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I don't know if you have a PS4 or Vita, but one game I'm really enjoying right now is World of Final Fantasy.

Yes I've been playing Worlds of FF on my Vita for a review.  I really like this game.  How much so?  Well, let's just say that when my Game of the Year awards comes around, this'll get a very prestigious award.

Play World of Final Fantasy or a Kirby game.  That'll cheer you up!

That game sounds like it would've bored me to tears as a kid.

I know this has nothing to do with your blog, but since you like RPGs, I wanted to tell you that World of Final Fantasy is really awesome.

Phoenix Wright: Spirit of Justice is pretty good.  There is a very nice review of it on the front page of PixlBit.

One game I'm really enjoying right now is World of Final Fantasy!

I have THE BEST Halloween blow up decoration in my yard!

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2013/10/03/ghostly-halloween-fun/

I thought I may not be able to review Skylanders Imaginators because the PR folks said review copies are scarce.  But I got a follow up email about tracking numbers, so I may get to review it after all!

As a company, Nintendo does a lot of things I don't like.  But they end up making the majority of the games that i'm interested in, so that's why I still buy their stuff.  But I don't always side with Nintendo.  There have been times that I've preferred another console.  Like the original PlayStation or the Xbox 360.  I just go where the fun games are.

I think you're thinking of TellTale Games with the Walking Dead and Minecraft stuff.

Just a warning to anyone reading this comment, there may be some Phoenix Wright spoilers here and there.  But not for Casey, the reviewer.

I really enjoyed Spirit of Justice, but I enjoy all Ace Attorney games.  They play all the same, so I treat them like reading a book that you really like and want to find out what happens to the characters in the next novel.  

Spirit of Justice will go down in history for me as introducing a character that will probably make it on my Top Five Favorite Phoenix Wright Characters list.  Yup, right on up there with Dick Gumshoe and the Blue Badger.  And that would be Rayfa Padma Khura'in.  At first I thought she'd be annoying, but they gave her some real gradual character development that I thought was pretty cool.  

I had three problems with Spirit of Justice, though.  One is a problem I have with other games in the series, too.  It was painfully obvious who each of the culprits was in each case, which is understandable since it's been established that Columbo was one of the inspirations for the series, and in that TV show, the audience knows who the bad guy is, and watch to see how the characters come to the conclusion.  But in Phoenix Wright, since you know who did it usually, it's easy to put the cart before the horse and present information that won't work at that time, even though it makes sense.  And sometimes you have to think like the game's 'logic' which can be hard at times.  Spirit of Justice seemed especially bad at this, and making it obvious who the culprits were.  Only time I wasn't so sure was in the 4th case, because the culprit had pink hair and I have a soft spot for video game characters who have pink hair (like Ulala or Tomba).

Speaking of which, the next problem I had with the game was the 4th case.  That'll go down in history as one of my least favorite cases.  It felt like filler that had no relation to any of the other cases, and it wasn't much fun.  Plus, it was steeped so deep in Japanese culture that some of the clues were not as easy to understand.  Put in a witness with multiple personalities and you get one confusing situation.  I wouldn't have missed that case if it was omitted.

The last problem I had was it was download only.  I know, you'll have to drag me kicking and screaming into the digital age.  I'm sorry, I guess I'm just old.  It's just that this game is such a memory hog.  I wish we got a cartridge like Japan did.

I was mad at the first two DLC cases at first since they were so short, but they were funny and they also give you the option to download a 3DS theme afterwards, so that was cool.  I liked the big DLC case because it was like old times, bringing back Phoenix, Maya, Edgeworth, and Larry (all it needed was Gumshoe), but the DLC case from the last game, with the whales, was way better.

Phoenix Wright games are kind of the last bastion of Capcom games that I still play.  I used to play Capcom games all the time when they still made Mega Man titles as well as publishing unique games like Okami, Under The Skin, Ghost Trick, and Zack & Wiki.  But they don't do those things anymore, so Phoenix Wright is all I have left.

Too bad we may not get The Great Ace Attorney or its recently announced sequel.  Capcom says they'd like to bring them over here, but circumstances are keeping them from doing so (I think I know what they mean).  Miles Edgeworth 2 may be a lost cause by now.

Anyway, sorry for the long comment.  I don't really have anyone to discuss Phoenix Wright with anymore, so I had to let it all out here.  --Cary

I'm a little concerned about the sturdiness of the thing, but I think it's too early to make too many negative (or positive) assumptions about a 3 minute video announcement.  I don't know why they couldn't have revealed this earlier, honestly.  And the list of third parties is padded out a bit.  For example, Traveller's Tales is on the list, and they make nothing but LEGO games now.  But who publishes them?  WB Games, also on the list.  I'm looking forward to more Switch announcements, especially concerning games.  Nintendo makes most of the games that I'm interested in, so that's what will get me to buy any new console they make.