Despite this seemingly hostile climate, there is a ray of hope. A rapidly growing movement - plainly visible on sites like Adventure Gamers and in the sales figures of games like Phoenix Wright - is throwing their support behind Nintendo to get the ball back into the adventure gamer’s court.
Adventure games at their best, and even sometimes at their worst, are the closest thing we have to virtual reality. You can truly feel like you’ve entered another world, and that your actions there have consequences. The trouble is, the more imbedded in the game world you get, the more of a jolt it is when you get stuck and all comes crashing to a stop. A walkthrough will get you going again, but by then, it seems to me, the illusion is broken. It’s no longer adventurous when you know what’s coming.
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