Video Game Reviews [AA: PW vs PL, Uncharted 3]

Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright vs Professor Layton

This is a very delayed review, I finished this game back in February. But if I’m going to play every game in the series, I might as well keep up posting my opinions.

It is probably my least favorite of the Ace Attorney games I’ve played, though it’s ending is much less tedious than the first Investigations game.

• So this game has magic. That is not my objection to this. I don’t think I can object to that alone - the Feys summon the dead and have rocks that glow in front of liars. But as always with mixing magic and mysteries, your magic needs to have rules to make solving satisfying. And instead I was often confused by what was possible and what wasn’t. Hearing Maya and Phoenix have actual voices and seeing them in actual animated scenes was so uncanny to me. I have to get used to this for the rest of the series.
• I...absolutely did not see the ending coming. The crux of the ending was so unhinged that I can’t even say I dislike it.
• What I can say I disliked is how much the entire game focuses on Espella. It does not work if you dislike her, or if even as I did, did not care that much about her. Especially the part of the ending that tries to absolve her of one particular action!
• Darklaw’s hot

I’d only play this if you are fond of both series, or want to encounter the most bonkers ending to an AA game. Otherwise, give it a pass.

Uncharted 3

Spoilers under the cut, but the TL;DR is: a fun enough enough conclusion for Nate and co., even if I think Elena deserved a little more from the game. (Also, I’m amazed that they found it difficult to make a good movies out of these trilogies? Just adapt the stories!)

THINGS I DISLIKED

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THINGS I WAS MEH ON

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THINGS I LOVED

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