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Mar. 30th, 2020 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graveexcitementever since our schools closed (first for Spring Break, then for covid-19 reasons), my brother has been pressing me to continue my Ace Attorney playthrough, which i've been doing! we've been playing ace attorney, off and on, since 2018 -- i finished the first 2 games that year, and then it took me... over a year to finish game 3, lmao. (by which i mean, early last year we stopped in the middle of game 3 case 2, and we finally picked it back up this month.)
i say "we" -- my brother has already played the series, but he watches me play to vicariously experience the series again. we trade those roles (player and watcher/adviser) back and forth for many of the single player games we enjoy.
i finished game 3, Trials and Tribulations, yesterday! it was quite fun. also, the version of the game we played was the iPad app, which is... ahem... hilariously bad sometimes. (my brother claims that the apps for the later games are fine. it's just the app for games 1-3 that's bad.) they're not game-breaking glitches; mostly just typos, glitches in evidence descriptions, occasional kerning issues (???), and other bizarre text errors. these glitches are funny, but do break the mood at times.
he's now having me play Ace Attorney Investigations, which is great because you play as edgeworth. today i played the first case; was sorta tutorial-y, but still fun. also i have edgeworth's pursuit theme, "Lying Coldly," in my head now. ace attorney music is just so good...
(my brother also showed me this edgeworth meme, and i can't get over it)
as i mentioned earlier, my brother and i regularly swap roles on who plays games and who watches; he's recently begun playing Your Turn to Die, possibly because he noticed i was getting a little tired of being pressured to play Ace Attorney all the time and i tend to enjoy playing "his" games more when there's some reciprocity (as there was when he played Zero Escape and i played Hollow Knight.)
he's just reached the second Main Game, and is currently predicting Nao will die and maybe Sou. i'm curious to see who he will choose in the end (i'm guessing he'll save Sou, because -- in his words -- "Sou is simultaneously S Tier and F Tier.")
Reko lived in his first ("canon") save file; he did like Alice a lot, so i let him know afterward how to save him instead; he has another file prepped with that, but for now is continuing on the "Reko lives" route.
some of his very first impressions were that Mishima has "all kinds of 9th man energy" (accurate given his first death status), that Sou was "green Kokichi" (also fair), and that Kai would be like Maki (somehow identifying the assassin at first sight lmao). he did encounter the Q-taro bad end, and his opinion of him has been "fuck that guy" ever since.
he says he won't be playing any of chapter 3 until all of it is out. i myself have yet to play Chapter 3 Part 1-A, but i might soon (maybe after my brother finishes chapter 2.)
of course, this means my brother will very shortly be done with YTTD (which means he'll have played all of the Danganronpa-Zero Escape-Your Turn to Die "death game" trifecta! he's been a DR fan for nearly as long as i have, so i'm glad that over the last 6 months he's finally played the other two series (he did enjoy ZE; i think he likes YTTD's story & chars, but is less impressed with some of its mechanics/minigames/horror flavor.)
i still have... 5 more ace attorney games to go, i think? the two investigations, then the second trilogy... which i do look forward to, but i also currently want to read Wrightworth fic without getting spoiled, lmao. maybe if i carefully filter out anything tagged with a later game or characters from games i haven't played yet...?
other than AA, i've been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which is exactly as fun and addicting as we've always expected an Animal Crossing game for the Switch would be. i've recently upgraded to an actual resident services building (including Isabelle!) i named my villager Kokichi, and my island Kibou, because (despite my brother's objections), naming it after SDR2's Jabberwock Island just would be too tonally dissonant for animal crossing, lmao
that's about it for games blogging, i might be back later this week with a school/life post or a tabletop RPGs post, or maybe not.
what games have y'all been playing?
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