Released by Capcom in 2010 on the Nintendo DS,
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective would be a visual novel adventure game. Written and directed by Shu
Takumi, who also created the Ace Attorney Series, the game would focus on solving various
environmental puzzles in real time with unique interactions called Ghost Tricks. The
story only gets larger from here, so let's cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
As the game begins, a spirit wakes up to see a redheaded woman at gunpoint to another man,
and presumes their own dead body is there in the middle. Within this Ghost World, time in the
real world pauses, as another strange voice tells them they must save the girl even though
they are just a soul. However, as a soul, there are unique abilities it has, like the
ability to possess nearby objects and manipulate them. With his Ghost Trick, the red-suited man
startles the gunman long enough to delay the fate of the woman just a little, but finds he
is limited to a short reach and cannot possess a dead body to help. Unfortunately, the man with
the golden shotgun kills the woman and reports his assignment completion. Nearby, the source
of the voice turns to him, possessing a lamp, and informs him that while he couldn't save the
girl this time, hope isn't lost. Teaching the man more about being a ghost, the Voice reveals the
man simply gained special powers when he died, which not everyone does. In fact, by connecting
to the girl's soul, he can go back into the past, 4 minutes before her death and alter events. This
oddly specific power only works on corpses no older than a day, and finding it works, the ghost
rewinds time to see the girl right when she found his body freshly shot, and the hitman saying the
last traces of Temsik are to be eliminated.
Rewriting the past, the ghost is able to buy the
girl more time, and through possessing a ladder that's technically a step ladder, he's able to
reach a wrecking ball and flatten the killer. Now that the girl's fate is averted, the ghost
reflects how he saved someone he doesn't even know, coming to the horrible realization that
he has no memories at all. Not knowing who he was or why he died, the Voice, calling itself
Ray, tells him his story isn't over yet, though, like all dead, will disappear at the next sunrise.
The ghost wonders if he can reverse his own death, but Ray points out he already tried, and the
ghost figures he would like to at least know why he died, figuring the girl to be his best lead. As
Ray agrees the girl is the key to everything, the ghost follows the girl, passing by the red-suited
body where a strange black cat hangs nearby. The timely phone call from the person who ordered
his death now rings in, and with his ghost powers, the spirit is able to see the person on the other
end, and move through the phone lines to them. Before the ghost leaves, Ray says he's about out
of energy, but leaves one last messsage that there will be a lot of strange events tonight,
and the ghost is the only one who will be able to find out the truth behind it all, which
will also solve the mystery of his murder.
Racing against the clock now, the ghost
overhears his murderer order the girl, named Lynne, to be taken out as well. In
addition, the foreign assassins refer to him as Sissel while mentioning a deal going
down tonight for some world-changing power. Hearing now that another hitman has been sent
to Lynne's apartment, Sissel jumps over there to see the hitman laying in wait beside a little
girl that's tied up beside a dead little dog. Connecting to the dearly departed doggo, Sissel
finds the Pomeranian has retained his memories, introducing himself as Missile and
wishing to save his master Kamila. Using him as a gateway to the past, Sissel rewinds
time to see Kamila enjoying music with headphones on, not hearing her upset neighbor, nor the hitman
who enters and immediately shoots Missile.
Redoing events, Sissel manages to distract
the two long enough to save Missile as the assassin gets word that Lynne is still at the
junkyard and leaves. Before following him, Sissel is somehow able to connect to Missile
despite him being alive, and stranger still, Missile remembers his time being dead somehow.
At the same time, Lynne calls Kamila, warning her of the danger, and telling her to meet her
at the Chicken Kitchen restaurant on Dead End Drive and instructs her to bring a particular
music box with her. However, a man with a bird approaches Lynne, startling her and Kamila,
who drops the phone with Sissel in it.
Unable to leap to where Lynne is, Sissel hears the
phone ringing in the apartment next door where the irritated neighbor is, and thinking to borrow her
line, moves in that direction. Saying goodbye to Missle again, the little dog tells him he won't
give up on saving the girls, and tries to open the door on his own, determined to make his own path.
Meanwhile, Sissel sees the woman next door is a struggling writer trying to find inspiration at
the bottom of a bottle, while also tending to her fever-stricken daughter Amelie. The little girl
points out today is her father's birthday, wanting to call him, and is aware her parents are fighting
over something. Sissel makes it to the phone in time to linger for a short conversation with the
woman’s husband, the justice minister, begging her to return home, and he returns to the junkyard
to see a forensics team examining his dead body. Ray informs Sissel that Lynne was taken into
custody by the police as well, who mention Lynn was a rookie detective with ties to top
investigator Inspector Cabanela of the Special Investigation Unit. Swaggering onto the scene is
the light footed Inspector Cabanela himself, who is also overseeing a stake out in the park at the
same time, who declares with a flair that he'll be the one to interview Lynne as a suspect. As the
doctor on site explains, the cause of death was likely the shot through the chest in Sissel, and
nearby is Lynne’s gun further implicating her.
Following a call for the doctor to the
superintendent's office, Sissel finds Lynn has been shot through the window right in front of
the inspector and the bird-bearing superintendent. Connecting to Lynne's soul, Sissel tries to remind
her of who she is, but she mistakenly assumes the form of Cabanela, misunderstanding that she's
the dead one. Getting caught up on the situation, Lynne goes with the flow on her postmortem
predicament, bringing up it was Sissel who invited her to the junkyard for some reason.
Sissel tells her he is going to revive her and in return, asks her to find out who he was
and why he was killed before tomorrow morning. However, Lynne is reluctant to agree as she
knows she was already investigating something very important to her and so cannot make that
promise. Smirking, Sissel understands but promises to help save her anyway, telling himself that with
her blunt honesty, he feels he can trust her.
Rewinding time, Sissel uses the opportunity to
crush another hitman to save Lynne, and alive again, Lynne makes a call to the prison before
escaping on her own. Chasing that lead, Sissel leaps over to overhear Lynne calling the prison
again to try and talk to someone but be denied. Leaping back to Lynne, she's been killed again,
but this time by a bizarre rube goldberg machine with a lethal conclusion. Sissel saves her
again, but they both wonder what's in this room that is worth killing someone over. At this
time, Lynne shares she's trying to solve a murder case by herself that was allegedly solved, but
knows they convicted the wrong person. However, Sissel tells her what he learned with Missile and
Kamila, warning her that there is a target on her back. Still uneasy about Sissel, Lynne makes a
deal that she'll cooperate with him if he does her the favor of sneaking into prison, and learning
the work schedule for prisoner D99 tomorrow.
Telling him to meet her at the Chicken Kitchen,
Lynne sneaks out of the junkyard to go on ahead as Sissel splits off and learns the prison was
built to hold those related to special cases. For example, one prisoner called C38 was imprisoned
for publically leaking national secrets as part of their band's performance. Another, labeled
C74 assaulted the police commissioner's office with a flamethrower, demanding good
curry. Sissel also learns about D99, who was found guilty of shooting his wife, yet
the case is somehow a matter of national secrecy. Finding the prisoner, who is painting something
in his cell, Sissel learns he has forgotten how to read, but it doesn't matter because the
man is not assigned anything tomorrow.Finally, he also learns D99's identity is Jowd, a
detective still well-respected among the police, and is shocked to see he has painted Sissel's
portrait as a means to never forget him.
Soon after, the prison gets a call from the
police chief and Cabanela, and spying on them, Sissel sees security footage presented by Cabanela
of Lynne shooting Sissel, though something seems off. The Chief points out the scene of the
murder and the place were the body was found are different, and the Inspector reveals it was just
a random black cat that tampered with the body. Suddenly, they get an alert from the
stakeout point that they have set up, reporting that Lynne has been spotted there but
this is soon followed by the sound of a crash. As Cabanela calls the scene, it turns out the stake
out point is the Chicken Kitchen restaurant, as Sissel borrows the phone line to travel
there to find Lynne has perished yet again.
Sissel immediately asks her about why the video
showed her shooting him, but she swears she doesn't remember the details of that meeting
at all, and denies being the one to shoot him. Seeing this is a dead end, he then shares Jowd's
blank schedule, and horrified, Lynne explains this means he's to be executed tonight. She also adds
the reason she said to meet up here was because Sissel's body had a note on it to be at the
restaurant at this time, which makes Sissel think the police were originally looking out for him.She
asks what he'll do if it turns out she did shoot him, and he says he'll still save her for now, as
they still don't know everything, like who he was and why he was killed. Understanding, the two form
an uneasy alliance, agreeing to at least use each other until they get their respective answers.
Rewinding time, Sissel sees Lynne die after pushing a waitress to safety first, but
also observes some foreign agents here for the deal who are also aware of the confidential
incidents involving the special case prisoners. Seeing the driver of a van crash through the
restaurant and die as well, Sissel thinks to connect to the driver's soul and go back 4 minutes
beyond then to stop the wreck from happening. As it turns out, his attempt to eavesdrop on the
foreigners in the restaurant causes him to crash in the first place, when his receiver overloads
and knocks him out. However, the receiver starting this tragic chain of events all was placed by the
waitress who was another undercover agent for the police, and by sourcing and switching the bugged
chicken, Sissel is able to save everyone. Having saved Lynne, Sissel feels it's time she told him
about the case she's working on, and she begins by saying Jowd is her hero, having saved her life
10 years ago. Another thing is Inspector Cabanela, his friendly rival at the time, who has taken
care of Lynne since Jowd's arrest five years ago, smoothing her way through her detective career
while aggressively climbing the career ladder himself. In addition, 3 days after the murder
incident, she recieved a strange music box from Jowd, who told her to hold onto it and give
it a certain person after the case was over and settled. However, she's unable to open
the box and doesn't know what's inside.
Back in the present, Lynne learns Jowd's execution
has been moved up and will take place in a few minutes, and nothing short of a stay of execution
from the justice minister can change that. Alarmed, Lynne tells Sissel to go on ahead
to the prison and stop the execution somehow, while she goes straight to the Justice minister.
Arriving at the prison, Sissel finds they are experiencing a power outage, spurring one of
the guards to literally dance out of panic, and caused by an explosion of the electric chair
that killed Jowd. Connecting to Jowd's soul, the detective doesn't have
his memories back fully, and so Sissel rewinds time to see Jowd die
by the chair, but not in the way intended. Fixing things, Sissel prematurely destroys the
chair to delay Jowd's death, which still causes a blackout and unlocks the prisoner cells, spurring
the two to make a break for freedom. Escorting the detective past the armed guards with night vision
goggles, Sissel saves Jowd, telling him Lynne has gone to the Justice Minister and he thinks to
follow her too, but is caught by Cabanela who is there to stop him from committing another crime
Held at gunpoint, Jowd quickly tells Sissel the ghost is not who he thinks he is, and tells him
to open the music box with Lynne for more answers. He also adds the reason he was accepting of
his death penalty was not for the verdict of his murdered wife, but for ten years ago
when he killed a man in order to save Lynne. As one more favor for Sissel, he calls the Justice
Minister's office to open a path for the ghost, telling him not to trust the memories of
others and seek out his own truth. With this, Cabanela tosses Jowd a pocket watch as he takes
him away, and Sissel moves ahead to join Lynne.
Finding her not dead for once this evening,
he updates her on Jowd's situation, and finds the Justice minister is the one
dead this time. Connecting to his soul, Sissel sees the overworked man suffer from a fatal
heart attack, from the stress of a threatening phone call from the foreign agents informing
him they have his daughter Amelie hostage, under terms that Jowd be executed immediately.
At least saving the minister's life for now by getting him his heart pills, the revised
present has him debating with Lynne the validity of the trial convicting Jowd, as there
was no evidence beyond Jowd's own confession.
Knowing the Minister won't cooperate until his
daughter is safe, Sissel heads to the hideout of the kidnappers to learn the foreign
agents actually stole Kamila, not Amelie. What more, the hideout is actually Kamila's old
house, and he notices Kamila has a core meaning she recently died and was saved. Connecting to
her, she says she never arrived at the restaurant, instead cutting through Temsik park and was
kidnapped, dropping the music box there. She also reveals Jowd is her father, and she is
the one who set up the Rube Goldberg contraption that accidentally killed her mother, identical
to the one in the junkyard. Interrupting them, the female agent announces out loud that she can
sense the presence of Sissel, warning him not to try anything, as they relocate with Kamila.
Reporting this turn of events back to Lynne, Lynne tries to tell the Minister his daughter wasn't
kidnapped and urges him to call his wife and verify, but his wife won't answer due to her mood.
Strutting onto the scene is Inspector Cabanela, bringing Jowd with him, as Lynn thinks he did
so just to take credit and protect his spotless record. Connecting to Jowd, the detective is
alarmed to hear his daughter is the one in danger, but is willing to pay the price for her freedom,
though Sissel counters it won't end Kamila's suffering. Speaking more to the incident of
his wife's death, Jowd said Kamila told him her contraption moved impossibly, and before
tonight, never thought twice about it. However, seeing Sissel and his seemingly impossible
powers, now he's not so sure, especially since the kidnappers also are aware of the powers
of the dead. Determined now to solve the mystery of his wife's murder with this new information,
Jowd adds he removed the antique smoking gun that shot his wife, placed it in a box, and gave it to
Lynne, who thought it was a broken music box.
Digesting all of this, Lynne tells him there's
still time to solve the mystery from 5 years ago, and prove it was neither him nor Kamila who
killed his wife. With renewed hope, Jowd agrees, telling her they need to retrieve the gun as
important evidence, and Lynne hurries off to the park, telling Sissel to do something
about the Minister's family problem.
Jumping over to Lynne's writing neighbor, he
manages to get the daughter access to the phone and call her father, wishing him a happy
birthday and assuring him things are fine, and relieved, the Minister says to apologize
to his wife for almost making a costly mistake. Back in his office, the minister thanks Sissel
for saving his daughter, revealing he knows of ghosts and their powers, including controlling
people. Sissel admits he has powers but not the ability to control people, and is curious how the
minister knows of other manipulators. Explaining, the minister says the three special prisoners
all had two things in common; a lack of motive in their crimes, and that the nature of their crimes
were impossible. It was then theorized an outside manipulator was behind things and so the prison
also doubled as a research facility to that end, with Cabanela leading the studies. After what
just happened tonight, he also confesses when he signed Jowd's execution, he now knows for
sure he was being controlled as well, knowing such powers exist firsthand despite his memory of
the event at the time being hazy. It rattled him, but with no proof, he could not openly report
it to anyone. Even when he told his wife, she quickly demanded he correct the mistake
before innocent people died, going so far to move out with Amelie until he fixed things. But now,
he's confident in not only acknowledging ghosts, but their power and interference so far.
Cabanela is shaken that everyone in the room can hear the ghost except him, and quickly excuses
himself, as Lynne calls in and says Sissel's help is urgently needed in the park. Arriving,
Lynne tells Sissel she hasn't found the box yet, but has found a recently deceased body crushed
under a rock in the park. Connecting to the soul and looking back, a peaceful protester witnessed
the kidnapping of Kamila, picked up the box she dropped, and somehow was crushed by the park's
mascot giant rock in an impossible manner. Looking closer, he spots another ghost
behind the trick, and connecting to it, it turns out to be Missile, dead again,
but proud to have been able to save Kamila. Sissel asks how he died this time, and Missile
reveals he managed to work past the door of the apartment and follow Kamila down to the park,
but was run over the foreign agent’s bike when they were on their way to kidnap her, dying in a
crater that emanated with a strange power nearby. As a ghost, he saw he was too late to save
Kamila from being crushed by the rock, and in his desperation, discovered new powers,
including the ability to rewind time like Sissel, and the ability to swap the places of
similarly shaped things. With this he was able to save Kamila while killing the protester, but
understanding now, the two ghosts now rewind time again to tag team their powers and save both.
Cheering for their success, Sissel now offers to save Missile's life, but the little dog pauses and
thinks it may be for the best that he stays dead a little while longer, so as to continue protecting
Kamila with his ghost powers. Returning to the present, though Kamila would of course be captured
anyway, the protester would now be alive to return the box to Lynne, and recognize her from the
incident 10 years ago. He leads her to the crater where Missile's body is, and the protester
explains this is the site where a meteorite once crashed in the park, and is still underground to
this day. He recounts how when Lynne was taken hostage by a man in a standoff with Detective
Jowd, the meteorite crashed down in the park and a fragment struck the criminal, killing him. Dubbed
the Temsik meteorite after the name of the park, Sissel wonders why Jowd forgot to mention such
an uncanny event in his story earlier.
Returning to Jowd, the detective takes the gun
out of the case and reveals how it lines up with the other evidence in the room that concludes
the contraption killed his wife. Convinced, the minister orders a stay of execution for the
detective, though the next step is to learn more about the manipulator truly behind all of this,
as Lynne feels it's likely she was manipulated into shooting Sissel. Now circling to the topic of
Temsik, Jowd says it is true the meteorite killed the criminal, but he was going to shoot anyway,
admitting he was a young rash detective who was more focused on getting the bad guy. He apologizes
for putting her in danger and treating her safety second in that moment, but more to the point,
reveals the man that died that night 10 years ago was the man in red, but says that man's name
wasn't Sissel. If anything, Jowd is more confused why Sissel looks like the man in red.
This revelation is interrupted by a call from Cabanela demanding Jowd be executed
tonight or his daughter will die. Traveling quickly to Cabanela's side, Sissel is
shocked to see the Inspector is actually shot dead by the man in red who he thought he was, somehow
alive. The man in red calls the foreign leader, telling him the job is done, and the foreign
man begins the final stages of the deal, revealing he is operating inside of a submarine.
Connecting to the inspector's soul, Sissel rewinds time to see the Inspector made the threatening
call under duress by the man in red, who says he pulled everyone who was involved in his death 10
years ago together like this, for simple revenge. Quickly, the Inspector shoots the man in red, who
crumples over, but then eerily stands up again as if nothing happened, casually manipulating objects
in the room to disarm the detective and shoot him dead. The ghost of Cabanela picks up that
Sissel looks like the man in red but isn't him, and Sissel agees, promising to save the Inspector
at least, but when he rewinds time, finds the man in red lacks a core yet is emanating with the same
strange ghost power like him. At the same time, he finds the room below where the recreated
contraption was, completely demolished somehow, and finds the superintendent dead as well.
Connecting to him, he learns the man in red blew up the room, and through him, the ghosts all
go back 4 minutes even further in the past.
They now see Cabanela wait as the superintendent
runs a diagnostic on the man in red's corpse, as the super identifies his source of power,
and Cabanela warns him the manipulator’s true form is a spirit. Chuckling, the man
in red wakes up, and confirms this, saying he did die 10 years ago and this body
is just a hollow shell. What more, one of his powers is to control vessels like this shell or
other people, confessing he also controlled the justice minister and Lynne. He framed Lynne on
camera to convict her as a murderer as revenge, and turns to the super, calling him a proffessor,
saying he has to die for knowing too much, as he sets off dynamite near him and blows up the
room, seriously wounding Cabanela in the blast. Afterwards, Cabanela’s ghost reveals the entire
junkyard scene was set up by the man in red, including the bomb and even the doctor who
was inspecting his corpse who made a deal to return his body. Seeing through the fake
examiner, Cabanela instead paid him off to have the corpse brought to this room, where the
professor was to find the source of his powers. To himself, Sissel also thinks it's odd that
Ray said spirits disappear at the next dawn, but here is the man in red, 10 years later.
Not sure how to stop the man in red for now, the professor thinks to at least have
Sissel save him from the explosion without the man in red noticing, and just in time,
Missile arrives to lend his aid. Together, they manage to slip the professor away in time to
avoid dying, and even fake the death of Cabanela in the split second the man in red shoots him,
thanks to Cabanela's theatrics. Glad to be alive, the inspector and professor confess this event
has shown them more than the 10 years of research they've tried to accomplish. With a little time
now, Sissel learns from Cabanela that it was his mistake in being a brash young detective that
drove the man in red into a corner in the first place 10 years ago, and being so focused on
results made an amateur mistake of leaving his gun in reach for the man in red to grab.
As for the deal, the man in red was putting himself and his powers for sale to foreigners
who were keen to use them, giving them a sample with the two special case incidents the two
other prisoners were arrested for. In fact, he plans to leave the country tonight in a
submarine belonging to the foreign country. He also confesses the reason he cares so much
about his position and spotless record is because it affords him privileges and resources, including
heading research into the manipulator. One of the ways he was using his position was investigating
the truth behind the murder of Jowd's wife, never believing the detective actually did it but
lacked evidence to prove otherwise. Regardless of Lynne and Jowd's own rogue actions, Cabanela was
determined to prove Jowd's innocence and halt his execution legally, and that meant stopping Lynne
and Jowd themselves if they stepped outside the law like escaping from jail. Even though stalling
for time and looking suspicious made him look bad to Lynne, he knew she would get over it.
The Superintendent also reveals he was once a medical examiner for the police, and he was the
one who performed the autopsy on the man in red 10 years ago. However, he never performed
it because the body, despite being dead, had such a strong healing factor that even the
incision of the scalpel would heal the moment he tried to cut, with no scarring or blood. The body
then disappeared on its own, as if it just got up and walked away, because it did. The scan he did
before the bomb went off indicated the body was exuding some sort of radiation, more specfically
matching that of the meteorite fragment. In addition, working with Jowd is why he has
a replica of the murder scene in his basement, and pursuit of this unsolved mystery
is why he left the force.
At this time, Lynne arrives and is caught up
on everything, apologizing to Cabanela for misunderstanding him, and Jowd arrives as well,
ready to close this case once and for all. Always believing, the professor has Jowd's old coat ready
for action again, as Jowd thanks Cabanela for the watch earlier and the inspector wishes him well
for this final leg, still too injured himself.
A few hours pass, and Jowd manages to
get aboard the sub, calling Sissel in, as his cover is blown. Laughing in defiance, Jowd
reveals to the foreigners that Cabanela shot the man in red with a tracker knowing he was trying to
run, and gave Jowd a receiver in the form of the pocket watch. However, the foreign leader, named
Commander Sith, reveals the man in red has left his shell for now to possess Kamila, and chuckles
that the man in red has underestimated them too, as they have already researched the source of his
powers, and quickly extract the meteorite fragment from the shell. Having the last laugh, Sith
now jettisons the entire room, as an explosion rocks the entire sub while Sissel and Missile
arrive to find Lynne deceased yet again.
Rewinding back, they see the man in red was
hiding inside Kamila with a gun, planning to shoot Jowd as he came to rescue his daughter, but
the unexpected explosion caused Lynne to save the man in red and Kamila while she was killed by
the debris instead. They also see Sith escape in a minisub with the fragment, leaving everyone
one behind to die from a self-directed torpedo. Preventing the torpedo from at least detonating,
Sissel alters fate just enough to buy time for him and Missile to guide the girls out of the sinking
sub. However, the man in red is still on board as well, forming a giant claw and surprisingly,
saving the two, and calling out Sissel, aware all along that the unnatural events all evening
must have been the work of an enemy standing by. Confronting him, Sissle drops his self-image,
unwilling to maintain it and demanding to know who he really is. With a makeshift body, the
manipulator backs off, defeated and admitting the foreigners got him good this time, getting away
with the fragment too. Stuck here with no way out, he decides to explain everything, revealing
the meteorite gives the living and dead powers individually, assuming they died while exposed
to its radiation, and those powers actually change and grow over time. Also, the meteorite
allows one to replay the moment of death, like Sissel's rewind ability, though in his case, with
the fragment stuck in his body, it was constantly resetting him to the moment between life and
death, seemingly immortal and invulnerable when he's really just stuck in time.
Regarding the foreigners, aside from underestimating what they knew, he reveals they
really wanted to eliminate anyone involved with the Temsik meteorite, including him. Speaking to
the junkyard incident, he admits Lynne’s willpower fought off his possession so well, it was the
first time he struggled controlling someone, causing him to fire and even miss the first
shot. It was at this time he saw the foreigners were taking matters into their own hands and
ignoring his schemes for revenge, but he also saw a new ghost emerge from the incident, Sissel.
After that, the rest of the evening is history, as the manipulator says this sub was meant to be
his coffin from the beginning. Hearing all this, Lynne feels genuinely sorry for the
manipulator, much to his surprise.
Regardless, Sissel wonders why Sith ejected
the manipulator's body into the sea after they got what they wanted, and suddenly Lynne comes up
with the idea to use the tracker to find the body, which is where Jowd is, and shoot a dud torpedo
to them with the ghosts onboard. Their desperate plan works, as they find Jowd dead, and connect to
him, as the detective recognizes the manipulator and calls him by his real name, Yomiel. Confused
on why the foreigners called him a different name, Yomeil tells Sissel he was just using an alias.
He reveals he was once a hotshot systems engineer, reorganizing the nation's top-secret information
with a new multidimensional programming theory. Naturally, this attracted the attention of spies,
which led to Yomeil being accused of being one, which is why the police arrested him, starting
all of the events that fateful day ten years ago. Jowd adds Yomiel was actually proven innocent
6 months after his death, but it was too late and Yomiel was already sinking into despair
at wanting to disappear but was unable to do so. This feeling festered into revenge which lead
to Yomiel killing Jowd's wife 5 years ago, while making the deal with Sith to help
him with his revenge plot and set up a new life for himself somewhere else and try to
live a normal life and die a normal death. He admits he was manipulated himself and never
saw the betrayal coming, as both of their nations were researching and battling an invisible war to
understand and obtain the Temsik meteorite.
Now deciding to rewind time, they see Sith's
muscle man was just a remote-controlled robot, Yomiel's body was discarded as insurance, and
Jowd was gunned down. Yomiel realizes that with the Temsik fragment removed, his shell is
now a regular corpse, no longer stuck in time, and Sissel thinks they can now go back to 4
minutes before Yomiel’s death, even though that death was 10 years ago. Rewinding all the
way to the standoff Yomeil had with a young Lynne and Jowd, they see a strange black cat was
also there right before the impact ended things. Sissel suggests they save Yomiel's life, but Jowd
points out the younger him was going to take the shot and kill Yomiel anyway. Reflecting, Yomiel
says he’s ready to stop running and accept his overdue fate, and working together, the ghost team
deflects the meteorite from striking him. Instead, they use their three powers to merely wound Jowd,
stab but not kill Yomiel, and save Lynne from her habit of dying young. In the end Yomiel would be
crushed but not killed, and he’s happy with that, as Lynne finds the black cat, and Yomiel explains
Sissel's fate is about to change in a big way.
Shocked, Sissel realizes the odd black
cat was actually him this entire time, as during the standoff, he was a stray that served
as Yomiel's first vessel to possess. When Yomiel regained his memories and then body, he left
the cat and rushed home to his fiancee. However, she had committed suicide in order to
follow him in death, and depressed, Yomiel's mind twisted but he found companionship
in the black cat, naming it Sissel after her. That night in the junkyard, he escaped the
scene of the crime by borrowing the body of his old friend again, but this time came to
the horrible realization Sissel was dead. By accident, when Yomiel was struggling to control
Lynne, his first shot accidently killed his friend Sissel, and because Sissel was next to the Temsik
fragment, is why he woke up as a ghost with powers. Sissel realizes he only thought he was
Yomiel because he was the first corpse he saw, even though it wasn't the only one there.
Yomiel then tells his friend that even though he knew he was helping Lynne this whole time,
he couldn't do anything about stopping Sissel's time rewinding power, since he didn't have that
power himself. He adds that if he did, the first thing he would have done was save Sissel's
life, both his friend and his fiancee.
However, the past is now altered and everyone's
alive, meaning his fiancee is too. To himself, Yomiel is glad his revenge ended in failure,
thinking Lynne's empathy for him in the end saved his soul. He tells the other three ghosts
that even though a new 10 years will play out for all of them, they will all retain their memories
of this timeline as ghosts, and Jowd is glad to have the chance to redo the greatest mistake in
his life. Before time resumes for them all, Yomiel apologizes to them all, and Sissel forgives his
friend, remarking it's a lost past now. Missile promises to see them all again, and Jowd offers to
adopt Sissel for now. Cutting in is Ray, somehow talking to Sissel again in this time period,
and Sissel asks to know who he really is.
Agreeing to tell the story, Ray begins by saying
this isn't the first timeline to be attempted to fix things, as in another version of these ten
years, there was a time when Yomiel was present when the assassins came to Lynne's apartment,
killing both Missile and Kamila, though Missile was in the presence of the radiation this time.
He still gained his swapping powers, and though he also made it to the end with the man in red
in the sea, he could not save this timeline. So, he rewound time and went back 10 years using
the man in red just like they did, but this time, he would wait it out until that fateful
night in the junkyard would take place again. Revealing himself to be Missile from the lost
timeline, he remarks that 10 years is a very long time in dog years as his swap powers grew weak
and he instead grew weak manipulation like Sissel, but needed Sissel's strength this time. Sissel
also had a unique kit of powers he didn't have, and he knew this because he met the Sissel of that
timeline who died and gained powers too. However, that Sissel selfishly refused to cooperate
with him, and so in the next timeline, Missile knew to leverage Sissel's selfishness
and confusion. He also admits the bit about disappearing the next morning was just
a lie to get Sissel focused on a series of unfortunate events about to take place
that night. However, he will not be able to exist in this new timeline he helped build, and
thanks Sissel for helping make it happen.
As the game ends, a new present unfolds, as Lynne
celebrates her promotion to detective with Jowd, who introduces her to his daughter Kamila
and cat Sissel, who oddly has not seemed to have aged a day. Jowd's wife would join them
in the party, as would Cabanela and Missile, and elsewhere, the justice minister would have
a much healthier marriage and work/life balance. Finally, Yomiel, though proven innocent of
being a spy, would still go to jail for his other crimes committed that night, though after
finishing a painting of his best friend the Ace Pet Detective, would go out into the world to
his waiting fiancee, a free man with a fresh start. Recognizing the kitten as the same one
from 10 years ago, Lynne greets Sissel again, as to himself, Sissel reveals the deflected Temisk
struck him instead in the past, preserving himself between life and death, and his Ghost Tricks.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective has enjoyed the success of selling over 380
thousand copies worldwide.
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