The 2019 what we are playing thread

Yes, I don’t like it. It’s supposed to be something about consequences but really it just means I’ll drop the game now, when I might’ve replayed some choice fun parts like in DMC5. (Which only does auto-save but you have a free choice of playing any level you finished for better scores or just because.)

It’s not like the game doesn’t tell you, or like some symbol fluttering around in a corner isn’t standard code for “saving.” :stuck_out_tongue:

Last week I finished Life is Strange: Before the Storm. The final “choice” was a @#$# weird non-choice that in a way summarizes the rest of the experience of the game, or at least the final episode. And yet I was in the 48 % minority with my choice. I guess because you already know the canonical choice may have been the other one, or just because it’s something you probably wouldn’t tell someone you know’s going to die soon.

This weekend I also finished the Before the Storm bonus episode. They tried perhaps a little too hard to make it heart wrenching, and some of the references (“I don’t think I could solve a real murder mystery.”) seemed a little heavy-handed. The first two episodes were very well executed. On the whole it’s still some of the better interactive narrative fiction out there, but it seemed to give in to its melodramatic teen drama genre more than Life is Strange. In short, it was more average. Ep 1 was decent, ep 2 was better, ep 3 was meh if not outward bleh (besides the D&D), bonus ep was cute.


Then there was also Darkestville Castle. An attractive but somewhat flawed MI3 clone.

Thanks to @ZakPhoenixMcKracken I’m now playing this with the occasional choppy audio. The gravevine says there might also be an Android translation available now?

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It’s really really good!!!
You can “alter” a real Nintendo 3DS (following a guide step by step).
Anyway there’s an android version, but it works through an emulator.

Citra is the second best option, a good balance.
Or “scale”, since we are talking about ace attorney.

I don’t have one. :slight_smile: Coincidentally I just used my DS earlier today.

If my reasonably powerful desktop can barely handle the emulator there’s no such thing as a mobile device that can. <_<

There’s not just a regular Android version like the last 2 Ace Attorney games?

Edit: so I just noticed that limiting the resolution to “2X” instead of the default “auto” results in a near-constant 60 fps. It’s a lot less sharp, but that hardly matters… :slight_smile:

Edit 2: btw @ZakPhoenixMcKracken does Auchi mean what I think it means? (In which case “Pain” doesn’t quite capture it.) :rofl:

Exactly, there are a few settings to set to improve speed, in the graphics settings of Citra.
I had to limit the speed to 100% because sometimes speed went over! :grin:

That’s default though? :slight_smile:

Eheh surely Auchi is the ancestor of Winston Payne, but I don’t know if there’s a pun with the “pain” word.
Anyway, in the next cases, you’ll find ancestors for other typical Ace Attorney characters :grinning:

Looks like it is. :wink:

  • His surname " Auchi " (亜内) is a Japaneseromanization of the English word “ouch”.

And if you thought he couldn’t get worse…

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Oh, I must warn you: it’s highly recommended not to read any wiki site, because it’s full of spoilers!

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Japanese people have something with tongues…

Incidentally, has anyone read The String of Pearls?

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You play quickly, this is the Case 3, where you must defend Cosney Megundal.

Eheh, I liked the case 2 so much that I’ve arranged a “killer hunting” game where my friend and I play the role of THE Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and the victim is a japanese boy called Asugi Kazuma, died in an hotel not too far from where we’ll play the game.
During the game, children will find evidence, pictures, witness sheets… and in the end, THE Sherlock Holmes will make 4 plausible reconstructions :slight_smile:

P.S.: I’m currently at Case 5… it’s very long and it involves almost all the elements and characters of the previous cases… it’s thrilling!

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Actually I suffered from a case of “way too late” (going on 1 AM) last night. :blush:

Those jurors are even more stupid than the regular judge. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Like in the real world! :smiley:

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I knew, everyone who played Zak McKracken will think about that! :joy::joy:
Me too, of course!

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I finally finished Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

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Michael Stemmle was the Scriptwriter for Jedi Knight II?

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Apparently so. Could be the launch script too
(and Clint Bajakian did the music editing)

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