It looks like the noir tradition isn’t ending with the adventures of Kyle Hyde for the DS (and Jake Hunter certainly does not count), but the further expansion of the sleuthing adventure game catalogue for the brainiac’s handheld is bringing back a classic character for a new generation to get cozy with.
Raymond Chandler did for pulp fiction what John Wayne Gayce did for clowns, and his far-reaching influence can be felt every time a joe in a fedora gets the squeeze put on by some two-bit heavy in a cheap suit. Adventure games owe a lot to classic pulp fiction, so it seems only fitting that this medium revisits a form of storytelling that still stands firm as such a vital foundation of genre narrative and American whimsy.
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