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Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is not simply a remake of Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles. The three cases in that game have been re-localized. Three new cases have been added, one of which…

70 26 May 2009 ESRB T

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is an adventure developed by WorkJam, released 26 May 2009 on Nintendo DS.

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What Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is an adventure game developed by WorkJam and released in 2009. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is not simply a remake of Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles. The three cases in that game have been re-localized. Three new cases have been added, one of which was made exclusively for Nintendo DS. There is also a new mode in Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past called Jake Hunter Unleashed. These are comedic stories done in a completely different style. Finally, more passwords can be found to unlock short stories and interviews with the developers.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Jake Hunter series

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is the fourth of 6 entries we hold in the Jake Hunter series. The next entry was Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk in 2017. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points above the series average of 63. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past launched on 26 May 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous and The Sims 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Minecraft, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Infamous, The Sims 3.

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When did Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past come out?
Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past was released on 26 May 2009 for Nintendo DS.

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