been playing the fan translation of ace attorney investigation 2, honestly i didn't want to do it at first because it meant finding where the heck i put all of my DS stuff and i was kind of expecting a disappointing game... but then i saw a bit of the first case on youtube and saw that it had a very interessing cameo from the previous games...
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none other than shelly de killer from the final case of ace attorney 2!
so in the end i had to do it and played through the first cases... and eh... it was okay, coincidentaly the best part about it was the actual cameo above
the game plays pretty much like the first one, the only addition is a new form of investigation called logic chess battle's where you have to decide when to press your target for info and when instead to keep your mouth shut and let the target talk so that he pipes down and/or let some important info slips, honestly it's a very lame addition and seems to be there only because the game is utterly obssesed with chess
the first case is about investigating the attempted assasination of a foreign president and revolve around his bodyguards called, i shit you not, "rooke" and "knightley". And when edgeworth finaly catch the culprit they just won't stop using chess as an analogy ("looks like this is checkmate!" "so what's going to be your next move?" "i tought you had a queen but instead you just have a pawn!" "isn't the point of a knight to protect the king?") for the whole argument
that also reminds me, the fantranslation is really well done, the pun-ish name are well chosen compared to the original, the in-game graphic have been redone in english and even the japanese voice's got redubbed (albeit you can easily notice the difference with edgeworth "hold it!" which is taken from the official english translation, and the new voices of the fantranslation) and since capcom usa didn't touch the script someone even used a japanese word like "haiku"! in fact i'm starting to think that the fantranslator have done a better job than capcom would have done
the first case is pretty simple and straightforward, especialy since it also has to work as the tutorial which pretty much leads to
this, there is a part where a photo of the president with a clear laser pointer aimed at his head appear and edgeworth is like "THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PHOTO!" and you have to compare it with a normal photo of the president showing that the president doesn't apparently have a laser pointer aimed at his head on his natural state, then gumshoe and kay (which obviously return as edgeworth sidekicks) are like "WHAT'S THAT WEIRD BUG BITE?" BITCH, THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL HIM,IT'S SO FUCKING OBVIOUS THAT'S A LASER POINTER,I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU AND YOUR DUMB ASS!
the animation is still top notch and easily the best part of the game
the cases seems to be connected unlike previous ace attorney games, in fact case 2 is a direct continuation of case 1, there is an overall bigger story featuring an association of snotty prosecutor (one of them is called "dabest") which are on edgeworth tails based on the fact that he was once evilllllllllllll, a colleague of edgeworth father also pops out of the "aren't character with untouched backstories a wonderfull thing?" hat... in his defense he has the best animation in the whole game and also totaly looks like your creepy uncle
capcom "never" makes mispelling mistake
