Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

[Thunder]

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ok now i have so many questions for you
don't you agree clay should NOT have died
and do you ship athena and blackquill

anyway im glad you liked it too! i love seeing more people get into the games i love

good thing someone asked the tough questions, good job vol *cough*

 

[Volvagia]

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I definitely agree that Clay should NOT have died! That made me so sad! I really enjoyed finding out more about Apollo's past and his friendship with Clay, so why did poor Clay have to die? ;-;

I was kinda shipping Athena with Apollo, actually. But I see now why Athena and Simon is so popular (now that I've finished the game, it makes sense to me, before I was all 'Eh, I don't get it', LOL).

I actually found Blackquill absolutely awesome in this game. And Taka! Can't forget Taka! <3

I also loved Edgeworth. I was kinda 'Well, hello there' about him, LOL.

The ending (with the whole mask-changing and what not) was a bit 'meh', though. I'm not sure why; I guess I was expecting something different?

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i agree with you on the phantom part
i wish he had a known identity, but i guess the whole point of him was to not have one
still kinda bleh about that point
also i still want to know who shot him, guess we'll never find out though ):

good thing someone asked the tough questions, good job vol *cough*

 

[Libra]

good thing someone asked the tough questions, good job vol *cough*

Well, someone has to ask the tough questions, right?

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i agree with you on the phantom part
i wish he had a known identity, but i guess the whole point of him was to not have one
still kinda bleh about that point
also i still want to know who shot him, guess we'll never find out though ):

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Hm, yeah, I guess that's what bothered me a little; that we never knew who it was. Like you say; that was probably the point, but still, I was curious. Still, other than that, that episode was awesome! And I totally loved how at the end you have to shout "Objection!" yourself. I was "Eh, what am I supposed to do here?" for a few moments before I realized what the game wanted me to do. Such a fun and perfect end to this game! <3

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

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Isn't it obvious who killed Fulbright? It was Gumshoe, of course. He doesn't want another detective taking his place as a stupid, lovable moron.

 

[Alice]

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Isn't it obvious who killed Fulbright? It was Gumshoe, of course. He doesn't want another detective taking his place as a stupid, lovable moron.

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He didn't die. But I must confess, I wanted to do that myself. Miss Gumshoe so much.

 

[kittenrobotarmy]

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Oh yeah, my bad. I really do have a bad memory.

Gumshoe is quite lovable, I'm actually hoping that he is the one who shot Fulbright.

 

[Libra]

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I... actually have no idea who Gumshoe is, haha. I'm guessing he appeared in the previous games?

I also adored Ponco and Clonco, by the way. So cute and funny! <3

After I finish Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, I plan on continuing Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, though I can already say that I'm going to have trouble getting used again to the graphics of that game. x_x

 

[poliwag0]

Should I get this game?

 

[Volvagia]

Should I get this game?

well if you played the previous games and liked them, yes
if not, i think it's still worth a shot if you like visual novels and mystery games

 

[Libra]

Should I get this game?

Coming from someone who had never played an Ace Attorney game; YES. DEFINITELY YES.

The game is absolutely amazing! Now, granted; it is a visual novel, which means a lot of reading and hitting the A-button, but at some point you don't even realize anymore that you're doing that (it's like turning the pages of a book, really; you do it without thinking about it).

The game is very forgiving. There really isn't a whole lot you can do 'wrong'. The best advice I was given on this forum was to save often. And even that's not really necessary. If at some point you come close to a 'Game Over' (or in this case; a 'Guilty' verdict), you'll definitely know and you can still save at that point (if you do get a 'Guilty' verdict then, then you can start again from the point where you last saved).

I absolutely love the characters in this game. Their interaction is great and the humor is brilliant! This is the first game where I've smiled (or sometimes even laughed out loud) so often while playing. You also get a lot of suspense, but the game does a good job of balancing the 'fun times' and the 'serious times'. (Well, it does in my opinion.)

I'm not sure how much it costs in the USA, but I got it from the eShop in Europe for 25 EUR and I found that actually very cheap. Most games around 40 or 45 EUR and I would have definitely paid that for this game. So, to me, it's definitely worth its money.

The only comment I have is that the game does have a dark side. That is only to be expected, of course. I mean; we're talking about defending people in court who are accused of having committed a murder. But especially the last case hints at certain things that some people might be uncomfortable with (and I'm pretty sure that's the reason why there's an age restriction on this game). I think the game handles that very well, though (there's nothing really explicit, there's a lot of hinting and unspoken things). But it was somewhat surprising to me given that so many people told me the game was 'full of humor'. Which is true and is actually why I said that the game balances the 'fun times' and 'serious times' very well.

So, in short, I can definitely recommend this game and am very much looking forward to the European release (if it ever happens, that is) of the original trilogy.

 

[Thunder]

I was just gonna say "yeah it's a pretty fun game" but I think Libra did a much better job of summing it up.

 

[Nerd House]

Replying to fix Thunder's post not appearing weird oddball glitch thingamajig

 

[Libra]

So... As much as I have loved playing this game, I don't find myself wanting to play it again. I mean; the story has been told, the questions have been answered (well, most of them, anyway), the cases won and that's it. So I'm curious; who here has played this game more than once? And did you play the entire game again or just certain cases or chapters from a specific case?

 

[sn0wxyuki]

I was thinking...capcom should make alternative ending instead of forcing us to the real ending. Alternative way of playing as in the way you ask question, present evidence, affect the story and how it lead you to the murderer or not lol probably the way you play lead you to accuse someone who actually is not the murderer but your evidence go against them so much they re found guilty =x then you have the ending telling you another murder happening cause of you getting the wrong person =P the game will be much better this way!

 

[Thunder]

So... As much as I have loved playing this game, I don't find myself wanting to play it again. I mean; the story has been told, the questions have been answered (well, most of them, anyway), the cases won and that's it. So I'm curious; who here has played this game more than once? And did you play the entire game again or just certain cases or chapters from a specific case?

Yeah, as much as i love these games it's hard to find any replayability in them, aside from maybe going back to show some evidence to a specific person to try and find some dialog

 

[Libra]

I was thinking...capcom should make alternative ending instead of forcing us to the real ending. Alternative way of playing as in the way you ask question, present evidence, affect the story and how it lead you to the murderer or not lol probably the way you play lead you to accuse someone who actually is not the murderer but your evidence go against them so much they re found guilty =x then you have the ending telling you another murder happening cause of you getting the wrong person =P the game will be much better this way!

Hm, yes. There are a few alternate endings (I know I got at least two), but they aren't very detailed. Just some text saying what happens and then you get the screen with "Try Again". It'd be nice if there was a real alternate ending, but at the same time, that might complicate things.

Yeah, as much as i love these games it's hard to find any replayability in them, aside from maybe going back to show some evidence to a specific person to try and find some dialog

Yeah, I thought about that, but I literally pressed on every statement that was made, so I'm not sure there's something I could even show. I think that - for me - the only replayability would be in maybe waiting a year or longer and then playing this game again (and hoping I'll have forgotten enough about it so that it feels somewhat 'fresh and new' and not 'd?j? vu all over the place'). ^_^'

I still totally, completely and utterly love this game, though. Just that as much as I have enjoyed playing it, I find it a bit sad that I probably won't play it again. And it's not like I can give it to someone else, since it's a digital copy. ^_^'

 

[Piroshi]

So... As much as I have loved playing this game, I don't find myself wanting to play it again. I mean; the story has been told, the questions have been answered (well, most of them, anyway), the cases won and that's it. So I'm curious; who here has played this game more than once? And did you play the entire game again or just certain cases or chapters from a specific case?

I've replayed the Ace Attorney games a few times. I haven't played Dual Destinies more than once, but I'm going through all of the games again so I'll get there eventually. I am playing everything in the games though, and I'm going to do that with this game as well.

 

[Shirohibiki]

i FINALLY finished AA5 and

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I SHIP ATHENA AND BLACKQUILL OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i also saw some chatter about how im not alone in wanting to have seen the phantoms identity. i get the point was that he didnt have one but i kept waiting and waiting and it d idnt happen so i was pissed.

anyway it was a beautiful, fantastic game, i think AA4 and investigations will always be my favs, but this was great. i love athena to death, and professor means was actually a really memorable character to me, i hated him lmfao, but like, i always find myself thinking "the end justifies the means" and then its rly weird idk such gr9 characters

aura blackquill needed some expanding i think but she was a hottie and i love her, al ot, just like i love dis game,

my only problem is that... I LOVED FULBRIGHT. i lvoed him SO much, i love gumshoe in the others, and fulbright w as just so great, i always shouted "IN JUSTICE WE TRUST!" with him, and like im gonna cry rn im really upset, that he was also dead and the phantom and it was all a lie, like im??? just so sad. i loved the character of bobby fulbright. was the real bobby fulbright like that? or was he simply a new construction? either way, fulbright, im going to go on pretending you werent the phantom so i can love you
IN JUSTICE WE TRUST

10/10 gr9 game also edgeworth be SEXY AF IN THOSE GLASSES, OH, GO MEET UP WITH PHOENIX AFTER HOURS EDGEY, yOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Cou]

i FINALLY finished AA5 and

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I SHIP ATHENA AND BLACKQUILL OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i also saw some chatter about how im not alone in wanting to have seen the phantoms identity. i get the point was that he didnt have one but i kept waiting and waiting and it d idnt happen so i was pissed.

anyway it was a beautiful, fantastic game, i think AA4 and investigations will always be my favs, but this was great. i love athena to death, and professor means was actually a really memorable character to me, i hated him lmfao, but like, i always find myself thinking "the end justifies the means" and then its rly weird idk such gr9 characters

aura blackquill needed some expanding i think but she was a hottie and i love her, al ot, just like i love dis game,

my only problem is that... I LOVED FULBRIGHT. i lvoed him SO much, i love gumshoe in the others, and fulbright w as just so great, i always shouted "IN JUSTICE WE TRUST!" with him, and like im gonna cry rn im really upset, that he was also dead and the phantom and it was all a lie, like im??? just so sad. i loved the character of bobby fulbright. was the real bobby fulbright like that? or was he simply a new construction? either way, fulbright, im going to go on pretending you werent the phantom so i can love you
IN JUSTICE WE TRUST

10/10 gr9 game also edgeworth be SEXY AF IN THOSE GLASSES, OH, GO MEET UP WITH PHOENIX AFTER HOURS EDGEY, yOOOOOOOOOOOO

UGH LAST CASE MADE ME SO MAD!!!!!!!!

But it was also the best and the plot twist broke me fricjit

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no but really, every characters were memorable, they were all really good and I love how we actually got stories outta them. I also loved fulbright so much and it was so painful pinning the crimes onto him :'( i do believe that's the dead fulbright's really character but i also came to love the phantom... it was so intense when he took off his masks omfg i went out of rage when they didn't show his real face I WANTED TO SEE!!!!!!! but i still don't wanna believe he's the baddest character :'( other than that, I really love Athena's story, and Blackquil protecting her was so unexpected but so sweet like CRAP WHY DID HE GO SO FAR. The whole "you're the reason I became a lawyer" is one of the best things in AA and I'm glad we got that feels again in this game. Apollo was a real ahole and a pain but at the same time I felt the same as him, I kinda started to doubt Athena (IM SO SORRY) but I really loved how he still wanted to trust her even though it was Clay on the line. And I also loved the Apollo and Clay's bits... The whole "I'm fine!" WAS NOT OKAY. D: anyway, i was also really happy about gavin being there AHHHHG BROTP WITH APOLLO THEYRE JUST. same with Edgeworth and Wright :') Really happy to see them enemies working together. Everything was so good, my only regret was Fulbright. I refused to believe he was it even towards the end D: there's still a lot of cliffhangers though, besides his face, I'm confused about why he went there in the first place (when he killed Athena's mom)? Did they ever explain it? Did I miss something??

Hugh was also my favorite character.... And Mr. Tenma (this guy's a beast omg and so precious)

 

[Libra]

This game is coming to iOS in Europe and North America soon, if anyone is interested!

Sources: here and here

No real details yet on the date ("soon"), but some info on the price:

The eShop version, when not on discount, is ?19.99 / ?24.99 / $29.99, while in Japan it's a retail title that launched with a recommended price of 5,990 Yen (a little under $60). The deal on the iOS version, which includes upgraded HD visuals, is certainly preferable ? the initial download and 1st chapter are free, while episodes 2-5 can either be bought for 600 Yen each (roughly $5.89) or in a pack with all four episodes for 2000 Yen (a little under $20). Completing all extra DLC adds 1000 Yen, which drags it to parity with the DLC-free version in the US, though is still cheaper under current conversion rates than in Europe and the UK.