Brandon at Gamer Professionals finds Ace Attorney to be lacking in a good narrative, and with the development of Ace Attorney 6 ongoing, is it time to let the main series go and pick some new main characters?
The Ace Attorney franchise is truly the little franchise that could, and with the next game coming via the Switch, we're counting down the best characters!
No Shelly de Killer? Well, it's hard enough making a top list of characters for this game, so I wouldn't hold it against him.
There were a lot of great characters I had to leave off sadly. Gumshoe, Franzika Von Karma, Klavier, Simon Blackquill! I didn't realize it would be this hard, but I had to make some tough decisions.
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One of the more unique video genres out there are visual novels. These 15 interactive stories can easily draw you in, and keep you hooked.
I just finished my first play (read?)-through of Steins;Gate. Really enjoyed it. It's often considered the highest point in the genre and with good reason. So, if you wanna see if you can enjoy these kinds of games, if the story of movies like Inception or games like Bioshock Infinite really grab you, than give it a shot.
Plus Steins Gate 0 gets its English translation released on PS4 and Vita next month.
There are enough visual novels I love on this list that I better check out the others.
Good critique of the story. I agree that the series has gone down somewhat downhill.
Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the phoenix wright games released out of order like professor layton was story wise I mean?
Shu Takumi (series creator, sole writer of AA123 and Ghost Trick) wanted to stop before it became a quote/unquote "Shadow of its former glory", more specifically when talking about Phoenix, but Capcom wanted more, and they proposed Takumi to write more Ace Attorney, so he's done all he could to avoid using Phoenix Wright (except he was forced to use him in some way in Apollo Justice) and because Ghost Trick bombed financially, he's no longer allowed to make original stuff, because Capcom lost money on it (apparently).
And now here we are with a bunch of less talented creative minds such as Eshiro, Yamazaki and a team of scriptwriters and third party-talent taking over Phoenix Wright... that 4+ writers can't even top what Takumi did with the first 3 games (or Ghost Trick for that matter) is a testament to what a unique talent Shu Takumi is.
And for some reason Capcom US consistently decides to give us the Non-Takumi games in the west even though I'm pretty sure The Great Ace Attorney will be better than AA6, in the same way that Dual Destinies is an inferior games (in many ways) to Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, and that was an Ace Attorney game hampered by watered-down Layton-sections (compared to your typical Professor Layton game.)
Needless to say, I don't have a lot of admiration or respect for the new Ace Attorney team that doesn't have Takumi. I've played AAI, AAI2 and Dual Destinies, and though I felt DD was an improvement in overall enjoyment and level of character dialogue, it fell short especially in how formulaic its plot was and how horrid the execution of the main themes were (It sure dabbles a lot around in "Dark Age Of The Law" when we never really see its effect), and I despite a lot of fans saying AAI2 is some sort of Masterpiece, I did not feel it. It suffered from the same character-bloat and lack of charm as the original AAI did, even if its ultimate plot was a good bit better. (way too convoluted, even by AA standards)
So yes, needless to say. I share the viewpoint that Ace Attorney HAS become a shadow of its former glory, and I just hope Capcom eventually lets Takumi make his own franchise again, and hopefully Takeshi Yamazaki stays far away from it. (who is a fanboy of everything Takumi does, just look at AA6 in concept as opposed to DGS or PLvPWAA. Convenient timing huh?)
I loved Apollo Justice and Dual Destinies, and I'm very excited for AA6. And although I haven't played it, a lot of people who played the AAI2 fan translation say it's the best of the entire series.
Maybe the original trilogy was the best, but to me, that doesn't make the newer games bad.
I can't really see much of a diminishing value with the sequels. It does what the game has always done: keep me on my toes in suspense. The games try to do something unique story and gameplay wise.