Last month I had the pleasure of completing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and in doing so completing all the Ace Attorney games thus far. Ever since a friend let me borrow his copy of the first game in the series back in 07 the Ace Attorney series has been one of my favourites off all time! I love everything about these games the memorable characters, the suspense, the stories everything it's just so great. I eagerly await the next installment in the series but, for now I cant stop thinking of all the other games so I've resolved to write about them, share my experiences with the game and maybe interest some new players. So let's start off with the first game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
As I've already mentioned I borrowed this game from a friend after he'd beaten it because I watched him play and was intrigued. I had never been to into courtroom drama but the way it blended with the fun cartoony characters, humor and the reward of out thinking the prosecution really appealed to me. Giggling at the name Larry Butz is still a guilty pleasure for me. The game is very enthralling with each new case bringing new levels of challenge, intrigue and excitement, I would love to talk in great detail of every case but I don't want to spoil anything. Suffice to say this games story rocks. I remember taking on Miles for the first time and being legitimately intimidated, *minor spoilers ahead* needless to say I was extremely happy when I saved Maya from being put away by his "perfect" prosecution. *minor spoilers end here* The characters from this game are varied and interesting and it shows as almost every character returns in future installments of the game, a trend that doesn't stop with the first game. Admittedly I have the least memories surrounding this game only because it's the first game and the other games are filled with bigger twists and crazier cases.
The second game follows a vary similar formula to the first game but it still is a great experience. When I rented this game from the store I brought it home expecting to breeze through it because I didn't think it would differ too much from the first game. Needless to say I was wrong, Justice for All added the Magatama a mystical gem that allows Phoenix to see the psyche locks protecting someones lies and break them with evidence. This brings me to another thing about that Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton have in common, rewarding clever thinking. It's refreshing to come across a game where instead of the solution to every problem being shoot dudes in the end the solution is quite basically, think. The core of the Phoenix Wright games are these supposedly impossible cases your given that you have to think your way through to overcome the odds and come out successful. This formula leads to one of my favourite moments in a game culminating in the climax of Justice for All. Justice for All once again gives you a thrill ride from start too finish with diverse characters from the accident prone Maggey Byrde to the female friendly Director Hotti. This time around we are also treated to a new prosecutor Franziska von Karma daughter of the revered Manfred von Karma, and not too mention a lady I wouldn't mind getting a lashing from.
The next game Trials and Tribulations is the culmination of story lines from all the games, stories from different times of amazing cases and fantastic story twists. In short like all the others games in the PW series, a masterpiece. You may have noticed I have haven't been to descriptive of events in each game, this is because like I stated the stories are just fantastic and you need to see them for yourself, that makes this game the hardest one too talk about. There are so many things that had me as a fan and a player at a loss for words. You just have to play it. However I don't think you can just play this one as it is part of a trilogy. In order to receive all of the Ace Attorney splender go play the other two.
Now we reach the new kid, we've completed the Phoenix Wright trilogy now it's time for Apollo's turn. Apollo Justice while still being a fantastic game with a great story isn't the best successor to Phoenix's legacy and is probably my least favourite in the series if only because the games before it are so hard too top. This one was the first too be made for DS and as such it makes use of the stylus and touch screen controls quite well. Even tough they feel a little gimmicky the don't feel forced, it just works. And it once again culminates in the final case in an amazing court battle ending in a great climax and closure to the Apollo Justice story, that being said it also ends on a bit of a cliffhanger which makes me want to use money to buy another Apollo Justice game. Just as Capcom wanted probably.
The final game I played is, I feel the successor Phoenix Wright should've had. We've been the Ace Attorney now it's time to play the other side. Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth. Now you aren't necessarily playing the prosecutor in the cases in this game as most of the cases you take part in Edgeworth kind of stumbles into each case and it does the video game thing of, they all just so happen to tie in to each other. While is this a little gimmicky it works pretty well and helps raise the intrigue of, "I wonder how this all fits together". Once again this game features an amazing cast of both memorable Ace Attorney veterans it also manages to introduce some very cool newbies that don't feel forced.
I reiterate I would love to go into more depth on the details of these games but I don't want to spoil it for anybody. Overall this series games excels in all aspects the biggest problem I had with the series is the traveling from place too place but, that's only a minor nuisance. If you would like to know more about these games I highly recommend them too anyone unless you're the kind of person who can't go five minutes in a game without shooting someone in the face.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Persona 3 FES part 17
Three endurance run updates in 3 days, aren't you a lucky internet. So you might think some persona things happened, well they did! They weren't as cool as part 16 but some awesome stuff happened. For instance we were hanging out with Stoner Man turns out hes dying and likes us. Fuuka likes too make us food even though it's terrible, a theme that carries over into P4. What is it with Persona users and terrible cooking? Chihiro also spent some time with us, turns out she still is afraid of men but not as much. But one really important S.Link happened.
We got to 10 with Yukari, if you know what I mean. We went to her room and sat on some pillows, if you know what I mean. She said she loved us and gave us her "Strap" if you know what I mean. Apparantly it was one her cell phone but I know what it's really for, if you know what I mean. Then we totally did it, if you know what I mean. Speaking of Yukari it turns out her dad loves her. She watched a tape that wasn't edited by the chairman that basically said. "Hey you know those 12 shadows DONT KILL THEM". A few hours ago would've been appreciated game. It also said "I love you" then her Persona evolved, but that's beside the point.
But that's beside the point, with a newly reborn persona it was time to return to Tartarus. Yes that's right Tartarus remember that place that we got to the top of? apparently its still around. When we went in there and found new steps we were shocked to discover that the new block IS A CRAZY DISCO BLOCK. It was awesome it had rainbow steps and everything. After running around briefly we reached 52 at which point we left and fused Surt the ultimate magician he totally rocks and is awesome. We also fused Dionysus who proved to be useful on the electric sword boss man it would've gone pretty well if two of our bitches weren't weak to electric so we died a few times.
We decided that since we would never beat this guy with our two current people we decided to swap them for a level 23 Akihiko and a level 37 or so Doggmund. doubled Grind ensued and we nearly doubled Akihikos level and Doggmund is almost high enough to fight the boss with us. We probably shouldn't have left them behind but, live and learn I suppose. Speaking of Tartarus and the dark hour Igor called us to him in a dream and was all, yo remember that thing you signed at the begging? well it actually means something. Apparently a big choice is comming up.
Members of our party are also going through some personal turmoil. Junpei went to visit Chidori again and she had some words for him. She was all yo this aint fun no more and he was all huh? Then she was all NEVER COME HERE AGAIN!!! and he was all awwwwwwww. Then back at school a new kid showed up and started hitting on our would be robot girlfriend. No need to say but, she was not pleased with him saying such hurtful things as. "You are dangerous" I'm quite happy that Aigis was having none of his flirts. So that's what happened and as more happens I will keep you guys informed.
We got to 10 with Yukari, if you know what I mean. We went to her room and sat on some pillows, if you know what I mean. She said she loved us and gave us her "Strap" if you know what I mean. Apparantly it was one her cell phone but I know what it's really for, if you know what I mean. Then we totally did it, if you know what I mean. Speaking of Yukari it turns out her dad loves her. She watched a tape that wasn't edited by the chairman that basically said. "Hey you know those 12 shadows DONT KILL THEM". A few hours ago would've been appreciated game. It also said "I love you" then her Persona evolved, but that's beside the point.
But that's beside the point, with a newly reborn persona it was time to return to Tartarus. Yes that's right Tartarus remember that place that we got to the top of? apparently its still around. When we went in there and found new steps we were shocked to discover that the new block IS A CRAZY DISCO BLOCK. It was awesome it had rainbow steps and everything. After running around briefly we reached 52 at which point we left and fused Surt the ultimate magician he totally rocks and is awesome. We also fused Dionysus who proved to be useful on the electric sword boss man it would've gone pretty well if two of our bitches weren't weak to electric so we died a few times.
We decided that since we would never beat this guy with our two current people we decided to swap them for a level 23 Akihiko and a level 37 or so Doggmund. doubled Grind ensued and we nearly doubled Akihikos level and Doggmund is almost high enough to fight the boss with us. We probably shouldn't have left them behind but, live and learn I suppose. Speaking of Tartarus and the dark hour Igor called us to him in a dream and was all, yo remember that thing you signed at the begging? well it actually means something. Apparently a big choice is comming up.
Members of our party are also going through some personal turmoil. Junpei went to visit Chidori again and she had some words for him. She was all yo this aint fun no more and he was all huh? Then she was all NEVER COME HERE AGAIN!!! and he was all awwwwwwww. Then back at school a new kid showed up and started hitting on our would be robot girlfriend. No need to say but, she was not pleased with him saying such hurtful things as. "You are dangerous" I'm quite happy that Aigis was having none of his flirts. So that's what happened and as more happens I will keep you guys informed.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Persona 3 part 15&16
Hey internet remember how I left for a bit? well I'm back now. Some serious stuff has happened since i've been gone but there are two parts one of them isn't too fantastic and the other one is pretty god damned awesome. Guess which one i'm going to talk about first? YOU'RE ABSOLUTLEY RIGHT, unless you picked the second one in which case s'wrong with you? never start the show with a show stopper. You've probably figured out that we are comming at this game with a battering ram approach rather than a tactical one and as a result we die a lot. Well that ended pretty recently as we thought through an encounter with Hulk Hogan and didn't die on him. This being our first Tartarus floor boss that we've made it through without dying. As if that wasn't enough Aigis used SP for the first time EVER, ussualy she will just use her physical spells but since hogan was having none of that she decided to debuff the debuffs on us. then some S. links happened which quite honestly I can not remember any of them.
Onto the next and more interesting part!!! After the fall of Hogan we had roughly 2 ingame weeks to S.link which we used wisely. We hung out with Yukari a lot because she takes FOREVER to get to 10, we also discovered something interesting, apparently those crazy hot pyjamas I mentioned? aren't pyjamas! here is a photo of her wearing it in a restaraunt!
http://co110w.col110.mail.live.com/att/GetAttachment.aspx?tnail=0&messageId=c04918a6-d345-11df-a3a8-001e0bcc060c&Aux=54|0|8CD3569A7534B40||0|0|0||&maxwidth=220&maxheight=160&size=Att
Now I don't know if you can see that picture or not but its pretty awesome, I have resolved to go to Japan and visit a restaraunt. She also said something weird that caught me and mikes attention something along the lines of. "I want to know what you say to Fuuka." Now I don't know if this is scripted or if it had something to do with us hanging out with Fuuka recently. OH by the way this is my new backround on my phone... if you can see the picture.
file:///c:/Users/Levi/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Recent/Fuuka.lnk
I hope you can see that, I also hope the quality isn't shit. We then hung out with Yukari like 5 times with out getting to 10 DUDE WTF. We also talked to/hung out with the stoner man and it turns out he has death inside him. He wasn't too interesting too me and neither is Drunk Monk. Then we went to the shops and made some prudent purchases.
We then embarked on the final ordeal I mean, there literaly cannot be anything else I mean the game said DUDE THIS IS THE END OF THE GAME. Why would persona lie to us?Then we fought Takaya and Jin the died how they lived, falling off bridges. I thought it was hilarious Jin's last we're almost "Son of a bitch" but then weren't because he decided to live after the fight and just as Takaya was about too shoot himself he pulled him off a bridge, I MEAN WHAT!!! After reading those last few sentences back I realize this whole thing has me flabbergasted and I'm not even close to done this post!
We then fought the creepiest shadow ever, a floaty dude who was attached to a flying cross, ATTACHED BY HIS SKIN. My skin literaly crawled at the site of him. He refused to be hurt unless we broke three statues so we did. He wasn't very hard to beat considering our two attack mirrors did 3-5 hundred damage to him at a time. He went down and our SEES s.link went up. Game over.
OH WAIT THE GAME IS STILL GOING. Pharos showed up in the daytime and said thanks for the chitty chats and see again next NEVER and promptly left. So later that day we had a sushi party and everyone in SEES was there, Mitsuru's pirate dad even showed up. but where's Aigis and the chairman? WHO CARES SUSHI. We then ate sushi if you couldn't figure that one out. So the day went on and out of nowhere FMV animated slapstick happened for about 3 seconds when we took a big group photo everything was great! Wait a minute Aigis still isn't here, could this mean there is more game? nah. Once again time passed until until 11:59 what could happen next? it's not like the midnight hour is gonna happen or anyth.. oh wait it totally is. Everyone freaked the eff out and they finally decided to ask the question WHERE IS AIGIS AND THE CHAIRMEN.
We rushed to Tartaruss only too find the chairmen and a slightly "different" Aigis. We had along chat about how Mitsuru's grandad and the chairmen want the apocalypse to happen so they can be in power under the king "Death" (in green letters, I wonder who that could be) Aigis then kicked our ass and tied us all to crucifixes somewhere in Tartarus. Shuji (the chairmen) then went on some more about his experiments only this time he was animated by which I mean like an anime not like a polygonal person. he then ordered Aigis too sarcifce us all but she couldn't because she wants us. Then Shuji was all okay fine I'll do it at which point a Pirate showed up too save us. He shot Shuji and then got shot himself and died, much too Mitsuru's dismay. All the while I was thinking, "So when are the credits gonna roll?" because I mean come on this has to be the end right? right??
Then we saved it, I think something else probably happened that I can't remember. More Persona 3 as it happens. Until then bye bye internetz
Onto the next and more interesting part!!! After the fall of Hogan we had roughly 2 ingame weeks to S.link which we used wisely. We hung out with Yukari a lot because she takes FOREVER to get to 10, we also discovered something interesting, apparently those crazy hot pyjamas I mentioned? aren't pyjamas! here is a photo of her wearing it in a restaraunt!
http://co110w.col110.mail.live.com/att/GetAttachment.aspx?tnail=0&messageId=c04918a6-d345-11df-a3a8-001e0bcc060c&Aux=54|0|8CD3569A7534B40||0|0|0||&maxwidth=220&maxheight=160&size=Att
Now I don't know if you can see that picture or not but its pretty awesome, I have resolved to go to Japan and visit a restaraunt. She also said something weird that caught me and mikes attention something along the lines of. "I want to know what you say to Fuuka." Now I don't know if this is scripted or if it had something to do with us hanging out with Fuuka recently. OH by the way this is my new backround on my phone... if you can see the picture.
file:///c:/Users/Levi/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Recent/Fuuka.lnk
I hope you can see that, I also hope the quality isn't shit. We then hung out with Yukari like 5 times with out getting to 10 DUDE WTF. We also talked to/hung out with the stoner man and it turns out he has death inside him. He wasn't too interesting too me and neither is Drunk Monk. Then we went to the shops and made some prudent purchases.
We then embarked on the final ordeal I mean, there literaly cannot be anything else I mean the game said DUDE THIS IS THE END OF THE GAME. Why would persona lie to us?Then we fought Takaya and Jin the died how they lived, falling off bridges. I thought it was hilarious Jin's last we're almost "Son of a bitch" but then weren't because he decided to live after the fight and just as Takaya was about too shoot himself he pulled him off a bridge, I MEAN WHAT!!! After reading those last few sentences back I realize this whole thing has me flabbergasted and I'm not even close to done this post!
We then fought the creepiest shadow ever, a floaty dude who was attached to a flying cross, ATTACHED BY HIS SKIN. My skin literaly crawled at the site of him. He refused to be hurt unless we broke three statues so we did. He wasn't very hard to beat considering our two attack mirrors did 3-5 hundred damage to him at a time. He went down and our SEES s.link went up. Game over.
OH WAIT THE GAME IS STILL GOING. Pharos showed up in the daytime and said thanks for the chitty chats and see again next NEVER and promptly left. So later that day we had a sushi party and everyone in SEES was there, Mitsuru's pirate dad even showed up. but where's Aigis and the chairman? WHO CARES SUSHI. We then ate sushi if you couldn't figure that one out. So the day went on and out of nowhere FMV animated slapstick happened for about 3 seconds when we took a big group photo everything was great! Wait a minute Aigis still isn't here, could this mean there is more game? nah. Once again time passed until until 11:59 what could happen next? it's not like the midnight hour is gonna happen or anyth.. oh wait it totally is. Everyone freaked the eff out and they finally decided to ask the question WHERE IS AIGIS AND THE CHAIRMEN.
We rushed to Tartaruss only too find the chairmen and a slightly "different" Aigis. We had along chat about how Mitsuru's grandad and the chairmen want the apocalypse to happen so they can be in power under the king "Death" (in green letters, I wonder who that could be) Aigis then kicked our ass and tied us all to crucifixes somewhere in Tartarus. Shuji (the chairmen) then went on some more about his experiments only this time he was animated by which I mean like an anime not like a polygonal person. he then ordered Aigis too sarcifce us all but she couldn't because she wants us. Then Shuji was all okay fine I'll do it at which point a Pirate showed up too save us. He shot Shuji and then got shot himself and died, much too Mitsuru's dismay. All the while I was thinking, "So when are the credits gonna roll?" because I mean come on this has to be the end right? right??
Then we saved it, I think something else probably happened that I can't remember. More Persona 3 as it happens. Until then bye bye internetz
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