Ghost tricks (also known as the powers of the dead) are special abilities in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. On the rare occasion, a person will die but then gain special powers. Sometimes the powers of the dead can be sensed, as seen with Beauty's "sixth sense." Only Sissel, Missile and Yomiel are known to have these powers in the game.
Types of Ghost Tricks[]
Possession[]
Possession is the most simple ability in the game, the most used, and one of the abilities that all three ghosts with Ghost Tricks can use. The usage is simple, the player just drag a soul from the core of one object to another while in the Ghost World. The range of what one can do with it changes from ghost to ghost. Sissel can manipulate small inanimate objects, Yomiel can manipulate any object, and Missile can swap objects. They can also move from one core to another, each with a different range.
Telephone Lines[]
This allows the user to travel along the telephone lines to reach another destination. Only Ray is known to be unable to use this ability.
Time Travel[]
This is a power Sissel gained. In order to discover what happened that night, he used it to travel 4 minutes before various deaths and helped correct them. This Ability can also be used by Missile with the same advantages and limitations. The time limit is 4 minutes likely because the Japanese word for four (四, "shi" or "yon") can be pronounced the same as the word for death (死, "shi").
Manipulating Objects[]
This is a power Sissel gained. It allows him to move from object to object, and then manipulate them into doing something, such as opening or closing.
Swapping Objects[]
This is the power that Missile gained. It allows him to switch two objects of the same shape. He first used his power in Temsik Park to help Kamila.
Manipulating Living Creatures[]
This is the power Yomiel gained. He used it to manipulate both the justice minister and Lynne.
Plot[]
All Ghost Tricks originate from a single source, that being the Temsik Meteorite. The meteorite emits powerful waves of radiation, waves that grant any user Ghost Tricks if they were to die in its presence. Throughout the game, all of the ghosts make contact with the meteorite's radiation at the moment of their death; Yomiel is first "killed" by a stray piece of the meteor impaling him through the chest. Sissel is later accidentally shot by Yomiel through a missed gunshot that went into the suitcase Yomiel was carrying with him that carried Sissel. Sissel, being close to Yomiel (who still had the stray meteor stuck inside of him), gained Ghost Tricks shortly afterwards. Similarly, Ray was shot dead by Tengo and gained Ghost Tricks by being in Yomiel's presence. Missile himself gained his own Ghost Tricks after being ran over by Dandy and landing near the Temsik crater at Temsik Park.
Trivia[]
- The three colors associated with the ghost tricks are the primary colors of the additive color system: red, green and blue.
