I was too stupid to realize the superior method even though the clues that were given to me were SO OBVIOUS once I realized what I was supposed to do. How that being said I did not know that this situation had an alternate method for completion, and I also did not know it completly changes the ending based on how you accomplish it.  There is also another scene you are supposed to get after the credits if you complete the game without ever getting a game over. Seeing as how when you screw up you are given the option to return to the main title where you can reload your saved game, or "retry", well, if you "retry" then it counts as if you got a game over, whereas reloading your save continues as if you never got a game over. So a warning to anyone who is playing or planning on playing this game: 1. Don't get any game overs, and 2. When the time comes DO NOT TAP ON HER FACE.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is I basically got the worst ending possible. It wasn't "bad" per se, it was just unsatisfying as it left the main character's relationship with another character hanging without a resolution, and another plot arc unresolved. I did not go through +15 hours of a game to have the ending left hanging like this. The good thing is that I know how to do pretty much everything this time so it should go by much faster. That being said, I PUT ON MY TRENCHCOAT AND DETECTIVE HAT.

*starts a new game*