For those of you that dig ghosty paranormal pop culture but are worn out on horror, demonic and frightening fare, you need only wait until 2010 for a change-up.Wired.com - reporting from the Tokyo Game Show 2009 - has passed along word of Capcom's new Nintendo DS adventure game, Ghost Trick. The concept of the game is you play as a newborn ghost (or is it recently-dead human?) who has to solve puzzles and advance by sending your energy into various objects. You can only move the blue glowing ball of light that is your "core" a little at a time, so you manipulate items to get to
other items, increase your abilities and achieve your goals.
The graphics appear to be a mix of 2-D character profiles with 3-D field gameplay Wired describes as "built with what seem to be tons of polygons and smooth, fluid animation."
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Capcom brand all the way back to Mega Man and Street Fighter all the way through the zombie-killing action of Dead Rising. It helps that this seems to be introducing a ghost-in-training, no spookshow element to paranormal pop culture, so I'll be in line when this hits in 2010.