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115-587: Detective Pikachu may refer to: Detective Pikachu (video game) , a video game for the Nintendo 3DS Detective Pikachu Returns , sequel of Detective Pikachu for the Nintendo Switch Detective Pikachu (film) , a 2019 fantasy film directed by Rob Letterman Detective Pikachu (soundtrack) , a 2019 soundtrack album for the eponymous film Detective Pikachu (character),

230-642: A minigame from another video-game genre, which adventure-game purists do not always appreciate. Hybrid action-adventure games blend action and adventure games throughout the game experience, incorporating more physical challenges than pure adventure games and at a faster pace. This definition is hard to apply, however, with some debate among designers about which games classify as action games and which involve enough non-physical challenges to be considered action-adventures. Adventure games are also distinct from role-playing video-games that involve action, team-building , and points management. Adventure games lack

345-469: A quest , or is required to unravel a mystery or situation about which little is known. These types of mysterious stories allow designers to get around what Ernest W. Adams calls the "Problem of Amnesia", where the player controls the protagonist but must start the game without their knowledge and experience. Story-events typically unfold as the player completes new challenges or puzzles, but in order to make such storytelling less mechanical, new elements in

460-612: A "respected designer" felt it was impossible to design new and more difficult adventure puzzles as fans demanded, because Scott Adams had already created them all in his early games. Another factor that led to the decline of the adventure game market was the advent of first-person shooters , such as Doom and Half-Life . These games, taking further advantage of computer advancement, were able to offer strong, story-driven games within an action setting. This slump in popularity led many publishers and developers to see adventure games as financially unfeasible in comparison. Notably, Sierra

575-459: A deflated inner tube on a cactus to create a slingshot, which requires a player to realize that an inner tube is stretchy. They may need to carry items in their inventory for a long duration before they prove useful, and thus it is normal for adventure games to test a player's memory where a challenge can only be overcome by recalling a piece of information from earlier in the game. There is seldom any time pressure for these puzzles, focusing more on

690-422: A drug called "R" and has been using it to induce the rampages. After his arrest following an attempt to use R to chase them off, they learn that R was actually created by Dr. Waals, who now lives on Cappucci Island, but upon arriving learn that he is under arrest by overzealous lieutenant Brad McMaster for a supposed dangerous Pokémon that has been attacking the native wildlife. With Tim and Pikachu's help, they catch

805-477: A fashion in the title realMyst . Other puzzle adventure games are casual adventure games made up of a series of puzzles used to explore and progress the story, exemplified by The Witness , Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective , and the Professor Layton series of games. Narrative adventure games are those that allow for branching narratives, with choices made by the player influencing events throughout

920-409: A graphics window with interactive clickable hotspots and occasional animations, drop-down menus for the player to select actions from, and a text window with a text parser and a log describing the results of the player's actions. Planet Mephius , released in 1983, had a keyboard-driven point-and click interface (see § Early point-and-click adventures (1983–1995) below), but Enchanted Scepters

1035-423: A list of on-screen verbs to describe specific actions in the manner of a text adventure, but newer games have used more context-sensitive user interface elements to reduce or eliminate this approach. Often, these games come down to collecting items for the character's inventory, and figuring when is the right time to use that item; the player would need to use clues from the visual elements of the game, descriptions of

1150-506: A locket that belonged to Harry and learn from a Buneary that a Skorupi had attacked him, resulting in him crashing his car. Tim and Pikachu head to the GNN building to meet with Meiko about the Fine Park footage of Charizard's rampage. When she leaves to go get it, Tim and Pikachu get involved in another mystery involving a down-on-his-luck comedian trying to steal a violin from a competitor from

1265-622: A mainstream adult audience. Myst held the record for computer game sales for seven years—it sold over six million copies on all platforms, a feat not surpassed until the release of The Sims in 2000. In addition, Myst is considered to be the "killer app" that drove mainstream adoption of CD-ROM drives, as the game was one of the first to be distributed solely on CD-ROM, forgoing the option of floppy disks. Myst ' s successful use of mixed-media led to its own sequels, and other puzzle-based adventure games, using mixed-media such as The 7th Guest . With many companies attempting to capitalize on

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1380-480: A means of achieving funding. The 2000s saw the growth of digital distribution and the arrival of smartphones and tablet computers , with touch-screen interfaces well-suited to point-and-click adventure games. The introduction of larger and more powerful touch screen devices like the iPad allowed for more detailed graphics, more precise controls, and a better sense of immersion and interactivity compared to personal computer or console versions. In gaming hardware,

1495-522: A moment, Pikachu speaks privately with Mewtwo, who reveals that his promise is not over and that he still needs him to get rid of his cells. After looking through Keith's things they learn he is working for someone at GNN, and that they plan to release R during the Pokémon carnival. Tim, Pikachu and Emilia race back to the Baker Agency to inform them about the clues they have gathered. Realizing that

1610-454: A novel "verb-object" interface, showing all possible commands the player could use to interact with the game along with the player's inventory, which became a staple of LucasArts' own adventure games and in the genre overall. Graphical adventure games were considered to have spurred the gaming market for personal computers from 1985 through the next decade, as they were able to offer narratives and storytelling that could not readily be told by

1725-498: A number of hybrid graphical adventure games, borrowing from two or more of the above classifications. The Zero Escape series wraps several escape-the-room puzzles within the context of a visual novel. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series has the player use point-and-click type interfaces to locate clues, and minigame -type mechanics to manipulate those clues to find more relevant information. While most adventure games typically do not include any time-based interactivity by

1840-555: A pre-order bonus for the game in Japan. Alongside this, a set of stickers was also released for free on iMessage and Line on the same day. Detective Pikachu received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic . IGN gave the game a "great" score of 8.2 out of 10, calling it "a bold take on the iconic Pokemon, which succeeds thanks to Pika Prompts that build Pikachu beyond detective stereotypes" and concluded that it "gives great insight into

1955-586: A presentation comparable to the Pokémon anime series . A live-action film adaptation was released in May 2019. That same year, a sequel, Detective Pikachu Returns , was announced for the Nintendo Switch and was released on October 6, 2023. The game begins with a peculiar talking Pikachu , who claims to be a great detective. One day, Pikachu encounters a boy named Tim Goodman, who can understand what he

2070-436: A promise to Mewtwo to stop the creation of R, and Yen sneaks Tim and Pikachu onto the S.S. Prime Treasure, where R is apparently being sent. By coincidence, they run into Emilia and get caught up in another side mystery involving a stolen mask. Afterwards, they learn that a secret black market auction is happening and take part in it, discovering that Keith is there trying to sell R. They manage to catch him. As Tim and Emilia have

2185-519: A publisher right now and pitch an adventure game, they'd laugh in my face." Though most commercial adventure game publication had stopped in the United States by the early 2000s, the genre was still alive in Europe. Games such as The Longest Journey by Funcom as well as Amerzone and Syberia , both conceived by Benoît Sokal and developed by Microïds , with rich classical elements of

2300-452: A response from the game character. These conversations are often designed as a tree structure , with players deciding between each branch of dialog to pursue. However, there are always a finite number of branches to pursue, and some adventure games devolve into selecting each option one-by-one. Conversing with characters can reveal clues about how to solve puzzles, including hints about what that character wants before they will cooperate with

2415-482: A scene, to which players responded by moving a joystick and pressing a button, and each choice prompted the game to play a new scene. The video may be augmented by additional computer graphics; Under a Killing Moon used a combination of full-motion video and 3D graphics . Because these games are limited by what has been pre-rendered or recorded, player interactivity is limited in these titles, and wrong choices or decisions may lead quickly to an ending scene. There are

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2530-418: A separating point. Its development was considered a break-through in technology, utilizing the first fixed-camera perspective in a 3D game, and now recognized as the first 3D survival horror game, going on to influence games such as Fatal Frame , Resident Evil , and Silent Hill , with its influence seen within other titles such as Clock Tower and Rule of Rose . Myst , released in 1993 by Cyan Worlds ,

2645-570: A show he's hosting. They finally get to see the footage and discover that GNN assistant director Keith Norman had used a Skorupi to release R on Charizard at the park. Found out, Keith makes his escape on a Noivern, but Pikachu discovers that the locket left by Harry is actually a hidden camera full of photos taken from Ryme Wharf. Upon arriving, Tim and Pikachu spot a couple of shifty wharf employees and realize that they are keeping Waals' former assistant Simon Yen prisoner, and have been forcing him to mass-produce R. Pikachu suddenly remembers that he made

2760-403: A trademark for the name Great Detective Pikachu . The developers released a debut trailer in late January 2016, a week before the game's launch. The decision to include voice acting was made by Junichi Masuda , who served as the series’ director and composer and wanted to have a talking Pikachu . In a 2018 interview, Masuda and Creatures Inc. revealed that the original intention for the anime

2875-563: A variant of the Pokémon character Pikachu See also [ edit ] Pikachu (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Detective Pikachu . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detective_Pikachu&oldid=1221820069 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

2990-400: A variety of input types, from text parsers to touch screen interfaces. Graphic adventure games will vary in how they present the avatar. Some games will utilize a first-person or third-person perspective where the camera follows the player's movements, whereas many adventure games use drawn or pre-rendered backgrounds, or a context-sensitive camera that is positioned to show off each location to

3105-530: A way to report on its disaster in Ryme City, making GNN more powerful and leading to them having total control of information. Tim and Pikachu rescue Emilia and defeat Roger and his Noivern, with Pikachu regaining his powers at the last second. As Roger is taken away, Pikachu meets with Mewtwo to return the last of his cells. Pikachu then "makes a decision" and is put to sleep by Mewtwo. The next morning, Tim and Pikachu set off to look for Harry. Detective Pikachu

3220-483: A whole subgenre informally entitled "Russian quest" emerged following the success of Red Comrades Save the Galaxy (1998) and its sequels: those games often featured characters from Russian jokes , lowbrow humor , poor production values and "all the worst things brought by the national gaming industry". Israel had next to a non-existent video gaming industry, nevertheless Piposh (1999) became extremely popular, to

3335-403: Is also a popular tool known for adventures such as MOTAS and the escape the room genre entries. Following the demise of the adventure genre in the early 2000s, a number of events have occurred that have led to a revitalization of the adventure game genre as commercially viable: the introduction of new computing and gaming hardware and software delivery formats, and the use of crowdfunding as

3450-405: Is an adventure game in which players control Tim Goodman as he works together with Detective Pikachu to solve various mysteries. This is accomplished by walking around scenes, finding potential clues, and speaking with people and Pokémon to uncover new information. Development on Detective Pikachu was handled by Creatures Inc. and began in mid-2013. After development finished on PokePark ,

3565-424: Is being developed for the Nintendo Switch , and that it would feature a different resolution from what the film version portrayed. In June 2023, the sequel's title was officially announced as Detective Pikachu Returns , and it released on October 6, 2023. Adventure game Adventure games were initially developed in the 1970s and early 1980s as text-based interactive stories, using text parsers to translate

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3680-414: Is considered one of the genre's more influential titles. Myst included pre-rendered 3D graphics, video, and audio. Myst was an atypical game for the time, with no clear goals, little personal or object interaction, and a greater emphasis on exploration, and on scientific and mechanical puzzles. Part of the game's success was because it did not appear to be aimed at an adolescent male audience, but instead

3795-425: Is controversial, and many developers now either avoid it or take extra steps to foreshadow death. Some early adventure games trapped the players in unwinnable situations without ending the game. Infocom 's text adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been criticized for a scenario where failing to pick up a pile of junk mail at the beginning of the game prevented the player, much later, from completing

3910-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Detective Pikachu (video game) Detective Pikachu (known in Japan as Great Detective Pikachu ) is an adventure game developed by Creatures Inc. and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. The game is a spin-off of the Pokémon franchise , in which

4025-450: Is expected to be known and used by the player to overcome the challenges. This sets the puzzles apart from Logic puzzles where all the information needed to solve said problem is presented within the context of the situation, such as combination locks or other machinery that the player must learn to manipulate, though lateral thinking and conceptual reasoning puzzles may include the use of logical thinking. Some puzzles are criticized for

4140-835: Is reactive to the player. Most Telltale Games titles, such as The Walking Dead , are narrative games. Other examples include Sega AM2 's Shenmue series, Konami 's Shadow of Memories , Quantic Dream 's Fahrenheit , Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls , Dontnod Entertainment 's Life Is Strange series, Supermassive Games ' Until Dawn , and Night in the Woods . Walking simulators, or environmental narrative games, are narrative games that generally eschew any type of gameplay outside of movement and environmental interaction that allow players to experience their story through exploration and discovery. Walking simulators feature few or even no puzzles at all, and win/lose conditions may not exist. The simulators allow players to roam around

4255-421: Is saying. They are immediately put to the test by retrieving a stolen necklace from thieving Aipom. Afterwards, they head to Baker Detective Agency and meet Mike Baker and secretary Amanda Blackstone, both of whom were close to Harry Goodman, Tim's father and Pikachu's owner. Harry had gone missing following a mysterious car crash that happened at the same time Pikachu got amnesia . Tim and Pikachu deduce that Harry

4370-651: The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford at the time, to modify and expand the game, eventually becoming Colossal Cave Adventure . Colossal Cave Adventure set concepts and gameplay approaches that became staples of text adventures and interactive fiction. Following its release on ARPANET, numerous variations of Colossal Cave Adventure appeared throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some of these later versions being re-christened Colossal Adventure or Colossal Caves . These variations were enabled by

4485-402: The 1970s text computer game Colossal Cave Adventure , often referred to simply as Adventure , which pioneered a style of gameplay which many developers imitated and which became a genre in its own right. The video game genre is therefore defined by its gameplay, unlike the literary genre , which is defined by the subject it addresses: the activity of adventure. Essential elements of

4600-863: The Rapture , and What Remains of Edith Finch . A visual novel ( ビジュアルノベル , bijuaru noberu ) is a hybrid of text and graphical adventure games, typically featuring text-based story and interactivity aided by static or sprite -based visuals. They resemble mixed-media novels or tableau vivant stage plays. Most visual novels typically feature dialogue trees , branching storylines , and multiple endings . The format has its primary origins in Japanese and other Asian video game markets, typically for personal computers and more recently on handheld consoles or mobile devices. The format did not gain much traction in Western markets, but started gaining more success since

4715-572: The UK's multi-platform charts, it debuted at number 23 in its first week during March 2018, before rising to number 15 the following week with a 76% sales increase. It was also number 12 on the UK's 3DS platform chart in November 2018. A live-action film based around the Detective Pikachu character by Warner Bros. Pictures was released on May 10, 2019, and grossed $ 450 million worldwide. It

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4830-523: The Wumpus (1973), but lacked a narrative element, a feature essential for adventure games. Colossal Cave Adventure (1976), written by William Crowther and Don Woods , is widely considered to be the first game in the adventure genre, and a significant influence on the genre's early development, as well as influencing core games in other genres such as Adventure (1980) for the action-adventure video game and Rogue (1980) for roguelikes . Crowther

4945-530: The action-oriented gameplay concepts. The foremost title in this genre was Adventure , a graphic home console game developed based on the text-based Colossal Cave Adventure , while the first The Legend of Zelda brought the action-adventure concept to a broader audience. The origins of text adventure games are difficult to trace as records of computing around the 1970s were not as well documented. Text-based games had existed prior to 1976 that featured elements of exploring maps or solving puzzles, such as Hunt

5060-693: The best effect. Text-and-graphics adventure games (also called illustrated or graphical text adventures) combine interactive fiction-style text descriptions with graphic illustrations of locations. These games sometimes use a text parser, as in the Magnetic Scrolls games; a point-and-click interface, such as the MacVenture games; or a combination of both (e.g., Tass Times in Tonetown ; Enchanted Scepters and other World Builder games). Point-and-click adventure games are those where

5175-478: The company during this time. Sierra developer Lori Ann Cole stated in 2003 her belief that the high cost of development hurt adventure games: "They are just too art intensive, and art is expensive to produce and to show. Some of the best of the Adventure Games were criticized they were just too short. Action-adventure or adventure role-playing games can get away with re-using a lot of the art, and stretching

5290-503: The company's co-founder Roberta Williams and programmed with the help of her husband Ken , the game featured static vector graphics atop a simple command line interface, building on the text adventure model. Roberta was directly inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure as well as the text adventure games that followed from it. Sierra continued to produce similar games under the title Hi-Res Adventure . Vector graphics gave way to bitmap graphics which also enabled simple animations to show

5405-543: The culprit plans to release R at Central Square during a parade, the group split up to look for clues. They capture and arrest a mysterious man in a yellow hat, but realize that R will be distributed from the clock tower, and find a large machine that they are able to successfully disarm. At that point, they realize that the culprit is GNN boss Roger Clifford, due to his mentioning that Pikachu does not have powers (something that only Keith knew). Roger reveals himself with Emilia as his hostage. He explains that he wanted to use R as

5520-406: The early hits of Electronic Arts . As computers gained the ability to use pointing devices and point-and-click interfaces, graphical adventure games moved away from including the text interface and simply provided appropriate commands the player could interact with on-screen. The first known game with such an interface was Enchanted Scepters (1984) from Silicon Beach Software , which combined

5635-400: The experience. Comedy is a common theme, and games often script comedic responses when players attempt actions or combinations that are "ridiculous or impossible". Since adventure games are driven by storytelling, character development usually follows literary conventions of personal and emotional growth, rather than new powers or abilities that affect gameplay. The player often embarks upon

5750-406: The first sound films , games that featured such voice-overs were called "Talkies" by all the major adventure game companies, including LucasArts, and Sierra . Use of the term continues to this day, for example by GOG.com on its page about Revolution Software 's Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon . Mark J.P. Wolf, professor at CUW , in his Encyclopedia of Video Games : In some genres,

5865-445: The first half of the 90s. Non-commercial text adventure games have been developed for many years within the genre of interactive fiction . Games are also being developed using the older term 'text adventure' with Adventuron, alongside some published titles for older 8-bit and 16-bit machines. The first known graphical adventure game was Mystery House (1980), by Sierra On-Line , then at the time known as On-Line Systems. Designed by

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5980-401: The first- or third-person perspective. Currently, a large number of adventure games are available as a combination of different genres with adventure elements. For markets in the Western hemisphere, the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1980s to mid-1990s when many considered it to be among the most technically advanced genres, but it had become a niche genre in the early 2000s due to

6095-494: The form of visual novels , which make up nearly 70% of PC games released in Japan. Asian countries have also found markets for adventure games for portable and mobile gaming devices. Japanese adventure-games tend to be distinct, having a slower pace and revolving more around dialogue, whereas Western adventure-games typically emphasize more interactive worlds and complex puzzle solving, owing to them each having unique development histories. The term "adventure game" originated from

6210-654: The franchise sold by 2006, enjoying great commercial and critical success while the genre was otherwise viewed as in decline. Similar to the fate of interactive fiction, conventional graphical adventure games have continued to thrive in the amateur scene. This has been most prolific with the tool Adventure Game Studio (AGS). Some notable AGS games include those by Ben Croshaw (namely the Chzo Mythos ), Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator , Time Gentlemen, Please! , Soviet Unterzoegersdorf , Metal Dead , and AGD Interactive 's Sierra adventure remakes. Adobe Flash

6325-567: The game environment and discover objects like books, audio logs, or other clues that develop the story, and may be augmented with dialogue with non-playable characters and cutscenes. These games allow for exploration of the game's world without any time limits or other forced constraints, an option usually not offered in more action-oriented games. The term "walking simulator" had sometimes been used pejoratively as such games feature almost no traditional gameplay elements and only involved walking around. The term has become more accepted as games within

6440-414: The game play." Traditional adventure games became difficult to propose as new commercial titles. Gilbert wrote in 2005, "From first-hand experience, I can tell you that if you even utter the words 'adventure game' in a meeting with a publisher you can just pack up your spiffy concept art and leave. You'd get a better reaction by announcing that you have the plague." In 2012 Schafer said "If I were to go to

6555-528: The game were able to start playing the full version from where they left off upon release. The game was released alongside a giant Detective Pikachu amiibo figure, which unlocks hints and optional cutscenes in the game. Following the Japanese release of the game, dedicated fans started a petition requesting American actor Danny DeVito as the English voice actor for the titular character. The petition gained 40,000 signatures, but DeVito declined to audition for

6670-495: The game's "gorgeous" visuals and the character of Detective Pikachu himself. Several critics felt the story would work better as a film than as a game. Eurogamer noted the game is more similar to the Pokémon anime series than previous Pokémon video games, and compared it to the Ace Attorney series of adventure games. Nintendoros also compared it to the manga and anime series Detective Conan . The game

6785-458: The game, Schafer and his team at Double Fine made this puzzle's solution more obvious. More recent adventure games try to avoid pixel hunts by highlighting the item, or by snapping the player's cursor to the item. Many puzzles in these games involve gathering and using items from their inventory. Players must apply lateral thinking techniques where they apply real-world extrinsic knowledge about objects in unexpected ways. For example, by putting

6900-420: The game, so the player usually knows that only objects that can be picked up are important. Because it can be difficult for a player to know if they missed an important item , they will often scour every scene for items. For games that utilize a point and click interface, players will sometimes engage in a systematic search known as a "pixel hunt", trying to locate the small area on the graphic representation of

7015-418: The game. Adventure games contain a variety of puzzles , including decoding messages, finding and using items , opening locked doors, or finding and exploring new locations. Solving a puzzle will unlock access to new areas in the game world, and reveal more of the game story. Conceptual Reasoning and Lateral Thinking Puzzles form the majority of the gameplay, where extrinsic knowledge gained in real life

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7130-425: The game. The adventure games developed by LucasArts purposely avoided creating a dead-end situation for the player due to the negative reactions to such situations, despite this, some fans of the genre enjoy dead ends and player death situations, resulting in divergent philosophies in adventure games and how to handle player risk-reward. Text adventures convey the game's story through passages of text, revealed to

7245-472: The game. While these choices do not usually alter the overall direction and major plot elements of the game's story, they help personalize the story to the player's desire through the ability to choose these determinants – exceptions include Detroit: Become Human , where players' choices can bring to multiple completely different endings and characters' death. These games favor narrative storytelling over traditional gameplay, with gameplay present to help immerse

7360-490: The genre gained critical praise in the 2010s; other names have been proposed, like "environmental narrative games" or "interactive narratives", which emphasizes the importance of the narration and the fact the plot is told by interaction with ambient elements. Examples of walking simulators include Gone Home , Dear Esther , Firewatch , The Vanishing of Ethan Carter , Proteus , Jazzpunk , The Stanley Parable , Thirty Flights of Loving , Everybody's Gone to

7475-406: The genre include storytelling, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Marek Bronstring, former head of content at Sega , has characterised adventure games as puzzles embedded in a narrative framework; such games may involve narrative content that a player unlocks piece by piece over time. While the puzzles that players encounter through the story can be arbitrary, those that do not pull the player out of

7590-511: The genre still garnered high critical acclaims. Even in these cases, developers often had to distance themselves from the genre in some way. The Longest Journey was instead termed a "modern adventure" for publishing and marketing. Series marketed to female gamers, however, like the Nancy Drew Mystery Adventure Series prospered with over two dozen entries put out over the decade and 2.1 million copies of games in

7705-469: The gradual adoption of three-dimensional graphics in adventure games, the critically acclaimed Grim Fandango , Lucasarts' first 3D adventure. Alone in the Dark , released in 1992, and which is now referred to as a "survival horror" game, was originally considered among other graphic adventure games by critics of the time, and significantly influenced the development of then new genre, being looked at now as

7820-493: The handheld Nintendo DS and subsequent units included a touch-screen, and the Nintendo Wii console with its Wii Remote allowed players to control a cursor through motion control . These new platforms helped decrease the cost of bringing an adventure game to market, providing an avenue to re-release older, less graphically advanced games like The Secret of Monkey Island , King's Quest and Space Quest and attracting

7935-440: The increase in microcomputing that allowed programmers to work on home computers rather than mainframe systems. The genre gained commercial success with titles designed for home computers. Scott Adams launched Adventure International to publish text adventures including an adaptation of Colossal Cave Adventure , while a number of MIT students formed Infocom to bring their game Zork from mainframe to home computers and

8050-403: The interactive medium and may eschew complex puzzles associated with typical adventure games. Readers or players of IF may still need to determine how to interact appropriately with the narrative to progress and thus create a new type of challenge. Graphic adventures are adventure games that use graphics to convey the environment to the player. Games under the graphic adventure banner may have

8165-672: The key from the desk". Notable examples of advanced text adventures include most games developed by Infocom , including Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . With the onset of graphic adventures, the text adventure fell to the wayside, though the medium remains popular as a means of writing interactive fiction (IF) particularly with the introduction of the Inform natural language platform for writing IF. Interactive fiction can still provide puzzle-based challenges like adventure games, but many modern IF works also explore alternative methods of narrative storytelling techniques unique to

8280-421: The late 2000s. Some adventure games have been presented as interactive movies; these are games where most of the graphics are either fully pre-rendered or use full motion video from live actors on a set, stored on a media that allows fast random access such as laserdisc or CD-ROM . The arcade versions of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace are canonical examples of such works. The game's software presented

8395-400: The location on screen that the developers defined, which may not be obvious or only consist of a few on-screen pixels. A notable example comes from the original Full Throttle by LucasArts , where one puzzle requires instructing the character to kick a wall at a small spot, which Tim Schafer , the game's lead designer, had admitted years later was a brute force measure; in the remastering of

8510-443: The narrative are considered examples of good design. Combat and action challenges are limited or absent in adventure games; this distinguishes them from action games . In the book Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design , the authors state that: "this [reduced emphasis on combat] doesn't mean that there is no conflict in adventure games ... only that combat is not the primary activity." Some adventure games will include

8625-601: The numeric rules or relationships seen in role-playing games (RPGs), and seldom have an internal economy. These games lack any skill-system, combat, or "an opponent to be defeated through strategy and tactics". However, some hybrid games do exist and are referred to as either Adventure games or Roleplaying games by the respective communities. Finally, adventure games are classified separately from puzzle video games . While puzzle video games revolve entirely around solving puzzles, adventure games revolve more around exploration and story, with puzzles typically scattered throughout

8740-483: The obscurity of their solutions, for example, the combination of a clothes line , clamp , and deflated rubber duck used to gather a key stuck between the subway tracks in The Longest Journey , which exists outside of the game's narrative and serves only as an obstacle to the player. Others have been criticized for requiring players to blindly guess, either by clicking on the right pixel, or by guessing

8855-426: The player in response to typed instructions. Early text adventures, Colossal Cave Adventure or Scott Adams' games, used a simple verb - noun parser to interpret these instructions, allowing the player to interact with objects at a basic level, for example by typing "get key". Later text adventures, and modern interactive fiction, use natural language processing to enable more complex player commands like "take

8970-458: The player into the game's story: gameplay may include working through conversation trees, solving puzzles, or the use of quick time events to aid in action sequences to keep the player involved in the story. Though narrative games are similar to interactive movies and visual novels in that they present pre-scripted scenes, the advancement of computing power can render pre-scripted scenes in real-time, thus providing for more depth of gameplay that

9085-508: The player to figure out how to escape a room using the limited resources within it and through the solving of logic puzzles. Other variants include games that require the player to manipulate a complex object to achieve a certain end in the fashion of a puzzle box . These games are often delivered in Adobe Flash format and are also popular on mobile devices. The genre is notable for inspiring real-world escape room challenges. Examples of

9200-450: The player typically controls their character through a point and click interface using a computer mouse or similar pointing device, though additional control schemes may also be available. The player clicks to move their character around, interact with non-player characters, often initiating conversation trees with them, examine objects in the game's settings or with their character's item inventory. Many older point-and-click games include

9315-403: The player with a secondary goal, and serve as an indicator of progression. While high scores are now less common, external reward systems, such as Xbox Live 's Achievements, perform a similar role. The primary failure condition in adventure games, inherited from more action-oriented games, is player death. Without the clearly identified enemies of other genres, its inclusion in adventure games

9430-527: The player works with a talking Pikachu to solve various mysteries. A shorter, downloadable version of the game called Great Detective Pikachu: Birth of a New Duo was released in Japan in February 2016, while the full version was released worldwide in March 2018. In contrast to previous Pokémon role-playing games , Detective Pikachu is an adventure game spin-off focusing on narrative storytelling, with

9545-428: The player's ability to reason than on quick-thinking. Adventure games are single-player experiences that are largely story-driven. More than any other genre, adventure games depend upon their story and setting to create a compelling single-player experience. They are typically set in an immersive environment , often a fantasy world , and try to vary the setting from chapter to chapter to add novelty and interest to

9660-435: The player's commands into actions. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands with graphics, but soon moving towards point-and-click interfaces. Further computer advances led to adventure games with more immersive graphics using real-time or pre-rendered three-dimensional scenes or full-motion video taken from

9775-546: The player, some do include time-based and action game mechanics. The Telltale Games licensed episodic adventure games , and some interactive movies, such as Dragon's Lair , include quick time events. Action-adventure games are a hybrid of action games with adventure games that often require to the player to react quickly to events as they occur on screen The action-adventure genre is broad, spanning many different subgenres, but typically these games utilize strong storytelling and puzzle-solving mechanics of adventure games among

9890-651: The player-character moving in response to typed commands. Here, Sierra's King's Quest (1984), though not the first game of its type, is recognized as a commercially successful graphical adventure game, enabling Sierra to expand on more titles. Other examples of early games include Sherwood Forest (1982), The Hobbit (1982), Yuji Horii 's The Portopia Serial Murder Case (1983), The Return of Heracles (which faithfully portrayed Greek mythology ) by Stuart Smith (1983), Dale Johnson 's Masquerade (1983), Antonio Antiochia's Transylvania (1982, re-released in 1984), and Adventure Construction Set (1985), one of

10005-418: The player. Other conversations will have far-reaching consequences, deciding to disclose a valuable secret that has been entrusted to the player. The primary goal in adventure games is the completion of the assigned quest. Early adventure games often had high scores and some, including Zork and some of its sequels, assigned the player a rank, a text description based on their score. High scores provide

10120-432: The point where 20 years later a reboot was released due to a grassroots fan movement. Whereas once adventure games were one of the most popular genres for computer games, by the mid-1990s the market share started to drastically decline. The forementioned saturation of Myst -like games on the market led to little innovation in the field and a drop in consumer confidence in the genre. Computer Gaming World reported that

10235-598: The popularity of first-person shooters , and it became difficult for developers to find publishers to support adventure-game ventures. Since then, a resurgence in the genre has occurred, spurred on by the success of independent video-game development , particularly from crowdfunding efforts, from the wide availability of digital distribution enabling episodic approaches, and from the proliferation of new gaming platforms, including portable consoles and mobile devices. Within Asian markets, adventure games continue to be popular in

10350-479: The real culprit, a tourist director who just wants to possess Dr. Waals' home and clear Waals' name. Waals reveals that R was supposed to be a miracle drug using the DNA of Mew, but by mistake, the DNA came from Mewtwo, who has a "berserk gene" that causes the rampaging Pokémon. At Waals' advice, Tim and Pikachu head to the abandoned Fine Park where the first rampage occurred with a Charizard. The native Pokémon bring forth

10465-666: The release of many adventure games from countries that had experienced dormant or fledgling video gaming industries up until that point. These games were generally inspired by their Western counterparts and a few years behind in terms of technological and graphical advancements. In particular the fall of the Soviet Union saw countries such as Poland and Czechoslovakia release a string of popular adventure games including Tajemnica Statuetki (1993) and The Secret of Monkey Island parody Tajemství Oslího ostrova (1994), while in Russia

10580-561: The rich assets afforded by the CD format could be integrated more intricately into the gameplay, for example, "talkie" revised editions of popular adventure games with digitized voices, like King's Quest V (1992) or Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1993), in which the queries or other conversations selected by the player were fully acted out. The 1990s also saw the rise of Interactive movies , The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery , and

10695-402: The right verb in games that use a text interface. Games that require players to navigate mazes have also become less popular, although the earliest text-adventure games usually required players to draw a map if they wanted to navigate the abstract space. Many adventure games make use of an inventory management screen as a distinct gameplay mode. Players are only able to pick up some objects in

10810-424: The role saying he'd never even heard of Pokémon . To promote the release of the full version of the game, The Pokémon Company released a free promotional eBook called Detective Pikachu Episode 0 – Eevee's Case , available until May 15, 2018, on Apple 's iBooks and Amazon 's Kindle stores. The short story acts as a prequel to the game, setting up its story. The book was originally released in physical form as

10925-424: The state of graphical hardware at the time. Graphical adventure games continued to improve with advances in graphic systems for home computers, providing more detailed and colorful scenes and characters. With the adoption of CD-ROM in the early 1990s, it became possible to include higher quality graphics, video, and audio in adventure games. This saw the addition of voice acting to adventure games. Similar to

11040-403: The story may also be triggered by player movement. Adventure games have strong storylines with significant dialog, and sometimes make effective use of recorded dialog or narration from voice actors. This genre of game is known for representing dialog as a conversation tree . Players are able to engage a non-player character by choosing a line of pre-written dialog from a menu, which triggers

11155-431: The story. This sub-genre is most famously used by the now-defunct Telltale Games with their series such as Minecraft: Story Mode and their adaptation of The Walking Dead . Escape room games are a further specialization of point-and-click adventure games; these games are typically short and confined to a small space to explore, with almost no interaction with non-player characters. Most games of this type require

11270-493: The subgenre include MOTAS ( Mysteries of Time and Space ), The Crimson Room , and The Room . Puzzle adventure games are adventure games that put a strong emphasis on logic puzzles. They typically emphasize self-contained puzzle challenges with logic puzzle toys or games. Completing each puzzle opens more of the game's world to explore, additional puzzles to solve, and can expand on the game's story. There are often few to no non-playable characters in such games, and lack

11385-474: The success of Myst , a glut of similar games followed its release, which contributed towards the start of the decline of the adventure game market in 2000. Nevertheless, the American market research firm NPD FunWorld reported that adventure games were the best-selling genre of the 1990s, followed by strategy video games . Writer Mark H. Walker attributed this dominance in part to Myst . The 1990s also saw

11500-404: The team thought about what kind of game to make next and set sights on creating an adventure game , which had not been done with Pokémon spin-off titles yet. However, just trying to create a normal one didn’t seem very interesting, so while considering various ideas the team thought of the element of a “talking middle-aged man Pikachu” and this led to the creation of Detective Pikachu. The game

11615-461: The text adventure genre and would also be used as an early form of copy protection . Other well-known text adventure companies included Level 9 Computing , Magnetic Scrolls and Melbourne House . When personal computers gained the ability to display graphics, the text adventure genre began to wane, and by 1990 there were few if any commercial releases, though in the UK publisher Zenobi released many games that could be purchased via mail order during

11730-474: The three of the original release. On March 9, 2018, a Special Demo Version of the full game was released for free on the Nintendo 3DS eShop in Japan. The demo featured the first half of the first chapter of the game and allowed players to transfer their progress to the full game. This demo was later released in the West on April 5, 2018. Similarly, Japanese players who had completed the original download version of

11845-434: The type of inventory puzzles that typical point-and-click adventure games have. Puzzle adventure games were popularized by Myst and The 7th Guest . These both used mixed media consisting of pre-rendered images and movie clips, but since then, puzzle adventure games have taken advantage of modern game engines to present the games in full 3D settings, such as The Talos Principle . Myst itself has been recreated in such

11960-549: The various items, and dialogue from other characters to figure this out. Later games developed by Sierra On-Line , including the King's Quest games, and nearly all of the LucasArts adventure games , are point-and-click-based games. Point-and-click adventure games can also be the medium in which interactive, cinematic video games comprise. They feature cutscenes interspersed by short snippets of interactive gameplay that tie in with

12075-399: The world of Pokemon through its fun mysteries and wonderful coffee-loving lead." Ryan Craddock of Nintendo Life also gave the game a "great" score of 8 out of 10, stating that while the game was quite easy with no real penalty for incorrect decisions, "the game's art, storytelling, and genuinely likable cast [showed] the world of Pokémon in a great new light". There was also praise given to

12190-468: Was a commercial success. Infocom later released Deadline in 1982, which had a more complex text parser, and more NPCs acting independently of the player. Also innovative was its use of " feelies ", which were physical documents unique to the game itself which aided the player in solving the mystery, which also resulted in the higher cost of the game at the time of its release relative to other text adventures. These feelies would soon become standard within

12305-577: Was an employee at Bolt, Beranek and Newman , a Boston company involved with ARPANET routers , in the mid-1970s. As an avid caver and role-playing game enthusiast, he wrote a text adventure based on his own knowledge of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky . The program, which he named Adventure , was written on the company's PDP-10 and used 300 kilobytes of memory. The program was disseminated through ARPANET, which led to Woods, working at

12420-531: Was directed by Rob Letterman , and stars Justice Smith , Kathryn Newton , Suki Waterhouse , Omar Chaparro , Chris Geere , Ken Watanabe and Bill Nighy , with Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Pikachu. The film began pre-production in 2017, and was filmed in London in 2018. Weeks after the film adaptation's release, the Pokémon Company announced in a press conference that a Detective Pikachu sequel

12535-485: Was first revealed in October 2013 during an episode of the Japanese television show The Professionals as part of a profile on The Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara . NHK, the show's television network, leaked some information about the game on its website in advance of the show's airing. During The Professionals episode, it was mentioned that a blue Pikachu would appear in the game. Later that year, Nintendo filed

12650-624: Was last seen trying to investigate Litwick Cave, and arrive just in time to rescue GNN reporter Meiko Okamoto and her assistant Emilia Christie from a rampaging Glalie, who seems to not remember why it was attacking to begin with. After escaping, Tim and Pikachu trace a clue to the Pokémon Comprehensive Laboratory. Posing as interns, they are introduced to the staff and are reunited with Emilia and Meiko, who together end up having to solve another rampaging Pokémon incident. They learn that employee Carlos Hernando had created

12765-615: Was nominated for "Nintendo Game of the Year" at the Golden Joystick Awards , and for "Game, Franchise Family" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards. In Japan, the game sold 121,423 units, including 94,203 retail sales and 27,220 digital eShop sales. On North America's NPD charts, it was the top-selling 3DS game in March 2018, and one of the top ten 3DS games during June–July 2018. On

12880-418: Was released on the Nintendo 3DS eShop in Japan on February 3, 2016. On January 12, 2018, this version of the game was removed from the eShop in Japan, and later that day it was announced that an expanded version of the game, simply titled Detective Pikachu , was scheduled for a physical Nintendo 3DS release worldwide on March 23, 2018. This version of the game featured nine chapters of the story, as opposed to

12995-640: Was sold to CUC International in 1998, and while still a separate studio, attempted to recreate an adventure game using 3D graphics, King's Quest: Mask of Eternity , as well as Gabriel Knight 3 , both of which fared poorly; the studio was subsequently closed in 1999. Similarly, LucasArts released Grim Fandango in 1998 to many positive reviews but poor sales; it released one more adventure game, Escape from Monkey Island in 2000, but subsequently stopped development of Sam & Max: Freelance Police and had no further plans for adventure games. Many of those developers for LucasArts, including Grossman and Schafer, left

13110-412: Was the first true point-and-click game in the sense that the cursor was controlled through the computer mouse. In 1985, ICOM Simulations released Déjà Vu , the first of its MacVenture series, which utilized a more complete point-and-click interface, including the ability to drag objects around on the current scene, and was a commercial success. LucasArts ' Maniac Mansion , released in 1987, used

13225-461: Was to have the Pokémon talk, but the show's producer OLM, Inc. was unable to come up with a concept that Game Freak were accepting of. In the game, Pikachu wears a deerstalker , taking inspiration from popular depictions of Sherlock Holmes . The game's initial version, called Great Detective Pikachu: Birth of a New Duo ( 名探偵ピカチュウ 〜新コンビ誕生〜 , Meitantei Pikachu ~Shin Konbi Tanjō~ ) ,

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