#zettel #gaming sourced from: [[DS games are hard to port to consoles because of dedicated touch screen controls]] ## The Ghost Trick Port Replaced the Touch Screen Gimmick with a PC Mouse or with dual control stick movement, and thus improved its longevity While it was very fun and novel to drag Sissel around the various chapters of [[Ghost Trick]], that movement is hard to translate to a console like the Nintendo Switch. On the PC you can get away with using a mouse and still dragging the flame from one object to another, but this isn't as satisfying as the touchscreen controls. Luckily, the ports of Ghost Trick also involve controller support which does away with the more novel control scheme in favor of a more standard, and easily adaptable system. This in turn makes it a more long-lived game: you can now play it on almost any modern console, which does wonders for accessibility.