How much you like the story will determine how much you like Ghost Trick:Phantom Detective. If talking to lamps, pomeranians and giant spermy-looking ghosts is your thing, then just go pick it up. If not, go pick it up anyway, because the first couple chapters are free.

Minor characters are quirky and have interesting views on women's fashion.

The gameplay is a unique and quirky mix of ‘room escape’ and adventure mechanics. Unlike many room escape games, this one has yet to have any unintuitive and annoying mechanics. And unlike pretty much every room escape game I’ve played, there are people. Lots and lots of people. There are main characters, minor characters and bit roles. They have depth, and sadness, and joy. And from a technical perspective the motion capture and animation of the characters is spot on.

Personal hygiene is not this guy's strong suit.

There’s a lot to be said for wacky japanese games. Quirky characters and sheer randomness work well in games. Particularly because the rules of a game don’t easily mesh with the real world. Having characters with bizarre powers and weird environments makes it less arbitrary.

This is probably not what you are thinking it is.

The Nintendo DS-ness of this game shows through in its rather poor control scheme and low-res graphics. But with those issues aside, I’d definitely check it out!