Again (previously Again: Eye of Providence) TGS Trailer.

This game has been M.I.A. since it first debuted at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, but it reappeared with a new video! Though it features digitized actors instead of “Take On Me”-style characters, this is probably as close as you’ll get to a Hotel Dusk successor, seeing as it’s developed by the same studio (Cing).

From GameSpot’s hands-on preview:

“Again focuses on a main character named Jonathan Weaver (or J as he apparently likes to be called) whose parents were murdered 19 years ago as a part of several crimes that all happened back to back and had similar characteristics.

Now a detective, J gets assigned to a series of cases that are also similar to the crimes that happened 19 years ago and the key thing about these crime scenes is that the symbol of the Eye of Providence (as seen on the one-dollar bill) can be found at all of them.”

While investigating current crime scenes on one of the DS’s screens, you’ll also see the same area from 19 years ago in the other — finding the differences between the two will trigger flashbacks and help unearth clues. It reminds me a lot of Nanashi no Game Me’s similar dual view mechanic.

This is scheduled to hit in Japan in early 2010, so we likely won’t have to wait another year to hear more!

tags / tgs 2009 / again / tokyo game show / tecmo / cing / ec