Corpse Run 617: Ace expectations
There’s a Phoenix Wright anime that just started running recently. If you’re a fan of the games, you should absolutely watch it. If you haven’t played the games, you should drop everything you’re currently doing, burn your schedule for the foreseeable future, and then play the games.
Shoutout to the law of unintended consequences, which gave me this interesting cause/effect this weekend.
My coworker told me about a dream he had —–> a vacationing Brazilian couple found the Museum of Modern Art
How did one thing lead to another? Here’s how:
- Coworker told be about his dream early Friday morning
- I respond by mentioning a dream I had as a kid
- Coworker says to animate it
- I figure… ok fine
- Make a run cycle
- Office internet crashes
- Office internet is still down at 5pm
- The run cycle images I made can’t be emailed, and all my external hard drives (on me, anyway) were NTFS and the doodles were made on a Mac
- I leave everything on the Mac
- Go to Rich’s on Saturday
- Wake up Sunday and figure “let me stop at the office on the way back”
- Stop at the office, email files
- Go to train
- Couple holding a map flag me down
- They’re trying to get to the MoMA
- I point them where they need to go
- They wander off
- I figure that they might not really understand what I said (they were from Brazil and had very very very broken English
- Travel one train stop with them, then lead them around the station to the train they needed
- Go home and so on…
Coworker has a dream, tourists make their way to see some paintings and stuff.
IT’S THE CIIIIIIIIRRCLEEEEE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE
Just wait for the gritty retelling of Phoenix Wright to hit theaters 😛
The anime could have been good, but they seem to miss what makes PW great. I understand time constraints, but one of best parts of PW is pressing the witnesses and getting crazy banters. The anime is like the game being played without ever pressing witnesses. It just ruins the experience.
They also decided to go with ugly 3D for most important location – the courtroom. Of all the places to break with 3D they decided to go with that?
They even changed some bits of the story which happened in the courtroom to happen outside. The events based on investigation are too long, while courtroom takes 3 minutes of episode and is lame.
And even with all that the anime could have worked… But it never causes tension on the viewer. Even after we learned “this is your final chance Phoenix” thing is a bluff the games still would get the player tense. Phoenix in the anime never seems to really be in desperate situation and does everything too easily and too properly.
Oh, and all music that isn’t based on the games sucks and doesn’t fit.