#if they localize amnesia: worlds for some fucking reason I will still buy it

[carcharsaur]

alright I finished another game, this time it's amnesia: crowd

^a succinct summary of my thoughts on this series as a whole this came out as a 2-in-1 pack on the switch last year, bundled with amnesia: later as both are follow-ups to the original amnesia: memories but I had to take a uh. almost 7 month break after finishing "later" because I literally have to build up an immunity to the parts of these games in particular that piss me off. but also I still really really like kent so I keep buying it LOL I'll put my deranged unfocused rambling under the cut though

my fav parts of this game were the "suspense" scenario things for ikki and kent, most the "work" scenarios and then like basically everything else is just "ehh" or actively grated me.... the after stories were weird also because some of them had to jump around to avoid overlapping with the after stories from "later" which for the most part I liked much better (for the characters I actually care about anyway). I'm too lazy to go into real gritty detail but a lot of stuff just felt regressive compared to the developments that happened in the first FD!?!? and I don't understand why.... it felt like suddenly they had to be a god-fearing christian game.. was there some controversy back in the day when they first were developing this for the vita LMAO it might just be I'm weary with it's... extremely stereotypical japanese 'demure woman vs voracious men' thing but it felt worse than normal. I think I might just spoiled from playing games that are as good as cupid parasite but also just most newer otome games being more comfortable with talking about sex in a way that doesn't feel fucking insane to me. there's making a nonsexual or asexual friendly mc/game and then there's "how are you alive" levels of airheaded unawareness that are just plainly grating.

I will hand it to this game that it finally did make my like ukyo more than I did through the first two games, where I thought he was just very "whatever" but despite the like... weirdass nature of "evil alter ego" they ended up resolving it in a way I think was pretty good and fully undid the initial game's thing about supernatural mental illness = inherent evil nature uh oh!!! but he still has hilarious joker mode sprites so it's still like. funny as hell but also taking itself seriously? at least I'm amused instead of completely checked out I still want toma to just die forever, hate his whole character and the dynamic he has with the heroine and I WONTTTT say more because I will write 3 paragraphs analyzing his character and tearing into how much I hate his fucking writing and how gross every bit of his execution feels. shin is still just unsatisfying as hell and actively frustrating at times (STOP BRINGING UP WHEN YOU WERE ALL 6 YEARS OLD YOU'RE LIKE 19-20 YEARS OLD MANN) also I'm still bearing a grudge on whoever did voice direction for the game because I'd never imagine kakihara would be so boring to listen to!!!!!! ikki was a little funny, sometimes good, but other times just... eyerolls forever and ever and less interesting than in the first FD and thennnn kent is still one of my fav LIs ever, to the point that I still don't know how someone that wrote him and his dynamic with the heroine and then also wrote the rest of these damn games... but his after story frustrated the fuck out of me. it wasn't necessarily ooc but just a couple of the narrative choices they made for it were unfitting and felt contradictory with the "later" route which is somehow still canon and so I was left kind of conflicted and frustrated with it.

the work scenarios were all cute though, and I enjoyed the really good side characters still being involved in the unlockable mini scenarios (except the New side character is just straight ass no question about it) but the minigames were tediously time consuming to get all of them unlocked =_= also kent was SO good in it that I wish his canon route had their coworker dynamic... instead of "math tutor to rival to lovers" LOL

and other than the ones I mentioned earlier, the "suspense" scenarios were just.... mehhh... and the fact I did enjoy kent and ikki's a lot leads me to think it's not just me. or it's just because I do not care for the other characters much LOL maybe both also the unlockable scene with orion, it's not outright 'wrong' sure but it's so fucking weird man. obviously gross bait. wish it wasn't there lmao

anyway taking a complete left turn, to me in my delusional mind palace they're a throuple with an adorable adopted child. or ikki is the mother👍

(the other half of this cg has all the other LIs pointedly avoiding holding hands with each other so this is real TO MEEE because ikki and kents dynamic is so fun forever also this:)

also, pointlessly, here's my fav clip

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

Ace Attorney has a lot of cases that are totally and entirely off the wall but I think the one that takes the prize for wildest case in the entire fucking series is the Inherited Turnabout. Sure there’s no animal witnesses but that is the only thing this case lacks.

It’s not even a standard flashback case no you’ve got flashback and present time all in one! You’re investigating the same case TWICE, eighteen years apart!

It’s the last case that Gregory defended, it’s the fucking DL-6 catalyst, von Karma got a penalty during it and was so hacked off he committed murder. It’s gotta be a case that befits the gravity of the situation—-NO IT’S A FUCKING DESSERT COMPETITION a guy goes “hey, I’m going to hold a contest to see who is the world’s best confectionary chef and award a prize” THIS IS WHAT VON KARMA COMMITTED MURDER OVER. And that’s not even all it is! There is so much happening in this case! Murder! Fake identities! Corporate espionage! Kidnapping! Extraordinarily shitty dads! Best dad Gregory Edgeworth! Prosecutorial corruption! And that’s just the flashback portion! Gregory’s teenage assistant, a weird kid who thinks that eating the notes he takes about the case will help his memory retain the information and this is the least weird thing in the entire case that he does this, is Miles’ cool uncle in the present! Miles’ daughter who he adopted in the prior game is there! So is Miles’ son who he adopts later in this game! I forgot both of the kids were there because there was so much going on!

We finally find out what’s a step up from Miles’ shady updated autopsy report and it’s an entirely made-up autopsy report! Made up because the body went missing! The body was there and then it wasn’t and they don’t find it again until eighteen years later! It was in the freezer! The defendant’s shitty family kicks his adoptive daughter out of the mansion and she spends eighteen years becoming a famous actress with enough money to buy back the mansion and then she goes down to the fucking bigass freezer to go “hey are those ice sculptures down here still intact?” and nobody’s been in the freezer for EIGHTEEN YEARS APPARENTLY because nobody ever found those or noticed THERE’S A DEAD BODY IN THE FREEZER until our homegirl did and she’s now got a literal cold case on her hands EIGHTEEN YEARS NOBODY LOOKED IN THE FREEZER this is your yearly reminder to clean out your freezer by the way

So you go through all that and then you’re like “how in the fuck is this very complicated dessert competition case connected to the rest of this game” BUT IT IS AND IT’S JUST AS COMPLICATED AS ANYTHING ELSE EVER IS there’s more murder! Amnesia!! Assassins! Doppelgangers! More fucking assassins! The least valid dog in this series! By the end of it you’re like “wow that all tied together frighteningly well considering the fact that it’s also FUCKING INCOMPREHENSIBLE” like the most efficient way to understand what is happening is to play the fucking game even if it takes you a week to do one case, because I cannot explain to you in words what all fucking happened and how it came together. There’s several more kidnappings and the absolute worst father and more amnesia! Everyone’s favorite circus is back in town! Lotta Hart is here for some reason! There’s cows! Lang accuses a thirteen-year-old of political assassination!

This game has it all, baby, everything but A GODDAMN LOCALIZATION and even if it got a localization now that’s just the curl of a finger on the monkey’s paw because you know the names would be way different/punnier/worse than the fan-translation ones and after we’ve spent this many years with those names god the fucking fallout as we suddenly are left with “official” answers and then inevitable wars over who prefers what and that’s BECAUSE WE’RE JAPANIFORNIA AND LIFE IS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE