You are meant to stand or sit in place while playing Ghost Giant, turning your head without moving your body.

The process of scouring each level for puzzles and story can be engrossing but also led me into some technical problems. You’d probably never think to look under the water if not for the fact that she’s pulling up chairs, giant pencils, and other strange junk. Poking in and out of each building, you get to see small scenes as people go about their lives, or simply find cute virtual dioramas to observe, like the girl on the dock who’s diving and rummaging through the trash underneath the waves. In another scene set in a harbor, Louis and the Ghost Giant search warehouses, docks, and under the sea for parts to fix a giant crane. The aesthetic isn’t exactly grabby, but it’s fitting for this particular and the loosely interpreted rustic French town feels oddly natural for the children's-book vibe. “Often, though, the puzzles serve to point you toward all the nooks and crannies of a level, making sure you take everything in. In one level, for example, you have to use a virtual fishing pole to pull in tools that are out of your reach. It rarely takes long, but there can occasionally be interesting complications that mix up how you grab things. While there are a few clever moments, like finding sources of color to mix paints for a story-mandated work of art, much of it comes down to identifying movable objects and putting them in the right places. Those tasks, which I would describe as “puzzles” in the broadest sense, are relatively simple, bordering on tedious. When Louis needs you to help - and he frequently does - you can be asked to find lost keepsakes, open doors, move heavy objects, or other basic things. In one level you find his home, where he’s planning how to rob a pearl from a clam.

My favorite minor character is the covetous crow, who is obsessed with shiny objects. All the details in each level, from the intricacies in people’s homes to little bits of dialogue from townspeople are captivating in their own ways. Watching the world (or playing with it) is a series of simple pleasures.

“Using the required PlayStation Move controllers to control each of the Ghost Giant’s ectoplasmic hands, you stand (or sit) and survey each level while Louis goes and talks to people, then solves problems for himself or others.

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