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I plowed through the main story barely doing any "sidequest" stuff (dressup, acron, world times). I remember doing Miracle Mask, Last Specter and Unwound Future like that too.SereneCrimson posted:Not so keen on the dressup, I might just wait until I unlock all the clothes and then do them all in one swoop. Its possible that the first dressup can only be completed last due to the way the game gives you the items.
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Just beat Azran Legacy. I figured Sycamore was Descole within the first hour, so nothing of that was a surprise. I was honestly shocked at the Descole and Layton are brothers with Bronev being the dad bit. From Sycamore talking about losing his daughter, and that one NPC saying "Are you guys..." in reference to Emmy/Sycamore, I thought the last bit of that sentence would be 'related', and that Emmy was actually Sycamore's daughter that had been taken by Targent. Emmy being a (not really) traitor took me by surprise, but not too bad. Since she isn't mentioned at all in the original trilogy, I knew they'd try and do something to get her out of the picture. I'm honestly a tad disappointed. After all the games tend to do the "Crazy events explained by logical solutions" storylines, having an actual crazy advanced race with death robots seemed so far off from the series norm. But it was insane in the best way. All that's left to do right now is solve the extra puzzle sets. They're always a nice little difficulty boost. I'm going to take a good decent break from the game and not do the dailies. Overall, I loved the game. Really nice end for the series (If it is the end.) Ending with the opening to Curious Village was drat brilliant, put a gigantic smile on my face. Looking forward to Layton vs. Wright. Then, whenever I have that Layton itch, I have lots of daily puzzles to catch up on.
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Story question: Last night I got to the end of Miracle Mask. This means the only pre-Azran Legacy Layton thing I haven't seen all of is Unwound Future, which I only got halfway through a couple years ago before losing the cart. Is there anything about Azran Legacy's story that assumes you've finished Unwound Future?
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Jun 9, 2014 18:36
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Soylent Heliotrope posted:Story question: Last night I got to the end of Miracle Mask. This means the only pre-Azran Legacy Layton thing I haven't seen all of is Unwound Future, which I only got halfway through a couple years ago before losing the cart. Is there anything about Azran Legacy's story that assumes you've finished Unwound Future? Like the other games in this trilogy, Azran Legacy continues to be a prequel. So no, it doesn't reference anything in Unwound Future.
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Jun 9, 2014 19:25
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Right, duh. I thought I read somewhere that Azran Legacy ties the two trilogies together somehow and I wasn't sure whether I made that up in my head or not. 
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You should, however, go back and finish Unwound Future at some point.
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Well it does, in the sense that it ends with the beginning of Curious Village. But it doesn't actually even spoil anything about that game, let alone Unwound Future. But yeah Unwound Future is still my favorite one of the series and is well worth finishing someday.
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Regy Rusty posted:Well it does, in the sense that it ends with the beginning of Curious Village. But it doesn't actually even spoil anything about that game, let alone Unwound Future. Unwound Future is the best, but Azran Legacy is, in my opinion, in second place.
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Jun 14, 2014 02:51
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Layton vs Wright is the best Layton game  Azran Legacy really suffers because of the branching paths in the middle. All of those side quests were lovely. Oh, we're going to interrupt the series-ending plot so you can figure out why the chief of this village of racist caricatures is grumpy. Turns out it's because he wants to hear a joke! Hurpa durpa
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Jun 14, 2014 04:00
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Hedrigall posted:Layton vs Wright is the best Layton game Oh sure, lord it over us. 
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Hedrigall posted:Layton vs Wright is the best Layton game It's good but I got a little sick of witch stuff in like case 3 (although the ending was exciting). Basically it has the typical Phoenix Wright thing where the middle is kind of dull and you almost quit playing (or do quit playing for months before you pick it up again). Anyway, I can take or leave the branching. I don't know what reason you'd have to change the order around. Maybe my reaction was colored by the fact that Miracle Mask was, IMO, the worst one.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:
Miracle Mask wasn't helped by the fact that Randall, the character you're supposed to care about and feel sorry for is a dreadful, pushy little poo poo of a teenage boy. Halfway through that endless dungeon section in the flashback, where he just keeps on whining and bullying Layton to go further and solve more puzzles I was seriously rooting for the teenage Hershel to just brain him with that bloody shovel and scarper back up to the surface.
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I found the circus stuff tedious too. But I got the plus version for like 2500 yen or something in a promotion so it wasn't awful.
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It's finally here NA!!! Tomorrow the wait is finally over for Layton vs. Wright. Depending on what the future holds, this could be the final Professor Layton release... (Well, aside from Layton 7, if that is even still coming, assuming it has ANYTHING to do with Layton himself)
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Aug 25, 2014 17:25
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SereneCrimson posted:It's finally here NA!!! Tomorrow the wait is finally over for Layton vs. Wright. Nintendo games release on Friday though. Unless they're releasing this early?
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Aug 25, 2014 17:36
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You're a few days off - it comes out on the 29th.
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Aug 25, 2014 17:37
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Oh..  I had heard the 26th tossed around a bunch of times and never bothered to double check to see if it was correct. There goes my plans of going out tomorrow to pick it up.
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Holy poo poo is this the bad voice actor for Luke that the UK apparently can't stand? I can see why. Anyway I am like an hour in and have done one puzzle, can't wait until I get to some actual gameplay instead of cutscene cutscene cutscene.
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EngineerSean posted:Holy poo poo is this the bad voice actor for Luke that the UK apparently can't stand? Assuming it's the same one from the EU release (Maria Darling), which is what I heard, that's the good Luke that actually sounds British and not like an American faking a British accent.
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Aug 30, 2014 12:27
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The American Luke is the good one. Sorry to lay down truth bombs like this but it had to be done.
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Somebody post a goddamn comparison.
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Aug 30, 2014 13:55
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There is only one acceptable luke and he sounds like he just fell out of a Dickensian novel
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Hedrigall posted:Somebody post a goddamn comparison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veTZBlHraDw The American voice sounds so bloody fake, it's amusing they think it's a real British accent.
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American Luke is Lani Minella's best role, but that's really not saying much because Lani Minella is a loving awful voice actor. I don't mind British Luke. I'm already used to him from Eternal Diva.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:12
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The US voice sounds like he's suffered from some kind of major neurological damage.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:22
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Both Lukes sound fine and who cares I've been wanting this game foreeeeeeever. edit: gently caress that dungeon in Miracle Mask, holy poo poo
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Waffleman_ posted:American Luke is Lani Minella's best role, but that's really not saying much because Lani Minella is a loving awful voice actor. She also plays the female Krogan in Mass Effect 3. Weird.
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I'm kind of late to the party, but I have to ask -- in the Layton vs. Wright game, did anyone notice that Maya appears unmasked in a cutscene that occurs after her "death" and before the flaming pit is shown not to be real? That (among several other things) bothered the hell out of me. Excellent soundtrack though.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm kind of late to the party, but I have to ask -- in the Layton vs. Wright game, did anyone notice that Maya appears unmasked in a cutscene that occurs after her "death" and before the flaming pit is shown not to be real? That (among several other things) bothered the hell out of me. Actually I think I did notice that, but it's been a little while since I played it so I can't remember a lot about Layton vs. Phoenix. I must say, while it was a thrill to see Layton exclaim "Objection!" and do Phoenix's legendary finger-pointing pose, the game overall fell kind of flat to me. I was hoping for a little more crossover (e.g. the puzzles toward the end of the final trial were a nice mixture of the two games) - it mostly felt more like the two game formats condensed down to fit into the space of a single game. Eh, don't get me wrong: it was still really enjoyable. I think I just expecting a little more.
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Something the game should have done is been more Ace Attorney at the end. The whole gem smuggling thing from the first case, and all the crystals being used for magic should not have been a coincidence, and there should have been more of a criminal element that actually needed to be solved here. That's where Phoenix could have shined.
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bubblelubble posted:Actually I think I did notice that, but it's been a little while since I played it so I can't remember a lot about Layton vs. Phoenix. I played it quite some time ago now but I remember thinking it was good because it replaced the investigation, generally the least intersting part of AA games, with something better.
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bubblelubble posted:I must say, while it was a thrill to see Layton exclaim "Objection!" and do Phoenix's legendary finger-pointing pose, the game overall fell kind of flat to me. I was hoping for a little more crossover (e.g. the puzzles toward the end of the final trial were a nice mixture of the two games) - it mostly felt more like the two game formats condensed down to fit into the space of a single game. Eh, don't get me wrong: it was still really enjoyable. I think I just expecting a little more. Yeah, it doesn't help when the chapters are segmented in such a clear way too. You're in Layton mode now, then you're in Wright, now back to Layton. The whole game feels like a giant slog so far though. I'm just on chapter 4 and it's taken me about 2 months of on/off playing just to get this far because the story is just so.... meh. None of the characters outside of the main cast are compelling in any way, it also doesn't help that all of the Wright sections so far have progressed through insane leaps of unintuitive logic. This is exacerbated by the whole schtick being "it's magic" so every logical leap you make to progress the plot is met with the "nah, that's dumb cos it's magic, all the testimonies have now just changed 100%". That was maybe interesting for the first case, but it's now happening again and it's really loving grating. There's only so much "magical ignorance" that i can take as part of a story when every single action i do i denounced by it.
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Kin posted:Yeah, it doesn't help when the chapters are segmented in such a clear way too. You're in Layton mode now, then you're in Wright, now back to Layton. Like every AA game the middle is the weakest part... it's worth finishing.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:Like every AA game the middle is the weakest part... it's worth finishing. Yeah, I agree. The post-game extras are delightful - I love that they all meet up for tea and things after the case is over, so so adorable. Plus all of the meta heh
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In spite of the baffling lovely ending to Ace Attorney Vs. Layton; the game's made me really like Professor Layton as a character. Can I watch the Eternal Diva without spoiling the previous games?
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The games are all self-contained, this includes Eternal Diva. There is a thread connecting the prequel trilogy, but it's not enough to be lost.
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Night Blade posted:In spite of the baffling lovely ending to Ace Attorney Vs. Layton; the game's made me really like Professor Layton as a character. Can I watch the Eternal Diva without spoiling the previous games? If you thought that was baffling and lovely you probably won't like Layton games... they mostly have those kind of Scooby Doo plots at the end.
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:If you thought that was baffling and lovely you probably won't like Layton games... they mostly have those kind of Scooby Doo plots at the end. I'm a reformed Scooby Doo fanatic, and I can say that Scooby Doo plots were a LOT less convoluted than that. For one, they usually involved holograms and costumes rather than straight up invisibility and the Illuminati. Also, I never played a Professor Layton game, so for nearly the entire game I operated under the assumption that magic was real, and they really had somehow been sucked into another dimension. I was so disappointed when it turned out that Cat-Eve wasn't Bezella. It really seemed like they were foreshadowing that by having Eve be all black and making a point of mentioning how Eve always followed Espella everywhere she went (and to a much lesser extent, including her in the list of profiles during the cases). That would have been an actual cool twist. Ah well.
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