I never played AA, but I do wanna try it! It's crazy how you almost never hear bad things about these games. It's just all praise all the time.
How long is each case? Similar in length to a chapter from Danganronpa? Curious if I could reasonably just play a case a day, kinda episodically, and slowly make my way through like that...
The praises were warranted, I assure you. In regards to the first game, you can definitely play one case per day. I must warn you that the 5th case of the first game is extremely long. While you can finish the other cases in 2-3 hours if you're a fast reader, the fifth case took me almost 10 hours (I spent the whole day yesterday for that one case). The music is sublime too so you won't get bored. Whenever Phoenix or Edgeworth turned the table on one another in court and the music changes, it always gets me and never gets old.
I would be interested what you think about the second AA game, Justice for All - once you are done with that too. The first game in contrast is almost universally lauded, it's the second one that is often seen as the lesser game in the trilogy (which isn't really harsh criticism, considering how great the series overall is)
I'm probably about halfway through Case 2-1, and it's kinda OK, I guess? I'm kind of lukewarm on the music since nothing immediately jumps at me like the music on the first game. The (Case 2-1 plot)
amnesia device they used wasn't helping too (Perhaps because I just recently finished Uta 1 which also used the same device).
1. Most digital retailers in Japan prefer to have their own client. IE: DMM
DMM GAME PLAYERとは？ - DMM GAMES
This goes for music/movies/books/manga too nine times out of ten. DMM is the closest to Steam you'll find in Japan btw. Nearly everyone else is doujin games/ ero games (like dlsite), or other such things.
A large number of releases on DMM were also riddled with DRM. Although they aren't as invasive as SecureROM, for example, for whatever reason they just didn't work on my PC. It's not a problem with Locale/Language either.
3 - because I love excel so I make metrics and spreadsheets for everything.
Here you have a link to it, hope you like it and really hope it's informative
Epic exclusivity deals status, it will evolve over time, I will add things, maybe optimize others, so it's something that won't be like this forever, information comes from official sources but some of those that are from SOURCES, so yeah, I try to keep it as official as possible too.
This is the first time I heard someone says they love Excel (I always associated Excel with work and bookkeeping and I feel they are as boring as they come). Good on you bruvva! (I'm not being sarcastic, I assure you!)
Thanks for doing the spreadsheet. It'll come in handy soon.
Hollow Ataraxia was longer than the 3 original routes? That's surprising. I'm under the impression that it would be shorter than the others. DId you play it in English? How's the translation quality?
So after Spec-Ops I've started some Arkham City in my quest of playing good games I've owned for a while (while still buying more, lol).
And it's pretty good. Loved Arkham Asylum when I played it a bunch of years ago.
I played Arkham City briefly and the brawling/combo-ing was pretty fun. Not a fan of the gliding minigame though.
Dragon Quest XI gets better and better. Just finished Sylvandos story and it is probably one of the best JRPGs in recent memory. Why is the series so overlooked in the west?
I love Slyv. His outlook on life is something we all could aspire too. His dad is also a great, supportive parent. In fact, all DQ XI characters are pretty great.
