Pointing Wars 3000

[davidn]

In contrast to my previous post, this time I have the greatest news ever, boys. kjorteo and I have frequently joked about unlikely Stiles/Wright/Layton crossovers in the past, and may have broken the fabric of reality by doing so, because they've only gone and done it.

Currently titled "Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney" but better titled "Pointing Wars 3000", the game puts Professor Layton from Francelondon and Phoenix Wright from Americojapan together somewhere in Miyazaki-land, where they will together solve... puzzles that revolve around contradictions. I can't really believe I'm writing this. The field is open for Phoenix to add "SOLUTION!" to his shouting vocabulary, or for no gentleman to let a murderer get away even if they've covered up their tracks with a sequence of unlikely events that even Alan Davies couldn't work out.

I'm still not sold on the whole idea of 3D in games, I don't think it's something we need or something that will work particularly well. This was therefore a clever move to convert everyone who thought that way, because you can bet I am now getting a 3DS anyway.

Thanks to tamakun for making my morning.

Comments

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome idea - however, upon reading the title of the first case, "Trial of the Witch", my brain segued into the following scene. I wish I could do it the justice you did (pun only semi-intended) with the little icons and everything, but sadly, I don't know how and it'd take too long to teach myself, so you'll just have to imagine them.

*Maya gets arrested and put on trial for witchcraft, the witness gets onto the witness stand, complete with blue skin and a chin that almost touches her hooked nose*

Witness: I was in my kitchen making stew...
Witness: ...when I looked out my window, and saw the defendant by the lake.
Witness: She was taller, and had her older sister's face!
Witness: She was channelling a spirit! Using witchcraft!

PW: Hold it! (I'd best not mention that Mia is dead...) How do you know it was the defendant, then? Could it not have been just her sister wearing similar clothes?

Godot: Come now, Trite! We've been watching your sidekick change shape into her sister for three games now! You don't seriously expect us to fall for that, do you?

PW: Erk...! What do I do?

*choose Present Evidence*

PW: (I don't need to prove that Mia is alive... just that Maya isn't a witch... can I do it?)

PW: Of course I do! Maya can't possibly be a witch, because...

*present DUCK*

PW: Take that!

Godot: ...!
Judge: ....!
Witness: .....!

PW: This is a duck that I found in the lake by the witness' house! Maya does not weigh the same as a duck, therefore she is clearly not a witch!

Godot: Argh! You don't expect Monty Python logic to work here, do you, Trite?

PW: Well, I kind of did, actually...

Witness: You stole my duck! From the island in the lake! Do you have any idea how hard it was to get that girl to go out and feed it?

PW: ...? (That girl? That old bag has children? But I didn't see any children earlier...)
PW: ...! Your honor! What the witness said just now was of utmost importance!

Judge: Really? I don't see how... but if you insist. Witness! You will add that statement to your testimony!

Witness: The defendant was standing by the lake where I send that girl to feed the ducks.

*present ESTHER*

PW: 'That girl'? You mean Esther, don't you?

Witness: How did you know abou- ack! *starts sweating*

Judge: Who is this... Esther?

PW: Esther is the daughter of the King and Queen of the Mountains, your honor. She was kidnapped before this story began... by a witch!

Witness: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Godot: Argh!

Witness: I will send you home at once!

Judge: I see no reason to further prolong this trial. I hereby declare the defendant...

NOT GUILTY

Godot: At least I didn't have to summon that blue raven as a witness...

Manfred von Karma: Shut up! It's not my fault that fool stuck me with that parrot!

My brain is strange sometimes... :P

D.F.

[davidn]

This is incredible and I love you. "I will send you home at once!", how many of our generation experienced that 'death' in a game? :) And Phoenix Wright definitely had its own moments of "Do I have anything to raise an objection with...?" "NO" "Yes you do."