Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective could get a sequel if it receives enough support
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective launched on the Nintendo DS in 2010, and 13 years later, it’s being remastered for Nintendo Switch. In that sense, a recent interview between the game developers and game informer raised the question of whether it will ever get a sequel.
Director Shu Takumi, producer Shingo Izumi, and port director Atsushi Maruyama recently met for an email interview with Game Informer to discuss how Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective came to be, among many other things, including the opportunity for a sequel.
When asked if Takumi would like to see a sequel, they said, “The story of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is fully told in this one game, so I think it would be difficult to create a sequel. However, the powers of the dead that this game presents may stand a chance.”
Izumi added later, when asked if there would be potential for a sequel in the future if the remastered game sells well: “Right now, we’re dedicating everything we have to deliver Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective to as many players as possible. So we haven’t had time to think about what we’re going to do after that, I hope the number of people playing this game is big enough that we want to consider a sequel!
There you have it. If you want a sequel to Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective in the future, you’re going to want to force each and every one of your friends to play the game. This shouldn’t be too difficult, considering that Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a great game that we’d say is one of the best Nintendo DS games of all time; Perhaps it will also go down as one of our best Switch games of all time?
Game Informer also asked how the animation works in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, which makes it still look unique today, to which Takumi shared that, “When we created the original in 2010, motion capture wasn’t used as much as it is today. Over 90% of the animation in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective was animated by hand. That probably wouldn’t happen today, but I think because it was done by hand, the movement is uniquely appealing.”
I found this particularly interesting because Takumi is right; it’s not often that you see new games from major studios that are completely, or even mostly, drawn by hand. It also makes me think of Hotel Dusk: Room 215 on the Nintendo DS, which uses rotoscoping to animate its characters. This is something I haven’t seen since! I definitely miss the NDS era and all the different gems you’d find on the console, including Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective will be released for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on June 30, 2023.
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