I finally beat: Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney

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I finally beat: Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney

Dang.  That 5th case is really long.

The initial tutorial case is short, and the next is double its length.  What you do not expect is that each case doubles the length.  Save points between each of the 3 days stretches to between phases of each day.  Then during particularly long court sequences you may get another auto-save.  During the 5th case, you get several checkpoints during a single conversation.

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I finally beat: Army of Two

Army of Two

I finally beat: Army of Two

Sometimes, just sometimes, you can take something that shouldn’t go together and it’ll turn out OK. Maybe even good. Like Peanut butter and chocolate, or Tabasco sauce and Soy sauce on a chicken sandwich (really, it works),

…or EA and a good game.

Or at least EA and an OK game. Sure, they just copied Gears of War, and perhaps not as well as Gears, but it has its own merits. And you can’t earn as many achievements playing the Gears Campaign AGAIN, now can you? And the game isn’t dark and dreary. Just because Brown is Real, doesn’t mean I like it. Even AoT’s “everything is sand” is better. At least it’s brighter. Unlike Skate, which only had to topple a 10 year old stale serie, AoT has some stiff competition from Gears of War, Halo, and every other multiplayer shooter out there. So, how does it stack up? And what does it do wrong (it’s EA, they had to screw something up)?

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