Another Code Recollection - A completely unexpected remake

Have you ever walked into the videogame store, mindlessly dug into the used game box and instinctively bought a game that you never heard of but it had something in the cover that caught your attention? That’s exactly what happened to me when I found Last Window: The Secret of Cape West , a small investigative adventure for Nintendo DS. That was my first approach with the games made by Cing , a small Japanese software house that was founded in 1999, then closed in 2010 due to bankruptcy. Last Window was their very last game. Cing was mostly focused on adventure games, with a particular focus on the investigation genre. Last Window was a very peculiar game: I enjoyed the fact that you had to hold the DS vertically like a book, I loved the animation style which reminded me of the Take On Me music video by A Ha . The story was also very interesting: in the guise of the detective Kyle Hyde we had to discover the secrets of this apartment block, and by consequence the secrets of its inhabit...