Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles

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6.2

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Score Breakdown Based on 42 ratings

1. 10 (7)
2. 9 (2)
3. 8 (6)
4. 7 (10)
5. 6 (4)
6. 5 (4)
7. 4 (2)
8. 3 (4)
9. 2 (0)
10. 1 (3)

What Gamespot Users have to say about Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles

• Rating:6.5

  This is a game to be read, not be played. Generally not worth the price of admission.

  By cookie_on_fire | Review Date: Oct 26, 2009 | DS

  First of all, let me speak about the genre of the game. At first I thought it was a point and click adventure, but it's not. The game is filled with 3 detective stories, where pretty much all you do is to read text. On t... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:1

  Jake Hunter: Smoking Commercial! The game itself was pitiful to begin with and then there's all the Marlboro refe

  By mastercleric1 | Review Date: Mar 03, 2009 | DS

  Welcome to a game that promotes the purchase and frequent use of things that will kill you. The game play in Jake Hunter is sub par for the genre, even though there aren't too many games in this genre. The graphics ca... Read Full Review

  1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:1

  Everybody seems to immediately pin Jake Hunter as a Phoenix Wright rip-off,but its a disservice to both games.

  By ForgottenLives | Review Date: Dec 29, 2008 | DS

  First, Jake Hunter is more of a noir private eye game that actually has more in common with the underrated DS title Hotel Dusk: Room 215. And secondly, Jake Hunter is nowhere near as fun as Phoenix Wright. Despite the st... Read Full Review

  0 of 1 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:7.5

  The characters are rather boring, but interesting enough cases.

  By smithevilwitch | Review Date: Sep 09, 2008 | DS

  It's a dectective game and not a very good one. The characters are rather boring. I don't get into their story much, the cases are interesting enough but not great either. The L trigger button makes Jake take a smoke, wh... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
• Rating:2.5

  The worst detective game to date. The bright point is that I can tap to 'think' because I hate reading the story.

  By FelixDraconis | Review Date: Aug 19, 2008 | DS

  I can stand Phoenix Wright and even get moderately addicted to it because it was innovative, partly, but the characters, story, artwork, music, etc. were all really quite respectable. This... thing... basically had a ... Read Full Review

  0 of 0 users found the following review helpful