Search Results for “Phoenix Wright”

February 2020

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This Month in Videogame Vlogging is a roundup highlighting all the most important critical things that people had to say about videogames using the video medium during the previous calendar month.

Visual Workings

Admittedly, videos about the visual tricks of videogames are rarely in short supply on the tubeyou, but I thought these two essays highlighted things that don’t get covered much when we talk about how cool games look.

The Animation of Phoenix Wright – New Frame Plus (15:21)
NFP discusses the Phoenix Wright as an exemplary case of a game expressing

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December 18th

…thousands of prisoners in dozens of prisons across the country to reach out, despite repressive conditions, and coordinate the time and method of a nationwide strike […]”

Phoenix Wright

Phoenix Wright & Aviary Attorney – AFA – YouTube Youtuber “Lord Faust” contextualizes the narrative style of attorney games in midcentury television procedurals, and discusses how these narratives reflected social changes in the perception of the criminal justice system.
ace attorney – spirit of justice | malvasia bianca David Carlton shares the pleasure of spending time with fictional characters who value the search for truth.

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…effort to enforce those strict gender roles despite being procedurally generated.

Phoenix Wright & Aviary Attorney – AFA | YouTube – Lord Faust Lord Faust examines how Phoenix Wright and Aviary Attorney portray justice and critiques the systems that are suppose to carry it out.

We planned for Brexit at Football Manager. So why did no one else? | The Guardian – Miles Jacobson The lead of the Football Manager team explains how they incorporated Brexit into their simulation and the strange aftermath of being treated as an expert on the subject.

Final Fantasy X’s Generational Conflict…

May 30th

…defined by more than that which makes them marginalized in our own world.

Ghost of Tsushima and the Importance of Lady Masako’s casual queerness | Gayming Magazine Eva Herinkova examines how Ghost of Tsushima approaches queer affection without sensationalism and without fanfare.
Making Phoenix Wright Canonically Asian American and Why That is Important (to Me) | Video Game Choo Choo Elvie delves into the localization history of the Ace Attorney series, and examines how the the North American version’s transplanted canon might serve as a foundation for establishing a proud and diverse array of Asian-American characters.

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March 7th

…rages at the game’s faults that irked him to no end, including the controls, while Mitch Krpata defends them in ‘What’s wrong with Heavy Rain’s controls?’ I think, however, I will give the last word to Julian Murdoch from the Gamers with Jobs who states:

A year from now, when the initial bloom is off the rose of this game, and we poke holes at its flaws, I believe designers will look back at these three things and say, “Those were craftsman at the top of their game.”

Two bloggers dust off Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney…

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Full list of games mentioned at end: Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8, Shovel Knight, Curtain, 2:22 AM, LaLa Land, Kitty Horrorshow’s games, Aeryne Wright’s games, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, The Fall, 80 Days, Gods Will Be Watching, The Niflheim, Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, Coffee: A Misunderstanding.

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June 6th

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Interview: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney translator Janet Hsu of Capcom | Polygon De’Angelo Epps interviews Janet Hsu about the challenges of localizing the Ace Attorney games across not only geographical space but time. (Curator’s recommendation: read this one in dialogue with Elvie’s piece on Asian-American visibility in Ace Attorney, featured last week).

“I think the two issues the location change does create, however, are the need to maintain an internally consistent world with each subsequent title, and a greater need for players to suspend their disbelief. The latter issue is more of a personal one, as

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September 20th

…ostensibly gay character in Phoenix Wright. As one commenter on the article points out, a fair amount of this, I’d hazard a guess, boils down to cultural differences between east and west and perhaps unfamiliarity with non-stereotypical representations of gay characters in Eastern media. As Denis says,

…this is what I would expect of a gay representation from film and television in the 80s. Even though almost all bit players in the series are couched in foibles and comedy, I found myself extremely uncomfortable when the game wanted me to laugh at Jean

In ‘Unexpectedly Serious…

May 16th

…the toll that took on much of that development team was significant.

Jorge Albor was in Germany recently and took the time to visit the Jewish museum in Berlin, taking a look at some of the Nazi-era board games created to acclimatise Jewish children to the idea of emigrating, as well as their sinister Nazi counterparts designed to indoctrinate German children against Jews. Fascinating stuff.

‘Phoenix Wright’s Objection’ is by Fintan Monaghan, writing here for the Escapist. It’s a look at the non-western legal system of Japan that doesn’t maintain the presumption of innocence, instead placing the…

This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2014

…Kateri penned a nine-part survey of all the sexual partners one can have in The Witcher and how they are portrayed.

In another direction, our own Kris Ligman posted the notes from an extemporaneous talk delivered at Lost Levels on reading Phoenix Wright of the Ace Attorney series as an asexual character.

Jorge Albor saw his own experience with race reflecting in Dragon Age: Inquisition, while Patricia Hernandez saw a very different type of culturally-inflected experience in Papers, Please.

Katherine Cross looked at one of the best characters from Christine Love’s Hate Plus, Oh Eun-a, and used…