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As an Ace Attorney fan, I knew this was coming. On Switch, at least. It took me by surprise to see that the original trilogy of Ace Attorney games (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Justice For All, and Trials & Tribulations) would also be released on Playstation 4, Xbox One, AND Steam! Best of all it's planned for a worldwide release in early 2019! That was another surprise: how quick the localization was confirmed since the gap between the Japanese announcement of 2014's 3DS ports and the announcement of localized 3DS ports. The official English trailer for the new ports went up not long after this year's presentation at Tokyo Game Show.
Despite being promised "unmissable" content, there wasn't much new at the recent panel, disappointing a handful of fans. While I am slightly disappointed, I am looking forward to getting these ports because they do look pretty damn good if I'm honest. The best looking ports so far. It features updated artwork that's been used in the recent ports, which I'll be honest looked like total garbage in the iOS version, but improved in the 3DS despite that system being 240p. Now they look even better. While the health bar looks weird (no longer using the five-strike exclamation point system for the first game this time it seems), it's not too big of an issue. The UI looks alright for the most part. The text box looks pretty basic, yet fitting. But that's enough about how it looks. I'm sure the games will have the same quality. Perhaps more typos and errors will be fixed? It's looking like we'll be able to switch between Japanese and English as well. But honestly, I kind of want features from modern Ace Attorney to show up in ports one of these days. For example, jumping to a specific point of an episode you select, a system that allows hints for easier investigations (think the "Notes" system from Dual Destinies and Spirit Of Justice), galleries of CGs for evidence and events that occur during the games, perhaps a music player (like in the Layton series), perhaps even fix the penalty system from Justice For All so Pysche-Lock health and courtroom health are no longer combined (think Trials & Tribulations), and there are probably more things that could be done but that's all I'm going to list. Even if it doesn't have a handful of these things, I still look forward to trying these out.
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I just finished watching Space Dandy recently and I'll be honest, the entire show has been a mixed bag. There have been some really good episodes and others are just okay and a few plain boring. It also doesn't help that I'm not a huge fan of its style and what it tries to do. Anyways, Space Dandy follows a not-very-successful and pervy alien hunter by the name of Dandy, along with a vacuum-cleaner robot named QT and an alien nicknamed Meow. Together, the three of them end up getting into all kinds of trouble trying to catch aliens. On paper, this is an interesting concept, but how Space Dandy tries to tell its story is why this show suffers.
This show does not have a clear plot. Each episode seems to take place in its own world. One episode will follow Dandy and his crew doing one thing and the next can be something completely different, usually ignoring anything that happened in any previous episodes whether their stories were actually resolved. Since this is the formula for the show there's not a lot to talk about unless I cover specific episodes and I'm too damn lazy to do that. Like I said, not all plots in the show have been cleared up. Despite that, a lot of them end with a "To Be Continued", which is really dumb, honestly. Every now and then there will be continuity and of plots that were never even truly wrapped up. I honestly found that real annoying. At the end of the show, they try to connect everything which I don't really like considering how the show had been presented to me. This show could have been a lot better with a different formula, but the way it is, Space Dandy is just a mediocre show. I have no way of knowing how long I'll even be here in the future or where I'm even going to be. Who knows, I could disappear at any time and none of you would know whether I was alive or dead. I have disappeared like this before and have cause worry, so I apologize in advance in case it ever actually does happen again. Perhaps one day, circumstances will prevent any of you from being able to contact me and maybe the other way around would be true too. I have no control over how things are going to turn out. Obviously none of us do. We just have to face whatever's coming our way even if it's complete bullshit. I'm not planning to just leave, but I'm just saying it could happen, whether I want it or not.
But just in case anything does happen, I just want to say I'm grateful for all the friends I've made on Twitter, Discord, and YouTube and hell, even Yoyogames way back in the day. Not that too many from the last one still talk to me. It's nice to know that people actually care about my existence, even if I am the type to burn someone's house down in Minecraft in a stupid prank. I appreciate all of you for being around and putting up with me. Some of you I've known longer than the rest and I've seen how you've changed over the years, whether I think most of you improved or digressed, I'll just keep that to myself. But truly, thanks for interacting with me and entertaining me with your own bullshit (and I don't mean bad bullshit here). But most of all thanks for talking to me since I don't have that many IRL friends anymore. I've lost a lot of the things I used to have. But even so, I've kept moving on as a background character in someone else's story. I no longer feel like a protagonist. Heck, sometimes it's easy to feel like I don't have a place in this world because society is setup in a way that's not for people like me. I'm not extroverted enough to talk to too many people and I'm not good with mornings. There's not a whole lot I'm good at. Anything I think I might have a shot at, I lose motivation for pretty quickly, so a lot of my projects end up unfinished. It's unfortunate. But even with what a mess I am, I still plan to keep going. So don't worry too much about me here. Who knows? Maybe I'm worrying too much about everything right now. I might wake up tomorrow and things will be fine or the world will be on fire. You just never know what tomorrow holds. I don't know how many of you I'll talk to the next day or which of you, I'll be talking to. Although, there are different regulars at different points in time, it seems. Anyways, if I ever disappear and there's no way to contact me, that isn't going to mean I'm dead. Even if I end up at a point where I can't access my other devices, I should at least have my phone and I'll post to Twitter from there. However, my phone's old as fuck so I can't send more than 140 characters and I won't be able reply of your replies, even if I set my phone to see them. Well, I don't know what's going to happen but I'm not too confident in the future. Hopefully that will change soon. |
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