Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

[shayminskyforme88]

Will be starting soon I'm buying a used copy from someone who had already finished it.

 

[Libra]

I don't have my copy anymore at the moment; I gave it to someone else so they can play it. Of course, that means I can't download the DLC that comes out each Friday.

Make sure to download the DLC after completing the game! It has some excellent videos and stuff!

 

[Libra]

Got my game back today. The person hasn't played it that much; only a few hours. Turns out they don't like the Phoenix Wright gameplay, which I can understand. Too bad, but what can you do, eh?

 

[shayminskyforme88]

I started it last weekend and loved it. I'm currently in Chapter 7(Couldn't play any further, weekend ended). I really hope that they would release more Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright titles in the future.

 

[Libra]

I thought there would be more posts here. I'm curious as to what other people think about the game!

 

[unravel]

Spoiler

I'm done with everything so I'm playing special episode

 

[Chris]

Has anyone else noticed that with the NA version of the game, there are certain words in the dialogue that still have European spellings? Like why did Nintendo give us such a big delay if they weren't even going to change the words and keep the British voice actors. :|

Needless to say I'm not that far into the game, but I'm absolutely loving it so far.

Hi, a Brit here. We ask ourselves these questions almost every single game release. There have been (and with smaller publishers there still are) times where we've waited a year or more for a game to come out here after it's been released in NA, yet there will be no actual differences made to the game itself.


I've been considering getting this game. I've played a Phoenix Wright game and loved it, but I have no experience with Professor Layton titles.

 

[nammie]

Finally managed to buy the game yesterday, and for the most part I like it but I'm not fond of Phoenix and Maya's voices
also, do the puzzles get harder....? I've only finished chapter one, but it seems like compared to previous Layton games the puzzles are a lot simpler and sometimes just require... luck more than an actual strategy (i.e. before they used to give actual solutions, as well as the minimum number of moves needed when you solved a puzzle, now they just seem to say good job???)

this game is also a lot darker than I expected lol

Spoiler

like when they actually burned that girl who was accused of being a witch?? omg

Has anyone else noticed that with the NA version of the game, there are certain words in the dialogue that still have European spellings? Like why did Nintendo give us such a big delay if they weren't even going to change the words and keep the British voice actors. :|

Needless to say I'm not that far into the game, but I'm absolutely loving it so far.

I don't mind the voice actors or European spellings, since those are the spellings we use in Canada lol
however I also do wonder why it took them SOOO long to release it in NA, since like you said they
didn't seem to change anything...

also wish they kept the original Japanese voices as an option for us to pick

 

[Peoki]

Finally had the chance to finish this game over the past weekend.
Without getting into spoilers, I'm not sure how I feel about the ending and overall experience. I'd say it's an average game that is great for newcomers of either series. I'm not too familiar with the Layton series (though I have played them to an extent), I was disappointed with the amount of recycled puzzles. I personally did not find them difficult at all- with the exception of one or two puzzles. On a more positive note, I did enjoy the variety of puzzles in this game and am actually more interested in picking up the Layton series again.

PL vs PW definitely leaned more towards the trial aspects. No complaints there since I'm a fan of PW; however, I found the trials to be quite easy. They dropped a lot of hints and repeated lines throughout. I was hoping for a gradual increase in difficulty and was disappointed when I didn't get that.

Tl;dr Great game, but nothing amazing.

 

[Libra]

Been a while since I finished this game. Let's see... Yeah, the puzzles are quite easy but I thought that worked as a nice change/break from the trial sections. While I loved the trials I felt that they were too long at times (I agree with Peoki; the game leans more towards the trial aspects). And in all honesty, I wasn't too fond of the whole cross-examining multiple witnesses (that's my opinion, of course). But it's a great game, anyway.

 

[Libra]

Shu Takumi initially had doubts about Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:

Capcom?s Shu Takumi wasn?t always up for the idea of Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. As he explained to Game Informer, he ?disliked the thought of using the Ace Attorney universe to do a simple crossover with another franchise.?

It was because of Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino?s goal with the project that led Takumi to become more open to the idea. Hino hoped Takumi would be involved and ?wanted to do more than just borrow the series? title and some characters?.

Takumi?s full comments:

I personally disliked the thought of using the Ace Attorney universe to do a simple crossover with another franchise. But Mr. Hino (Level 5?s president), who has always been a fan of Ace Attorney, had wanted to do more than just borrow the series? title and some characters; his goal had been to have me on the project, and hearing that put me at ease and I gladly agreed to his proposal. I suggested the idea of having witch trials, and became the writer and director of the Ace Attorney parts of the game.

With this game, I was able to bring to life something I wouldn?t have been able to in the actual Ace Attorney series: trials that take place in a world where magic exists.

Source here.

 

[Ayaya]

...his goal had been to have me on the project, and hearing that put me at ease and I gladly agreed to his proposal.

Aww. I hope he had fun working on the project cause it seemed like it when I played the game Mybe it motivated him to work on Dai Gyakuten Saiban?

Spoiler

it's a shame it ended up with a laytonesque ending where everything isn't magic... I know it wouldn't work especially with the Layton universe, but it would be pretty cool if it ends up being magic after all.

 

[Dollie]

I have to admit, I got this game mainly because PHOENIX WRIGHT!!1 but I did end up liking the Professor Layton side of the game as well. The puzzles were quite fun to solve!

Also, you don't know how much I loved the animated cutscenes. Makes me wish there was an Ace Attorney anime.