10-19-2010, 08:48 PM | #1 |
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Professor Layton VS. Phoenix Wright
Professor Layton And Ace Attorney Co-Starring In Upcoming Title My two favorite franchises for the Nintendo DS. Crossing over. This is unbelievable. Oct 20 Update: Here's the trailer! It's abso-friggin'-lutely AMAZING! I'm getting Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva vibes from this. So many questions though!
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11-29-2012, 01:24 PM | #2 |
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The second trailer is out. It's an animation-heavy one showcasing much of the effort that went into the game's cinematics and voice acting. And guess who's voicing Phoenix Wright?
The game went on sale today (November 29), reports ANN. Sadly there's still no word on an international release. Hopefully domestic sales are through the roof and encourage a North American publisher to purchase the NA distribution rights from Capcom and take the risk Capcom seems so unwilling to. Or perhaps better yet Capcom changes their mind and releases it here themselves. Source
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11-29-2012, 11:28 PM | #3 |
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They would absolutely stupid to not put this out in America. The Layton games and the Ace Attorney games have both sold well stateside, and even if it's for the DS, a lot of people still have one.
But really, why didn't they just make this a movie? The animation looks AMAZING, but on the small DS screen it's going to look pretty weak :/ I've been following this since the day it was announced but... it's definitely a lot different from when it was first announced (As is to be expected), but it just seems like it should have been a movie (or maybe a movie/game combination). Especially given how amazing the Eternal Diva was. |
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"Since the day it was announced," it's been planned for release on the 3DS, not the DS. ^^;
I agree it probably should've been a movie. Crossovers in general can be strange. Puzzles in a Phoenix Wright game? Courtroom proceedings in a Professor Layton game? But the fact that Takumi Shuu (Phienix Wright creator) threw his entire weight behind this project rather than PW5 says a lot for how much Team Phoenix is hoping the game is a success. So that's promising. And if I had to pick two franchises on the DS to crossover, I'm glad they went with these two. Hopefully they bring it over. Looks like there's a ton of audio to re-record though.
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I'm not interested in this (never played a Layton, didn't set foot near that Edgeperson spinoff) but Nintendo would be awful dumb not ta make sure this gets localized one way or another.
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11-30-2012, 04:34 AM | #6 |
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I'm also thinking "why not make a movie/anime out this instead?".
Not really getting the title now, since Layton and Wright will obviously be working together, is that just a common thing with crossover names? If this comes out in Europe, I'm getting that 3DS, darnit. But keep in mind that we're STILL waiting on Trauma Team and other games that haven't seen daylight here. Ef you, region-locks!
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What? So you're right... but I remember the day it was announced, was it not initially to be a DS game? Oh well, whatever. That's good news.
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Week 1 Sales is in~
Media Create says... #02 Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney - 128,856 Famitsu says... #02 Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney - 135,450 A sorta distant second place compared to the top game "2nd Super Robot Wars OG" for the PS3 which was over 200k. |
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Reports Kotaku reports Wikipedia, the games have been confirmed for North America and for Europe for 2013. No specific date yet. I imagine it'll be a year, possibly longer. A lot of voice acting to get recorded for no fewer than four main main and three supporting main characters. But hey: it's coming.
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Alternatively they cheap out like many other localizations and cut voice acting entirely, save for maybe any fmv/animated scenes ~_~
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But isn't it a thing everywhere to show (somewhat) silent trailers until the dubbing gets done? I personally wouldn't expect the game to be left undubbed based on one VA-free trailer alone...
Considering the nature of Prof. Layton, I assume they have to do all the dubbing from scratch - with Ace Attorney, it'd be a slim possibility to leave the Japanese voice-acting intact that you can swap on and off from Options, but if Prof. Layton has puzzles that rely on some language trick (I recall a really annoying one from the first game where you had to name a tool with X amount of letters - fun times for ESL-players! ), they can't really use the Japanese voice-acting.
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Sorry for bumping this thread, but the game comes out on the 26th and I pre-ordered it after being buttered up by the Gamestop employees OTL
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Having just recently re-beaten Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and wanting to get to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, I've arrived ready to play Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. This is the first new Ace Attorney game for me since playing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth back in like 2010 or thereabouts and is likewise my first new Professor Layton game since around 2010 as well, my last Layton game being the third installment in the franchise, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. I can't tell you how giddy I am to be playing this game. I'm not normally one for crossovers, but it's hard not to like one which combines my two favorite series on the Nintendo DS. (Pokémon aside, of course. Although ... ) Right now I've just reached the very beginning of Chapter 1, having completed the two prologues -- the Layton prologue and the Wright prologue, respectively -- before it. I've been having a blast with the experience. There's been much in the way of mild disappointments, but these have been offset by multiple great delights. I won't lie: as I've treated Vs. for the past month and a half as part of my operation to play all of the Phoenix Wright games, I'd all but forgotten on a deeper, emotional level that this game is one-half a Layton game. Like, obviously I didn't forget the fact superficially. Obviously you see the name "Layton" right there in the title -- in the leading position, no less! -- and you know it's got to be as much a Professor Layton game as it does an Ace Attorney game. But because I haven't been treating it that way in my mind for all this time -- because I've had such tunnel vision on "gotta make my way to AA5!" and "gotta ... Because my experience thus far has been magical, and so much of that magic can be accredited to 1) the getting to play my very first Professor Layton game in nearly five years and 2) the childish joy at getting to see Phoenix and Maya "visit Professor Layton's world." Certainly, the Capcom characters feel like guests in Level 5's universe. Now that I actually play the game, Vs. feels much more like a Layton game with PW visitors than it does either a) the opposite or b) the 50-50. All of the Layton music feels perfectly Layton-ey, all of the Layton animations perfectly Layton-ey too. But the PW music feels like ... like a Layton remix of PW classics. Specifically a Layton remix of them, too. The PW characters' visuals may not have the cartoon feel of a Layton universe character, but they too don't ... don't quite feel like they were 100% made or implemented by Capcom. I dunno. I'm sure they probably were, but there's something about them that makes them feel like they weren't, like they were at least 10% (if not more) in the hands of the Level 5 graphic design team. General discussion but with spoiler elements follows. Safe for anyone who like me has reached Chapter 1. Spoiler: show
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Alright, I am I suspect very near the end of Chapter 2. (It's the second court trial of the game, the verdict was announced, the movie file played, and yeah ...)
Spoiler: show There's so much I could say but this post is already gargantuan and I'd really rather be playing than writing. ^^; So I'll leave it here for now and I'll report back in next time with more thoughts and theories!
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Eeeeeeeee, Talon's playing PL vs PW~~~~ I look forward to the rest of your reactions to this game, I enjoyed it tons and it's fun to see what you thought of it \o/
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Alright, so, status update. Right now I believe I'm waist deep in Chapter 03, maybe even neck deep, I really don't know. I can be more specific below so you can gauge if you're as far as I am or not. (Nested spoiler tags a-go-go!)
Spoiler: show So that's how far I am in Chapter 03 right now. Thoughts below! Spoiler: show Thought I'd have more to say but I guess not! Still, it's an enormous tl;dr compared with most people's posts so I guess this is as good a place as any to stop here and resume playing. If I remember anything else while playing, hopefully I'll remember it when writing my next post.
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Tiiiiiny little status update. I squeezed in another half hour or so of gameplay after last night's post, and there are two things of note to discuss before I forget / before moving on with the story.
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Currently about one-quarter or so of the way into Chapter 05. Really, I have no way of knowing for certain just how far into it I am, but if the previous chapters are anything to go by then I would gauge that I'm maybe a quarter of the way through Chapter 05.
Spoiler discussion on up through the very end of Chapter 04 but no farther: Spoiler: show Spoiler discussion from the start of Chapter 05 to where I am in it currently: Spoiler: show
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