Lurker > Paratroopa1

I may be slow to post results over the next week by the way, if someone else gets to them that's fine. Between April 3-7 I won't be posting results at all so either someone can pick them up or I will do them when I get back

7/10

Way overhated! Falls into the upper half of AA cases pretty comfortably for me. Yeah, I found the murder silly the first time I played too but hot take: the circus is fun actually? The cast is entertaining, Acro is a great villain, and it's just all-around classic Ace Attorney. There are only five cases in the original trilogy where we get Phoenix and Maya together for the whole thing, and this is one of them, so it's worth appreciating for that alone imo. Still love Franziska too. I dunno, I think this case is great (it's a 7 because the competition at the top is really tight).

Nothing was really worth giving dud to. Aipom sucks

Busy today so I'll post results without waiting for tiebreaker votes

Focus Energy Division
75 Krookodile
51 Pikachu
16 Marill
4 Pikipek
-4 Chimchar (Tiebreaker?)
-4 Cryogonal (Tiebreaker?)
-15 Cottonee
-20 Surskit
-25 Basculin
-78 Smoochum

Astral Barrage Division
34 Mewtwo
31 Centiskorch
29 Murkrow (Tiebreaker?)
29 Chien-Pao (Tiebreaker?)
22 Floatzel
-10 Spinarak
-17 Klefki
-26 Grumpig
-37 Aipom
-55 Conkeldurr

Star of the Day: Krookodile
I would have given it to Centiskorch if he pulled it out but Krookodile looks like a serious contender. Only got two -1's (and one of them was me lol)

Dud of the Day: Mewtwo
Won the division but kind of a shaky result! Sure, much stronger division overall than Krookodile's but Mewtwo ended up being too divisive to really open up a gap.

rest in piss

DIAMOND STORM
+3 Dracozolt
+2 Iron Moth
+1 Applin
-1 Gabite
-2 Ursaring
-3 Pansage

TACHYON CUTTER
+3 Cherrim
+2 Latios
+1 Ducklett
-1 Capsakid
-2 Staravia
-3 Arctibax

I was honestly half-wondering if everyone who said Dire Dire Docks REALLY meant Jolly Roger Bay, which I feel is almost inarguably more iconic, lol

The only way DDD is sort of iconic is that it's one of the only levels you HAVE to enter in a speedrun, otherwise it's pretty clearly a filler level

I've gone the other way on this and accepted that going digital IS the future - but the future also involves consistently ensuring that games that come out are fully preserved [under the purview of the law] so that we won't lose them

The more and more stuff on digital storefronts gradually comes down the less I worry and the more I just accept that [buying games secondhand] will just be the standard policy in the future

I think we have at least one vote for 12 of the 15 main stages now which I find very funny

Yeah, your reactions so far are similar to mine. I think the character designs in this game are actually quite good, but the animation is unfortunately very lacking - but I can't blame them too much because I think there's just one artist responsible for basically the entire game and they did a phenomenal job regardless.

The use of magic in the game is cool. I really like how the entries for spells read like D&D entries and that provides you with a lot of information you can use to find contradictions in.

We HAVE to be getting a new F-Zero for the Switch 2 right?

Erecting huge shitty Mount Rushmores to classic metal albums in front of the bridge supports would have been one way to prevent this accident, I suppose

I would never have guessed that Ekans and Shroomish had a link they shared

Calling Ini down to earth is extremely funny though

Yeah, I think this is in contention with 3-4 for the least funny AA case.

19 was not dud enough for me to give dud to Bidoof, not with Blastoise eating all the votes

Flame Wheel Division
62 Blastoise
23 Misdreavus
19 Bidoof
14 Riolu
9 Politoed
7 Natu
-21 Shroomish
-26 Ekans
-33 Ferroseed
-54 Silvally

Belch Division
43 Charmeleon
31 Drifblim
29 Chikorita
13 Hitmonchan
6 Dhelmise
-7 Inkay
-10 Amoonguss
-14 Beldum
-31 Swirlix
-60 Magby

Star of the Day: Blastoise
Blastoise looks, unsurprisingly, like a real contender to go far in the contest.

Dud of the Day: Ekans
Not that Ekans was ever a wildly popular Pokemon in gen 1, but Shroomish topping Ekans might be the most surprised I've been by a result to date. Bonus dud of the day goes to Silvally, who they really tried to make a popular Pokemon and BOY did it not take.

7/10

It's solid. I like Franziska on day 1 a lot - the thing about her being taken the most seriously here is definitely true. I generally like the mystery about the bullet hole in the screen and stuff. And obviously the twist at the end is fun. What I find less great are the pretty dry investigation sequences (I think this case unfortunately suffers a lot from locking Maya up) and the fact that really the only thing you prove to show that Ini Miney is guilty is that she didn't see Pearl in the hallway, which felt like a really lame contradiction to pin her down with. Also never really getting to confront Morgan Fey just feels wrong.

Every new Aang is more cursed than the last

Just kidding the first Aang was the most cursed

Xtlm posted...

It's like I've stepped back in time

to another world, when you can be mine

Bob-omb Battlefield
Whomp's Fortress
Jolly Roger Bay
Cool, Cool Mountain

I don't know, just feels right

MrSmartGuy posted...

"Oh, Flinhart is speaking with my mo- my mentor right now."

OK, either my dreams are dead immediately, or this is even better than I could've imagined.

lol

I hope you like it enough to justify a playthrough topic! I've hyped it up as "it's better than Apollo Justice at least" and I know that's still kind of a high bar

Donkey Kong Country 2

I want a crossover between Shamspeare and the dancing security guard from Ghost Trick

My hot take is that the three most iconic pieces of vgm are the Overworld theme from SMB, the Underground theme from SMB, and the Underwater theme from SMB

I know right, can you believe it? A two day case, in Great Ace Attorney?

FOCUS ENERGY
+3 Pikachu
+2 Marill
+1 Cottonee
-1 Krookodile
-2 Smoochum
-3 Chimchar

ASTRAL BARRAGE
+3 Floatzel
+2 Klefki
+1 Chien-Pao
-1 Mewtwo
-2 Aipom
-3 Conkeldurr

Also thought of you right away FFD. I can't even imagine.

By the way, if this is data anyone wants, I do have complete ledgers of every vote cast so far, including from days that have already purged. I'm not really planning to use it, but if someone DOES want to see it, it exists.

Rocket

BTW forgot to mark the Aurorus/Braviary tiebreaker as also unresolved, Aria hasn't gotten back to me yet

I was sitting on yesterday's results but then i was like what the fuck ever it's a race for last place it doesn't affect anything lol

Octazooka Division
54 Marowak
42 Kingambit
40 Braviary
40 Aurorus
3 Blissey
-27 Iron Boulder
-29 Glimmet
-31 Mr. Mime
-41 Unfezant
-51 Crabominable

Pain Split Division
43 Serperior
29 Tatsugiri
7 Cyclizar
5 Beartic
3 Deerling
-5 Fidough
-11 Deino
-16 Stantler
-22 Urshifu
-33 Woobat

Star of the Day: Kingambit
Hey, finally gen 9 getting some decent results! Kingambit and Tatsugiri repping gen 9 well by taking two second-place spots. And hey, even Iron Boulder and Glimmet avoided elimination. Gen 9 has definitely been taking it on the chin this contest so this was a pretty good result for it.

Dud of the Day: Urshifu
Oh man that is an embarrassing result for a Pokemon that gets a whole DLC spotlighting it.

Pika Papow Division
44 Giratina
35 Sigilyph
16 Tandemaus
8 Iron Valiant
-7 Zweilous
-12 Bagon
-19 Iron Hands
-21 Mantyke
-22 Crabrawler (Tiebreaker?)
-22 Trubbish (Tiebreaker?)

Amnesia Division
36 Lucario
32 Rockruff
29 Butterfree
28 Quilava
12 Scolipede
-2 Boltund
-19 Trumbreak
-21 Azelf
-41 Spinda
-54 Regidrago

Extremely tight race at the bottom of one divison, and a pretty tight race at the top of another.

Star of the Day: Sigilyph
Giratina's win feels a little bit too expected to me, but Sigilyph's performance is impressive, especially for a fairly abstract and not frequently used mon.

Dud of the Day: Scolipede
I really thought Scolipede would do a lot better than 5th in a division? Kind of a flat performance for something I thought would be semi-strong.

Fun fact: I'm pretty confident that -22 is the highest bottom score yet. Also, congrats to the future paradox mons for both surviving somehow! I think Iron Valiant might be the first one with a positive score.

4/10

It's overhated. Maggey is good, Wellington is a fun villain, and the whole Phoenix has amnesia thing is kinda funny for a quick throwaway tutorial plot. The writing is significantly better than 1-1 - this is classic AA at its full stride, not pilot-episode AA - and the trick with the phone at the end is clever enough.

But yeah there isn't really a whole lot to judge this on, it's pretty short.

Mega Man X2

FLAME WHEEL
+3 Natu
+2 Politoed
+1 Shroomish
-1 Bidoof
-2 Silvally
-3 Ferroseed

Not a whole lot I really wanted to - here

BELCH
+3 Chikorita
+2 Swirlix
+1 Charmeleon
-1 Amoonguss
-2 Magby
-3 Hitmonchan

Easily the weakest division yet for me, there's just nothing here that I would have given a + to under normal conditions

Hot take: Meekins is good in this case and the Meekins part of court is great

9/10

For whatever reason, it doesn't really have that 'quintessential AA feeling' that the other cases from the first game have - it occupies a really strange place, being from the first Ace Attorney game we all played but clearly not of its game - but also not really of any game. Just a standalone case that really has a completely unique feeling to it. It's great, regardless - one of the most thorough and expansive murder mysteries in the entire franchise, with a well-written cast and some great moments. Some pacing issues do cause it to get kind of memory holed for me and there are some minor Edgeworth characterization issues but I can mostly overlook them.

Leonhart4 posted...

Phoenix calmly reading the DL-6 case file during the recess right after Edgeworth has confessed to the crime might be low key one of his baddest moments.

It's my favorite Phoenix moment. Like, it's the defining moment of Phoenix's entire character for me.

OCTAZOOKA
+3 Serperior
+2 Tatsugiri
+1 Cyclizar
-1 Beartic
-2 Woobat
-3 Urshifu

PAIN SPLIT
+3 Aurorus
+2 Blissey
+1 Unfezant
-1 Kingambit
-2 Crabominable
-3 Mr. Mime

when you hear the initial leadup to the objection theme, I just sat and listened to it for a while, and I'm glad I did because I didn't really get as many opportunities in this case as I thought I would

It's fucking wild, like, in a normal story the spirit medium would be disgraced because she couldn't spirit channel (for some reason) and everyone thought she was a fraud and that spirit channeling was fake, but no, the spirit channeling WORKED, they DID talk to the victim, but the victim's information wasn't able to solve the murder, and NOT EVEN because he didn't know, because everyone believed him about Yanni Yogi being the killer anyway, but because they were able to get Yanni Yogi off on an insanity plea? THAT'S why she's disgraced? it makes NO FUCKING SENSE

9/10

There's only two cases I'm gonna give a 10/10 to and this ain't it

It is good though, like 1-3 it's just got so much iconic AA stuff in it and while some aspects of the mystery don't make a ton of sense (von Karma's motivations are weird, the thing about Misty Fey being disgraced makes NO sense) but the character beats are flawless and that's what really counts here.

Raka_Putra posted...

Chairs at empty tables

this is what I meant to say, I dunno why I said and

Chairs and Empty Tables

You Don't Know Jack

ctesjbuvf posted...

Poor Rhydon doing just fine in a decent division and somehow getting turd of the day for it.

Idk what else to give it to, everything that's supposed to do bad is doing bad, lol

Vivillon is adorable, one of my fave mons (I don't care about the gimmick)

Triple Dive Division
35 Victini
30 Honedge
24 Zygarde
15 Buneary
9 Crocalor
-1 Cetoddle
-3 Squawkabilly
-13 Carbink
-18 Duosion
-78 Enamorus

Hyper Beam Division
46 Vivillon
42 Sirfetch'd
37 Falinks
23 Rhydon
15 Girafarig
-4 Sealeo
-18 Oinkologne
-34 Chingling
-51 Patrat
-56 Chewtle

Star of the Day: Vivillon
Very diverse generational representation at the top of these lists today! Lot of strong performances but Vivillon winning its division stands out.

Dud of the Day: Rhydon
Jeez, gen 1 slipping today.

Fun fact: My +3 is the only thing keeping Enamorus from going under -80, lol. Me and Luster are the only ones who gave her a + oh no (yes, it is actually my favorite Pokemon in that division)

Didn't quite have the most ballots though, 33 out of 40. But I'm pretty confident it has the most -3s yet - 22 of 40 ballots gave it a -3!