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I just finished Ace Attorney Investigations!~
Whew, I'm so glad I finally don't have to fear spoilers anymore. Thanks to that one giant prick at the PW kink meme, I already knew THE major plot twist about Calisto. >_>;
Anyway, as expected of AA , the game was awesome. It was a bit tiring near the end though, the last case kept on stretching with stupid Alba not wanting to admit anything, etc. I don't think I had a favorite case.. or... hmh, I'd probably pick the one in the past though because Kay, Franziska and Gummy are just too cute there.
The game was ridiculously easy and predictable at times and then again sometimes very misleading and difficult. I think by now I totally got a of which PW characters are evil and which are good, I was right about everyone this time. xDD Like with Alba and Palaeno... Palaeno came off as a really slimy guy, especially with him wringing his hands like the very first villain in PW1, but with his ":D" and serious face I just had the feeling he must be a good guy while Alba was so suspicious for not letting them examine anything that I swear I thought Lang would shout he's the murderer when he had his epic entrance and went to accuse Franziska.
I was so frustrated right now when it was so clear the drop of blood belonged to Alba and the characters spent whole minutes being all emo that it didn't fit to Coachen... X'D And IMO, the thing about the pool was also very predictable, as was the fact that the three unused pieces of evidence about the food, the guitar pick and Samurai spear were going to undo Alba. That's one major point about the AA games that's a bit of a downer... there are only a few pieces of inventory (of course, it would be too difficult otherwise) and the cases are often so extreme they become predictable again... like with Ini and her twin sister, etc.
As for the difficult parts, I can think of particularly one misleading part in the third case where Lang says you should prove that Lauren didn't know the butler was her father but actually you have to prove there were 3 kidnappers. And also during the last case a few similar things, but they weren't as grave. Mainly, it was only difficult at those times when you didn't get new energy. Mostly, I never needed fresh energy but at the 1-2 times where it would've been nice there wasn't anything for a looong time... xD;;
I was a bit disappointed Portsman didn't appear again. I always thought he had a bigger motivation than being part of the smuggling ring and that similar to Kristoph in AJ, he would be dealt with later. Also, I really hated Calisto Yew (I liked Shih-na though), she was a great villain. I wonder why she isn't mentioned at the end when Alba and also Amano are brought to court.
My favorite new character is definitely Lang. XD And as a sidenote... I couldn't help but think of Coachen/Palerno and Badd/Lang, haha. (But any pairing with Lang would be so fun... I want Lang/Klavier, lol!) With Coachen being such a great help to Palerno and even wanting him to become Ambassador... o,o Makes one wonder if there were other reasons beside wanting to undermine Alba. It's funny how Coachen has such a huge role in the game and you hardly see him alive. I don't even exactly remember his scene during the case in the past right now... as for Badd/Lang it's only their small conversation in the past and then during the credits. xD I'm looking forward to the fandom now... <3 I also liked Palaeno, I wonder why they changed his name though. I can understand it with japanese names and I'm glad they made Kyouya Klavier etc (much more fun 8D) , but Damian isn't very japanese anyway... xD Oh and Badd was awesome as well!
Agent Hicks always reminds me of Death Note for some reason, must be his character design (I like it :3 )
The shortage of Phoenix was sad, only a few mentions and Edgey doesn't seem to know he's not a lawyer anymore (at least he shouldn't be, judging by the timeline...?). Larry mentioning not having seen the guy in the blue suit during the credits etc. was a like a bitter aftertaste. XD Also pity there weren't any AJ characters in the game. Now I feel like I really want to play a PW part again.... xD
And it makes me wonder how the next AA game will be and if there will be characters besides the typical recurring ones. It's hard to comprehend that in the next AJ game, Klavier wouldn't be the prosecutor anymore, I feel like we've seen only a bit of him... compared to Edgey and Franziska. Godot only appears in 1 game too but somehow, he left a really strong impact.
It's funny how many characters besides Edgey and Gummy reappeared:
Maggie Byrde
Franziska von Karma
Wendy Oldbag
Meekins
Ema Skye
the Judge
Manfred von Karma
Larry
Winston Payne
the geek from the Steel samurai case XD;
the Gatewater Hotel Bellboy (as the Proto-Badger)
Lotta Hart
... did I forget someone?
Whew, I'm so glad I finally don't have to fear spoilers anymore. Thanks to that one giant prick at the PW kink meme, I already knew THE major plot twist about Calisto. >_>;
Anyway, as expected of AA , the game was awesome. It was a bit tiring near the end though, the last case kept on stretching with stupid Alba not wanting to admit anything, etc. I don't think I had a favorite case.. or... hmh, I'd probably pick the one in the past though because Kay, Franziska and Gummy are just too cute there.
The game was ridiculously easy and predictable at times and then again sometimes very misleading and difficult. I think by now I totally got a of which PW characters are evil and which are good, I was right about everyone this time. xDD Like with Alba and Palaeno... Palaeno came off as a really slimy guy, especially with him wringing his hands like the very first villain in PW1, but with his ":D" and serious face I just had the feeling he must be a good guy while Alba was so suspicious for not letting them examine anything that I swear I thought Lang would shout he's the murderer when he had his epic entrance and went to accuse Franziska.
I was so frustrated right now when it was so clear the drop of blood belonged to Alba and the characters spent whole minutes being all emo that it didn't fit to Coachen... X'D And IMO, the thing about the pool was also very predictable, as was the fact that the three unused pieces of evidence about the food, the guitar pick and Samurai spear were going to undo Alba. That's one major point about the AA games that's a bit of a downer... there are only a few pieces of inventory (of course, it would be too difficult otherwise) and the cases are often so extreme they become predictable again... like with Ini and her twin sister, etc.
As for the difficult parts, I can think of particularly one misleading part in the third case where Lang says you should prove that Lauren didn't know the butler was her father but actually you have to prove there were 3 kidnappers. And also during the last case a few similar things, but they weren't as grave. Mainly, it was only difficult at those times when you didn't get new energy. Mostly, I never needed fresh energy but at the 1-2 times where it would've been nice there wasn't anything for a looong time... xD;;
I was a bit disappointed Portsman didn't appear again. I always thought he had a bigger motivation than being part of the smuggling ring and that similar to Kristoph in AJ, he would be dealt with later. Also, I really hated Calisto Yew (I liked Shih-na though), she was a great villain. I wonder why she isn't mentioned at the end when Alba and also Amano are brought to court.
My favorite new character is definitely Lang. XD And as a sidenote... I couldn't help but think of Coachen/Palerno and Badd/Lang, haha. (But any pairing with Lang would be so fun... I want Lang/Klavier, lol!) With Coachen being such a great help to Palerno and even wanting him to become Ambassador... o,o Makes one wonder if there were other reasons beside wanting to undermine Alba. It's funny how Coachen has such a huge role in the game and you hardly see him alive. I don't even exactly remember his scene during the case in the past right now... as for Badd/Lang it's only their small conversation in the past and then during the credits. xD I'm looking forward to the fandom now... <3 I also liked Palaeno, I wonder why they changed his name though. I can understand it with japanese names and I'm glad they made Kyouya Klavier etc (much more fun 8D) , but Damian isn't very japanese anyway... xD Oh and Badd was awesome as well!
Agent Hicks always reminds me of Death Note for some reason, must be his character design (I like it :3 )
The shortage of Phoenix was sad, only a few mentions and Edgey doesn't seem to know he's not a lawyer anymore (at least he shouldn't be, judging by the timeline...?). Larry mentioning not having seen the guy in the blue suit during the credits etc. was a like a bitter aftertaste. XD Also pity there weren't any AJ characters in the game. Now I feel like I really want to play a PW part again.... xD
And it makes me wonder how the next AA game will be and if there will be characters besides the typical recurring ones. It's hard to comprehend that in the next AJ game, Klavier wouldn't be the prosecutor anymore, I feel like we've seen only a bit of him... compared to Edgey and Franziska. Godot only appears in 1 game too but somehow, he left a really strong impact.
It's funny how many characters besides Edgey and Gummy reappeared:
Maggie Byrde
Franziska von Karma
Wendy Oldbag
Meekins
Ema Skye
the Judge
Manfred von Karma
Larry
Winston Payne
the geek from the Steel samurai case XD;
the Gatewater Hotel Bellboy (as the Proto-Badger)
Lotta Hart
... did I forget someone?