Capcom announced today that Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for the Nintendo DS will be coming to North American shores on January 11, 2011.


Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective was designed by Shu Takumi, the innovative mind behind the Ace Attorney games. The game is logic and puzzle based and has you playing as Sissel, a man who was murdered and searching for clues pertaining to his death. In doing so, he also has the power to save certain individuals from death by altering the course of their fate. Traveling four minutes before they died, you will use Sissel’s “ghost tricks” to save them from the victim’s fate by changing the his or her course of action.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective received a solid 34 out of 40 by Famitsu and was the second best-selling video game in Japan during its release week at 24,000 copies.