Bitmap Frogs said:
Those of you living on Europe will already be aware of the incompetence that appears to run rampant at NoE. As a result of that I was very pleased a couple days a go when I found a copy of PW3:T&T which so far had eluded me (having played already through PW1, PW2 and AA1). Of course I know the console isn't region locked but I had a couple bad experiences with net shopping so I kind of prefer brick & mortar stores these days.
Anyways the point being I actually bought my DS to play PW. As an old-time fan of the adventure genre, whatever minimal the twitches of the small finger on the almost lifeless genre I am interested on, specially if they come from someone like Capcom and the word of mouth was really good. Same reason I own Zack & Wiki.
I found out that while the actual adventuring part was sort of mechanically repetitive (it basically boils down to inspecting areas of the backgrounds or showing items to the npc's, both to unlock conversational options and then... well, that's it - neither inventory nor environment puzzles, etc) the script was nice and the characters possessed a certain charm. Which made the whole thing move along nicely up until reaching the trial stage - the meat of the game. Which is of course fun, engaging and actually requires the player to solve puzzles. It's basically an exercise of memory and logic -albeit the later can at times be somewhat warped and/or convoluted- wrapped in a peculiar style of dashing and surreal dialogue. Indeed, the world in which the Phoenix Wright stories happen is a weird albeit eerily coherent one. Later on (second game and forward) they padded the adventuring sections allowing you to interact with the NPC's in the same way you interact with them during the trial section.
The point being, NoE sucks. The Phoenix Wright series is good. And why hasn't it spurred more games alike? Hotel Dusk was sorta decent and that makes half of the DS graphic adventure roster along with the PW series. Guess adventure games do not sell... anymore.
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NoE could use more work on localizing games, but that only applies to Nintendo games. It's up to other developers to make their own games. BTW, these are the sales of the Ace Attorney games. 380k for the lowest one is plenty of profit, since it's unlikely those games cost millions to make. Hotel Dusk also sold 360k. Sure that's worldwide, but that's enough to keep developers making these games. DS has actually revived this genre.
