But the more famous she became, the emptier she felt. As the two become closer, she reveals that she abandoned her son and husband to pursue her career as a magician. Helen seems like a sweet old lady and asks Kyle to have a drink. But there’s another layer of complexity that you find after you meet an old woman, Helen who has a tragic connection to Summer’s friend, Alan.

This parallels the broader themes in Hotel Dusk about creation and the extent artists will go in order to fulfill their personal voids, as well as their vanity. Someone else found out and is blackmailing him. The truth he’s hiding is that he actually stole the novel from his friend, Alan, which he then typed up himself and took credit for. But you slowly begin to realize that Summer is hiding a dark secret, which is uncovered thanks to a mistaken shipment and comments from other residents of the hotel that while Summers’ first book was brilliant, his following novels were subpar. At least that’s what it seems like on the surface. There’s the mystery bestselling author, Martin Summer, wanting to uncover the life of a brilliant painter named Osterzone to help inspire his new book. The entirety of Hotel Dusk is a big puzzle everyone has a secret, and the writing (and localization) is done so well, I was constantly surprised by the characters and their motivations. Had her mom somehow been forced to leave? If so, why? You can read a message from Melissa’s mother to her before she left under mysterious circumstances. The way you access it is to close the DS, then reopen it so that the puzzle is flipped to the other side. It wasn’t the actual jigsaw that I liked though, as it was when you finish it and realize there’s a message on the back. One I really liked was a jigsaw puzzle involving a cartoon rabbit that Melissa gives you. While there are some puzzles in Hotel Dusk, the focus is less about solving them and more about their significance to the story. In many adventure games, puzzles are the focus and resolving them opens doors to the next section. Melissa clutches the doll her mother gifted her, filled with remorse from having yelled at her mother the last time they saw each other. You learn that she’s looking for her mother, who left them recently. There’s more to her than her angry facade. One of the earliest people you meet is a young girl named Melissa who feuds with her father and yells furiously at everyone around her.

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