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Yeah, I also felt playing the game that Kat basically lucked out and guessed everything. I guess with the Prof., he gave out his explanations, so it didn’t feel that way. But when Kat basically made a guess and turned out to be right, I felt the game bent over backwards to praise her. She definitely felt a bit Mary-Sue-ish to me.
It's just that it feels like she's smart but reasonably, not in a Mary Sue way, but the writers didn't feel like they needed to show it and it backfired horribly. But that might just be my need for more female protagonists taking. Because I'm a pretty young girl but still old enough to remember when there weren't a lot of good protagonists yet and how much it hurt realizing the wasted potential and how negative it can be. Because I'm one of those who thinks media helps shape society just as much as promoting the sane diversity in reality. So a new protagonist makes a big and potentially good difference and I hate seeing it go wrong for stupid reasons like writers assuming they have to write in a completely different way which makes it feel fake and impossible when it's just the writer's mindset being wrong. I was saying all of this because I don't take Mary Sue accusations lightly with how bad writers are with female characters in most genres. Thankfully the Layton series seemed to be an exception but now this happened and I don't know anymore. They had great characters but they didn't really do much, but that wasn't really a problem since no one except the Professor and Luke really did much and then in the prequels Emmy and also Aurora I guess got to help. But now that doesn't feel like enough anymore if that's what they do with a more important character.
I apologize, I didn’t know there were sexist connotations in the term. Thanks for the education.
I agree, I just have a problem with her character because she feels different in the anime and I think it's just because with everything animated the upbeat personality is more noticeable, but it really feels like sometimes she's exaggerating it in the game, not that much in the anime because it's even more lighthearted. In the game when she's not super interested in something (which is always only food) it seems like she doesn't care about anything and it just feels like she's an Hollywood Bipolar
Yeah the dynamic is already way better in the anime, like seriously if they could just start a trilogy on top of the Millionaire's conspiracy so they have the chance to get three games with good pacing and act like there's only the anime for MC they'd be golden. They still don't have much going on in the anime but Kat has a way more consistent personality and Ernest is his lovable not too praising self. It just feels like how it should have been where sure the story is still simple but with the complete dedication to humor it makes more sense and if works way better instead of going from good in half of the cases to complete tonal dissonance in others. I can't really tell you if there really were significant changes or if it's just because the comedy actually works now but the dynamic is way better and with the more mysteries you can see that Kat really is a good investigator. Even the episodes with cases from the game were better, tough I liked the Ratman one in the game more. It's just that the pacing makes more sense for the anime while they really need to fix some things in the game. Or at least change the clue list a bit because there's a reason the other games had no blank spaces for missing questions. I think that just doing something more like the Detective Conan Wii game would be great. It was fine not figuring out anything and watching the Professor explain everything when the mysteries were complicated but now they go from too easy to completely absurd so I think having you put the clues in place to solve them might make it more satisfying.
I've been watching the anime series and thanks for convincing me to give it a try, it's really fun! I loved the characters in the game but I got a bit of tired of them by the end but in the series they're super fun! They still haven't had any moment where they get serious like I hoped from the game but it makes sense here so it doesn't bother me. And because it's animated I can see everything happening so that weird feeling of the protagonists being useless until the case is solved is completely gone! It's just really good, I think that really is what they were going for from the start. I still hope they do something different in the game because it doesn't work
I looked at all the names and didn't find anything new. But I found some other characters I like so Yay! Since it's SE I doubt I'll ever see Octopath tough. I really want to believe that they consider Level-5 important, because I can't think of any big companies that aren't already in so I have hope
To be honest, I personally can't really see any of the current five third parties getting more than one new series included via DLC (at least not in one season pass) which should cut down some of the potential competition for Layton, That said, we probably will be seeing a couple first party characters though.
Professor Pumpkaboo
for making me aware of this.
While I remember being unimpressed by the plot twist it still had some of my favorite locations, so that's great. I remember hearing first about the series thanks to this one, it had a lot of commercials here in Italy, though they may have been only targeted to children since I was like ten. I still hope that with this one more people that remember about the commercials will decide to try it. I was too little when it came out so I have to thank a friend for making me play it some years later, I don't think I'm the only one. There are a lot of Layton fans here in Italy and basically anyone who cares about the DS has heard of the series, but not that many keep up with the series enough to have heard about the remake. I think it would change if they ported the HD editions to switch tough, unless those DS kids quit gaming completely.Special thanks to
So an HD remake for Professor Layton and the Diabolical/Pandora's Box has just been announced!
I'm starting to feel more optimistic on the idea of us getting an HD collection of the original Layton trilogy for the Switch at some point down the line.
In the HD remake of Curious Village they added some extra scenes and collectibles for that game, what would you like to see them implement for this game though?
It's probably just wishful thinking, but I'd like to see them add the option to re-explore Dropstone after you visited Folsense, because in the original that area becomes permanently inaccessible. Perhaps it may not be possible to revisit it with Layton and Luke due to plot related reasons, but they can probably bypass that by letting you play as Flora instead with an additional bonus sidequest and puzzles you can solve there. (It would address the complaints people had about how she was handled in that game too) Maybe learn a bit more about Katia's family as well.
Just spitballing some ideas there, but it's good to know that the Layton series will still be active by next year.
Yeah I think Level-5 is mainly trying to target the casual audience who have mostly moved on to Smartphones after the DS and Wii era's, which is why they generally try to push the series on to smartphone platforms with their games lately.
Oh yeah, I've seen that video before, been meaning to share it but never really had the chance to. It gives a good insight on how the series came to be and its definitely worth checking out.
Guess we're going to learn about the new main villain very soon, by next episode I believe so we can look forward to that.
Not just popular, but surprising too. Apparently these DLC characters are supposed to surprise us this time around, and I think this reveal can attest to that. Layton will have flown under almost everyone's radar if he ends up getting revealed.
You know, today I was hanging out with a friend talking about expectations for the Game Awards, and talking about the 2014 show I remembered Layton vs. Wright came out that year and told him all about it.
I think DLC was decided recently, between 2017 and 2018. There would have been no reason to add Joker before knowing what a global phenomenon Persona 5 would become. I think when Sakurai apologized about Rex on November 1, DLC had already been decided, or at the very least, Sakurai knew Nintendo wanted third parties only and thus Rex was out of the running.
Honestly, I think Persona 5's overall game quality alone would be enough to convince Sakurai to add Joker in Smash in late 2016. Sort of a Shulk situation with the game's quality playing a primary factor to inclusion in S4's base game, and sort of a Corrin situation with the assurance of localization with Fates for DLC.
Xenoblade had been out for a while though. Smash 4’s development began after March 2012, when KI:U finished development. By that time Xenoblade had come out in Japan, Europe and Australia, Project Rainfall had happened, and Xenoblade was a month away from release in the US.
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Where I'm watching it they're still at episode 34 but I'm happy my good first impression from that one wasn't wrong
