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8 minutes ago, Zapp Branniglenn said:
I don't think those examples have anything special in common? If you don't ignore the rest, you'll see results all over the map. Kazuya released the very next day. Joker was released the following day, but by that point they didn't have the Sakurai stream format, it was more like a "Smash Direct" sort of video. Sephiroth dropped later that day (provided you could beat him in that special event mode), Banjo, Terry, Hero all released on the same day as the stream. So the only pattern is that there is no pattern.
I used Byleth and Min Min as examples because they were revealed during their presentations, like the final character will be, while the characters you listed were revealed weeks or months beforehand. Steve also wasn't released the day of his presentation because he was announced only two days prior. Presumably the developers can't fully work on preparing to release the character until they've been announced.
If you're curious about the announcement/release gaps for the current DLC characters:
- Piranha Plant: 2 months, 28 days (early release) or 3 months (full release)
- Joker: 4 months, 11 days
- Hero: 1 month, 19 days
- Banjo & Kazooie: 2 months, 24 days
- Terry: 2 months, 2 days
- Byleth: 12 days
- Min Min: 7 days
- Steve: 12 days
- Sephiroth: 7 days (early release) or 12 days (full release)
- Pyra/Mythra: 15 days
- Kazuya: 14 days
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31 minutes ago, Zapp Branniglenn said:
I hope the new character releases later that day. Because if they're out on October 8th, I'll consider that a personal attack. There's only one game I intend to play that day and I won't stop until it's finished.
The final character will likely release a week or two after the presentation, which is customary for characters that haven't been revealed before their presentation. Byleth was released 12 days post-presentation and Min Min was released seven days after hers. Pyra and Mythra were released 15 days after their announcement, which was the longest announcement/release gap within FP2, so I'd expect the last character to release October 19th at latest.
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When Miyamoto showed up, I thought he was going to reveal Pikmin 4. Such a tease... Jack Black as Bowser is hype though. And even Cranky Kong will be in it? Now I have to see it unironically.
I wonder which is more unexpected, Chris Pratt being in a Nintendo Direct or Banjo-Kazooie being shown so offhandedly? Port Viva Piñata already you cowards!
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I can't believe the last Smash Bros. character has leaked early...
...Just disregard all the references to Smash for 3DS and Wii U. -
I don't really care what gets announced as long as the games are interesting... though I'll still futilely hope for Pikmin 4, of course. We seem overdue for a new Kirby game, Star Allies is three and a half years old at this point.
I would like to get a Xenoblade Chronicles 3 announcement, but I'd think it would be weird that it wasn't announced at E3. I wouldn't expect it to be released until next summer at earliest so it still might be too early for an announcement.
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I can't wait for the final Smash character to be Herlock Sholmes from The Great Ace Attorney, and people will spend years arguing over if he counts as a non-video game character.
3 hours ago, Shrimperor said:
The Teehee Bingo
I have a question, why are "FE remake/3H sequel/TMS sequel" all in the same column as "no FE"? That makes it impossible to get a bingo in that column.
Though "Xenosaga remasters" is there too, so it's not like it would get a bingo anyway. -
I was concerned lately that my schedule wouldn’t allow me to watch a theoretical September Direct live, but fortunately I’ll be free at the time this Direct airs.
I can’t wait for the announcement of the Zelda CD-i HD Collection, coinciding with the announcement of King Harkinian as the last Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character. And Pikmin 4, hopefully.
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I finished The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles the other day and...
Although, we never did find out what happened to Nikolina's cat. How can you call Ryunosuke a great ace attorney if he can't even find a cat, Susato?
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42 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
At one point Ryunosuke or Susato, I don't remember which, express concern about Nikolina and Sholmes reassures them that he explained the situation to the police and she was able to travel to America as she wanted. No mention as to what became of Strogenov. Might be a little further from where you are, though. Not entirely sure.
Maybe it's some kind of optional dialogue I missed, or it's in the investigation of case 5. I suppose I'll find out soon enough.
Speaking of, I was expecting G2-5 to just be one long trial, but it turns out it has an investigation segment as well. While I'm posting I might as well talk about the first trial...
The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo (Trial 1):
SpoilerSo it seems the big thing of this case is Mael Stronghart taking over as the judge. Him firing Gina from Scotland Yard is a truly unforgivable act of villainy, but otherwise he's fairly reasonable despite presumably really wanting to control the outcome of the trial.
We learn the actual crime scene was on a steamship, not Gregson's base. He was allegedly there to assassinate the Reaper's latest target, Judge Jigoku. Poor Gina is the only person left to have any faith in Gregson... Also, Kazuma was apparently the planned assassin, and he seemingly present when Gregson was killed. Just what is going on anymore? It was nice to see van Zieks perform his magnificent leg slam when on the witness bench. Pray forgive the discourtesy...
Surprisingly enough, we get a segment where Sholmes and Mikotoba investigate the SS Grouse. So walkie-talkies were invented by Iris in the AA universe? Mikotoba even becomes a playable character, similar to how Maya was briefly playable during 2-4. He has a fun dynamic with Sholmes and the final (presumably) deduction was enjoyable to experience and an interesting new look at Yujin.
As a side note, around when the localization was first announced/released, I heard there were two characters named Bif Strogenov and Tchiken Strogenov when on the topic of name changes. I was expecting Tchiken to show up during G1-2, and when he didn't I spent the whole of both games wondering when he would appear. When approaching the end of GAA2 I decided I must have misremembered and he didn't actually exist, but here he is!
Tchiken having the combination on his arm that appears to be "Sholmes" upside down is a clever detail, and I wonder how it worked in the Japanese version. Was it just "holmes" and it was a six digit code? Anyway, it appears Gregson was actually murdered in Jigoku's cabin, so he's seeming very suspicious...
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Hmm, so it turns out the fourth case doesn't have a second trial. Will the last case only have one trial, or two trials and an investigation between them? Being near the end of the game is a melancholy feeling. Soon, the last cometh...
Twisted Karma and His Last Bow (Investigation 2):
SpoilerNo game, I won't have you sully Gregson's good name! He was probably trying to find out the Reaper's identity on his own and got killed for it. Alternatively, he was involved in the Reaper squad, had a change of heart due to Gina, and got killed because he tried to get out of it. The passport indicates he was indeed going to leave the country with Gina at least. Also, it turns out Brett/Shinn was apparently the hitman of the Reaper organization. If Gregson and Shinn really are the two parts of the Reaper, then we have no one left to confront over it. The two latest people who avoided convicted by van Zieks were killed by different people, so we'll see if the Reaper was involved with those.
Van Zieks and Vigil have basically nothing bad to say about Genshin, up until he killed people anyway, and he even saved Barok's life after killing Klint. I wonder if the will Caidin kept really was the secret weapon Genshin wrote. Vigil himself didn't fake Genshin's execution and help him escape, so the identity of that person is still a mystery.
Yujin's request was for Ryunosuke to return to Japan with him. And Sholmes had an urgent telegram for Japan, so I wonder if he figured out something important...
Kazuma was resourceful enough to make his way from Hong Kong to Britain with nothing but the clothes on his back, even with amnesia. Truly every case would be over in ten minutes if Kazuma was the main character. We learn that the "noble, upstanding" Kazuma and the "relentless avenger of the past" Kazuma are both the real Kazuma; while he still values his friendship with Ryunosuke, he won't let it get in the way of convicting van Zieks. He genuinely believes van Zieks to be the Reaper and guilty of killing Gregson, so the trial isn't just a way to find the truth. We also get confirmation that discovering the truth of his father's death was Kazuma's true mission in Britain all along. On another note, Kazuma gets some funny lines while examining van Zieks's office. "Perhaps you have to like birds to attain rank in the judiciary here... Although bats aren't birds, of course." Simon Blackquill would fit right in. And van Zieks apparently sorts his wine casks, glasses, and bottles all on his own.
Kazuma gets another interesting line: "Apparently, one of my father's apprentices even took the blade's name for a surname." So Manfred von Karma's ancestor was trained by Genshin Asogi! I was surprised because, outside of Ryunosuke and Auchi being the ancestors of Phoenix and the Paynes, this game has no other references to the rest of the Ace Attorney games. Though I'm not sure if the von Karmas have Japanese ancestry, or if the training occurred while Genshin was in Britain.
Maria Gorey, while unhealthily obsessed with dead people, is surprisingly helpful and honest, moreso than her mother. She's dedicated to performing proper autopsies and doesn't like letting orders from above getting in the way of that, plus she's ashamed of what we found out about Sithe in the last case. I was wondering why she doesn't have Sithe's last name or even her maiden name; the game even points this out but doesn't answer it.
Gina is the only person willing to defend Gregson's honor. It's funny how Ryunosuke's response to her covertly looking at Gregson's diary is "That's our Gina!" The last name in Gregson's diary of the Reaper's victims is a name Gina found unusual, so I wonder what it is? Shinn also comes up frequently in the diary. Ryunosuke falls unconscious after being viciously licked by Toby, but unfortunately I didn't get the accolade for talking to Gina after that happened. I couldn't find her after Ryunosuke woke up and I was distracted after that by the plot.
Our weirdest deduction yet leads us to discover that John H. Wilson wasn't Sholmes's partner after all: it was actually Yujin Mikotoba! That caught me off guard, what a surprising twist. Since Iris gave herself the last name "Wilson" from the autopsy report, which Wilson didn't actually write, it raises the question as to who her real father is (assuming he isn't Yujin, giving Susato a new younger sister), and what was so special about the actual Wilson that Brett killed him.
Personally, I'm putting my money on Shamspeare being Iris's father.For heck's sake, we're going into the final case of the second game and we still don't know the motive of the first culprit of the first game. There are some other remaining questions too: Who is the true Reaper? Is Genshin the Professor or not? What is the significance of the four names? And just what happened to Nikolina's cat?
Since I'm going into the final case, I'll mention the last two spoilers I know about (obvious major spoilers for the last case, don't click by accident):
SpoilerFirstly, Stronghart is the main villain. I mean, he has an imposing presence and is politically the most powerful character in the game, so obviously we were going up against him at some point. What, is Queen Victoria going to be the final villain? Granted, him being the main villain doesn't mean he killed Gregson, but most final villains in this series are culprits of the final case. Stronghart has been generally reasonable up until G2-4, and I'm still not sure what his motives are. Maybe he wants full control of the legal system to ensure that no criminal escapes justice, like Damon Gant. I assumed throughout the game that Kazuma would be his secret minion of sorts, but it seems that isn't the case.
Second, Klint van Zieks is a killer. Not necessarily that he's the culprit of a case, but just that he killed people. As a since note, this is the only spoiler I learned after the localized version released. Upon learning of this I assumed he was the true identity of the Reaper, and then I thought he was the Professor until he was revealed to be Genshin. And now Shinn is apparently the Reaper, so I don't know what to think at this point. Maybe Klint actually committed the Professor killings and Genshin was the scapegoat. If his death was faked and he's actually still alive, I'll be disappointed if he isn't a deranged murder hobo at this point like Dimitri.
11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:Well, that's that. I finished GAA2 yesterday. Here are some thoughts.
Case 4:
To comment on something you said here:
Spoiler11 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:But at least he had the decency to reveal that he made sure Pavlova didn't end up in trouble for the accidental murder that he knew full well she hadn't committed. Ever since Kazuma was revealed to be alive I was wondering about her.
I must have missed this line of dialogue, what did Sholmes say about that? I was wondering if Nikolina was ever charged with anything after allegedly killing Kazuma, since Strogenov said he would turn himself in for framing Ryunosuke I thought she might have been punished too. Ryunosuke and Susato at least imply that living with the knowledge of "killing" Kazuma is punishment enough for her.
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Twisted Karma and His Last Bow (Investigation 1 and Trial 1):
SpoilerAfter being set up in the previous case, Yujin and Judge Jigoku finally arrive in Britain. Jigoku is certainly a jovial guy when he's off duty. They knew Kazuma's body disappeared in Hong Kong, but not that he was still alive. It seems there was some family drama with the Mikotobas around the time Susato was born; maybe her mother died in childbirth? Yujin tries to tell Ryunosuke something but it interrupted, so we'll probably learn that later. I'm sure the both of them will be important to the upcoming cases.
Sholmes has Ronald McDonald hair now and sells out two red-haired guys to Gina, and they'll probably be important later. Gregson was apparently invited but didn't show up for some reason. We learn that Sholmes did fake Kazuma's death, but he didn't plan for him to disappear in Hong Kong; it seems he was working for someone he regrets trusting at the time. Sholmes gets a request to find a woman's husband (she being a juror in the last case, a clever use of resources), but he makes 'Oddo and Sooze look for clues because he's ashamed about having red hair.
We learn from Barry Caidin, the Scottish jail governor who loves tea and cookies, will never forgive the Japanese, and resembles Senator Armstrong with a mustache, that Vigil was fired ten years ago and kept it secret from Evie since then. Just like in The Incredibles, but not as long in that case. Then we return to Sholmes's residence and...
Gregson noooooooo! Poor Ginny! Van Zieks nooooooooo!
Honestly I had an uneasy feeling that the final victim would be someone important, but I developed a liking for Gregson and I hoped nothing bad would happen to him. I'm still depressed about it. Victims who die after the case they're introduced in is still very uncommon, much less someone who's been in half of the duology's cases. Maybe I'll have some fish and chips in Gregson's honor one of these days. Also, while Gina is appropriately emotional and Sholmes gets unusually serious when he hears the news, Iris initially doesn't seem to react much to Gregson's death. It's especially odd considering their "unique" relationship. She's more emotional if you show her one of Gregson's items during the second investigation, so at least the developers had attention to that detail.
That aside, we learn quite a bit about Gregson; not only does he have something of a legendary reputation, he also went on many of his own secret investigations and played a large role in solving the Professor case ten years ago. He was a big fan of van Zieks too. Van Zieks says it's strange for a Scotland Yard officer to be relocated to France, so could there be something up with that?
Van Zieks is the one accused of murdering Gregson, and as I predicted previously, Kazuma is the one prosecuting him. Naturally Van Zieks was the prosecutor for Genshin Asogi's case, taking over from Stronghart who was a prosecutor at the time. Stronghart is looking increasingly shady and doesn't seem too hung up about his best prosecutor being accused of murder, because he (and everyone else) views this case as a reckoning for the mystery of the Reaper. Stronghart has a quote here I find pretty funny, as to why he had Kazuma wear a mask as van Zieks's apprentice: "I didn't want to burden Lord van Zieks with tiresome explanations about why he had an Eastern apprentice."
The Professor apparently went after corrupt members of society, similar to the Reaper's modus operandi. Hmm... Van Zieks believes Kazuma wants revenge on him for his father's death, but Kazuma is quite distant about his motives so who knows of that's true. While Kazuma is indeed more distant than he was before, he thanks Ryunosuke for carrying on his mission as a lawyer and still appears to consider him a friend. As a side note, I like Kazuma's new white outfit, it contrasts Ryunosuke's black outfit well.
Van Zieks being a defendant gives him even more development. Van Zieks has been quite miserable ever since his brother died; notably he has never smiled up to this point, not even smugly like most prosecutors before him. Though it was apparent before, he explains how Genshin's betrayal is the reason he resents the Japanese, even though he knows it's illogical to think that way. Despite that, van Zieks acknowledges Ryunosuke's dedication to finding the truth and, reluctantly, asks Ryunosuke to defend him. Of course, he accepts.
Due to the importance of van Zieks's trial, there is no jury, which is a shame because I liked seeing who the jurors were.
Guess the budget couldn't afford it, huh?Kazuma, during van Zieks's first testimony, shows us what it's like to be on the receiving end of a usual AA protagonist's strategy by using evidence to find a contradiction in his testimony. Now we know how all those prosecutors felt... Kazuma as a prosecutor is much more aggressive and cold than usual, either because he has a vendetta with van Zieks and/or because he knows this case is related to Genshin's death. He also doesn't take nonsense from dishonest witnesses; another defense attorney habit, presumably.Gossip being Daley Vigil all along was quite a surprise; I thought Venus would end up being the most important of the three witnesses, since her fireworks were presumably used to throw off the time of death. And Beppo is here too, apparently having lost his omnibus driver job after G1-3. The redhead bros are a fun pair of criminal witnesses like the Skulkins were, even if their main role is to establish Vigil's connection to the case. The end of the segment reveals that Vigil has been secretly working with Gregson for some time now, and he indeed helped Genshin escape his execution. Still, we're no closer to finding out who killed Gregson. To be continued...
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Did somebody say leaks?
8 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:Hey, we're at the same point! In that case you've seen it already. It has to do with case 4's victim.
It was the fact that Gregson was going to die. I didn't know when or how, but when he started dropping those massive death flags in case 3 I realized the poor guy's days were numbered.
Still, even knowing beforehand, Gina's reaction was hard to watch. And Van Zieks being accused of the murder was completely unexpected.
I assumed you were talking about that, but I didn't want to take any risks with spoilers.
SpoilerPoor Gregsy. Major characters who appear in more than one game are usually safe from that kind of thing. It would be like if Gumshoe was the final victim of Justice for All. I had an uneasy feeling going in that the final victim would be someone important but I didn't know who. At least he's eating fish and chips with the angels...
On the other hand, I predicted in the GAA thread that van Zieks would be the defendant of the final case with Kazuma as the prosecution, because it's established that Barok trained Kazuma as a prosecutor and it would be poetic if Ryunosuke and Kazuma faced each other in court as the "final battle." Though this isn't the final case, it might be a "two-part final case" like in Dual Destinies, where the last two cases covered the same crime with different defendants. After all, the detective is the victim and the prosecutor is the defendant, so how do you top this case?
Incidentally, another part of my reasoning for thinking van Zieks would be a defendant was "he's the main prosecutor, of course he'll be accused!" Except Edgeworth is the only other main prosecutor who acts as a primary defendant, so it seems my logic was flawed even if my conclusion was correct.
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3 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Well, there we go. I finally reached the second spoiler that I'd known since before I started Great Ace Attorney. What a shame. I don't believe I would've seen it coming. Good thing I don't know any more details. Plenty of surprises to be had yet, I'm sure.
EDIT: Yep, it's been a single minute and already it's back to catching me completely off guard. I love this duology.
What’s the second spoiler? I just finished the first investigation of G2-4 so I’m wondering if I’d know about it yet (though if it’s after that point then obviously I don’t want to know it yet).
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23 hours ago, Saint Rubenio said:
I'm not even sure if this qualifies as a spoiler, but for caution's sake, I'll put it in a box.
Did Eggert Benedict invent eggs Benedict in the Ace Attorney universe? Soseki is 33 and the real life Soseki Natsume was born in 1867, which would place most of the games' events in the year 1900. There isn't a clear story about how eggs Benedict was invented, but some stories have it be invented by then and it was popularized in New York City. Truly this is the biggest mystery of The Great Ace Attorney saga...
Anyway, The Return of the Great Departed Soul:
SpoilerThe second case only had two new characters (considering Shamspeare and Metermann's appearance in G1-4), and it seems the developers were saving their budget for this case. This case has seven new characters (Harebrayne, Tusspells, Lune, Gotts, Sithe, Sithe's daughter(?), and Drebber), plus six new jurors.
Harebrayne is a good defendant who values SCIENCE and offers a unique dilemma during the first trial (do you insist on his innocence, even if it makes him out to be a fraud?), and he apologizes later for acting unreasonable. The robot man Enoch Drebber is the star of the case, with his cool introduction, design, animations, plan, backstory... and I want to know where he bought his outfit from. Not bad for someone whose namesake was the victim of the first Holmes story. Oddly enough, Drebber isn't the culprit despite doing most of the work in this crime; Sithe is the one who killed the victim, and to think we usually have to wait until the end of the game to convict government officials. Her strategy during the trial results in her not saying much, but her confessing to avoid being caught her murder is pretty clever. This case introduces her very creepy plague doctor daughter who will likely be important later. Tusspells is cool as well and is more involved in the case than I expected, but she didn't endear me to the idea of wax museums however.
After a whole game-and-a-half of build up, the midpoint case had plenty of reveals: Yujin and Judge Jigoku are coming to Britain, Stronghart is aiming to become Attorney General, "Jezaille Brett" wasn’t a student and her real name is A. Shinn (the mysterious fourth name at the end of the last game), and Kazuma’s body disappeared after his “death”. Hmm… Also, Susato learned about The Hound of the Baskervilles from her father’s office, which makes more sense by the end of the case. Oh yeah, the first trial had no assistant, which is still pretty unique as far as AA goes. Susato returns in a timely fashion to ensure that doesn't happen for the rest of the game.
I didn't expect Gina to be as important as she ended up being back when she appeared in G1-3, and she's gone from a solitary pickpocket to an investigator in training. Gregson is basically her mentor/father figure now, which is hopefully to make up for trying to throw her under the bus back when she was tried for murder. Completing the set is the good boy Toby, who quickly establishes himself as a helpful police dog by helping us find Drebber's workshop. Gregson said he and Gina are being relocated to France (to protect her from the Reaper) but hopefully they'll still show up in the following two cases.
Another thing this case does well is fleshing out van Zieks. Though he's still the CEO of Racism, his respect for Ryunosuke has carried over from the end of G1-5 even if his demeanor makes it hard to tell. His friendship with Harebrayne is surprisingly sincere and sweet coming from the vampire prosecutor, and his pep talk at the end is quite memorable. Despite his earlier claims that he doesn't mind his reputation, we see that even Barok himself buys into the Reaper's curse and is afraid of it, which serves well to humanize him. Van Zieks trusts Ryunosuke and Susato enough to share with them the Professor's identity, which is a good sign of respect on his part. We still didn't learn the truth of the Reaper, so it seems we'll learn that later. The fact that Soseki is safe in Japan supports the idea that "the Reaper" is an actual person and not some kind of curse, however.
The whole time I assumed the Professor was Klint van Zieks, because why would they keep his identity secret if he isn't someone we've heard of? So I thought it was weird when he turned out to be a random Japanese guy, but not really because he's actually Kazuma's father. He traveled to London with Dr. Mikotoba and Judge Jikoku sixteen years ago, and he's the reason van Zieks will never forgive the Japanese. The Professor killings are the subject of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the secrecy of the case explains why Sholmes didn't want it published. We don't get the details of what really happened in the Professor case, or who shot the Professor when he rose from the dead, but the game still has to save surprises for later.
And finally, the big reveal of the case is that Kazuma is alive! ...Of course, I was spoiled in advance that Kazuma didn't die, but I didn't know the circumstances behind his survival or what his role would be. I wasn't expecting his survival to be revealed in this case though, and I respect that the game didn't keep it secret for too long. That isn't to say the apprentice's identity was obvious to everyone; I've seen people who thought he was Susato or Sholmes. Since Stronghart tasked van Zieks with mentoring Kazuma as a prosecutor, I'm guessing van Zieks will be the defendant of the final case and Kazuma will be the prosecutor. We'll see, but it's good that Nikolina is now exonerated. ...Speaking of which, we never learned what happened to Nikolina's cat, did we?
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36 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Guess we'll see who wins this little race! So far I look to be losing, but in fairness, I started after you two and I'm catching up.
Ultimately, however, I suppose it's not as important to finish first as it is to finish while having presented the armband to everyone in sight. Or something very introspective like that.
To be fair, I got the game the day it came out so it took me a month and a half to get to where I am now. Until recently I was alternating between it and another game because I didn't want to finish it too quickly, but I knew G2-3 is an important case so I went through it faster. The second half of G2-3 is probably the hardest part of the game up to that point, so keep that in mind.
1 hour ago, Armagon said:Oh, i didn't realize but today is Torna's third anniversary
Let's celebrate
Ah yes, everyone remembers the first time they played The End of Tornagelion.
"Happy" anniversary!
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24 minutes ago, DodgeDusk said:
Finished the third case of the second GAA game. Holy. Fuckkkkkkkkkkkk.
16 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:Hey, I'm catching up to you! I'm halfway through that case myself. Guess this means I can expect great things in the near future.
Foolish fools, I'm five minutes into the fourth case (with 55 hours of game time). Though I haven't posted about the third case in the main GAA thread yet, so I need to do that before I get too far...
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When you finish case 3 of The Great Ace Attorney 2
Since I didn't want to start case 4 immediately, I tried playing the original Metroid using a guide... but I got bored after getting my second energy tank, so I might just play through Fusion again before Dread releases. I remember somehow bumbling my way to Fake Kraid the last time I played Metroid 1 without a guide, so that's an accomplishment I suppose.
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4 hours ago, Jotari said:
Curious. Did the fan translations have any accents or dialects at all? Because it's far from Magnus McGuilded alone. Most of the characters have pretty distinct accents based on region and class.
I haven't played the fan translation, I just looked into it because the discussion of McGilded's accent made me curious. From what I've seen, Gina was given an accent like the one she has in the official localization. Bruce Fairplay is implied to be Australian in the English version, which I don't think he is in the Japanese version.
11 hours ago, Rapier said:The former is a japanese person trying to guess how an englishman/irishman would be named in the 18th century, like that SNES baseball game where a japanese guy had to name american baseball players and they went with silly ones like "Bob McBurnin", so it is silly.
Some of the non-Holmes reference English characters had some Engrishy names like Adam Ladyfirst and Egg Benedict, and Hart Vortex technically sounds fine but is just two English words put together, so I'm glad the localization got creative with it. Unlike the Investigations 2 fan translation, the fan translation for GAA didn't change anyone's names as far as I know.
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3 hours ago, Armagon said:
PS5 isn't worth getting until Spider-Man 2 in 2023 anyways.So this song will still be good for two more years, got it.
38 minutes ago, Armagon said:
This is by far the rawest design in all of Metroid. We don't even have a name for this guy yet, he's just unofficially been referred to as the Chozo General. But it doesn't matter. He's raw as fuck.
Though we've always known that the Power Suit was created by the Chozo, it's cool to see a Chozo use a Power Suit of their own. Apparently the Chozo never went extinct, but their civilization collapsed at some point and the surviving Chozo went into hiding.
I don't think he'll be the final boss, but he'll probably be fought again near the end of the game and Samus will win this time thanks to her shiny new upgrades. Ridley will get an obligatory fight towards the end too, especially since Kraid is back from the dead somehow. They might as well bring back Phantoon, Draygon, and Crocomire for a full Super Metroid reunion. I'm pretty sure the Gold Chozo is the main villain, but I'm not sure how much of a combatant he is so Samus might not fight him directly.
Hmm, maybe I should replay Metroid Fusion before Dread releases. Maybe I'll do it if I finish The Great Ace Attorney 2 before Dread comes out...
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"I'm-a gonna win" -Wario
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I didn't know McGilded's accent was Irish until Gina identified him as such. It seems I need to educate myself when it comes to English accents. The fan translation didn't give McGilded any accent nor does Gina seem to call him "the Irishman", so him being Irish might be an addition by the localization.
The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro:
SpoilerThis case is an immediate followup to G1-4, and as such is a flashback case. It's technically a "filler" case, but it's a fun one and the connection to the previous case enhances both of them. It's also the first two day trial in either of the GAA games.
Soseki is our defendant again, and he's up to his usual antics of getting falsely accused of murder. Garrideb has been very unlucky lately too, hasn't he? First a criminal is hiding out in his home, one of his tenants dies, his wife accidentally stabs someone outside (who was trying to kill another of his tenants) while throwing a knife at him and she gets arrested, the aforementioned other tenant gets poisoned...
The weird Shakespeare guy himself, William Shamspeare, marks an Ace Attorney first: he's not the first victim to survive the crime, but he's the first victim you have to face in court. The victim of the crime trying to blame the defendant is a fun idea and I wonder why it hasn't been done before. The scene where Shamspeare rises from the "dead" was very surprising; he has plenty more funny moments, though his funniest moments are whenever he breaks character ("You did wha-- Sorry-- Thou hast WHAT?! You broke-- I mean-- Thou were in MY ROOM?!") so he's always a joy to interact with. Metermann, the other guy who appeared in G1-4, doesn't do much beyond establishing Shamspeare as a gas thief, which itself mainly establishes the tea sample so we can investigate more. He doesn't appear during the second day, oddly enough.
I said previously that Olive Green surviving her injuries in G1-4 didn't mean much unless she appeared in this game, and here she is! She's the other culprit, and she contrasts Shamspeare by being reserved and gloomy. As a result, their interactions on the stand are quite entertaining. She's also surprisingly good at keeping her composure when put on the spot. Attempting to kill someone based on suspicion of guilt would be rather unsympathetic, but her plan was clever; it only would have worked if Shamspeare was guilty of Ross's death, and he wouldn't be harmed if he was innocent. Green's also been very unlucky lately, and hopefully things will be better for her after she serves her sentence.
By the end of the second investigation I assumed Shamspeare's plan to kill Soseki backfired and he accidentally poisoned himself. I also thought he was Selden himself at first, having faked his death to escape prison, until it's established that Selden's cellmate was the only witness to his death. I thought Green's presence would serve to tie up loose ends from the previous case and she wouldn't be involved in the crime. I might have suspected Garrideb of something if he hadn't appeared in G1-5, which meant he wouldn't be arrested for anything after this case.
We learn that Sholmes and van Zieks have some history together. Could the mysterious Baskervilles case be related to van Zieks in some way...?
It's funny how the case begins with "Hmm... I wonder what was so important about this case that Susato was called back to Japan" and it takes until the last three minutes for the reason to be revealed.
I'll also talk about the (first?) investigation of G2-3 up to the Dance of Deduction, since it's the point where the overarching plot starts becoming prominent.
SpoilerWe learn that Ryunosuke was barred from work after his music box stunt during the Unspeakable Story. Looks like the they got mad at Ryunosuke for leaking government secrets... Fortunately, Stronghart decides to return his lawyering privileges after six months of good behavior. We get the impression that Stronghart knows more about Kazuma's mission than Ryunosuke does, and we get further questions as to what his mission was. Stronghart gets a few funny scenes where he talks apparently forever about forensic science and is eleven hours late to a meeting, which is unexpected considering his demeanor. Also Susato is still in Japan, so Iris becomes our assistant for this investigation.
We meet van Zieks outside court for the first time, and all things considered he's reasonably civil about Ryunosuke and Iris barging into his office, even if Ryunosuke earned his respect by the end of G1-5. Van Zieks has a new masked apprentice whom Ryunosuke finds strangely familiar. Hmm...
he must be the long lost third Skulkin brother.Van Zieks is fine with his "Reaper of the Bailey" reputation because London's crime rate dropped because of it, basically making him the Batman of the legal world. Except all of his "victims" end up dead, so maybe he isn't that much like Batman. He's willing to admit that Gina and Soseki were exceptions to his usual approach of only targeting the truly guilty, which is nice of him to acknowledge. Ryunosuke is a nice enough to be concerned about van Zieks's safety following his attack, and van Zieks is nice enough to ask how Soseki's been doing lately. You big softy, you...
Anyhow, the victim of this case blew up in a teleportation accident, and the defendant is van Zieks's old friend from university. Van Zieks previously failed to convict the victim of this case, so the Reaper's curse strikes again. Could we finally learn the truth of the Reaper in this case?
Gregson was put on probation like Ryunosuke was following his deal in G1-5, but he's been let off the hook by now. Gina has grown into a mostly law-abiding young lady and is now training to become an investigator. So that's why she's named after Sherlock Holmes's usual investigator, G. Lestrade. Gregson's namesake in the Holmes stories was rivals with Lestrade early on but was later eclipsed by him in importance, which Gregson and Gina's mentorship might be a reference to.
We learn that Sholmes has a side job as temporary wax statue. Just when Sholmes gets unusually serious and is about to give us plot important information, we're interrupted by the Great Witch Bez- er, Esmeralda Tusspells (that's a Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright joke). I'm not sure yet how the wax museum relates to the Great Exhibition murder, but I'll see where it goes.
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19 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Just in time, too. Technically speaking, I did run into spoilers. At one point I got antsy and decided to veeeeeeery carefully Google on incognito mode. However, despite clearly typing "Great Ace Attorney 1 case 5 trial part 2", fucking Google still led me to a video of the fifth case of the second game. Thankfully, I only caught a glimpse of a face before I noped out of there.
...I mean, I guess that confirms that the particular character survives up to that point, which is a spoiler, but... Fuck it, I still don't know who the main villain was. It is amazing to me that I've gotten this far into an Ace Attorney game without having the shit spoiled outta me. It's never happened before. I must hasten my pace before I have another chance to run into spoilers...
I was spoiled on a few things from before the games' localization was announced, like the culprits/victims of the first two cases and something from the second game's first case. I think some of the remaining spoilers I know are very important but I'm lacking the context behind them, so I still have plenty of things to be surprised by.
I was largely unspoiled for the previous games though; mostly it was just the details of DL-6, Godot's real name, but not anything else about him, and something about Apollo Justice's first case.
21 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:...E... Eerrrrrrgghhh...
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Pyra and Mythra's designs... are not abominations.
Good enough, I hope!
I suppose that's the best I can hope for.
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34 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Well, you were slightly off the mark (it was the third statement, not the second) but that's it.
Fucking Ace Attorney. The autopsy report clearly states the victim died from a bullet to the back, but apparently everyone in the courtroom is too lazy to read up to page two, so they need the photo instead. Fssss...
Thank you so much, Lightchao! A little longer and I would've become desperate enough to look for a walkthrough. And that's just the way to get spoiled.
You're welcome, I don't like being spoiled either.
Though if you'd really like to show your appreciation, you can say that Pyra and Mythra have acceptable designs...31 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:I'm aware of this, but it feels like vaporware. They haven't given us anything to chew on all these years, and I want chewing gum (I'd settle with bonjellium flavor). It's the same as how I feel about Atlus's Project Re Fantasy and their promise of an Etrian Odyssey continuation. I need more substance than a mere decree. And I'm sure Bayonetta 3 and MP4 fans feel exactly the same way.
Implying that Xenoblade 2 doesn't have enough content to last for years!At least Metroid fans are getting Dread, which has been a wayward dream for even longer than Prime 4. Bayonetta fans may be out of luck for now, but they've still got it better than F-Zero fans.34 minutes ago, lightcosmo said:Xenosaga remasters? Lmao
I hoped for Pyra/Mythra for smash and got my wish, so im still holding out! And i will till it happens!
Unfortunately Namco said they aren't financially viable, so Xenosaga fans will have to settle for KOS-MOS hopefully appearing in Monolith's future projects.
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59 minutes ago, Saint Rubenio said:
Great. I'm stuck. I correctly deduced what I had to do, I did it, then when it didn't work I was stumped enough to check the spoilerless guide on Steam because I couldn't come up with anything else... And turns out, the guide says to do exactly what I did. It's just not working.
@DodgeDusk @Lightchao42 Are either of you there? Can you help me? I am terrified of going on Youtube to find a walkthrough. I would definitely find spoilers instead.
Ah yes, this is the part I was talking about when I previously said I had trouble during case 5. It's the only place in either of the games (so far) that I got a game over.
SpoilerI think you have to present the crime scene photo, the one of Windibank's body, on the second statement.
11 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:I would say the same of Monolith, but they at least had XC1DE in May last year.
Actually we already know Monolith has another game in development, we just don't know what it is yet. It's been in development since Torna released, which was three years ago now so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw it soon.
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Replaying Samus Returns in preparation for Dread, I forgot how long and complicated the Diggernaut battle is. Truly an early hint that the Chozo are trying to kill us.
If you want my opinion, you can get into a new RPG series after you finish Xenoblade 2. It has all the music you need!That aside, Kingdom Hearts is a series of action RPGs if that appeals to you, and The Story So Far bundle has around five games and isn't very expensive so I imagine it's worth looking into. The only KH game I've played is Dream Drop Distance though, which is included in that collection.
...Wait, you're playing Kingdom Hearts music in school? Though my class did sing a song from Civilization IV in chorus, so I guess it isn't too weird albeit, Baba Yetu is the only video game song to win a Grammy, so that probably explains it.