DONE WITH ACE ATTORNEY INVESTIGATIONS
Or, as I like to call it, Metal Gear Solid WITH LAWYERS!
The Good:
-MANFRED VON KARMA FUCK YEAH. He is so foxy in this game what the hell.
-Pretty much... all of the new characters, actually. Lang is Courage Wolf and Kay is amazing, fuck the haters. She... yeah she's totally a Mary Sue but I don't care, so is Yellow and Yellow is the best. Also Kay's mother's 'relatives' were totally Isaac and Miria from Baccano. My favorite minor-ish characters were Palaeno and Ernest Amano.
-Lady GagaShih-na. Fuck yeah. She is like lawyerverse Revolver Ocelot or something.
-I loved all the sprites oh man. Navigating could be frustrating sometimes but maaan I don't know if I'll be able to go back to only big sprites in GS5 (if... it ever happens lol).
-I liked that all of the cases were connected! I do like the second and third cases in the other games, but most of the time it feels like there's one or two cases that have like... no relevance to the overall plot whatsoever.
The Bad:
-PINS ON LAPELS
-NOT ENOUGH VON KARMA
-I felt that Lance and Alba were comparatively kind of weak as villains. Lance was hateable and a douchebag but I don't feel like he was a compelling villain like Dahlia and Morgan were, and Alba was basically the fusion of Gant and The End from MGS3, except the obfuscating quirkiness that made the former an entertaining was replaced by obfuscation that wasn't as funny and a fuckton of smugness. And you couldn't set the DS's clock two weeks later and have him die of old age, so you had to go through all those fucking cross-examinations ugggggh.
-With that said, I don't think Alba was quite as bad as I was expecting; he did have a few funny moments and there were some parts of his character that I liked. I just... felt that he was kind of underwhelming as a final boss character, especially compared to von Karma, Gant, Matt, and Kristoph. Shih-na was a more entertaining character, and I think there was a lot of stuff that was kind of left a mystery with her, so it might have been better to have her as the final boss. Ah well, maybe she'll escape from prison and become the final boss of Ace Attorney Investigations: Franziska von KarmaSubpoena of the Patriots. WHICH NEEDS TO HAPPEN, Franziska and Lang are amazing and yeah I totally ship it.
-3 and 5 really dragged. I liked them but in both I was like END... END...! so I sort of rushed through the last parts. Maybe I should redo them in case there were any incredibly hilarious bits of dialogue I missed, but I was sure to press every statement for the characters I really liked.
-There is no fic for Badd/von Karma or Coachen/Palaeno. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, ACE ATTORNEY FANDOM. The former was... me being a fujoshi yeah but I've seen half the fanbase latch on to pairings based on less than that : ( The latter was like. Every time Palaeno started talking about the guy the DS started emitting rainbows from my screen! ...also Palaeno is disturbingly attractive when in serious mode and when seen from the front, man.
The Horrifying:
-PROTO BADGER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa
-Shih-na's villainous breakdown animation was only slightly more horrifying than Kristoph's post-Super Saiyan sprite in AA4. That makes it really fucking horrifying as opposed to just fucking horrifying. Those teeth! THOSE EYES! The unnatural neck motions! Dear God, Shih-na.
NOW IT IS TIME FOR POKEMON HGSS TOMORROW! I am so stoked.
The Good:
-MANFRED VON KARMA FUCK YEAH. He is so foxy in this game what the hell.
-Pretty much... all of the new characters, actually. Lang is Courage Wolf and Kay is amazing, fuck the haters. She... yeah she's totally a Mary Sue but I don't care, so is Yellow and Yellow is the best. Also Kay's mother's 'relatives' were totally Isaac and Miria from Baccano. My favorite minor-ish characters were Palaeno and Ernest Amano.
-Lady GagaShih-na. Fuck yeah. She is like lawyerverse Revolver Ocelot or something.
-I loved all the sprites oh man. Navigating could be frustrating sometimes but maaan I don't know if I'll be able to go back to only big sprites in GS5 (if... it ever happens lol).
-I liked that all of the cases were connected! I do like the second and third cases in the other games, but most of the time it feels like there's one or two cases that have like... no relevance to the overall plot whatsoever.
The Bad:
-PINS ON LAPELS
-NOT ENOUGH VON KARMA
-I felt that Lance and Alba were comparatively kind of weak as villains. Lance was hateable and a douchebag but I don't feel like he was a compelling villain like Dahlia and Morgan were, and Alba was basically the fusion of Gant and The End from MGS3, except the obfuscating quirkiness that made the former an entertaining was replaced by obfuscation that wasn't as funny and a fuckton of smugness. And you couldn't set the DS's clock two weeks later and have him die of old age, so you had to go through all those fucking cross-examinations ugggggh.
-With that said, I don't think Alba was quite as bad as I was expecting; he did have a few funny moments and there were some parts of his character that I liked. I just... felt that he was kind of underwhelming as a final boss character, especially compared to von Karma, Gant, Matt, and Kristoph. Shih-na was a more entertaining character, and I think there was a lot of stuff that was kind of left a mystery with her, so it might have been better to have her as the final boss. Ah well, maybe she'll escape from prison and become the final boss of Ace Attorney Investigations: Franziska von KarmaSubpoena of the Patriots. WHICH NEEDS TO HAPPEN, Franziska and Lang are amazing and yeah I totally ship it.
-3 and 5 really dragged. I liked them but in both I was like END... END...! so I sort of rushed through the last parts. Maybe I should redo them in case there were any incredibly hilarious bits of dialogue I missed, but I was sure to press every statement for the characters I really liked.
-There is no fic for Badd/von Karma or Coachen/Palaeno. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, ACE ATTORNEY FANDOM. The former was... me being a fujoshi yeah but I've seen half the fanbase latch on to pairings based on less than that : ( The latter was like. Every time Palaeno started talking about the guy the DS started emitting rainbows from my screen! ...also Palaeno is disturbingly attractive when in serious mode and when seen from the front, man.
The Horrifying:
-PROTO BADGER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa
-Shih-na's villainous breakdown animation was only slightly more horrifying than Kristoph's post-Super Saiyan sprite in AA4. That makes it really fucking horrifying as opposed to just fucking horrifying. Those teeth! THOSE EYES! The unnatural neck motions! Dear God, Shih-na.
NOW IT IS TIME FOR POKEMON HGSS TOMORROW! I am so stoked.