Refreshing adventure take on the DS

User Rating: 8.3 | Another Code: Futatsu no Kioku DS
Having already played through this game once, I can safely say that it is rather refreshing in its use of the DS features. The puzzles are rather simple, but it can be overlooked due to its immersive storyline.

The main character (a heroine) by the name of Ashley Mizuki Robbins gets a "DTS" (it's actually the Nintendo DS) for her fourteenth birthday, and she must use it to find her estranged father on Blood Edward Island and to find out what happened to her mother. A good adventure game should make the player want to figure out what happens in the end, and Trace Memory did that for me. The story is a contemporary mystery: a whodunnit murder case and lost memories. This may come off as a cliche basis for a story, but don't turn your face at it until you've played it.

Though it is rather short, I believe it took less than 5 hours to complete, I would very much recommend this game to any adventure fan.