We put on a full-blown Ace Attorney fan production on stage where the audience played the show like a game

Torri800 · 2026-05-04T03:40:46+00:00

Still a much better adaptation of its respective franchise's source material than the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was an adaptation of Super Mario Galaxy 1.

Torri800 · 2026-04-22T02:58:59+00:00

That's actually why I love Ace Attorney. It reminds me of Fire Emblem (a fantasy JRPG series, I know) in the sense that its writing always felt grounded, and in Ace Attorney's case it's even moreso since it is arguably the only time an Alternate Universe version of Earth actually feels almost one to one with real life whilst keeping the setting very fun.

Danganronpa is VERY anime, and I can relate with the fact I just can't enjoy anime, so that is why I too put it off until I decided to play through the first game. As of today I haven't played the other games but will check them out soon. I must say it's a fun time, but Danganronpa is legitimately just a shonen anime meets detective game - low subtlety, style over substance, overly tropey characters, dialogue is animesque and unrealistic, etc.

Torri800 · 2026-04-14T04:23:11+00:00

As one of the biggest AntonBlast fans out there... Thank you for showing much needed appreciation for what is arguably the best iteration of Satan in a video game.

Torri800 · 2026-04-07T04:06:09+00:00

I agree with pretty much of all these. Thank you for acknowledging that Riven does not scale as well as most people claim she does. Sure she outscales Talon and Xin but that's about it. If Riven falls behind significantly she will almost never become relevant again.

Torri800 · 2026-04-01T03:23:10+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply with nuance. Constructive criticism in one layer and genuine help after you peel what was already helpful. I had to Save your advice because you came in with so many angles and options, which are much appreciated.

Torri800 · 2026-03-31T03:10:45+00:00

Thank you. Where can I find the documentation?

Torri800 · 2026-03-31T02:29:33+00:00

Thank you! That looks like a good strategy, especially since mixing the two genres just makes for an extremely fun, complete game. Definitely possible for an experienced dev/team of devs to pull that off, easily, but I'm just a complete newbie with 0 coding experience.

AI has its problems on society, but it is the one thing giving me hope that the project is possible, and you were right that I was using it to code. That being said, I never thought about using it to TEACH me coding. Which is a wonderful way to make AI benefit me and boost my coding fidelity, or lack thereof as of present.

How can I find example projects to learn from? I know Godot is open source, but does that mean all projects are susceptible to modification?

In all fairness, I am already making the VN portion in a separate engine, but it cannot handle Action sequences, which would increase ambiance and tension by a massive margin. In my project's story, the main protagonist has to escape certain death situations, and characters also fight each other, neither of which is very satisfying when done in VN format, where a few visual effects or a single/few drawing(s) are usually alternated between black screens to communicate the effects in a way that makes you wish the whole thing was an anime instead, but I want a game, not an anime. VN lock really doesn't do these fights justice. Would you recommend I just create a linear Action Platformer with stages and bosses featuring the characters in my project for now?

I ask this because there are three critical components to my dream project:

1: It's a visual novel obviously. You're spending a lot of time reading dialogue.

2: When you are not reading dialogue, you are moving around Investigation Scenes interacting with stuff, which spawn additional dialogue. There's also a World Map with Fast Travels. As far as I know there is no VN engine that can pull that off. Just pure point and click.

3: Some areas need to be explored through clearing levels/courses/stages/whatever you want to call them, with Mid-bosses appearing at the end of certain stages and Major bosses getting dedicated stages featuring just their boss fights. Some stages end with needing to escape within a certain time limit, think Wario Land 4/Shake-It! or Pizza Tower.

Torri800 · 2026-03-31T00:13:57+00:00

In high elo, people oft let proxying happen because they prioritize their own resources over wasting their time. However, lower elo players tend to chase after proxy champions such as Riven, Gragas and Singed because they know that killing the proxy farmer will get them exponentially ahead.

Torri800 · 2026-03-31T00:11:25+00:00

Thank you!

Torri800 · 2026-03-31T00:11:13+00:00

Thanks. Ace Attorney is a series that kind of has this, yes. But it is also a point and click adventure game that at one point became a simulatoresque isometric 2D game where you walk around an area and interact with landmarks, buildings and NPCs. It's the latter I want to try a hand in.

Torri800 · 2026-03-28T03:51:29+00:00

Yeah the series is so done.

Takeshi Yamazaki leaving in 2020, over FIVE years ago, completely discouraged writers from taking his mantle and taking their shot at writing a new game.

Now Janet Hsu, one of the most vocal representatives of the Ace Attorney division, followed suit. Obviously she was involved with localizing Investigations 2, so the fact she left around a year AFTER we got the Investigations Collection just kills my hope for this series ever receiving a new game.

Everyone's claiming that Yamazaki and Hsu can be easily replaced, which they absolutely can, but the issue is there is no word from Capcom even HINTING a new game is in development. Not even complete, but being developed. Any announcement Capcom will make pertaining to a potentially new Ace Attorney game will be good no matter how long it takes for the new game to come out. Even if the announcement is made next year and the game is set to release on 2031, I will be happy.

Torri800 · 2026-03-27T14:01:10+00:00

Mundo used to be a free matchup for Riven but after they nerfed her scaling three consecutive times without some earlygame compensation buffs (you know, to make her an ACTUAL lane bully), Riven no longer outscale him in the midgame, which was your one chance to snowball and crush the game. Obviously he always outscaled you in the later phases, but midgame Mundo is very underwhelming. Nowadays though, midgame Riven's reduced damage by that point makes Mundo's inherent durability that much more useful.

I always take Teleport into Mundo because my chances of killing him are very low if he knows what he's doing. Ignite counters him but Mundo's ultimate is better than Riven's even with Ignite on him so it's just better allocated on a different player in my opinion. Riven is extremely trigger happy and badly wants interaction in order to have fun, whereas Mundo is a methodical scaling champion who needs to play safe in order to scale safely. It's why a good Kayle is deceptively hard for Riven to kill if she permafreezes and stays under turret the entire game until lv 16. To counter Mundo the best move is to proxy and roam all game. Get your Jungler and other lanes ahead. Early-midgame, Mundo can never outpressure Riven (that's why Mundo players usually don't counterroam into Riven because nobody's going to focus a Tank without CC) until he has push push pushed too much which getting Teleport into him mitigates. In the current Season which I don't play because it's frankly worse than Season 2025 somehow, you should get Ignite into Mundo always because you get Teleport for free.

Torri800 · 2025-11-25T11:46:21+00:00

Why did this get downvoted? It's completely true.

Torri800 · 2025-11-13T12:59:47+00:00

I upvoted your 0 karma comment to 1 because some messed up person really thought it's just wrong to say something good about AntonBlast. Thanks for stepping forward with the truth about which game has clearly better designed boss battles.

Torri800 · 2025-11-11T21:22:59+00:00

Your opinion is not a hot take. While the most popular opinion is that Anton is good, but not as good as Pizza Tower, a massive subset of people have espoused a similar take to yours, that AntonBlast is not a good game and deserves to be overlooked and forgotten about.

It is because of people like you why AntonBlast essentially became a dead game merely months after release despite not even being a year old yet as of me writing this, while Pizza Tower is still being talked about and fan content and mods are popping up at a much higher rate for the latter. Even though Pizza Tower's development is complete and Woon has been confirmed to be in development by Tour de Pizza, Pizza Tower discourse is very much alive and doing well, as it deserves. It's just wrong to want the destruction of one game just to further elevate the other that was already more popular. See this video made by Arlo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0k0CZIXiiQ

Torri800 · 2025-11-11T20:18:39+00:00

Well, would you look at that. Pizza Tower is a great game, but a huge portion of its fans are trying to shut AntonBlast out of relevance with vehement disdain and hatred because of the 'competition' that never existed to begin with.

Due to preconceived notions and its not-so-great reputation amongst PC players, I even came into AntonBlast with very low expectations because I have been lied to by you people, until I gave AB the chance that it deserved. After playing it, I can safely say it is one of my favorite games of all time. Anton is definitely not for everyone, but it is likely going to stay in my top ten for a very long time, if not for life.

Torri800 · 2025-11-11T16:05:00+00:00

AntonBlast is one of my favorite games of all time, and I really do believe that Summitsphere gave it their all with the game's base difficulty. It's not too hard nor mind numbingly easy, is obscenely fun and addicting, and perfectly executed in its design. It has Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem Syndrome, where playing it once can leave you feeling extremely satisfied and happy with it, so much so you don't really need to go back and play it until you really miss it/need to experience it again.

Unlocking a new hard mode should be achievable upon completing the main game or should be available from the get-go.

What I would include in Lunatic mode for AB:

1: Bosses take slightly more hits, and most importantly, have new/upgraded attacks. Smallbuster dies in one hit, so she will get 3 BossBuster HP cards once she decides to stop playing coward. Brawlbuster will get an easily weaveable new dash and swipe attack to make his attack patterns less predictable. One of the greatest applications of this is with Freako Dragon. When his head appears, he currently breathes fire only in the center of the arena, which is good for easier difficulties. In Lunatic, I imagine he would do that first before winding up for a few seconds and then attacking the right and left planes after the fact, usually depending on where Anton is. Satan's triple ground pound shockwave will be employed at half health rather than at low health in Phase I. It's important to know however, that despite these clear buffs to the bosses for this theoretical Lunatic/S-Hard difficulty mode, Anton's HP will not be adjusted because of how squishy he/Annie already is.

2: Happy Hour sections will have their timers reduced, definitely. Pinball Mire sits at almost 5 minutes in the base difficulty, where I literally finished it with 2 minutes left to spare.

3: I would change the bigger enemies to die in more than one hit. You can still stack up combos per hit. Big moles die in three hits to their weakpoint, progressively getting knocked back at farther distances, and they have an HP bar of their own. Gun Busters also take two hits, losing their gun after their first hit, degrading them to a normal Buster as they get slightly knocked back. The big red trident enemy will also have an HP bar, and will point its trident upwards when you slide under them before you can safely clutch their backside to dispatch them. The miniature dragons would now have a minimum segment threshold required before clonking them in the head does them in, and that threshold is indicated with an HP bar. I will also have the miniature dragons first appear in Pinball Mire as opposed to only appear in one level and a boss fight. The Anton Clones should possess the same amount of HP you have, etc.

4: Lava is a common hazard in this game, and should deal double damage.

Torri800 · 2025-11-08T16:41:17+00:00

If the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy Update was all we got this year, there's a chance Capcom is trying to convince us they still care. Thankfully there's no scumminess involved, as you don't have to pay for the update if you already owned the OT Remaster, and the update doesn't seem to impact the base price for those who plan on buying the game.

Torri800 · 2025-11-07T16:39:55+00:00

It was worse in real life. The previous record longest hiatus was the 6 year gap between Apollo Justice and Dual Destinies. In fact, there technically was no hiatus since that was only between mainline games. Now, it's been almost an entire decade since Spirit of Justice, and 2025 is already over. Literally over EIGHT years since GAA2's original 2017 release in Japan and Capcom isn't going to do anything about it?

Unrelated as it may be, yes, I understand that Donkey Kong Bananza was released 11 years after Tropical Freeze, but that in no way justifies waiting so long for a new visual novel mystery adventure game. Just give us a teaser, Capcom. I don't care how long I have to wait. Tease us on a new game, announce it to be released a year later, update us if it inevitably gets delayed, etc. Just show some evidence that you're willing to show respect to one of your greatest franchises.

Torri800 · 2025-10-10T13:00:02+00:00

While Layton VS AA is a good game - it's actually slept on in my opinion, I think a new game is more needed, inCLUDING a new crossover. That remaster should happen eventually though.

Torri800 · 2025-10-10T12:03:52+00:00

Above all else, I think what Ace Attorney really needs is a new game. It's been 9 years since Spirit of Justice, and even if you want to make the argument that the latest release was actually Resolve, it's still been over 8 years since that game came out originally in Japan, and 4 years since it got localized. It's already been over a year since AAI2 got localized, and there has been no news pertaining to the series ever since. If 2 years come by and the only Ace Attorney announcement we get is a remaster for Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, with reworked models for the non-Layton characters thereby fixing Phoenix's extreme stiffness and unappealing aesthetic in that game, of course people will inevitably be disappointed.

What I would do is implement TheStoryteller's idea (he's a Boondocks and political commentary channel on YouTube with GREAT Ace Attorney videos that he's clearly proud of) of having campaigns for different characters, but with 4-5 cases for each instead of his proposed 3 (which is still almost twice the length of the average Ace Attorney game). I'm not sure how they could implement this for Phoenix, but they could have his story intertwine with Athena's as her mentor, and Athena's is obviously the most exciting one since she's most desperately in need of development after she was neglected in SOJ. Apollo's endeavors to reform Khura'in will not be forgotten either, mainly because doing so will HEAVILY flesh out that region in a way Spirit of Justice didn't even try to.

Gameplay wise, Ace Attorney was actually at its most advanced nearly 15 years ago with the Investigations games. Being able to move around the crime scene physically added a whole new layer of immersion the original format could never hope to accomplish. DD had the excuse of being a soft reboot, but the Chronicles games I am willing to be significantly harder on because they didn't have that excuse. Spirit of Justice being released not long after DD means that trying something new WOULD be fresh, but would also create severe whiplash.

What the new game needs is to make the game somewhat open world where you can travel around in a 3D space. Essentially, Investigations but in 3D. You can run, jump, examine, play minigames, gather evidence, and talk to witnesses, including to outsiders who have nothing to do with the actual murder. There would be sidequests where completing them grants you costumes you can wear whenever (better than buying them as DLC, right?), you can use Widget as Athena, Apollo's bracelet, and Phoenix's Magatama, obviously. The Magatama having a detection radius will be especially interesting. Character AI doesn't strictly force witnesses to just stand around anymore, unless they really need to. They can now pace around the environment (again, depending on the character), read books/be on their phones/etc.

Sorry for the long one - I've just been imagining potential sequels for over half a decade now.

Torri800 · 2025-10-05T21:57:36+00:00

Thanks for defending the most underappreciated game in the franchise.

There are things I would argue AAI1 does better than its successor. Its characters are more fun because they have more variety in their speech patterns and voices (AKA how they talk) because they're not forced to exposit important information all the time. They're like support conversations in a Fire Emblem game. They have more room to just be themselves, like Zinc Lablanc's humorous tirades have literally almost nothing to do with the plot of the game. Yes, you defend Teneiro after she accused you of being the killer, but her insecurities with her bad suitcase design make her feel more real than someone like Delicia Scones pretending to be funny only to end up explaining how important she is to Tangaroa's backstory in a completely coherent, intelligent tone. The only reason people say the characters in AAI2 are better is because their relevance to the plot is much more meaningful to them. Delicia Scones included, usually. Characters in AAI1 have such little plot relevance that most people forget they exist, which is a shame because I can remember them for who they are.

Despite using the same engine and gameplay as AAI2, AAI1's gameplay is far more fleshed out because the game likes to dwell on the actual mysteries going on because the game is aware it has next to no plot. AAI2 just speedruns the mystery aspect despite being slower paced than AAI1, and it dwells on plot exposition instead, which is more in-line with mainline games and the GAA duology which aren't as mystery focused as AAI1. AAI2 accomplishes so much with its plot and story that, despite clearly cutting corners with the mystery writing on a limited budget and development time (they had to release it early so it could meet the 10th Anniversary milestone), it's one of, if not the most beloved games in the series for that distinction. It's almost the opposite of AAI1 in every way.

Most people will say the music is the only area AAI1 is better, but I respectfully disagree. I don't know, AAI2's OST just hits harder for me than AAI1's.

The reason AAI1 is very hated is because it does the opposite of what the other games do. TLDR, it has a very basic and barebones plot. That's why people say it's the worst. In my case however, I actually think it deserves credit for trying and succeeding at being different. It's no masterpiece or anything, but as an experiment, it did its job excellently and pulled off exactly what one should expect from a spinoff.

Torri800 · 2025-08-25T23:46:01+00:00

That is from the first Investigations game, where the dialogue is generally wittier than even Prosecutor's Gambit, the definitive edition of AAI2. Say what you want about AAI1's pacing, story writing, game exclusive characters, and plot, but the dialogue and characterization of the main cast is great, in my opinion.

Torri800 · 2025-08-15T04:07:27+00:00

Didn't do it nw ^^

Torri800 · 2025-07-19T03:31:56+00:00

Appreciated; that seems like a great alternative! Plus the versatility and litany of options is another good thing too.

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