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</style><table class="infobox ib-video-game hproduct"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn">Project Hacker: Kakusei</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_developer" title="Video game developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Red_Entertainment" title="Red Entertainment">Red Entertainment</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_publisher" title="Video game publisher">Publisher(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Nintendo_DS" title="Nintendo DS">Nintendo DS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">
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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span style="font-size:97%;"><a href="Japan" title="Japan">JP</a>:</span> July 13, 2006</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Video_game_genre" title="Video game genre">Genre(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Graphic_adventure_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphic adventure game">Point and click adventure game</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mode(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Single-player_video_game" title="Single-player video game">Single-player</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><i><b>Project Hacker: Kakusei</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">プロジェクトハッカー 覚醒</span></span>; "Project Hacker: Awakening")</span> is a <a href="Adventure_game#Graphic_adventure" title="Adventure game">point and click adventure</a> <a href="Video_game" title="Video game">video game</a> developed by <a href="Red_Entertainment" title="Red Entertainment">Red Entertainment</a> and published by <a href="Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a> for the <a href="Nintendo_DS" title="Nintendo DS">Nintendo DS</a>. In <i>Project Hacker: Kakusei</i>, the player takes control of a <a href="Security_hacker#Cracker" title="Security hacker">hacker</a> named Satoru Amatsubo. Both Satoru and detective partner Rina Okubo are employed by the internet crime-fighting GIS.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gameplay">Gameplay</h2></div>
<p>The game features hacker-themed puzzles where the stylus is used for, among other tasks, program repair and <a href="Password_cracking" title="Password cracking">password cracking</a>. <i>Project Hacker</i> plays like an adventure game outside of these puzzles, similar to the <i><a href="Ace_Attorney_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ace Attorney (series)">Ace Attorney</a></i> series.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2></div>
<p><i>Project Hacker: Kakusei</i> was developed by <a href="Red_Entertainment" title="Red Entertainment">Red Entertainment</a> with involvement by publisher <a href="Nintendo" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a>. <a href="Creatures_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Creatures (company)">Creatures</a> assisted on development. The game was initially announced under the title <i>Detect Hacker</i> at the 2005 DS Conference in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name was changed to <i>Project Hacker</i> in early 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2006, one year after the game's Japanese launch, Nintendo of America filed <a href="Copyright" title="Copyright">copyrights</a> for North American packaging and an instruction booklet<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <i>Project Hacker: Awakening</i>, the English-translated title of the game. However, this localization never made it to release.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>
<p>On release, <a href="Weekly_Famitsu" class="mw-redirect" title="Weekly Famitsu">Weekly Famitsu</a> scored the game a 27 out of 40. <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sales">Sales</h2></div>
<p><i>Project Hacker: Kakusei</i> sold 37,000 copies in its launch week.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_games">In other games</h2></div>
<p>Satoru appears as a spirit in <i><a href="Super_Smash_Bros._Ultimate" title="Super Smash Bros. Ultimate">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/adhj/index.html">Official game homepage</a> (Japanese)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060712084600/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/news_190606_project.html">Official Nintendo Magazine article</a></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/30/project-hacker-kakusei-uplink-for-your-ds/">Joystiq article</a></li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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