#im actually dogshit at this game

[jerrsterrr]

you'll never guess what game i picked up again

heheh

[chiangyorange]

the chain but on a scale of who says hooray yippee and wahoo

is this anything.

[puhpandas]

I treat fnaf theorists on YouTube like how wreck it ralph treated turbo like I watch a fnaf theorist that looked promising on the outside start making content farm videos and go "you're not going matpat are you"

[spite-of-the-grifter]

Look.

Ace Attorney fandom.

I know why people don't like Turnabout Bigtop. I am among the people who dislike Turnabout Bigtop.

But I GET why people like the case. I'm not going to be one of those annoying people who just blindly dump on it because I hate those mfs too.

Thing about Bigtop isn't that it sucks. Thing isn't the weird grooming stuff (though that is a huge part of it). It's not that it could've been good.

It's that - in my personal OPINION - it could have been *great*.

I think it had the potential to be one of the best third cases in the trilogy. It had everything; a fun and goofy setting fit for a pretty dang goofy lawyer game - where the environment itself had jokes and quips and one-liners and mishaps and tomfoolery written all over it, it had the previous case introducing a very interesting and important plotline that gave background for one of the more well-loved characters while also introducing an equally fucked up and lovable new one who was a child forced into a shit childhood of naivete in a CIRCUS with another character who was very naive and childish - whose interactions could have been funny and cute and reflective of said shit from the previous case (seriously she becomes such an important character in the 4th case, WHY would they not include her in this one for some character development? How did they fuck up letting a CHILD explore a CIRCUS?? That would have made the interactions flow MUCH better).

They had a pretty good, sympathetic killer imo, a morally dubious victim, an asshole of a client (who was pretty flat admittedly in-game, but I like his weird, topsy-turvy reasoning for it in the anime. Also, I think Max being kinda a dick would have bode well for the themes of Farewell since most of his clients up to this point have been like...nice? Not nice, but sympathetic, but him having to defend someone who's innocent but a prick would have shown him that just because someone is an asshole, doesn't mean they deserve to suffer for it and that they have the potential to grow as people, which is almost a complete opposite of what Matt was. Ultimately, I would have loved the contrast of them as clients and I think it would have also served as character development for Phoenix, especially with his low-empathy tendencies).

They just didn't think that far ahead. They just didn't execute it well enough. They just decided to make three of the adult characters fight for the hand in marriage of a teenage girl. (Bat's part of the story was actually kinda good if he was just YOUNGER, I think him doing that for Regina would have been a stupid thing someone in the circus would do to impress their crush. Damn you Ace Attorney and your weird treatment of underage girls!!)

It just flopped and that's ok.

Even though it kinda sucked, it can still mean something to me.

Also I'm a Moe Curls apologist. I liked him, shut up.

[harbingersecho]

out of bounds

[mr-bugs]

chat i died 9 times on 0-1 and 21 times to swords machine and if i remember correctly 12 times in 0-4 on STANDARD

am i cooked?!?!

[lostxmelody]

i will never be able to put into words how amazing it is to have hanae natsuki play mikoto

[arlathen]

im iffy about the party size change but. idk there has to be a reason for it. i don't know what the reason could BE. im hoping the game is designed to encourage party switching often. since each companion has to do with a faction, maybe you're encouraged to take them along. maybe they come with you not as a party member and you take two other people? who knows.

im honestly most worried about party banter and im hoping that it'll make the protagonist more "involved" in banter convos, able to interject (hopefully selectable, like in inquisition). who knows!

im not feeling negatively about it really, more just curious of the rationale.

[yinyuedijun]

"you beat aven in mahjong and he becomes infatuated with you" is the most silliest yet very aventurine line I've seen. Beat him at another game and he's immediately pulling out the wedding rings 😭

LMFAOOOO he just gets so obsessed like he's never seen it before. that's also honestly so funny oh my god you beat him at every game in the casino and he proposes when you guys are cashing out wgpdsepefsldje

[ap-sadistics]

im not a rhythm gamer in the slightest and yet im making my way to 100% hi fi rush through sheer force of will. and passion and hyperfixation. i think it might be the undiagnosed adhd tbh.

[codecicle]

being the only person to understand simon ghost riley is a difficult burden to bear but I will take it head on anyway i am constantly having my sisyphus moment though. on a side note everytime someone gives him washboard abs or a chiseled jaw an angel gets its wings ripped out from their back violently. btw.

[quietwingsinthesky]

im not excited for pokemon z because i have zero faith in gamefreak, as we all should at this point, but i do hope it is good. i do hope it’s another chance for kalos to really wow people. i remember getting Y back when it came out, and it was. Fine. the most Fine pokemon game i’ve ever played, then and now. it had the unfortunate fate of being a follow up to black/white 2 (some of the best pokemon games ever made) and being the mainline transition to 3D (something they’re still struggling with tbh.) they suffer a lot from those growing pains, a lot of x/y feels underdeveloped or bland. but i really hope this game gives the region new life because all the pieces were there.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

you ever hate on something you've never played/watched/read for what are still moderately good reasons given the circumstances, and then decide to go and play/watch/read the thing just to be fair. just to give it a chance

and then you were not only Right but its Worse Somehow and you're actually just more pissed off now

[historia-kq]

Seeing people bitch about FE17's Art direction is so funny to me because the moment they start complaining about "same face syndrome", they go straight to comparing the character designs to Gnshn Impct

Like I get not liking Pikazo's stuff, but trust me did any of you people only ever touch 3H and/or Gnshn Impct

I swear y'all need to touch some grass (or, I guess, look at more fantasy character designs that aren't from 3H / Gnshn) lmao

[honeys-bnbdc]

Annnnnnd a random sketch page of, um.

[aloera]

HONEYYYYY IM SOBBING THEY DID THAT BC ITS RICHARD POVVVVVV ITS SUPPOSED TO BE MISOGYNISTIC AND WEIRDLY PACED THATS BECAUSE OF THE INTERNALISED GUILT AND MISOGYNYYYYY

tbh i typed out a whole response and then made an executive decision ab your media literacy skills. i will say that my main problem w it was that book 2 just felt like she was just meandering but if thats your sort of thing i can see how it could be enjoyable