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Recommendation - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy
This series has recently been ported to PS4, Xbox One and PC. I never owned a DS but the concept of this game (being a lawyer) was always interesting to me. So I took a chance and currently I'm really enjoying playing through it.
The format is episodes with manual saving so you can play in short chunks. It's mostly a puzzle game with some exploration built in. The story is well crafted and clever imo. I strongly recommend you play without a guide to get the best experience.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/787480/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Trilogy__123/
I played them all on DS and loved them, so wholeheartedly second the recommendation. The only other DS games I enjoyed more were the Professor Layton ones which I also highly recommend. The first two are available on Android and iOS now too BTW, if you don't have a DS.
p.s. Game Grumps recently started a Phoenix Wright playthrough and it's been hilarious so far.
Is everyone a genius but me? I couldn’t go past the third puzzle on Professor Layton. Thought I should stop playing to study some math or something.
LOL... I am definitely not a genius, but I do play a lot of puzzle games in my spare time and even used to buy/complete puzzle books as a kid for fun, which a lot of the Layton puzzles are similar in structure/formula to, so that probably helped me a great deal.
Could the language barrier have been an issue? You're Brazilian IIRC, right? Did you play a Portuguese port of the game or one in English? Because I can definitely see playing the game in my non-native tongue, even one I am reasonably familiar with (e.g. French), being incredibly hard.
I'm sure it's not the language, my English is pretty good (no modesty here :P) and the language in Professor Layton is simple.
But its puzzles are quite dry (it is a puzzle game per se, no caveats) and probably require a kind of logical thinking I'm not used to. The ADHD probably doesn't help (I'm trying to avoid throwing "ADHD" on every game related topic I comment, but this time it seemed relevant).
I like the Professor Layton games, but yeah some of those puzzles are beyond me. At some point, I stop caring about the puzzles and grab a walkthrough because I just want to see the story.
At that point, just watch the anime!
The graphics feel odd at times. It's like they increased the resolution without adding the details that were not necessary on DS's small screen.
Examples:
I'm not sure that watching a full lets play is a great idea for this game, maybe just for the introductory episode to get a feel for how thing work.
I played this game on the DS. It’s cool, but the logic to solve the cases is kinda funky. You gotta enter the realm of "anime-reasoning", and I’m not very good at that. I still liked it, but I really thought it was perfect for a portable. Don’t know if it makes sense on the PS4 for me.
In my region, this game costs almost twice as much on the PS4 compared Steam... I'll never buy a console again.