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Chrono Trigger

8/10

The pacing is weird - the investigations feel like they involve too much back-and-forth between annoying locations while the trial segments go a little bit too quickly. But other than that this is like - one of the most quintessential AA cases. It's one of the rare times that we ACTUALLY have Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Maya all together, it's the first case to have a really compelling murder mystery, the villain and the side characters are all great (Oldbag is awesome), and there's just so much classic, iconic AA stuff going on here. This was the case that made me fall in love with this game fully.

v_charon posted...

Chess
Monopoly
Scrabble
Sorry!

you should be

The problem with board games is that there's really three distinct eras of board games - the ancient ones that are universal (chess, go etc), the 'classics' that every family has in their closet (monopoly, clue) and the modern ones that are way better than the classics (catan and everything onward)

actually nevermind I'll just go with

Go
Chess
Checkers
Mancala

lol

trying to figure out if Dominion, Codenames, or 7 Wonders count as board games or not

I ain't fucking voting for Monopoly jesus christ

Water Sport Division
38 Slowbro
34 Crustle
33 Gligar
30 Zangoose
9 Lokix
-2 Runerigus
-8 Garbodor
-13 Bastiodon
-47 Beheeyem
-73 Bruxish

Electro Web Division
39 Drilbur
28 Mabosstiff
17 Sneasler
12 Dewgong
9 Koffing
6 Finizen
4 Fezandipiti
-21 Silicobra
-30 Pincurchin
-63 Purugly

Star of the Day: Drilbur
Wait, what??? DRILBUR won a division? It had two gen 1 mons in it even!

Dud of the Day: Runerigus
I dunno who to give this to but honestly I thought this guy would do a lot better

Fun fact: Bruxish is probably the most universally voted-on Pokemon so far with 38 out of 43 ballots weighing in, and that will probably hold true for all of one day until we get Enamorus's results in

Fun fact: You're all monsters what did Pincurchin do to you

TRIPLE DIVE
+3 Enamorus
+2 Buneary
+1 Carbink
-1 Crocalor
-2 Duosion
-3 Squawkabilly

HYPER BEAM
+3 Vivillon
+2 Sirfetch'd
+1 Falinks
-1 Oinkologne
-2 Chewtle
-3 Patrat

I have always found it really funny that for as much reputation as Edgeworth has for the 'updated autopsy report', that's literally a thing he only ever does once. 1-2 is the only time we see Edgeworth's darker side in real time - he gets so immediately cut down to size by the witnesses in 1-3 that we never really see it again. It's kind of a shame - one of the things 1-2 does incredibly well is just how QUICKLY it establishes Edgeworth as a character, that by the end of the case everyone who plays it is like, "he's objecting again? That's classic Edgeworth!"

That's what makes 1-1 and 1-2 so difficult for me to rate. They're weak, by comparison to the amazing heights that this series reaches pretty consistently starting immediately after this case, but they're undeniably effective at establishing the series.

Phoenix

Donkey Kong Country 2
Panel de Pon

That said the game probably does suck

Basically every Capcom game is getting review bombed to shit and back on Steam so it's probably worth taking with at least a little grain of salt

Fairy is my favorite type lol

I feel really bad for Togekiss getting handcuffed to Mime Jr

anyway gen 7 was an easy pick because it has my #1 favorite pokemon and #8 favorite pokemon of all time in it

Bounsweet is awesome, sorry

As far as rating on a 1-10 scale goes, you take whatever people decide to give you, whatever their criteria is. It's gonna be subjective, that's just how it is

4/10

It's a weird case. Mia's death is an awesome, shocking hook for the series to start off with, and the series in general starts to find its groove here in terms of writing. I really like the development of Phoenix and Maya's relationship. But the murder mystery is deeply lame, Redd White is such a lame villain for the position he has, and the ending to the case sucks, not because Mia comes back (that seemed dumb at the time but no longer does) but because Redd White giving up because of a list of names is silly and feels unearned.

For the record, yes, that is a valid Sneasler vote. too valid, really

Sand Tomb Division
69 Houndoom
40 Trevenant
16 Eelektross
10 Trapinch (Tiebreaker)
10 Herdier
8 Flaaffy
-19 Frillish
-31 Gimmighoul
-43 Bramblin
-60 Rellor

Max Darkness Division
42 Aggron
29 Banette
28 Wailord
21 Nidoqueen
11 Wobbuffet
9 Wo-Chien
-27 Bounsweet (Tiebreaker)
-27 Togedemaru
-32 Swanna
-52 Ambipom

I double-checked my numbers and they should be correct.

Star of the Day: Trevenant
I guess I could give it to Houndoom (nice) but we've had so few good results by anything later than gen 5 that it feels worth celebrating that Trevenant took a solid 2nd place here.

Dud of the Day: Togedemaru
Might be the worst performance we get out of an electric rodent, but there's still a few to come. This was a pretty tough division in my estimation but getting bounced by Bounsweet has to hurt.

Water Sport Division
+3 Bruxish
+2 Runerigus
+1 Crustle
-1 Gligar
-2 Garbodor
-3 Beheeyem

Electroweb Division
+3 Pincurchin
+2 Finizen
+1 Fezandipiti
-1 Drilbur
-2 Mabosstiff
-3 Koffing

3/10

I'm giving it like, two pity points here for a simple reason: I've never seen anyone play 1-1 and come away from it not wanting to immediately play more. It's a good tutorial and it introduces people to the game and people almost always enjoy it. That said, like, there's nothing here, really. It's got 'pilot episode' writing all over it. It'd be a 1/10 if not for the fact that I think it serves its purpose really well.

All toasters toast toast

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Mega Man X2

I'm not sure if I should rank stuff with the scale being 1 is "the worst Ace Attorney case" and 10 is "the best Ace Attorney case" or the scale being 1 is "a bad thing" and 10 is "a great thing"

Since probably none of the cases in the franchise are worse than like a 5/10 enjoyment

Earthbound
Mega Man 7

Yeah, but anyone who voted Pansear could have really been thinking of Pansage, too, so who can say?

By the way, there was a vote for Pansear that someone wrote as Pansage instead - I still counted it for Pansear instead of invalidating the ballot, but be careful not to type the name of another Pokemon lol

Houndstone was also really divisive, 16 positive votes, 12 negative votes, 13 neutral votes. All over the place

Gholdengo appeared on more ballots than Gyarados did! Gyarados had 29. (Almost universally positive.)

FLOATY FALL DIVISION

71 Entei
47 Vileplume
43 Litten
14 Meloetta
-8 Voltorb
-13 Mothim
-24 Klink
-29 Swalot
-42 Shiinotic
-59 Pansear

DARK VOID DIVISION

52 Gyarados
32 Lanturn
25 Wooper
12 Seviper
6 Houndstone
-13 Gholdengo
-14 Machop
-16 Vigoroth
-18 Malamar
-66 Igglybuff

Star of the Day: Vileplume
I could give it to Entei for that blowout, but raise your hand if you had Vileplume getting 47 points, even in a weak division.

Dud of the Day: Lanturn
I know I gave the other 2nd place finisher star, but you just won 'kill the gen 2 Pokemon', this is kind of a limp result considering!

Fun fact: Gholdengo is almost preposterously divisive, maybe the most divisive Pokemon so far. Out of 41 ballots he appeared on a whopping 30 of them, with exactly 15 positive votes and exactly 15 negative votes, left off of just 11 ballots.

SAND TOMB
+3 Eelektross
+2 Trapinch
+1 Flaaffy
-1 Herdier
-2 Houndoom
-3 Rellor

MAX DARKNESS
+3 Wo-Chien
+2 Nidoqueen
+1 Swanna
-1 Togedemaru
-2 Wobbuffet
-3 Ambipom

What makes this even more frustrating for me is that I LIKED the sokoban puzzles. Like, some people really don't enjoy the basic puzzle solving in this game but I actually did... THE FIRST TIME. Only on the first playthrough. After that? I was done with that shit. I didn't want to do the 'hard mode' puzzles and looked up a lot of solutions, and I really think the game would have been much better if there were even more shortcuts and more ways to hop around the game freely.

VintageGin posted...

Honestly though I just really love Ourer Wilds/The Witness/Tunic and I feel I've been chasing the same high I got from those games

Agreed, Outer Wilds is my #1 game of all time, The Witness is like a top 10-20 game, and Tunic is definitely a top 100 game for me also although I have some more problems with Tunic - I really wish that the powerup cards you find actually did more useful things, so that if you could solve the puzzle of 'what do they do' that could be a sort of alternate wincon to the game's otherwise unnecessarily hard combat - I don't know why the combat in the game is so hard if you can't solve it by figuring out the game's puzzles. Tunic is so good otherwise though so I kinda wish it was just the like 5% more of the way to being perfect

But yeah I am basically chasing after more games that are like Outer Wilds and The Witness which are both 10/10 games for me and unfortunately Void Stranger LOOKS like it's going to get there at times but it doesn't quite put it all together. Some of the ideas this game has are AWESOME but the whole package is frustrating

I did get to the brand room (pain in the ass, honestly I got halfway through figuring out the solution and then I was like, "okay I get it, I'm just gonna look it up now" because I was kinda over it) but I must have missed that somehow? I'm not sure how I missed that.

SirChris posted...

Have we really had like 5 finalists? wow gamefaqs stay winning.

Reaffirming Lea, the Queen of the North!

we have cultivated a culture of being really good at arguing vociferously while looking smart and being mostly correct, and that's what counts

Also technically I should say we were GameFAQs reps and not b8, I guess we get to speak for all of GameFAQs lol

Yeah I think if we're including Netflix shows my ranking of villains is Kilgrave 1, Kingpin 1a lol. Those guys both absolutely crushed their roles

As far as just the movies/Disney+ series go though Vulture's my fave, followed by I guess Thanos even though it's a boring answer but he IS really good

but Thanos is never as threatening or scary as Michael Keaton in the car. holy s h i t

wallmasterz posted...

Lea is a good choice.

Who has repped b8 before? Besides Chris and Sultan

Dels outright won season 4 of champs as the b8 rep, I was a finalist in season 5 as the b8 rep, but I am pretty firmly retired from mafia now and I don't think Dels is doing it anymore either lol

I wanna say we've had some other people be backups before, I think IGCD might have been in once? idk if I'm making that up though it's been a while since I've thought about champs

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

If you do actually wanna do it I'd support it

I still have to go back and finish this game but I'm still feeling dissatisfied with the fact that I accidentally looked up the answer for how to kill Tail but absolutely no amount of exploring the game OR cheating and looking stuff up is telling me how I was supposed to figure out how? so I don't even know if I'm sequence breaking. I've done all three characters' normal endings and I know I need to kill everyone and then go to floor 000 for some reason

This game is extremely cool but also deeply frustrating, I really don't know how to evaluate it

Anagram posted...

Don't. The only funny-bad part is the villain's ADR.

Not to be LMS, but I listened to a podcast the other day where they actually did have the take that Madame Web is a funny-bad masterpiece and I thought it was interesting since most people have been kinda 'whatever' about it

It's super funny to call David Tennant's character Purple Man because it's impossible to say Purple Man without sounding like you're giving a meme name to Thanos

Summation Examinations are fun, but I dunno, the jury just doesn't really hit for me for whatever reason.

Oh, well, you said what I was gonna say in the first post

Man

Oh I'm glad to hear you actually did kind of come around on it at the end, that's cool

Chrono Trigger
Kirby's Dream Land 2

Floaty Fall Division
+3 Meloetta
+2 Mothim
+1 Litten
-1 Pansear
-2 Klink
-3 Shiinotic

Dark Void Division
+3 Lanturn
+2 Wooper
+1 Seviper
-1 Vigoroth
-2 Houndstone
-3 Gholdengo

Defog Division
57 Snorlax
38 Groudon
35 Incineroar
16 Weezing
-2 Alcremie
-14 Magmar (Tiebreaker)
-14 Cinderace
-27 Exeggcute
-36 Unown
-53 Milcery

Malicious Moonsault Division
55 Flygon
42 Sandile
37 Weavile
24 Wooloo
23 Arbok
-9 Doublade
-16 Yamper
-40 Scream Tail
-45 Hoopa
-71 Clamperl

Star of the Day: Sandile
Neither division winner set their divisions on fire, so I'll give the nod to Sandile for a pretty solid performance for a gen 5 unevolved mon. It's no Joltik but pretty good!

Dud of the Day: Magmar
At this point, Cinderace is just doing par for the course for later-game starters, but Magmar put up one of the most lacking performances by a fully evolved gen 1 mon yet. Running 30 points behind Weezing?

andylt posted...

I think McGilded not hiring a lawyer is pretty silly given how quickly the jury defaults to guilty early in the case, and the Summation Examination presumably wouldn't have been thought of at all by anyone other than Susato. But late in the case, we see how adept he is at manipulating the jury and the public with his efficient dismantling and framing of Fairplay and Furst. My guess is he would've been perfectly competent defending himself, and would've initiated the tricks earlier on if necessary, but for some reason decides to take a backseat when Ryunosuke jumps on board.

Why he doesn't start causing drama when the jury is leaning guilty though, I dunno.

Yeah, like, McGilded seems like he was actually in pretty serious danger of things going against him. What the fuck was his actual plan here if he didn't have an attorney? I seriously don't get it? And this is NOT a minor issue with the case that can be handwaved away, imo - the entire CASE is about how McGilded masterminded this whole conspiracy, so if his master plan doesn't make sense from the very beginning it really puts a huge dent in the whole thing for me.