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Wow, huge props for that! 💙 It gives me vibes of worldbuilding potential, if that makes sense. I don't do much of anything artistic from the things I archive, but it's great to see how people's inspirations come to life from desires, like even the desire to preserve.

What sorcery is required to achieve this level of vintage?

Reading a bit of it, the setting reminds me a bit of World's End Club, another one he worked on. Huh...

A real shame, that one. Fan translation still frozen to this day... I heard something that it inspired Virtue's Last Reward, but not sure.

All ik is that ArcSys has another detective series, Jake Hunter, with a subtitle that feels familiar... Played it a bit, is a fine game with other games inside it too, but kinda prefer AGAIN tho.
One I wish it had EN release is TIME TRAVELERS, from what I read looks dope.

That's vague, but I'll go on a limb and assume the less underrated answer. It's probably Chase: Cold Case Investigations for 3DS, as the character design looks similar to Hotel Dusk a bit due to the game director being heavily involved on it, as well as composer+other Cing staff. No sequel tho...

Just like Another Code: R, there was little to do here. They were already on their last legs during production of LW, as failure with Little King's Story (game they somewhat worked on alongside other companies) amongst other plausible reasons. The proof is in losing subsidiary touch with TOSE.

I mean they did do Last Window (sequel), albeit depending on who you ask, some say it's not the same as the first entry in the saga. A pretty weak but decent detective made by the team was AGAIN: Interactive Crime Novel.
There's also Chase: Cold Case, with the same director, yet not the same writer.

Oops I mean Hotel Dusk's sequel

The fact that we are witnessing Another Code's remake without Cing existing might signal that Kyle Hyde Saga is plausible, albeit as we are approaching the end of Switch, I do wonder...
All these companies have their own rules in the end.