Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
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| Developer(s) | Cing |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Taisuke Kanasaki |
| Designer(s) | Rika Suzuki |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 80% |
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| Publication | Score |
| Adventure Gamers |   |
| Edge | 7/10 |
| Eurogamer | 7/10 |
| Famitsu | 32/40 |
| IGN | 7.5/10 |
| NGamer | 84% |
| Nintendo Life |   |
| Nintendo World Report | 9/10 |
| ONM | 78% |
| VideoGamer.com | 8/10 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 8/10 |
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West, known in Japan as Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku (ラストウィンドウ 真夜中の約束?, lit. "Last Window: Midnight Promise"), is an adventure video game developed by the now-defunct Cing and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the sequel to Hotel Dusk: Room 215, starring protagonist Kyle Hyde and placed one year after the events of its predecessor. The game has visual and audio styles similar to that of the first game. In Last Window, Kyle Hyde is living in the Cape West Apartments, Los Angeles, in 1980. The story of this sequel is separate from the first game, even though it includes some connections to it.Last Window was the last game developed by Cing before the company filed for bankruptcy on March 1, 2010.
The DS is held vertically, like a book. Last Window introduces an 'Ignore' feature which allows player to let go the lines of questioning they don't find useful. Ignoring too many lines of questioning, as well as not ignoring enough, may cause an early game over.
A new story-based feature is the in-game novel Last Window. Every time a chapter of the game is cleared, a new chapter in the Last Window book is made available. The contents of the book complements the game's story, and they can be influenced by the decisions the player makes.
Los Angeles, 1955: A man has broken into a safe. A mysterious figure then enters the room, aims a gun at him, and fires. The victim collapses, dead. He drops a diamond which he removed from the safe, and a photograph of a man and a young boy lies next to it.
1967: A woman is slouched over a table, apparently dead, in a room in the Hotel Cape West. A man is seen leaving the room.
1980: Kyle Hyde speaks on the phone with Ed Vincent, his boss at Red Crown, who fires him. He travels to the Cape West Apartments, where he lives. Just before he enters the building, he notices a mysterious woman wearing a hat and sunglasses. Soon afterwards, he discovers that the Cape West Apartments are to be demolished at the end of the month, and all the tenants are vacating. As he opens his apartment door, he notices a letter that tells him to find out what secrets the apartments hold, and an object known as the "Scarlet Star." Thus begins Last Window: The Secret of Cape West.
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