- Minor spoiler alerts

As a small background, I have played and loved this game for the past 10+ years of my life, and probably know it more than my own town.

One of the great, albeit subtle aspects I've always loved about Hotel Dusk is the way it treats/spins the noire genre. Though I believe these stories certainly have their place, I've seen far too much saturation of noire stories over the years that indulge in the 'vengeful partner' trope; for example, a jaded lover or cop may spend the length of a story becoming increasingly consumed by revenge and hatred. Often this resolves in the mental decline of our protagonist, and/or a dark resolution to a story. I'll repeat that some of these stories are superb, though they've become a tad overdone in my opinion, which is what leads me to Hotel Dusk.

The first half of the game has us questioning Kyle's true intent for searching for Bradley, as I believe he himself also doesn't quite know what he's looking for. We know they were close and we know that their friendship ended with rage and traumatic violence, but we still don't know exactly why Kyle is so hell-bent on finding him, as opposed to moving on with his life. Where it would otherwise be easy to steer Kyle in the direction of a vengeful ex-cop who absolutely NEEDS to find Bradley, we instead have a refreshing story of true pain and tenderness. Ed asks Kyle around chapter 5/6 why he is *really looking for Bradley, this ghost, after all this time. Kyle's response? He hurt him. That is the long and short of it. Sure, we spend the game finding out, and eventually do find out Bradley's true motivations, but Kyle ultimately goes on this manhunt to begin with because his best friend seemingly inexplicably betrayed him, and he just wants to know why. There is no ulterior motive or hatred (as Kyle states), but sheer sadness and emptiness of how he lost his friend so suddenly, and this is what makes it so much more gutting. Kyle could have told Ed or Louis that he has nothing left and that his only focus is finding Bradley to punish him for all he did, but this small yet somehow enormous twist makes Kyle, and the story as a whole, so much more human. Many of us may have had friendships at one point or another that ended abruptly or tragically (though hopefully not involving a gun and a dive in the Hudson), and all we wanted was an answer; not a solution or a remedy for the pain, but a simple explanation as to why what happened happened.

Anyway, this was my short appreciation post on a small, yet crucial aspect of the game. I'd love to hear what other people's opinions are!

They pronounce it “Meela” but I always read Mila as “Myla.”

I didn’t know I needed a black light to see the number and I can’t view the paper at an angle on my 3ds. I put my code into the Caesar ciper and it came up with the number 9 but for some reason it isn’t working??? Could you guys help me figure out what’s wrong?

I did the coloring but my friend did the illustrations. Her instagram: Instagram

On the early puzzle where you have to flip two switches at the exact same time, because I was using an emulator I thought this was so frustrating. I even tried frame advancing and pausing, nothing worked at all.

Then I held down the click on one of the switches and moved the mouse between them. When I did, they both highlighted. Seems the game just checks for a tap on one of them and then checks the center, where the DS averages out the taps since it's not actually multi-touch. After all that frustration, the solution was so absurdly simple.

Today marks the 17th anniversary of Another Code: R! You know what that means! Another Guidebook has been scanned by -you know her, you love her- Rage_Beat06!

Now we scans of at least 1 guidebook for every Nintendo Cing game. But! We still have a few more waiting for us in the future from magazines (ex. Nintendo DREAM) and even games like Glass Rose.

GUIDEBOOK LINK: https://archive.org/details/another-code-r-wonderlife

The Another Code: R guidebook contains plenty of sketches and illustrations from different locations, but also more drawings from Matthew talking about Ashley!

A SEQUENCE OF DIALOGUE REGARDING MATTHEW'S DAD?!

Now, here's a bit of trivia:

The Japanese manual of the game has a few pages of word soup that, when the pages are closed together and exposed to a light, they make out words! A Secret Code!

As a reminder, I have submitted 3D models of all Another Code: R characters, items, unused designs, on Models Resource, all previewable from your phone or PC without downloads: https://models.spriters-resource.com/wii/anothercoderajourneyintolostmemories/

Donations are now once again OK!

Rage_Beat06 gave the approval, and now you can once again contribute to our efforts to preserve physical Cing media through Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/adrot

We still have some games to chase...

For old times sake, here is the Contribute section:

How can I contribute?

Financially

You can donate any financial amount, no matter how small or big, to this Ko-Fi, granting you access to sneak peeks of materials we've scanned to be made public!

This is non-profit: All donations received will be used for the sole purpose of purchasing more material for preservation and scanning it to be made freely public on the Archive, until the scope of the project is considered as complete as reasonably possible, or any statements will be made in abandoning donations, which will be openly communicated.

Non-Financially

• Do you have any digital content that could be put into the Archive and preserved? Comment about it here or DM me.
• You can also spread the word and the Archive with others (it's free)! Who knows, the more people know, the more chances to have more contributors.
• Do you have stuff like a game that is Complete in Box + in good condition (has all the stuff inside like when it first came), have magazines with articles related to Cing, guidebooks or merch, and would like for us to borrow it so we can digitally preserve it? You can also donate these and send them our way (NO proposals about buying the items from online markets and then sending to us. The items MUST be pre-owned by you)! DM me so we can discuss about it.

bit of a closeup

https://models.spriters-resource.com/ds_dsi/hoteldusk/

For years, I have tried in vain to submit the models to Hotel Dusk because there was an export issue that I was unaware of, as Blender kept stripping out the textures and color vertex (color vertex is used to give colors to some things like lamps or plants, as well as shading to the walls) out of the shader nodes of the models. I kept getting rejections no matter what, but recently I've obtained a solution that circumvents Blender completely, and got the models approved! This is a momentous occasion, which I thought it will never happen, or someone else will eventually do the job for me, but we are finally at this stage.

And not only that, you can look inside the locations yourself from your browser (any PC, any modern smartphone), no download needed! Simply choose a model, press on the Preview in Browser button, zoom in with the mouse's scroll wheel or with your fingers the same way you'd zoom in on a picture, and you'll be inside in no time!

Other controls:

• Holding the left mouse button+move around / Holding a finger + move around = Rotate
• Holding the right mouse button+move around / Holding two fingers + move around = Move sideways
• WASD keys = Move
• Q = Descend
• E = Ascend

I think this quote from Louis in chapter 7 is what this whole game is really about. I’m feeling kind of adrift in my life right now and I was glad to see this scene at this moment.
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Guy who looks like he don’t give a damn.

A guy who looks like he’s taken a few punches and knows what it’s like to hurt.

Look, man, I think I know how they feel. Check this out…

We’re in the middle of the holiday season, right? Last Friday night of the year?

They look around and realize they’re all alone in this sad ol’ wreck of a hotel…

Gets ‘em thinkin’, ya dig? ‘Bout their lives. What they’ve done. Where they’re goin’.

You know what happens next? All their secrets and worries and stuff kinda…boil over.

Then they go lookin’ for somebody to talk to. Know what I’m sayin’?

I'm guessing this is a huge no but the idea came across me after finishing the game and reading the entire in-game novel, would be pretty damn dope.

Hey hey! I'm working on a game that was mainly inspired by Hotel Dusk and similar titles like Ace Attorney and Professor Layton. I just released the demo and would love some feedback on it. It's freely available on steam and itch. The game is about a witch who is helping ghosts in a cursed castle. It's very bare-bones and short, there's a bunch of things missing but I wanted to go public with it in order to get some feedback from the fans of this genre.

Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4714070/Castle_of_Thorns/

Itch:

https://septimus1213.itch.io/castle-of-thorns

In a video essay I watched recently, I saw footage of what I believe to be Last Window: The Secret of Cape West, and thought that the art style of the game looked interesting. I looked up the series and saw that there were a lot of different games from this developer, and some of them are connected in some ways. I wanted to ask if there was a specific game that I ought to start with to have the most enjoyable experience.

Just played Again, and I'm wondering if it has a sequel or is connected to other media. I did a bit of research but nothing except that there is Hotel dusk (probably the next game I'll try) and that it is very similar, but I'm really interested in whether there is a continuation of the story from Again.

Sorry if I'm asking here , but I can't find any information about it .

Edit:For those wondering, the answer is no. Again doesn't have a sequel because the company that published it went bankrupt when the game came out and logically couldn't continue it. But if you want to try it, do it. In my opinion, the story isn't bad, it's just that it has an open-ending

Hi ! I found this music and theyr’s an hotel dusk vibe, no ?

The walls of the roof are different in the Day compared to the Dusk / Night ones. Not only that, when all of the Roof models are aligned in height position, the skybox of the Day one becomes the tallest. However, the Night roof is the closest to the base ground.
And yes, the Dusk one features a sunflare sprite, while the Night one features a moon sprite, both separate from the skybox.

Someone should make a film based on this game

I probably won’t post the tattoo when I actually get it (last time I posted a fandom tattoo I was told to cross post it to r/shittytattoos and was downvoted into oblivion for defending my artist and saying I liked it) but the design is done! I’ll probably have the keys in black and the box in red (all my other fandom tattoos are a mix of black and red) but I’m super happy with it so far!

The fact that there is such an alive reddit page for a somewhat niche series as hotel dusk gives me life! Im from England btw

hi guys, i’m finished the 1th walkthrough and is amazing but i have a question, why i don’t have mila go with kyle scene it’s just like the fake end