Lurker > SeabassDebeste

going postal is the only pratchett i've read but it's a delight!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

gumshoe has yet to appear in anything set in the main timeline post-AA3 - but he does show in the edgeworth games!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

if you're willing to sail the seas for AAI2, then i'd say go for the two AAI games next. if you're not going to play AAI2 then i'd skip AAI1 and go for professor layton vs phoenix wright, and then spirit of justice.

i forgot there was a DLC case coming up - hyyyyype
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Llarian posted...

I'm starting to think my lame robot idea was better than this crap.

there's definitely some fun stuff in here, but i agree that the actual part where it comes to finally unmasking the phantom is lackluster
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great stretch you're in here, loving this recap! the robots' rules about only recognizing clothing are a really cool twist

and yeah, apollo hype
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the flashback images are really awesome for this case

also i vastly preferred the 2D sprites, but glad you're having fun with this

edgeworth definitely elevates the stakes of 5-5 by a ton
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this investigation is so funky and cool
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

5-4 actually letting you exonerate your client without finding the murderer is fucking brilliant. it's pretty much the only part of the case i really like, but it's so good.

enjoy 5-5 - everyone's got lots of feels on that one
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happy birthday!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

this investigation is making me thirsty
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ponco so great
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Llarian posted...

I have a distinct memory of someone, maybe a friend or family member, was convinced his name was 'Lunchpack'.

this was me 100%

might have thought it was "lunchbag" though
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Leonhart4 posted...

so it's weird they play it up for laughs at times

i mean it's AA so it's not that surprising!
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congrats! 5-3 really is a nice case, though i feel it dragged a little bit at the end
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Llarian posted...

Prof. Means claims to have finished the Phoenix Wright sculpture in 1.5 hrs, which, despite the casual treatment in-game, is absolutely hauling. You can clearly see the armature that Robin created, which is larger than life-size. You can see the big bag of clay - which needs at least a day or so to cure, and you can smooth/shape the slightly dry clay then. This is typically before firing, but obviously we don't have time for that since the concert was the next day.

Creating sculptures like the ones we saw on the stage, that are not only done but painted, would take quite some time and would not only be an additive process [e.g., adding clay only where you need it and not taking any off]. This took me out of the case almost completely. It was too much suspension of disbelief. It clearly wasn't air-dry compound either, because why would they leave the bag open if not for the player's benefit of knowing story details? Hrgh.

tell us how you really feel!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Llarian posted...

I always love these villain sprite transformations. That process of starting to suspect someone, then their sprite starts getting nervous, then angry or frustrated, then the full-on transformation. It's one of many things I love about this franchise.

yesss. frank sahwit taking off his toupee was one of the seminal moments of the series
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Llarian posted...

I'm Llarian, and I'm FINE!!

preemptive cringe

also hugh being 25 is hilarious and kinda creepy!
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the cough augh
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

courtroom revolutionnaire and confess the truth 09 so good

the other two AA songs are kinda ??? though - like the 2015 list more!
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yeah i guess i don't watch enough anime with traps in it to catch it!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Llarian posted...

Heaven help us, I actually sorta predicted an Ace Attorney plot twist.

very astute! i don't know of anyone else who caught this.
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yeah, been getting a lot of em. grendels, behemoths, now ruby dragons... and i can't run from em! starting to use card when i can now.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i've got zell and rinoa, yeah

i also have enc-none which thankfully actually works here, though maybe i should get a taste of it?
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Leonhart4 posted...

Support Mag RF is the one you need. Not sure which GF has that one off the top of my head.

i do have that ability. guess i just don't have enough shell stones or whatever materials to refine!
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aw yeah bahamut get

that was a very cool enemy. i thought i'd have to do it alone with squall (neither magic nor item is junctioned), but bahamut had full-life available to draw, so i just did that to revive zell and rinoa at the beginning, then a few more times later

everyone's offense was the same: drawing on bahamut's own flare attack. his megaflare hurt though.

how do i refine all my favorite magics to junction that i've just used? shell, reflect, protect, etc?
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ok so i got to the center, and a ruby dragon challenged me... over... and over... and over...

the dialogue now appears always to be the same - "why do you fight?" - and both options (none of your business/to protect something) keep resulting in more fights that lead to the same conversation

battles are getting tedious. rinoa and zell are both dead so i am just casting meteor and recovering repeatedly until the dragon's HP is low enough to Card

anything i'm missing?
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i got into the lab and slaughtered a dozen+ anaconduars, but i can't figure out what angle i should touch the light from

enc-none doesn't seem to work, huh
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wow

beset by an enemy right after TURN BACK, ALL FORWARD IS DEATH...

... and odin immediately appears and wastes them

amazing!
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cactuar get

the 10k needles is one thing i remember from discussing this game way back when. arduous fight!

is there a healing pod on ragnarok or will i have to waste a tent/go back to the balamb garden to heal?

(edit) also re: deep sea lab, i see nothing southwest of centra?
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MrSmartGuy posted...

one of the best defendants ever,

in my mind, i don't think this often, but you're absolutely right. damian tenma is fucking awesome!
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i love the story behind tenma taro!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so i went to odin's little castle. love the design here, dislike the tonberry enemies (which don't even give exp?!)

there's a little bit of rote push-the-switch backtracking, which i honestly enjoy. at the end, it results in a duel with the pretty awesome-looking odin, and i'm not sure he ever even lays a hand on me. i wind up stealing a luck-J scroll...

... but i'm not sure i even have him in the GF menu. what gives?
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congrats! looking forward to reading more!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

been a rough few weeks for this, but i wi return to it!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

5-2 day 1 is tbf probably his best court day though!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

Llarian posted...

Is it just me, or is Simon Blackquill an interesting mix of 19th century British literature tropes and samurai/Japanese culture of the same time period?

yup!
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Llarian posted...

The game doesnt acknowledge this at all - or at least, not so far.

let them be, jeez!
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MartinFF7 posted...

....it's been 5 months, how is your playthrough still going, lol.

Actually come to think of it, did you ever finish FF7...

i average under 2 hours recorded game a week <_<

but yeah, i finished ff7 in about a month. it was the beginning of quarantine and i had way less other stuff to do then, and honestly it was a much more conventional game so i poured in many more hours in a short period of time!

Leonhart4 posted...

Get Odin from the Centra Ruins

You can also grab a few other GFs first if you'd like, but Odin is the only must.

yeah, i definitely wanted to visit the centra ruins

where should i hunt other GFs?

also any comment on the time-worthiness of the card games is welcome!
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oh thanks for the bump

i'm just not sure how much work will be involved to go further into the card game rabbit hole

it sounds nice to have everyone's character card, but after getting pasted like 5 times straight by edea (and losing good cards every time, causing me to reset the console), i'm suspecting there is at least like a 2-3 hour commitment in order to get to the card queen and get her to install reasonable rules

am i wrong here

aside from card game and the GF sidequest, is there anything else i must do before continuing on with lunatic pandora?
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

5-2 is where it's at! excited for this one!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

wait so the queen of cards subplot isn't over, right? what's the actual next step? i beat quistis and it didn't trigger anything
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i read up exactly what plus does, but yeah, i just don't have the patience to stare through all the possibilities when planning my move. i can look for opportunities to use plus when it's actually my turn, but i'm never trying to set something up

don't think i have a very good chance at beating edea while random exists, so i might just be moving on for now.

my guesses:

- squall: no idea
- rinoa: her dad
- irvine: no idea
- selphie: her garden?
- quistis: have it
- zell: his adoptive parents
- edea: have to beat her, which is impossible

maybe it's best i just move on to looking for odin again
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

okay, enough for today. i got seifer from cid, but couldn't get edea from herself. the random rule absolutely sucks.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so i drew with quistis, and then she told me to meet her upstairs. i went and beat her, but no text was triggered. did i have to beat her during her visit?
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

....... okay, so it was quistis, as expected.

but she wouldn't show up normally. she's wearing black leather and visiting squall alone in bed.

welp, here we go.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i just read the first spoiler and wow i just got annihilated by joker in the garden. lost the quistis card. whoops!
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k yeah, now i'm lost for sure. which of the spoiler bars should i try first? (last thing to happen was beating xu)
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so i talked to most of the characters again and the doctor says she WAS the former king, and that now some girl is the king.

thought for sure it was quistis. she knew that xu played cards, and all her groupies play cards. but... nope.

also "plus" just got added and i have no idea how it works.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

this miniquest is pretty great! the spade guy was, of course, the dude sitting in the 2F hallway. and he alludes to HER... which must be xu!

i assume cid is the boss since many have brought him up. also assume he has the edea card?
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this is pretty neat. i've fought the garden's pilot, the doctor, quistis's groupies (who gave me a quistis card?!)

just beat jack and club. not sure where to move on to the next 4-5 of these guys!

(edit) didn't expect those girls in front!
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