Ace Attorney 6 news... And HOT RYU!

[inevitableentresol]

It's been confirmed that the sixth game in the Ace Attorney series is going to be localised in the West. The game is still in development and not even released in Japan, so I'm guessing that means 2017.

AA6 gameplay will apparently be all about dead people and ghosts, which is something I hate in my entertainment and go out of my way to avoid.

Meanwhile, they don't seem to be localising The Great Ace Attorney, which looks much more my style. It's set in Victorian London and has steampunk Sherlock Holmes. Out of the two of them, I'd much rather play that one. I'd been avoiding spoilers for it, and now I just feel stupid for having bothered.

I'm grumpy about the whole thing. I hated most of AA5, the last main game in the series, but the release at nearly the same time of the side game Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright more than made up for that.

But now in 2017, whether I like it or not, I'm going to be pushed out of the fandom if the next main game truly revolves around dead people. I felt really happy in this fandom. I've got a couple more years in it anyway, but this news coincides with me not being able to write much fanfic at the moment for stupid RL reasons, so that just adds to it all.

It really is good news, just not for this particular fan of the series. That background artwork does look nice. Seems to be Tibet-inspired, or in that region. (Edit: apparently it's set in a country where they have prosecutors but no defending attorneys, and the art indicates Chinese-occupied Tibet, so that's quite strong social commentary for a video game.)

But here's another thing that's been happening - I love that Hot Ryu from Street Fighter 5 is a thing that is being widely reported. He has a hot beard! Hot yet gentle eyes! He astounds local sheep with his hot, manly nipples! This is important hot information!


They do have a point, though. Hot beards are good news.

Comments

[inevitableentresol]

I liked using Little Thief in AAI2. That was fun.

The main thing that turned me off AAI2 so far was that there were no characters I warmed to, apart from slightly to the journalist. I liked Ray, but then he was rapidly de-aged and had a personality change.

I found most of the new characters in the cookery segment really boring. It was nice when Larry popped up. I like him best when it's just him and Edgey. On the other hand, there were so many characters in AAI1 I loved.

I don't play AA for the mental challenge, so I don't care what the difficulty level is. Easy is the same to me as anything else. I play for the character design and humour so I find it irrelevant. I've seen lots of comments about DD being too easy, but from my standpoint AA gameplay ranges from either unthinkingly obvious to illogical-try every option type gameplay. There's nothing in between. It's not satisfying to me at all.

I find the Layton puzzles much more satisfying, especially the maths ones.

I do really like that I have to push a button in AA in order to get the next line of dialogue. I find it really relaxing. I think that setup makes for great comedy as well, because the text spools at different speeds sometimes, and you can't see the next line, so you have that timing feeling of a joke being set up and then landing. It's really well done.

[dagbok]

That's actually been almost the same for me: Ray is actually the only somewhat memorable character in that game for me, even if his change of mind about Miles feels too out of the blue and just to make the plot go on and while Nicole/Mikiko was okay during the first case, when later on she appears again next to Lotta she ends feeling just like yet another typical sidekick. Every other new character was just too bland or stock, and whatever sympathy I could have had for Kay completely disappeared with that pity grab that was the fourth case (although, still not as bad as the pure hatred I had for Larry at the end of Trials and Tribulations. If anything I have to thank the Investigations games for making me like him again).

AA games for me got really enjoyable as games only around the second half of Justice for All, when I had learned to embrace their logic (or, more appropriately, lack thereof) and went along with them, if one tries to apply normal logic to them they're either too easy or too frustrating. During the first three games I've found myself at least three times having already understood who did what and why around halfway through the last day of trial and felt like I could have ended the case there by presenting the incriminating piece of evidence I already had, but instead I had to go through every other single loose end first, even ones not really relevant to the case itself, and present all the evidence I have about it, and only then present the final evidence to corner the real culprit. Pretty sure that's not how anyone's priorities in a case like that would be.

And about Bravely Default, you're welcome. I really liked that game, even started New Game+ despite having already spent more than a hundred hours on it, so if you need tips or anything else about it feel free to ask.