Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past boxart. After renting this second take on Aksys’s localization of a DS Saburo Jinguuji title, I was taken with both the game and the boxart. This art is so classy!

I think both have a kind of maturity not seen in most games (even if Jake’s dialogue is sometimes painfully “hard-boiled detective”). The detective here isn’t doing anything extreme; he appears to be reflecting on the events of the day. It works as both a nod to the title (“Memories of the Past”) and a depiction of the sequences in which Hunter goes over the information he learned that day to try to figure out his next move.

Eric noted that the character designs for the Jinguuji games are done by Katsuya Terada, responsible for the Zelda art in the Official Zelda Player’s Guide, though I’m not sure he did the artwork for this game. Still, whoever did draw this did an excellent job of giving its subject matter a sophisticated look.

tags / jake hunter / tantei saburo jinguuji / workjam / aksys / boxart / jc / katsuya terada