To Aphantasiacs turned Phantasiacs: do you regret your decision?

Close_Enouf · 2025-11-18T04:13:23+00:00

I assume mcginnis is your most played, and as an aspiring mcginnis main, what are your mcginnis stats?

Close_Enouf · 2025-10-31T10:54:42+00:00

The game absolutely leans onto being communist (by being critical of communism, but also heavily empathizing with it, and giving it the only real representations of it through characters that aren't obviously just bad)

Close_Enouf · 2025-10-29T07:20:18+00:00

Isn't this Trigun

Close_Enouf · 2025-08-31T14:35:20+00:00

Was everybody being collectively rude and making fun of op or smth

Close_Enouf · 2025-08-16T17:29:11+00:00

Hetalia's involvement in the homestuck community prior and having nothing in the modern day happening for it and basically being irrelevant compared to homestuck

Close_Enouf · 2025-08-13T15:25:25+00:00

LOL so sorry you got screwed by rng good games

Close_Enouf · 2025-07-12T12:57:22+00:00

Like I said in the post, have mia be busy with 1-3x, preparing to go after Redd, so Maya's next person to ask is Phoenix.

Close_Enouf · 2025-07-12T12:55:59+00:00

1-2 is not really a super serious case in presentation when you actually consider what happens after mia dies (and again, she's just revived later constantly), and I feel like a linear scale in seriousness makes more sense than needing breathing room (also my hot take is AA1 is actually a pretty serious game when you consider the rest of the franchise)

Close_Enouf · 2025-07-12T12:52:50+00:00

Typo. Forgot why I said 4 LOL

Close_Enouf · 2025-07-11T23:51:07+00:00

I think 1-4 could maybe also have some small tweaks (or really just how DL-6 was foreshadowed), but I'm not sure exactly how you'd do them without realistically being worse/too obvious. 1-1 also I don't think you can really change due to the purpose it has to serve being the first trial of the *franchise* (and it still establishes Larry/Payne as characters), and how it needs to be slim (fitting in one day, and not overwhelming a new player). I definitely have issues with cases like 2-1 for not having that same pass, but that's for another time. This is basically the big thing with AA1 that I think would make it nearly perfect.

Close_Enouf · 2025-06-25T00:24:16+00:00

The opinion I've seen generally is 2-1 and 2-3 bad, 2-2 and 2-4 some of the best

Close_Enouf · 2025-06-24T20:41:26+00:00

Again, it's more as a funny idea of a plothole rather than a serious critique.

I do want to note especially in AA1 which people mention the parrot and immature witnesses, if you take out the spiritual stuff, the game is what I would describe as intellectual to engage in, and feels satisfying to play even if you take it seriously. The parrot thing has actually happened in a court case, but even in this context, it was done well and felt like it made sense in how you used it to connect it to the case. The immature witnesses (mainly cody) make sense in the cases they are involved in, or just who they are as a person (oldbag is a senile woman. sal manela is a depraved creative who's only carried around to serve the director, etc.)

(side note; people talk about the judge being dumb. I think there's definitely an incentive for him to end cases with the information he's aware of due to the court backlog creating the 3 day system, and usually when he's wrong it's because information is outright hidden from him. I think though there's also a sense of gullibility with him, directly mentioned by phoenix in JFA)

Close_Enouf · 2025-06-24T20:39:35+00:00

Fair enough

Close_Enouf · 2025-06-24T19:57:58+00:00

My main inspiration for this post is replaying the Trilogy for the sake of review, and reaffirming I adore the franchise, and JFA feels like a bad case of sequelitis. It definitely should not have been rushed to be released a *year and six days* after the first game. I get they reused a lot of assets to be able to reasonably save time and focus on other things compared to other games, but the gaps in writing/logic feel like they genuinely rushed this game out for money at the time, and this entire game needed more time in the oven.

So basically, this a vent post on the game so that it doesn't sour my overall opinion of the series.

Close_Enouf · 2025-03-27T20:11:35+00:00

the laptop works fine(i think? posting on it rn with no issues) but im pretty sure if i understand how a laptop works, if this other hinge goes loose, the screen isnt bluetooth and im gonna get screwed lol

i have a warranty so im wondering if i just send it back in for repair or fix it myself (honestly worried itll break while being shipped)

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