![]() In both games I couldn't get over the feeling that the world was over-centralized around puzzles. It looked better than before, but it felt very much like the same game with extra crap layered on top rather than a new design that addresses the problems I had with the original formula. I tried again later with Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask and couldn't even make it past a few hours. With little to do other than just tackle puzzle after puzzle, I burned out rather hard by the end and pretty much completed it just to say I did, rather than because I was still enjoying it. It was exactly what it had appeared to be: a bunch of puzzles pulled from puzzle books with some story and animations smushed in between them. One finished game later, I felt rather blasé about the whole affair. So here was this weird brainteaser game coming along with production values through the roof and a plot and interesting characters. It had opened my eyes up to whole other types of games that I had never considered playing, like games where you have to perform surgery, tap the screen to cheer for people who need help, or even act as a defense attorney. I remember how intrigued I felt when the first game came out. Layton, on the other hand, has always been something that I would look at and go "eh, whatever". I haven't played AA6 yet because of how I stopped playing 3DS but that's next. Oh, and since it seems like it's mandatory to argue about it in AA threads, my personal rankings are 1=5>3>AAI>2>4. Outside of Metroid, I don't think there's a series that I love more as a whole than this. Even with its flaws, however, the Phoenix Wright series fills a hole in my soul that no other games ever have, and I will defend it to the end. There is a litany of issues that I have with the series, from the over-use of certain cameo characters in some games, to the existence of spirit magic in a series about forensics and logic, to those situations that all AA players know and love where you feel two separate pieces of evidence would both work but the game will only accept one and you don't know which. I think before I speak about the game itself, I should just give a little background on my experiences with the two series being mashed together in this bizarre creation. I don't understand where this compulsion is coming from, but it will tolerate no rebellion on my part, so here we are. I even found myself getting out of bed to grab my phone and write down notes several times, a behavior I have never done before for any game. But for some reason, PLvPW of all things is compelling me to write down my thoughts. ![]() I might chime in with a short comment every so often, but usually I just lurk and watch people discuss gaming news and argue about stupid things. I play many games but I never really feel the need to say anything in-depth about them. I'm not usually the thread-starting type. So I popped the system open, navigated to my "Retail Games" folder on my SD card, and picked the first game I saw that I had purchased but never opened. It was time to give the 3DS the proper send-off it deserves. With that in mind, I bought another charger and decided to spend as much of my free gaming time as I could playing through as much of my 3DS backlog as possible before Metroid hits. The system has been far too good for far too long for me to just drop it like that. Once Metroid is complete, I'll probably never seriously play my 3DS again. With the Switch getting sweet new titles steadily throughout the rest of the year, it seems highly unlikely that anything outside of Metroid is going to keep my 3DS from joining my other old systems in a box somewhere. In fact, I couldn't recall a single time I had played it all year. But as I thought about it, I realized that I had stopped playing my 3DS even prior to the Switch's arrival. It was obvious to me that the primary reason my dependable pocket system had become so neglected was a certain delightful console/handheld hybrid that I had acquired back in March. Instead, I just stared at the dusty device for a few moments and thought about our future together. It took me over three hours to locate my trusty portable gaming machine hidden under the passenger seat of my car, but even then I was out of luck, as I was never able to find the charger for it. There was only one problem - I couldn't find my 3DS anywhere. The night of Nintendo's shocking dual Metroid announcements, I was excited to check out the Samus Returns trailer in 3D on my New Nintendo 3DS XL.
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