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Finished AA: Dual Destinies.
I eventually got used to the 3D sprites so they don't look too weird to me anymore
The game's A LOT more handholdy now, I didn't need to use a walkthrough at all- they literally give you a "Notes" tab that tells you where you need to go and what evidence you need to present to peeps during investigations so that saves some hassle. Trials are much easier too, the lead character will usually have a giveaway inner monologue on what to do.
They took away the free-examining of the various backgrounds of locations and now you can only ever examine specific areas, usually the crime scene. Makes the world feel a bit more bland. You can also jump from one location to any other location (a -> d) instead of having to move linearly (a -> b -> c -> d)
Blackquill's a decent prosecutor. Liked his presence and story.
Detective Fulbright is a major flop though. Insanely massive downgrade from the likes of Gumdrops and Skye
Trucy just legit downgraded to background character, goddamn i felt sorry for her, she's only there to provide one-two liners if you even bother to visit Wright Anything Agency during your investigations
Maya's still gone, wtf. At least Nick does take a moment to acknowledge her existence at least once this time around, last game there was absolutely no mention whatsoever. There's another Fey girl that makes a cameo as compensation though, and holy sheet she's so adorbs kyaaa
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Ep. 5 Turnabout for Tomorrow misc. comments/spoilers about Trials in general:SpoilerMaybe I'm just getting Ace Attorney fatigued, but while I overall did enjoy this last trial, throughout the game I constantly felt like the writers always came up short with what they were trying to do
All of the cases in general had plot twists you could see miles away, and relied too much on 'turning the trial around' once the protagonist realizes the whole case had a false premise (ie. Mayor Tenma is the Nine-Tails, not the victim) or proving the existence of a third person
Which is only natural I'll admit; if the defendant is not guilty of killing the victim, then there simply has to be a third person involved. The problem is you usually have a pretty good idea of who the culprit is and so the trials lose a lot of their flair when you're just going back and forth with the Objections just waiting to be able to call out this person to the witness stand
It's just a fundamental flaw with Ace Attorney's gameplay really- Finding out who the culprit is was never meant to be the main focus of these trials like it is in Danganronpa, there's really no mystery of whodunnit to be had here. It's about helping these characters find out the truth. Yes there's a difference. Danganronpa could get away with building their cases around finding the culprit because literally anybody can be the killer out of 16 students. Ace Attorney has to focus on building their cases more on finding the truth because there's only 1-2 people who can be the killer.
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Which is why Dual Destinies' Ep. 5- Turnabout for Tomorrow was damn right enjoyable, because the writers did a pretty good job with setting up the Phantom so that this time you have absolutely no idea who the culprit is- it could be anyone- even...Athena???, the current prime suspect??????I kinda wanted to slap Apollo for his rather disgusting lack of absolute trust in Athena, unfortunately I couldn't sympathize with him going Yugioh no-arms-in-cloak emo style at all during this case because I knew jack shit about Clay and consider him fodder. Apollo's Clay dying has no effect on me as a reader compared to say, if Wright's Trucy died. Writers' fault for not at least putting Clay in AA4 for proper personal characterization.
But even I have to admit there were a few moments where I had just a TINY bit of "...what if she really IS the killer.......?" just a tiny bit...
Especially when you had to duke it out with Blackquill's Mood Matrix to find out wtf he was hiding, and then BOOM, you hear the dreaded "Mommy's broken, so I'm taking her apart to fix her" HOLY SHIT I GOT UNBELIEVABLE GOOSEBUMPS FROM THAT
And getting to see the animation for Athena's Black Psyche Locks was so hype:
But yeah, Thena not the killer after all, in fact the Phantom was actually Fulbright, that actually did surprise me for once but yeah blah blah blah
Whoa, I'm on the last current game in the main series, time for AA: Spirit of Justice! I hear Maya's finally gonna backkkskdwjkl;fa1@#
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AA3 Trials & Tribulations final case: Did I say the writers really like them Fey girls in my last post? Well I spoke too soon, the last trial is ALL ABOUT them Fey girls, bejezuz
Having good ol' Miles defend Iris for the first part was great, maybe I should check out AA Investigations...
Iris herself had some nice twists, especially towards the end you're just like d'awww Phoenix .
Really surprised they were able to get so much mileage out of Dahlia's character, thought she was just fodder since she was in the first trial which is usually set aside as the tutorial trial, man that gal ruined or attempted to ruin so many characters' lives its unbelievable
I said Ema > Maya a while ago but after spending so much time with Maya now I take it back, Maya's irreplaceable <3
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AA4 Apollo Justice: Wtf where's Nick? Who's this prick named Apollo and his wannabe Mia Fey mentor Kristoph Gavin? *Finishes case 1* well that was quick student-teacher relationship ._.WHOOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WTFFFFFF 7 years passed AND NICK LOST HIS ---
WTF DAUGHTER TRUCY?!?! She makes a great companion btw~
I spent the entire game more interested in wanting to know what's up with Phoenix so I wasn't really invested in the new characters and cases but they were enjoyable nonetheless
Klavier is really meh prosecutor, had his moments but eh. So far my ranking of them would be Miles > Godot > Franziska > Manfred > Winston > Klavier. Yes Even Winston Payne > Klavier
Ema is back! And 25! Her munching on Snackoos animation is <3
Maya is gone! I saw a lot of complaints about her complete nonexistence in this game, even when it comes to the last episode's flashback trial, it's like ?????
Not really fond of people having "powers", I guess they wanted to spice things up but I liked the game when it was just all about hard facts and deductions, not this "I CAN SEE YOU'RE LYING BECAUSE YOUR NOSE TWITCHED, TELL DA TROOTH!!!!!" or Magatama psyche-lock crap
Game ends with the biggest "everybody is related" trope ever to explain all of the questions the plot build throughout, by the end of it you'll stop being surprised that X is related to Y who is related to Z who is related to Zelda who is related to Sephiroth who's related to Donald Trump.
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AA5: Dual Destinies. Hm. The 3D animated sprites are actually new enough, aka alpha-stage looking, aka look, idk, worse, than 2D sprites? Maybe I'm just not used to them. It's the same level of trauma i had going from Zero Escape 999's 2D sprites to Zero Escape VLR's 3D sprites >.>
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They also threw in some anime-style cutscenes too which is appreciated, though I'm not used to ENG dubs and hearing Phoenix say anything other than Objection / Hold It / Take That xD
Other than that, I'm on Ep 2. No other significant impressions so far
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To me Ninty's always been about them brands, who have Toy Story 3 / Incredibles 2 / Finding Dory level nostalgia powers over most millenials who grew up knowing these iconic plumbers and Heroes of X(time/wind/skyward) and so that's why they can get away with it
I actually never played any assassin's creed games but yeah I played all non-handheld Zeldas and always liked them so idk
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AA2 Justice for All was aight, but definitely these cases lacked the extra "oomph" that the cases in AA1 had, I guess because there wasn't really a prominent baddie nor was there any big case developing in the background like DL-6.
Pearls is just too adorbs, jeez the writers really can't stop shoving them Fey females in our faces huh >.>
Francizka(?) was waaay too overdone unfortunately, especially with the constant whippings and the foolishly foolish fool spamming. Good ending scene though :')
The drama b/w Nick and Edge was kinda weird, you get all this foreshadowing about choosing death and Nick getting mad at Maya for mentioning his name but then
SpoilerHey look, Edgeworth isn't "dead", he just had to take a vaca to reflect on what being a prosecutor meant to him, and Nick went all high skoo emoboy "Don't mention his name Maya! >:O!!!@#" because he was madz and thought Edgey was just running away because he lost his perfect win streak. Poor execution on this plotline is my complaint here btw.
Last case was pretty thrilling, if not a a bit too Hollywood-action-movie-glorified though
SpoilerWhat?! Maya's kidnapped and so the kidnapper is demanding Nick to get a "Not Guilty" verdict even though the client Matt Engarde is guilty?!
WHAT?! The kidnapper is an assassin that did the killing for the Engarde?!?!
WHAAT?!!! Engarde's manager Adrian Andrews made us was waste trial day 1 where we tried to claim her to be the killer because she was the one who spent all that time tampering with the crime scene to frame the client so it must be her?!?!@!!!
WHAAAAAT?!?@# The Assassin is (with morals b/w assassin and client), Shelly de Killer, and he's on the stand via walkie-talkie and lying trying to reiterate that Adrian Andrews was the one who hired him so he could secure Not Guilty for his true client Engarde?! ALL WHILE BEING ACTIVELY CHASED DOWN BY POLICE WHILE NICK AND EDGE TEAMWORK DEFENDER AND PROSECUTER TO STALL OUT THE VERDICT SO THAT DETECTIVE GUMDROPS CAN CAPTURE SHELLY AND THUS RESCUE MAYA AND THUS NICK HAS NO OBLIGATION TO DEFEND A GUILTY MAN?!@#@!$#$%$#^%&^*&*%$#%
AND THEN THE JUDGE SAYS GGEZ YOU ARE OUT OF TIME, AND GUMDROPS FAILED TO CATCH THE ASSASSIN, AND SO GGWP YOU GOTTA CHOOSE, WHAT BEING A DEFENDER MEANS TO YOU/NICK JUST LIKE HOW EDGEY HAD TO FIND OUT WHAT A PROSECUTER MEANT TO HIM: GO FOR THE GUILTYS AND LOSE MAYA, OR GO FOR THE NOT GUILTYS AND LOSE YOUR SOUL!$!!!!$%$#%$#$#@$
AND THEN FRANCIZKA!
You get the idea. A very thrilling case it was.
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Anyways I'm already on Ep. 4 of the third game AA: Trials and Tribulations, and wow they really did Mia's courtroom sprite justice, idk her regular sprite's face always had that weird tilt to it imoSpoiler
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"Pfft, that sprite over "Hi i have to compensate for weird head angle by showing more cleavage"
there really does me no justice"Prosecutor Godot is my favorite so far. His best sprite combination is when you best him in court and then he shakes his head, slides himself a mug, drinks from it, then spits. HILARIOUS.
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The fourth case is... REALLY hard, idk. Playing it right now. I'm pretty decent when it came to making connections and deductions with evidence, but when it comes to pointing out contradictions due to perspective it's like holy shit i got destroyed xD
They played with perspective a few times already like how can two witnesses:
Spoilercan see the same victim, but one sees the vic running away to the right and the other sees the vic running to the left, and also how can a dude wear his HMD and earpiece and hold a coffee cup all on the same side left despite how contradictory it would be
But yeah this case is just LOADED with them. Goddamn the Dusky Bridge, man. Let's see, I'm pulling up the walkthrough now because JESUS:
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1. Victim couldn't have run away on the bridge cuz it would've meant they would fall off since that side of the bridge was broken
2. Melissa/Dahlia couldn't have seen killer put victim in car because car should've been obstructed by the cliff where Melissa was supposedly at
3. Being pushed from bridge would mean Dahlia fell onto the bedrocks and died rather than the river
4. Being pushed off the side of the bridge not possible because the ropes too high
Yada yada yada Sounds ez when i just list answers and reasons but in the moment man these were friggen annoying FK PERSPECTIVE
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Picked up, or rather finally started Ace Attorney trilogy on my 3DS. Finished the first game, in the middle of Ep1 of the 2nd game, which is atm a shame because i expected Phoenix to start off veteran pro but nooo gotta blank slate him i guess for tutorial purposes? idk how long it will last but pls
- Pretty fun, I always enjoy doing them active mystery solvings <- hardcore Danganronpa fan
- Cases did an overall good job of integrating all the characters involved- everyone feels important- and making you care for finding the truth -things get pretty srs-
- Ema > Maya pls
- Minor complaint is if you're marathoning the game, 3 investigative days on top of 3 trial days per episode can make things feel tedious. i hear the 2nd game does 2days/2trials so we'll see if i like it or not
- Enjoyed the 2000s 8bit Gameboy Advance Capcom musics or whatevers, reminded me of Capcom's other Megaman Battle Network BGMs
- I did use a walkthrough towards the end srryz, mainly for the investigations cuz it's like where the fk do i go next and what the hell do i have to show to the next prick in order to progress ><
- Miles Edgeworth image was unfortunately ruined because I knew @Mr Poltroon for like 3 years prior now and that's all who i could think whenever Edgey came on screen is friggen' Teegan from Versailles ._.
- URV, Dergonu, Mr Poltroon and 4 others
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I somehow got hooked spamming some Project Diva X during my free times this week. It was collecting dust for god knows how long prior to now
I consider myself a fairly casual to somewhat above average player when it comes to rhythm games, the only other one I've been routinely playing being Love Live SIF which i can full combo most EX songs and some Super EX no probs
But I couldn't full combo Project Diva X's Expert songs for crap xD. It's a whole different ballgame when you have 8 physical buttons to account for vs tapping screen with 2 thumbs ._.
It took me a bit to warm up to Miku and in general most of them songs are whatevers but there were enough catchy ones to keep me interested
VR mode is pretty cool, I just wish you can actually play the rhythm game instead of being limited to just watching it concert style. A bit awkward at first but it can get pretty trippy when Miku's running up to you while singing Ai no Uta / Love Song
And I didn't know Hatsune Miku + friends are a legit voice synthesis technology, I thought they had the usual voice actors voicing them the whole time rofl. With some mass auto-tuning shiz or w.e going on. The more you know~
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The undiscovered secret
Is whatever happens if you manage to beat that fking Bullet Hell on your first try
I actually gave up on my first go, right before the space magic happens
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Tablet ftw. Phone too small, Laptop too big (when laying in bed
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For me, an old VN would be any that are non-HD, like the ones made in pre-2011 800x600 resolutions, and then the ones in 640x480 and lower are ancient tier
Terms of story I'd say VNs age pretty well, there's always potential to enjoy a good story. Technicalities though, i don't think many people would go out of their way to read an ancient VN with outdated graphics and whatnot unless it's one of the well known classics
Oldest VN for me is like Ever 17, whenever that was made.
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On 2/2/2018 at 5:18 PM, Mr Poltroon said:
Hmmm... It is possible my memory may be failing me, but I have found that choosing a PM via the messages icon takes me to the first page of said PM conversation, whereas before I was taken to the latest post. There used to be some instances where it did indeed take me to the first page, such as when I selected a PM from the 'Messages' tab to the left of an already loaded PM.
As I'm sure I've been crystal clear with my description, I expect my issues to be fixed within the hour. Swift and prompt. Very good.Additionally, the 'Back to Top' button was surreptitiously eliminated a few updates ago, but know that I miss it dearly still, @Tay.
LOL
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There's a handful of VN experiences for the Vita like Danganronpa, Steins;gate 1+0, Zero Escape, Root Letter
Bunch of JRPGs, Persona 4G, Trails in the Sky / Cold Steel series, Ys for the epic stories and characters, Atelier series for the casual slice of life adventuring, Hyperdimension Neptunia for the memes, Sword Art Online for the Asunas
On the more fanservicey side we got stuff like Senran Kagura, Gal*Gun Double Peace, Valkyrie Drive, Dungeon Travelers II
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Probably? I think Amane's route gets unlocked after doing Kotori's route
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On 12/8/2016 at 2:29 AM, Nier said:
None of the big older titles such as Rewrite+, Little Busters Perfect Edition, Angel Beat 1st beat have even been released yet either.
Jeebus, i was wondering when Key would get on with something new after those remakes but they're not even done with those yet?? xD
E: Wait that post was from last year l0l, but still
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6/29's a nice release date(?), wonder how long it'll take for it to get TL'ed
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Mhmm i went from like 10 VNs/year to like 1/year now ~,~
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I think im just bored or just reached a really, really nasty trough regarding my
weebhobbies but i for the love of gawd just cannot commit to many of my JP activities- games, animes, VNs, for this second half of 2017. Though i did technically read S;G 0 and Danganronpa V3 in the past couple months but I'd say those are exceptions since I'm a mad loyalist of those series.By some miracle though I have managed to pick up Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort of all things, but I'm literally only slogging through at 1 hour / day LOL. Just can't make the grind for these high school non-fantasy SoLs anymore. But it's k, 1 hour a day of cute grills is all that's needed
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Umi's great. She has a docileness that's very endearing and some great dynamics with the protag. Sango Riho and Maki are all pretty whatevers atm, and with my limited reading capabilities i might just read Umi's route and call it a day.
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On a side note, i do have that recently released A Clockwork Leyline lined up to read as well, I usually have good luck committing to things that I start up on a whim, let's see how that goes.. -
Nabbed a PSVR for the holidays,
It's a really cool niche, the first time you put it on it's a pretty trippy experience playing things like Job Simulator
But then i realized i'm a lightweight who easily gets motionsickness just by playing Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. Seriously, sitting stationary in a chair IRL doesn't work well with a moving rollercoaster ingame that speeds down a slope
Then I tried RE 7 VR and i couldn't even get to the Baker House because OMFG CAN SOMEONE JUST GET ME A TREADMILL
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Also playing Horizon Zero Dawn. Definitely a fun open world adventure game, beautiful graphics too. Anytime my fam fam walks by they're amazed at how good game graphics have gotten -
Mhmm. High School was "whatevers" for me. Got straight A's with rather minimal effort, did the awkward "Hi's or complete silence" when passing acquaintances in the hallway, ran to the cafeteria to get the best foods, only went to the library to read Cirque du Freak because for some reason i was into that stupid vampire novel, peeked a few glances at my crush whenever i saw her
The only thing i miss about my HS days was how laidback that part of life was. Everything was easy, no responsibilities... i think that's what makes High School SoL VNs appealing. The easygoing and relaxing atmosphere~
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Welcome Chel
1st Companion Match event is coming up, apparently you can set up private rooms to play together!@# @Exteminator @Ceris @anybodywhostillvisitsthisthread._.
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The ppl doing that Ciel Nosurge Youtube Fantranslating thingy actually finished some time ago, a glorious 252 videos (~59 hours and 30 minutes) worth covering the story bits and not really the Ion dating sim bits because that's apparently the other 50% of the VN so who the hell wants to do another 250 videos xD.
I only read the Ciel Nosurge summaries back then before diving into Ar Nosurge but it's now been about 2 years since I've touched these things so I might just spend my winter break reliving this universe because man was this stuff enjoyable
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I'm dumb, for some reason i didnt think 4x regular lives would also give 4x the amount of tokens you get so i've been 1xing this whole time, jeez token events are god then because it'll literally cut the amount of time it takes to get 3rd copy SRs in other types of events by like 75%, or 3.5 hours vs 10 hours playtime if i did them calculators right
time to farm up some SIS, look at how balanced my heals/tricks are and then angel charm massacre ;-;
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ermergawd, the new ruby UR on JP is god,
but even more shocking is that Kanan SSR is, i believe, the first card for her to have her hair down O_O she's basically Umi xD
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wb to idol hell Tyrael
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Jeez, already we're at the next event, and we have a nice 7pm PST start time #nomoreawkwardlystayingupforevents??Finally a token event, so some of you might have seen my Full Combo EX spam, I'm pretty pro now i guess
I remember some older EX songs like Anone Ganbare, Pure Girls Project, even Susume Tomorrow being absolutely impossible but ever since getting exposed to Masters they're child's play.
...Except Magnetic Today and Binetsu Kara Mystery, the former i still always get at least one miss on the last onslaught of notes and Mystery is just BS where i either pass the two single note spams only to fail the double half moon spam right after or vice versa ._.
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Here's me FC'ing all the Happy Train Rs at the same time btw. I derped the screen orientation because #firsttimerecording but it's the audio that matters
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My Fuwaspeak of Incoherence only happens on Fuwa, it's a phenomena that intrigues even me
Like if you saw Kurigohan and Kamehameha posting like that levels of intriguing
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8 hours ago, Akshay said:
And on the plu side I just finished Cartagra, and boy did that fuck me over. I've never finished a VN that big in one sitting before. But every bad end made me curious, and I just couldn't put it down.
And now I'm off to play something happy.
Wild Romance MofuMofu has caught my attention.
No no, keep going with Kara no Shoujo, one of its bad ends made me alt-f4 on the spot in utter devastation
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