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It’s been three years now since CING went bankrupt. And now some interesting information about what happened and where some of the employees are now can be found here:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=689421&highlight=cing

They released some of my favorite adventure games and “The Last Window” won the Aggie for adventure game of the year.

I loved Cing. Great atmosphere, characters and music in their games. I was living in Fukuoka in 2009-2010, and I remember buying Last Window in January 2010, only to hear they went bankrupt just two months later. I even walked past their offices then

Maybe I should start playing Glass Rose, it has been in the to-be-played pile for… too long now.

Cing made a couple of great games, and they’re sorely missed.

They were the first to make use of ALL the DS’s capabilities in an adventure game (Another Code), and both Hotel Dusk and Last Window are stylized and well-written AGs.

Actually, Hotel Dusk is the game that convinced me that the DS was a more than worthwhile platform for AGs.
Plus, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Cing’s “sideways” use of the DS (where you hold it like a book) is an absolute stroke of genius!



I read in that link that the prolonged development of a game eventually did them in. What was the game???

I think it was Wii’s Little King’s Story; the development took longer than expected and it didn’t sell very good.

Well, the 3DS has a decent adventure library now, but most of the games haven’t left, or aren’t going to leave Japan But yeah I’d definitely wanted to Cing playing with the hardware, as they always seemed to find new ways to surprise the player. Another Code: Journey into Lost Memories was a relatively late Wii game for example, but still had some surprising puzzles that made fun use of the hardware.

wilco - 11 December 2013 07:53 PM

I have yet to try Again, seems like they’re weakest effort from the reviews, but I’ll definitely play it someday.

It’s indeed their weakest DS effort, but it still has a couple of things going for it. It starts off pretty good with an interesting premise and a pretty cool gameplay gimmick, for instance.
Unfortunately this starts to get tedious halfway through, and the game completely fumbles the ending, leaving a clusterfuck that should be resolved in a sequel we’ll now never see…

Again was their weakest game but still very good. Could have been better in everyway but still well worth owning and playing.

The Nintendo DS adventure game era was simply amazing and a used Nentendo DS system is available for 50-90 dollars and most of the adventure games can be had for around 3-15 dollars each.

Cing will be missed and I will be playing “The Last Window” again soon - my Nintendo DS adventure collection is going nowhere and I’m proud to own it.

Here’s a a great video of my favorite adventure game released from 2006-2012: