A few game-type things
Mar. 10th, 2008 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73First, borrowed from shoutingboy: One person's take on the top 3 presidential candidates' D&D stats. It pokes fun at all 3, so should amuse/offend everyone equally.
Second, I finished Phoenix Wright case #2 on Saturday. Score overall: about an 8 out of 10. I would estimate that the case took a good 5 hours or so to complete, which was a definite plus (especially since the first case took only 45-60 minutes). As a story, I thought it worked fairly well. The victim's identity was a shocker, which was a good place to start off. There is apparently no need for search warrant in Phoenix's world; otherwise the prosecution would have objected - entirely within reason! - to Phoenix's display of a particular piece of evidence late in Day 1 of the trial. There was one very good plot twist about halfway through the case which made things even more interesting than they'd been before. But there were two incidents near the close of the case which I found less than satisfying. Both essentially consisted of the presentation of new pieces of evidence from an outside source. In one case, if Phoenix had been able to more closely examine a piece of evidence he already *had*, there wouldn't have been any need for the outside source to point it out. The second piece of evidence was not something that Phoenix would have had any access to at all, so it felt rather like a Deus Ex Machina coming in to save the day. If this had been a short story or manga, I think it might have worked reasonably well. In a game context it somehow felt unfair. However, the same outside source served to provide a nice Happy Fuzzy Ending to the case, so I won't complain *too* much. Haven't decided whether to dive in to case #3 right off, or take a break with a little Zelda next.
Time to go downstairs and have pizza!
shoutingboy: One person's take on the top 3 presidential candidates' D&D stats. It pokes fun at all 3, so should amuse/offend everyone equally. Second, I finished Phoenix Wright case #2 on Saturday. Score overall: about an 8 out of 10. I would estimate that the case took a good 5 hours or so to complete, which was a definite plus (especially since the first case took only 45-60 minutes). As a story, I thought it worked fairly well. The victim's identity was a shocker, which was a good place to start off. There is apparently no need for search warrant in Phoenix's world; otherwise the prosecution would have objected - entirely within reason! - to Phoenix's display of a particular piece of evidence late in Day 1 of the trial. There was one very good plot twist about halfway through the case which made things even more interesting than they'd been before. But there were two incidents near the close of the case which I found less than satisfying. Both essentially consisted of the presentation of new pieces of evidence from an outside source. In one case, if Phoenix had been able to more closely examine a piece of evidence he already *had*, there wouldn't have been any need for the outside source to point it out. The second piece of evidence was not something that Phoenix would have had any access to at all, so it felt rather like a Deus Ex Machina coming in to save the day. If this had been a short story or manga, I think it might have worked reasonably well. In a game context it somehow felt unfair. However, the same outside source served to provide a nice Happy Fuzzy Ending to the case, so I won't complain *too* much. Haven't decided whether to dive in to case #3 right off, or take a break with a little Zelda next.
Time to go downstairs and have pizza!
