I love Ace Attorney Chronicles, because every tiny bit of information has a historical reference.
for example (spoiler if you didn’t play case 4 already):
Soseki Natsume was a real person, a japanese writer died in 1916. He really went to England, sent by the Japanese Government, as “Japan’s first Japanese English literary scholar”. The experience in London, which allows him to approach concepts typical of Western culture and to understand different aspects of the English one, coincides with one of the most difficult periods of his life: due to loneliness, he will suffer from nervous breakdown and psychophysical problems, such as will confess years later. Natsume Sōseki - Wikipedia
So I’ve finished the first of the two games, and quite liked it overall. Though I felt that it was a little less interactive than the original trilogy. Especially the investigation part seemed to be hardly as involved.
The only thing I found really odd was the way the jury members proclaimed their decision. How would they even manage to consistently hit their mark, without setting the whole place on fire? And from a purely logical point of view, if they tipped the scales by all deciding guilty first, then changing their mind to not guilty, shouldn’t things be back to balanced instead of going all the other way? Or does guilt not weigh as heavily after all?
And one final question: were those stereoscopic images actually meant to work? I would imagine so, but at least I did not manage to see any 3D effect.
I also think I must read some Sherlock Holmes stories now. I’m pretty sure the only Doyle I read so far was in school, which means I likely did not appreciate any of it.
you mean, you played all the 5 cases of the first game (“Adventures”) ? Very good!!
Not to mention the absolute random choice of the jury members!
Yes, stereoscopic images work. You have to really cross your eyes to see the 3D effects. At first it could be difficult, because your brain must be trained, but then it’s easy do to it.
Look, here are some stereoscopic images you can use to train yourself:
It works best if you print the image on a sheet of paper, instead of looking it on the screen.
Bring the sheet on, stick it to your nose, relax your eyes, then slowly put the sheet away from your nose. You will start to view a blurred image, then it slowly will render sharper… until you’ll see a 3D effect.
Who knows what methodology they employed in order to chose. I mean
No doubt there. The question was more if the specific examples from the game ought to work if the circumstances were right. Viewing them on a monitor sitting on the desk is likely not the best arrangement. But what about the original 3DS or mobile versions?
Oh, I also forgot: with the Inspector constantly munching on his fish and chips, that must be the first game where playing actually made me hungry .
I had played it on 3DS, but those images weren’t 3D. I mean, if you activated the 3D feature, those images where on the same plane, flat.
The native 3D effects were, for instance, the Kazuma’s waving band, or the objects placed in the room, the scale in the Courtroom, and so on, placed on different levels (planes) in order to deceive our brain.
In the year 2014, Capcom promoted a contest, reserved to the Europeans, where the contestants had to make something related to the Ace Attorney saga, in any artistic form (theatrical representation, drawing, dressing…)
We created from scratch a 4 minutes trial involving 11 Ace Attorney Characters, taken from the first AA trilogy + Apollo Justice.
Here’s the video clip of that performance (with english and italian subtitles)… which Capcom liked, and gave us the first prize!
I’ve also set my eyes on the “Sherlock Holmes Chapter One” game set to release later this month (never played anything else in the franchise, though). But judging by the system requirements, that’s another title that will have to wait until GPUs get affordable again …
I do have to say the minimum and recommended there look surprisingly high. Where are you located? I’ve got an unused R9 270X lying about (which is roughly on par with an R9 380). Interestingly, I believe the i5-6600 it mentions is roughly on par with my i7-4790.
Thanks for the offer, though I think it wouldn’t make that much of a difference compared to my current GTX 950. And it’s not like I’ll run out of games to play soon either, so I’ll rather wait with the more opulent 3D titles than spend twice the MSRP on something non-essential. I’ll keep grumbling, though … just ignore me .
This is going off-topic but at least the first Sherlock Holmes adventure games were/are disappointing (especially compared to the Agatha Christie adventure games). I’m referring to the “Silver Earring” and the following games. At the end I stopped playing the series, but I read that some of the newer games should be better. So I would recommend to read the critics first before buying one of the Sherlock Holmes games.
In that case it all depends on what kind of minimum they’re using. (Which I wouldn’t spend €50 to find out of course, hehe.) The game’s also launching on the old consoles, which would suggest the minimum’s a bit overspecced, but of course some PC ports are just bad(ly optimized).
Yeah, although I think there isn’t a release date yet for those. Which might indicate that optimization for weaker hardware wasn’t really on their agenda so far.
From reading A Study in Scarlet and playing further along (in the middle of case 3 right now), I find there are a considerable number of references to the book. Yeah, the characters are different for the most part, but names, places and themes from just that first novella all show up, as do a number of verbatim quotations. I’m pretty sure there’s an Ace Attorney wiki somewhere with all (dis)similarities listed and explained, but so far it’s been fun going through the “source material” and discovering all those connections. From all I’ve seen so far, I feel the developers did a pretty good job with their interpretation of Doyle.
Just finished case 3 of the second part (“Resolve”), thanks to my insomnia.
A crucial case, I’d say.
Twisted, complex, great in all the details. And I feel that the best part has yet to come…
Well, in a way you could say that all that came before was just a drawn-out preamble to the actual meat of the story. What follows will be clearing up all the mysteries of the past, and I was pretty impressed how that comes about. But from a gameplay perspective, the characters and the case as a whole, I don’t think it gets better than that 3rd episode.
Having finished the game (also yesterday, actually), I think the overarching plot was better than that of the original trilogy, albeit at the expense of the individual cases. Quite a few of them had to serve a certain purpose, and perhaps that limited how wacky the characters or how involved the crime could be. I definitely would have liked to see more of the likes of Enoch Drebber and Professor Harebrayne .
I also have two nitpicks about the overall story, but perhaps now is not the time to discuss.
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