Tokyo Twilight Busters Blends Battles Into An Adventure Game

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Way before Wolf Team started work on the Tales series they developed a horror adventure game for PCs. Tokyo Twilight Busters was one of their earlier games, which begins with the main character searching for his missing archeologist father.

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Tokyo Twilight Busters has players search for clues by tapping the touch screen (the PC game used a mouse), but as a twist the game takes place in real-time. If you don’t find clues within a certain amount of time the game can end. Also, Tokyo Twilight Busters has battles where you and the party you formed from completing sub-stories select items for fight sequences.

 

Here’s a look at the original game.

 

 

And the Nintendo DS remake handled by Starfish. Notice the map on the top screen? That’s a new feature that saves players from hand drawing maps on graph paper.

 

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