Ace Prosecutor

i remembered that around this time of the year, the new Ace Attorney series should be coming out, though whether Ace Attorney V = Ace Prosecutor is unknown. so i went to search google at the start of this month for the ace series, but i got nothing except scheduled/rumored releases.

so, i dunno how, but i ended up going nds rom sites and searched for "Gyakuten"...

well i got meself the Japanese versions for Ace Attorney 1 - 4, and...Gyakuten Kenji! (Ace Prosecutor) might be an early release or what, but images were not available yet. so i went ahead and played it.

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ok, let's just say i prefer the Ace Attorney series interface lah hor. the main colour combi in this game is like, seriously hen desu ne? (weird) gay purple-pink thingy as the main box in the center (compared to the orangey thing in ace attorney series), and...what the hell, pixel art characters walking around in the screen!?!? i dunno if this is their idea of interactivity but well, you get to investigate the crime scene while walking around the crammed area of a DS screen. i am quite stunnneeeddd... i kinda prefer the "Examine" function in Ace Attorney cuz you can see things clearly... pixel art chibi Edgeworth is just...wrong...!

a nice addition to the game though is the Logic system where you can collect questions and answers, and then combine them to form a conclusion. i'm not sure how well it works cuz so far i only answered one seriously common sense question, but other than that, if it works the way it's supposed to, i guess it makes the game far more logical than the usual guessing around in ace attorney haha.

oh no, stomach ache. brb!

mwahaha. i'm back!

not too sure whether to continue playing cuz it's in jap and i think i will seriously screw up the cases in that case. then again, at the moment i'm replaying the ace attorney series in jap version to practise jap, so maybe this would be a true test of my comprehension of the language.

anyway, the jap version seriously feels different from the english version, but i'd say the translation team is doing a really good job keeping the original context in place man.

rare it is, but i got up at about 9 today. IT'S A SUNDAY! AND I'M UP IN THE MORNING! THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!

but it's true. haha.

i suspect it has largely to do with the fact that for the last two saturdays, i had half day work due to alternate week and 5th week of the month thingy, so my body is now finally installing at the alarm into my body in the morning. (actually my body alarm doesn't really work lah. i'm supposed to wake up at 8 but i usually wake up close to 9.)

side track, i can't remember where, but i read that the problem with us humans is that we tend to trust in ourselves and our god-given abilities. the fact is we don't actually need alarm clocks; we just need to trust our bodies and gear ourselves up to wake up on time. but because we constantly doubt ourselves after failures etc, we stop trusting ourselves and rely on other things. that is so sad...!

after saying all that, i shall be self contradictory and say that i still need alarm clocks anyway. HAH

okok. time to resume story writing. not sure why but the urge to write stories is suddenly kicking me in the ass real hard. seeeeyaaaa!