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I've gotten into this series recently and have blown through all the DS titles and since they were having a big sale seemingly in the Japanese eshop I also picked up Miracle Mask and Azran Legacy. I was resistant to it for a long time but I picked it up because I wanted to try some Layton before I played Layton vs. Phoenix Wright (which is also amazing) and I wish I'd done so sooner. I'm only a little way into Miracle Mask but so far Unwound Future was my favorite by far. The ending was real sad though. RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS fucked around with this message at 02:11 on May 31, 2013 |
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Waffleman_ posted:I played through the first case of Layton Brothers and its pretty fun. It's like a really condensed Ace Attorney Investigations. You have a singular crime scene and a list of suspects, a five minute initial investigation, then you deduce the culprit through testimony, analysis, and further investigation. I played through all the free content and I'll probably buy more tomorrow. I almost feel like the game is too much "on rails" but that could just be my imagination. It's still decent. By the way, I finished Layton and the Azran Legacy and it was GREAT. I'd rate is as my second-favorite, behind Unwound Future.
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Jun 28, 2013 05:03
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Waffleman_ posted:Also, a caveat to anyone playing Layton Brothers. What you think is a localization error is actually a character just being super cockney. They went all out on the cockney in this localization. Yeah, I thought the same thing when I kept seeing "were" but I caught onto what was going on when they started saying "nowt" and "What's all this then?" and so on.
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Jun 29, 2013 02:05
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I can't believe how incredibly lame the ending to Layton Brothers was. And also how little they actually did to tie it in with the real Layton games at all.
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Jul 1, 2013 03:28
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SereneCrimson posted:I've been digging Layton Brothers as a little phone diversion. Yeah, it's not exactly Layton as I know it. But I'm having decent fun with it. It's totally worth playing. But the Layton tie-in seems especially cynical because there's really nothing in common except a couple token mentions of "my dad, Hershel Layton."
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Jul 6, 2013 00:48
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Waffleman_ posted:The whole Layton thing is literally tacked on, as the game wasn't originally linked to Layton. It actually kinda turned me off the game when it was announced, because 1. It seems unlikely that Layton would get over the events of Unwound Future and get all married, and 2. The fact that it starred Layton's son felt fanficton as gently caress. Yeah, the tone was also distinctly un-Layton, in my opinion. I mean, other games have had the protagonists changed after they were already in progress and not felt so utterly tacked-on... Kirby's Epic Yarn is definitely Kirby, even if it didn't start out that way.
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Jul 7, 2013 21:58
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I'd certainly like to see more iOS games like it... it's one of the few genres where mobile isn't a compromise.
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Jul 7, 2013 22:31
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SereneCrimson posted:Along with news that we're getting Layton 6 (Azran Legacy) next year. Azran Legacy was great. Miracle Mask was so disappointing I was worried the series was running out of steam but that wasn't the case.
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Aug 10, 2013 14:27
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Payndz posted:Miracle Mask is the first Layton game I haven't bothered to finish. It's so wrapped up in telling its story that the actual puzzles seem to have been forgotten; there were long periods of wandering around and talking to people without being offered a single puzzle to solve. I'm pretty invested in the Layton story at this point so that doesn't even bother me but the story was not very good. And I found the ending really distasteful. Like I'm supposed to find it inspiring that this dude gave up like his entire life for the boy to whom he was a servant because one time he gave him a teddy bear. Come on man. RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Sep 15, 2013 |
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Sep 15, 2013 04:05
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Unwound Future is just the apotheosis of the series in every regard.
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Sep 15, 2013 05:09
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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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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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Jun 14, 2014 04:32
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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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Jun 14, 2014 16:34
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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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Nov 22, 2014 21:33
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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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Nov 22, 2014 23:23
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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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