ACE ATTORNEY SUCKS... or does it???

[cigarette]

ah okay, thank you!

[alfred]

They don’t advertise them as such, but Memories of the Past & Ghost of Dusk are actually compilations of 2000’s japanese flip phone games. so naturally those are cool. Unfortunately they felt the need to come up with a new “main” story for each, and they are both awful and should be avoided

[daphaknee]

the bird lawyer game fucking RULES its so funny

[Father.Torque]

Did you get that thing I sent you?

[BustedAstromech]

there’s no reason that game shouldn’t have been better

[Sleazy]

for my own sanity

[Tuxedo]

Ace Attorney started to drag from like the 3rd case of the first game, and never stopped. Aviary Attorney really was an eye opener re: how good the series could be if it wasn’t so conservative

I like going to the old https://www.court-records.net/ to look at random gifs from panicking suspects sometimes. Unfortunately the newer games aren’t available

Still the best gaming gifs

[Tulpa]

I assumed folks were talking about aviary attorney, and yeah aviary attorney rules. It feels a little incomplete but I love it so much.

Great, great writing, much better than most of the Ace Attorney series tbh

[daphaknee]

im absolutely talking about aviary attorney the harvey birdman game is mehhhhh mehhhhhh BLEEEEEEEH UNGGHHH no. im actively remembering jokes from it and getting less happy. im going to think about aviary attorney more

[cigarette]

i used to use characters as avatars or signatures on other forums. i love the original sprite work and what was done in the remaster makes me a little sad.

[Rudie]

Now that’s a man kiss.

[HOBO]

Aviary Attorney is great yeah I cited it in a pitch I did a few years ago, I said “this bird game should be a hit, it’s very funny, and that’s one reason why you should give me money” but unfortunately no one gave me money

Someday I’m going to stream JB Harold Murder Club and have folks help me cheat at it so I can finally learn who the killer was and, also, whether or not the game is any good. I sure loved it when I was a child! I bet it holds up alright, I had pretty good taste for the most part.

[daphaknee]

ACE ATTORNEY CHRONICLES IS OUT!!! I JUST STARTED IT

first big thing: health bar gone…back to five symbols as life! YES! HEALTH BAR IN PHOENIX WRIGHT WAS THE DUMBEST SHIT EVER(its not exclamation points though, its five of your not-lawyer badge)

the game is about how anglos are racist

the game now has an option to turn off screen flashing!!

THE ANIMATIONS ARE AMAZING the first trial is like you being SUPER nervous, and so like when you slam your hands down on the table it makes a softer sound and you also make a pained face like, ow my palms BUT as you get more confidence you start doing things more like Phoenix Wright!!

YOU HAVE TO GAIN THE CONFIENCE TO SAY OBJECTION ALL YOU SAY AT FIRST IS ‘yes!’ AND THEN YOU RAISE YOUR HAND SUPER POLITELY

our first case pal is BACK

the music is super different but the mood is all there im fucking loving this

ACE ATTORNEY DOESNT SUCK

[Broco]

Yeah this game looks like a good opportunity to get back into the series. I’m especially excited about the grounding into a specific historical era (and the fiction associated with that era).

Here’s a great interview with the localization director:

The careful balancing act of translating an Ace Attorney game

What was it like having to localize a story that involves two very different cultures with Japan and the UK?

Luckily, it wasn’t as hard as you’d think due to a number of factors. The first is that [writer and director Shu Takumi] is very familiar with 19th century London, thanks to his love of classic British mystery novels. He and the original development team did their due diligence and researched everything they needed to know about both Meiji Japan and Victorian London to make the story work. From there, the UK-based English translators and I were able to simply take the Japanese and run with it. Naturally, for the UK-based translators, writing about their own culture was a lot easier than me as an American trying to do the same. That is actually one of the reasons I chose to work with Plus Alpha Translations to begin with, in addition to their history of stellar localizations. For the cross-cultural aspects, figuring out how to present them was a no-brainer for me since I’ve been doing it all my life. Growing up in a very Taiwanese household in America means I have a lot of experience “translating” culturally Asian concepts into something more relatable to someone with a more European background and vice versa.

So more than the locations of Japan and the UK, I think the more difficult parts of this game’s localization lie in the way the historical context compounds the cross-cultural issues. Because the 19th century London setting is something quite literally foreign to Japanese players, there were some great bits of world-building written into the Japanese text to provide cultural explanations. On the other hand, however, there was significantly less information provided about Meiji Japan or it wasn’t explained in as much detail because a lot of it is assumed to be common knowledge. In fact, the opening anime’s very first line in the Japanese version simply says, “A few decades after that history-making opening of the country…” A Japanese audience wouldn’t need to be told this is referring to Japan since they use the word “kaikoku” (開国 / literally “opening the country”), which is more than enough to set up the where and when. But for a Western audience, I felt that this simply wouldn’t be enough information to go on, so we made it very clear that this was Japan and tried to strengthen the impression provided by the Japanese text of just how turbulent the times were in Japanese society through the narration’s writing.

[Felix]

just according to kaikoku

[Broco]

The bar is pretty high for jokes like that in Japanese given how easy they are to make

[Rudie]

Oh my god they finally didn’t make it hamburger Angeles.

[daphaknee]

i thought the hamburgers and spaghetti were funny (i still giggle at jelly donuts in pokemon too) but yeah this is phoenix’s ancestor in japan

so much of this one is about how anglos are racist as shit so theres no way they could change shit around i LOVE IT

oh also tHE stakes start high IMMEDIATELY. it goes straight into the government and police are against you miami vice season 3 type shit. FIRST CASE. i love this series

ive also been replaying the first one and im on the fourth case, and ughhh the way the dl-6 stuff all comes together in that is SO GREAT i cant wait to have new twists and turns that i dont already know the answers to!!! FUCK!

[cylindrome]

Auchi

[Broco]

I love that Auchi now has the “a” of his name as the elegant symbol 亜 on his formal dress. Totally a legit traditional Japanese name and in no way a pun for “ouch”