#found my Layton games recently

[noodles-and-tea]

I like that it looks like he’s slouching

[ultraviolet-ink]

Thoughts about the Ace Attorney Video!

Overall I found it pretty fun, I actually really liked the kind of stilted animation, reminded me of the limited animation of the 2-d games! There's something absolutely delightful about Phoenix and Miles being so casual together, they are such a married couple (and I am the basic bitch that eats it up!! <3) It was really great hearing Eric Vale as Phoenix, he's my favorite and I just love the barely hinged horny energy he's got (just see all the bloopers for the anime lol!). In the comments, I did find out that Sam Riegal couldn't reprise his role from the games due to complications from Tonsil cancer, but he seems to be recovering! Edgeworth is a particular dork in this! There's something wonderful about hearing that voice say "weirdo" so casually! Do keep watching until the very end, you will LOVE it! gayass.JPEG

Overall, it's just a recap of the games (as I expected) with a little Ghost Trick cameo! They didn't cover Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, but I'm assuming that's because Level 5 owns Layton so there's some complications there. They discuss the basic premise of each game and the rival prosecutors (the Weirdos lol), and it's great just hearing Wright and Edgeworth bounce off each other! I just love that upon Edgey wondering what trick he should learn after hearing about Nahyuta straight up binding Phoenix’s arm….. okay Mr. FREAKworth What I'm saying is that there's a lot of food for NRMT shippers, and I am FEASTING!! A little sad that there weren't any cameos from the assistants, especially Maya or Kay, but it was supposed to be a small little thing, so that's forgivable (for now XD) TBH my biggest bugbear is them saying that it's alright to play the games in any order.... don't listen to that, that's the devil talking, just start with the Phoenix Wright Trilogy and then AJ, that's all I ask, you can come across investigations and TGAA how you see fit, I promise it will be better for you XD I wasn't expecting much from the cryptic announcement, but I really liked the video, there were a lot of fun little easter eggs from the very first frame of the video and onwards.... let's just say it's making me suspiciously optimistic at how much Capcom is paying attention to AA recently... it's not not NOT impossible.... but that's a question for another day haha Video Here:

[aquamarineglow]

Things I'd love to see in the Future of the Layton Series:

Some of these are unlikely, borderline impossible. But here's hoping Apollo may grant me the gift of prophesy on just one thing:

1. The rest of the Layton Games get a HD release on mobile.

This just makes sense! The original trilogy got a HD release, time for the prequels! And what if we get new cutscenes and content like Curious Village did? That would be amazing!

2. The entire series gets released on Switch.

This also makes sense. Since NWOS is releasing on the Switch, it makes sense to add the original games so new fans can play all of them! Especially since the Nintendo DS is dead. Rest in Peace. 💕

3. London Life gets a sequel/reboot and is available for all regions.

I've been playing London Life on an Emulator and it is so fun! It's a shame my region never got it!

My hope for the future is that if Spectre's Call gets a HD release, it will include London Life for everyone! But this version will include characters from Miracle Mask and Azran Legacy!

And here's a fun idea: what if befriending Dimitri Allen unlocks the ability to use his time machine! Unfortunately, it doesn't work perfectly; it can only take you twenty years into the future. So you can meet and befriend characters from Mystery Journey and Mystery Room!

4. Layton Brothers Mystery Room Sequel

It's been ten years since the mobile game was released and it's been largely ignored by Level 5. Until recently, with Alfendi's cameo in the anime, and then the manga series. It's clear that there's still love for this game. I think it's perfect time for Alfendi and Lucy to get the sequel they deserve! I'd love to see how they are doing!

5. Layton's Mystery Room Sequel/ Layton Mystery Detective Agency Season 2

I know Katrielle's game and anime wasn't the best received, but I think the series has a lot to offer! With the return of Layton and possibly an appearance from Alfendi, I believe the best is yet to come! Also, we still don't know the backstory of Sherl.

6. Lost Media gets found:

What is Professor Layton and the Phantom Thieves? What is Professor Layton Battle Royale? What is Professor Layton and the Deathly Mirror? I have no idea. But I'd like to know.

7. Roid Artwork

I don't know much about it, but I believe Level 5 had some kind of mobile app where, amongst other things, you received really cute artwork of various characters. Most of if the ones I've seen are poor quality, so I think it would be great if the Level 5 Twitter said, "check these out" and released HD images, including ones we've never seen before.

8. More Games

So, the original series was a trilogy. And the prequels were a trilogy. So what if NWOS is the first entry in a new trilogy, starring Luke in America! The Detective Triton Trilogy!

Also, it's been a while since Professor Layton's first and only crossover game. What about another? I don't know much about the Phoenix Wright series, but a crossover between Apollo Justice and Alfendi/Katrielle could be fun?

9. Rook and Bishop

This message is for Akihiro Hino's eyes only. If you are not Akihiro Hino, please skip.

Hey, Akihiro Hino. I know you read my blog. I will give you £29 and my ham sandwich if you put Rook and Bishop in the new game. They don't even have to do anything, just stand awkwardly in the background. It would be hilarious because nobody would care. Everyone wants to see characters like Flora, Emmy and Descole. You put Benny in LMJ and nobody cared about him. Do this for me.🥺

10. Flora

Just.... Acknowledge her existence in some way. Let her appear in NWOS. Give her something to do.

11. Mangas Series

I was so happy when it was revealed that Level 5 was making a manga series about Mystery Room. I can't read Japanese, but I just love the artwork. So expressive and fun! Completely different from the original 2d sprites.

So I was thinking, what if they made a manga about each of the original games? I don't mean like the Cheerful Mystery Manga, but with beautiful artwork that followed the original stories, maybe with new scenes? I'd like that.

Feel free to add what you'd love to see for the Layton Series! No matter how impossible it sounds! If the list is long enough, at least one thing has to come true, right?

[dandywonderous]

What are your favorite video games? :)

you've activated my trap card

video games are the great love of my life, most of my time is spent playing video games, most of my favorite canons are video games. I think video games have such a unique way of telling stories compared to every other medium, and the huge variety in form that video games can take really gives them massive narrative potential. trying to narrow down to just a few is hard but I'm gonna do it

I was a 90s kid so my first big video game endeavors (besides a particular one but I'll get to it in the end) were unsurprisingly the Pokemon games. I started with Yellow but the ones I played the most were Silver and Sapphire, and Gen 3 is still my favorite even though I've played some of the gens since then. Crystal in particular though always has a place in my heart for introducing the female MC to the games; for most of my childhood, Pokemon and video games on a larger scale were always seen as things for boys (the boys on my playground even made me pass a quiz before they would let me play make believe Pokemon with them, a thing they did not make the other boys do) so Crystal adding the female MC felt like validation that I was welcome here. Representation matters! I remember there was also an old Scooby-doo game for the gameboy color I was obsessed with, and also shoutout to the Barbie horse adventure games lol

Final Fantasy will always have a special place in my heart for being the series that really got me into JRPGs, which has been a lot of what I've played since. FFX in particular, because it was my first, will always be special to me, but I also really enjoyed FFVIII (and I accept no slander) and FFXII, and more recently I loved FFXV (all the criticisms are true but damn it, doomed bachelor party road trip is such a fun time). At this point I've played every mainline FF game at least part way if not all the way to completion (except the MMOs, I don't really play MMOs, I'm a single player girly), and a lot of the spinoffs, especially the Tactics games (Tactics Advance man... what a good game). What most of the Final Fantasy games tend to do really well is the found family trope and that's what gets me about most of them.

More recently the JRPG that's held my heart the longest is Persona 5 (and its various spinoffs). I love these little criminals. They are all my sons and daughters. Royal absolutely perfected the turn based gameplay, I don't think it could have been executed better.

Puzzle games and visual novels are also what I spend a lot of time with. Ghost Trick is a transcendental experience - don't look up anything, just go play it. I promise the less you know the better it is. No one needs me to tell them how good Ace Attorney is but Ace Attorney is amazing; my personal favorite is actually Ace Attorney Apollo Justice, partially because Ema Skye is in it in her best incarnation (shoutout to the one other Ema/Klavier/Apollo shipper and your fanfic that has sustained me). I also loved the Professor Layton games. And I'm into less story driven, more laid back puzzle games like Stitch, which is the game I play whenever I just need to chill for a bit (unless I'm doing sudoku puzzles). Also more recently I thoroughly enjoyed In Stars and Time, which is like a puzzle RPG with an amazing story.

But especially on the narrative games front I looooooove Night in the Woods, one of my favorite video games of all. For one thing, there are not a lot of games or media in general that take place in the real world but in a small, dying rural town, and that setting and the characters' struggles and issues really resonated with me, as someone from a small, dying rural town. Also, Mae is an incredible protagonist, who is a female protagonist who is allowed to be massively flawed and not fit into the normal socially acceptable mold, but still be a hero, learn from her mistakes and get better. Also I'm not kidding when I say that this game's meditations on god, the nature of our existence, and what it means to be alive with other people genuinely changed my life. "When I die, I want it to hurt," is a line that will stick with me for the rest of my life.

I'm also a big fan of the "murder game visual novel" subgenre lol. Buried Stars is great, Dangan Ronpa is great, but 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors is what will really hold my heart forever. 999 is such a good story, the twists are presented so expertly, and the way it used its original DS format in particular to tell its story is a masterclass in understanding how the unique format of video games can add to the narrative in ways no other medium can capture. Also the puzzles are just FUN, if you enjoy escape rooms you will love this game. The other games in the series are good too even if they kind of suck as sequels. Also why do they go out of their way not to talk about Santa?? JUSTICE FOR MY BOY!

If I were a youtube video essayist I would make a video on 999 that starts with just a twenty minute rant about how the opening sequence of 999 is one of the best in any video game ever. Like, the way it establishes the tone, the perfect pacing of it, the way it gets the player tense right along with the characters... mmmwah!

I also really like tactical RPGs, especially XCOM. It's so fun, but be prepared to die because you will, a lot. It's not a game meant for people who get attached, it will break you lol. Darkest Dungeon is also really fun but the same warning applies.

And I love farming and life sims! I played the old Harvest Moons back in the day, and more recently I've really loved Coral Island. I've also been playing a lot of Disney Dreamlight Valley, which is more like Animal Crossing but still in the cozy games genre. I need to play more of Potions Permit but I've really enjoyed what I've played of that one, if you want a cozy game vibe that isn't all about farming. And also I've been wrapped up in Infinity Nikki lately, which is a gacha game but boy is it fun (I played Love Nikki for a few years after it first came out too).

And speaking of gachas, I've played a lot of those, but the idol raisers/rhythm games are the ones that really stick with me. For a looooooong time it was Love Live School Idol Festival (RIP), but right now it is Project Sekai, a game I love and play every day. For a rhythm gacha game it has a really great story and cast of characters, and I love it a lot. I'm a VBS fan but I also love/pull for Ena and Shiho.

and this doesn't fit in any of the categories but I looooved the SSX series, especially the PS2 era of games. I played so much SSX Tricky and SSX3 and SSX On Tour. (if you're confused, they're snowboarding games lol)

god there's probably so many more that I've forgotten... I really love video games haha. But there's one in particular I wanted to talk about at the end, because this is the TRUE video game of my youth, the one I put about as many hours into as I did Pokemon, the one I played over and over on Playstation until the disc wore out, a game that is honestly very bizarre, both in the circumstances of its existence and in its plot and gameplay.

and that game is Mary-Kate and Ashley's Magical Mystery Mall.

but I'm going to put all that under a cut. Thanks for the ask! This is probably waaaaay longer an answer than you were expecting haha. I JUST. LOVE VIDEO GAMES. RRAAAAH.

OKAY so Mary-Kate and Ashley's Magical Mystery Mall was a game for the PS1 featuring the Olsen Twins (voiced and everything!) It was basically just a collection of minigames with an absolutely batshit framing narrative, being that the girls go to the mall and buy matching friendship necklaces from a mysterious traveling saleswoman (I think they do call her a word you are not supposed to use, because it was the year 2000, so be aware of that if you look it up). The woman tells them that whatever they do, do not put the two halves of the necklaces together, because it's missing some gems and weird things will happen if they do. The girls walk off and immediately dismiss her advice as stupid before putting the two halves together, which instantly freezes the mall and everyone inside in time, except the girls and the saleswoman. She then tells them that if they don't find the gems that are missing from the necklace charms and put it back together, they will be stuck in the mall forever "with no money to buy anything!" (cue NOOOOOOOOOO)

so you have to play minigames to get the charms back.

most of these are pretty normal. there's one where you do a few snowboarding races (it's no SSX but I liked it well enough), there's one where you work the mall food court (this was sort of like diner dash and I loved it), there's one where you put on a fashion show that I also liked a lot. the last two are the most interesting ones.

so one of the minigames was putting together your own music video. you pick from a bunch of dance moves to make the choreo, then you pick a shoot location, then you move the camera around to film the music video while the girls dance to the song. the game had a few preset tracks, but the really fun thing was that you had the option to have the girls dance to your own CDs (by physically switching the game disc for a CD). this meant you could have them do a music video to ANY track, of ANY length. I had them dance to music from 2 B A Master (the Pokemon CD). I had them dance to all of the songs from Aaron Carter's "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)" album (it was the early 2000s!). I had them dance to a 15 minute stand-up recording by Robin Williams just to see if it would let me (it would!). I had a lot of fun with that minigame, excellent design, video game developers take notes.

the last minigame was the weird one

so if you looked at the little booklet the game sent to tell you how to play (remember when games had those??), there was a bit at the back with the pictures of two teen boys, explaining that they had won a contest to appear as characters in the game! but where could these boys be in a game where everyone in the mall is frozen in time?

in the final minigame, that's where! the plot of which sure is something!

so the final minigame is a picture taking minigame where Mary-Kate and Ashley stalk two boys they admit they do not know so they can take pictures of them, to convince all their friends that they're dating these boys.

yes, you are actually stalking them!

at the beginning of the game, which has way more cutscenes involved than the others, you learn that one of the twins (don't remember which one now) has told all their friends that they know and are dating the cute new lifeguards at the beach! of course, they literally don't even know those guys, and now their friends are getting suspicious about the dating claim. so they decide to pose with the boys in the background to give the illusion that they're on a date. the player gets points for how close the boys are in the picture, and how convincingly it looks like they're actually posing and not just walking past.

after the first couple stages where the girls just stand on a street corner and wait for the boys to get close, the boys get wise and start trolling them. keep in mind that this is all voice acted, so you actually hear the boys start to say things like "are those girls following us? why are they taking pictures of us?" this would be a horror game in any other genre but here it's just supposed to be cute and funny.

the boys troll the twins (and you, the player) by hiding behind surfboards and inside large pots, popping out at random and making it harder to get a good picture of them (but also, ironically, making those pictures look more like they're actually on a date, because why else would they be posing like this?). I remember it took me FOREEEEVER to finally beat this minigame.

at the end, the boys come up to the twins and ask them why they're doing this, and the twins confess to the situation. the boys decide to solve the problem by actually going on a date with them. all's well that ends well!

so anyway yeah that's my oral history of Mary-Kate and Ashley's Magical Mystery Mall, a game I put more hours into than almost any other game in my youth (partly because you can play it in one sitting). the 2000s were truly a wild time.

if you read to the end bless your heart

[ghostmegumi]

what are your favorite games in the ace attorney franchise? :3 favorite cases from each game?

At first i always told everyone that Dual Destinies is my favorite game. And when i started it i found out that it very much isnt.

My favorite games currently have to be the Layton crossover because i recently began to watch the walkthrough and i love the plot very much. Also Apollo Justice:Ace attorney, Spirit of Justice AND suprisingly enough Justice for All.

My favorite case of ALL time is turnabout Samurai, the emotions i felt when i first saw it haunt me to this day, and i still cant remember if i write the name right!

From Justice for All it has to be The Lost turnabout just because i really like the characters OR Farewell, my turnabout because i watched it at a very particular time of my life that i like very much.

From Trials and Tribulations , Recipe for Turnabout. It was a very fun case, honestly! I really liked the characters and i actually played it by myself which made the experience much better.

From Apollo Justice definitely Turnabout Serenade, it was very fun and i watched it with my father which also makes the expirience better, personally. And i really liked the characters too. I personally think that Klavier felt most human there when in other cases he felt like some sort of a machine or like you read a fanfiction with the worst mischaracterisation in the world, but its actually canon.

I didnt finish Dual Destinies or Spirit of Justice. But i have to say that from these my favorite are Turnabout Academy and The Magical Turnabout.

Why? Because my favorite characters are there, thats all(shoutout Robin Newman and Bonny De Famme i love you both very much.)

Thats all, i think!!

[writingjourney]

What video games do you like to play?

How did you get into Ghost?

If you could re-read a book for the first time, what would it be?

thank you so much <3

1) I think my favorite game is still Baldur's Gate 3, I just adore the characters and turn-based combat. I love to strategize and get really good at games which it's great for since there are so many ways to play it! I also recently finished the new Dragon Age, so I'm excited to go back and play the previous ones, really loved it!!

Otherwise I play Minecraft, Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing to wind down. I love sandbox games where I can be creative and just chill. Spiritfarer or Gris are also amazing, I adore games that feel like they have a soul of their own and great sound and visual design. I also really love puzzle/mystery games, was obsessed with Professor Layton as a kid and I have been playing them on my DS on and off!

2) Sooo, I had been listening to a couple songs here and there way before but mostly because after MOAC got big in 2022 I finally decided to check them out properly. I found out about the lore only because I saw an author I loved have an Ao3 bookmark of a Ghost fic and I'm not at all into RPF which I soon saw it wasn't, so I was like how would that even work then????? I stumbled right into the fictional universe Tobias created and it never spat me back out.

3) Ohhh... I think Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It's an all time favorite of mine and it's the type of book where you have the most fun when you don't know a lot about it going in ♡

anonymously ask me three things you want to know about me!

[bravestworriers]

writer interview game <3

thank u to @pricemarshfield who tagged me in this :) i'm so glad we're friends and u let me bombard you with random writing snippets as i go along!

i will be tagging the og writing wife @atxvanhalen (circa 2012), ao3 famous bffl @riverdanceeee, fantasy-pilled love of my life @multilevelmargoting, the coolest film reviewer in the biz @kaafka, and my begrudgingly kind editor @takeavacation2010 . & anyone else who'd like to write a little something about themselves!

read below if you dare!!!

When did you start writing?

probably as long ago as i could figure out how to & started winning little competitions for it! i love telling stories, usually through a visual medium (storyboarding, screenwriting etc), but it's all writing at the end of the day, no matter how put it down on a page.

i recently located my half finished writing from elementary school (so i must have started from the age of at least 8), all in the email drafts of my oldest email account, and it's always a treat to see how i used to think about romance, about drama and all that good stuff! (i was wrong and sad, but adorably so!)

Are there different themes or genres you enjoy reading than what you write?

i love big sci-fi adventures, heists, life or death sort of stuff, just as long as it's grounded in something tangible and human. i also just love media where you can tell that the artists are having a lot of fun with the medium and they way they're piecing everything together. like i adore the films kneecap (dir. rich peppiatt) and american animals (dir. bart layton) and dick johnson is dead (dir. kirsten johnson), even though i could never see myself writing a true story/biopic feature like that -- they're just exploring what a feature film compiling those ideas looks like today, fighting against the rules of what people think it should be, and just going for it. other than that, i watch a lot of BAD movies and BAD tv because it's fascinating to pull it apart and figure out where things went wrong -- like looking under the hood of a fucked up car.

mostly, i think i read and watch a lot of the types of things i like to write, lots of introspective dramedies and coming of age stories. but usually no tragedy, it makes me too sad.

Is there a writer you want to emulate or get compared to often?

in school i got compared a LOT to tim burton (i made a lot of fantasy focused films that existed in the real world), which honestly feels like a little bit of an insult now. if i was compared to henry sellick, now that would be a compliment.

i'd love to emulate documentarian and cinematographer kirsten johnson! (it's not going to happen. but i love her.)

Can you tell me a bit about your writing space?

i really can write anywhere, as long as it's in complete isolation listening to the same piece of music over and over until whatever i'm doing is complete (that's the autism for ya!). usually when i'm working, i'm lying down in bed in the evening, or weirdly standing with my computer on a counter in the kitchen early in the morning as i'm getting ready for my day. i'm a slow writer and can't get anything done without a deadline (work related) or a special interest (fic related), and usually things sputter aimlessly until someone explicitly asks for it (this is why my ao3 never has anything finished. sorry guys! #shamelssplug!)

(right now the piece of music i'm listening to is norman's walk by jon brion. and yes, if you're curious, my repetition of single pieces of music always messes up my spotify wrapped.)

Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you?

the only theme i can think of is one of meeting someone that you're meant to meet, exactly at the point in your life that you are meant to meet them. life is chance upon chance upon chance, i've found, and i love capturing that life-changing feeling as it balances temporarily on a pinpoint. i especially love when it ends in tragedy too.

agnes varda's cleo from five to seven is a favourite of this trope. a bit of severance by ming le also has this concept wrapped up in it. and billy wilder's the apartment.

i don't think it surprises me though, i think it's always something i'm looking for in life. to eventually look back and see the path i made, and to know even if i didn't at the time, that it was the right one because of the people i had the pleasure of meeting, even briefly.

i also love 90s wedding movies and the strict structure they're written with, it's fun to replicate and poke fun of in my own work.

What is your reason for writing?

i started writing because i would get really overwhelmed with my feelings over whatever was going on in my life, and need to parse through them somehow. they say it's always best to start with a nugget of something, and build off of it. it's how i've coped with everything from romantic kerfuffles, to immigration, and racism, to parents splitting up, death, and everything else life has to offer. explicitly in my writing, or not.

maybe i've just been exceptionally lucky, but every time i've shared something that felt so isolating and devastating i did not know how to deal with it, i've always met someone after the fact who looked me in the eyes and told me they felt exactly the same thing.

it makes me love being a person on this planet.

How do you want to be thought about by your readers?

i don't know! if you like it, please let me know! if you don't, please don't tell me i'll think about it for the next twelve years of my life and also cry.

no, but in all seriousness, i just want to make people feel like some part of them is understood, whatever that looks like. yell into the void with me, or yell back at me from the void, whatever works best for you.

What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

pacing and emotional beats. i can always feel when a scene is done, or when i want it to be done. i love writing the emotional stuff, i don't really care about the stuff that it takes to get there, other than it makes those beats happen.

writing my dialogue is like pulling teeth. writing my inner monologue gets convoluted. writing, i'm a slower than the oldest, most decrepit turtle. writing my descriptions can get too long in screenplay format. literally nothing but pacing out a story and hitting those emotional beats.

How do you feel about your own writing?

it makes me sick to my stomach. after i've obsessed over something for months and it's done, i can't look at it. i'm always terrified that it's so much worse than i want it to be, or that i'm envisioning it is. (i've had this exact experience at a festival with one of my films before and it haunts me forever.) i need other people to tell me it's written okay before i start to feel normal about it. i want to get over this sensation eventually, but it doesn't seem like it's happening anytime soon.

that being said, i don't think i could make myself stop writing and telling stories if i wanted to. my cross to bear, i suppose.

that's all. thanks for this, sarah, and if anyone read this, i hope you enjoyed it :^)

[snackamunchies]

I am going to begin my Pokémon adventure

I recently rediscovered my older brother’s old modded 3DS LL and made the discovery of the century…

IT HAS A LOT OF GAMES, AND I MEAN A LOT

Sonic classic and sonic 2, Persona Q and Q2, Kid Icarus, many a Mario game, profesor Layton, Kirby games (including robobot) Luigi’s mansion and dark moon, tomodachi life, and much much more!! basically all the bangers

But it also has A METRIC TON OF POKÉMON GAMES. LIKE , STARTING AT GEN 1 ONWARDS

Here’s a list of my findings below read more:

- G1: Pokémon red, blue, green and yellow

- G2: Pokémon gold, silver and crystal

-G3: Pokémon ruby, sapphire, emerald and fire red

-G4: none found

-G5: none found

-G6: Pokémon X and Y, Omega ruby and Alpha sapphire

-G7: Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

And… im thinking about doing a full Pokémon play through, starting from gen 1, although I might not have them all, I can always get physical versions of the games I’m missing in my collection.

Some days I’m going to look back at this post and wonder why the hell i thought this was a good idea, other days I’ll look at this post fondly and be glad I started this journey

So, it time to become the very best, like no one ever was!

When I beat a game I’ll make a new post with pictures of my adventure!!! I’ll put it in the tag: Snack’s amazing pokémon adventure

[futurebritishgentleman]

my name’s lucas! some of my friends call me luke. i'm 26 years old and use he pronouns. i follow from lucadoodle!

i do not fucking tolerate deslay/luclive/layluke/layclive shippers or anything of the sort. respect my boundaries and leave me and my posts alone. ranhen shippers are on thin ice because i know not everyone realizes they were raised under the same roof and see each other as brothers.

🎩 here's my art tag!

🎩 here's my text post tag!

🎩 here's my strawpage, if you'd like to send me an anonymous doodle! :p

🎩 my account is pg-13. minors are okay to follow, but i do not follow back as i like to keep a respectable boundary.

🎩 i'm kinda shy! sorry if i'm awkward

🎩 my favorite layton game is miracle mask!

🎩 I LOVE RANLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TALK TO ME ABOUT RANLAY!!!

🎩 i have a secondary 18+/suggestive postgame ranlay centric account. if you want to follow it, send me a dm to confirm your age and i'll send you a puzzle to gain access!

🎩 i also enjoy multiships! i like layclaire, laydon, layclark, layherzen, and plenty others i'm sure i'm missing.

i’m a longtime fan of the layton games, but have recently gotten back into them over the past year by streaming them on twitch! starting with last specter, i’ve been joined by my wonderful friend and co-host! there’s an archive of our streams that can be found here! (although miracle mask’s finale is posted separately to twitch due to mysterious flower triggering youtube’s copyright flag :/)

[actualbird]

What games do you think the nxx would have played as they were growing up?

Recently got into beat saber videos and I picture Marius loving the game. Not for the music, for the saber. He just wants a VR headset and controller so he can wave around neon sabers.

Artem is a Stardew Valley kid (i've never played so i might be wrong)

Luke and Rosa are constantly together playing Sky

Vyn gives a plague/bio inc player vibe

OMG i love marius being into beat saber because ur so right about him liking the VR aspect (and i remember there are VR headsets in the pax experience room!!) and also waving around a saber. additionally and funnily, he'd be so bad at it. musically-inept!marius is one of my favorite running gags, but thats not stopping him from feeling the music (much to everybody else's mild dismay jHVKSJFD)

i HUGELY AGREE on artem being into SDV. he would create such an optimized farm but i also think he'd get really into romancing all the villagers one save file at a time because he wants to get to know everyone's stories. (sidenote: the fic "farm time??!?" by lawlietss is such a fun fic i read way back where the nxx team play SDV all together, i deffo rec it if ur into SDV shenanigans)

ive never heard of/played those other games u mention, but i'd like to add that luke would be SUPER into Professor Layton games. IT'S PUZZLE SOLVING!! MYSTERY STORIES!!! PLUS THERES A LUKE (LUKE TRITON) IN THERE TOO!!!

more on luke, coming from his love of antiques and old stuff, i think he'd also be into older/retro consoles. he played Pokemon Yellow on a GameBoy Color he found at a garage sale once and ever since then hes wondered why all pokemon games dont have the "pokemon follow u around" thing, it's the best thing EVER

for vyn.......ive never actually played this game im about to recc for him myself, but ive watched a bunch of videos on it. i think vyn would enjoy Pathologic. really interesting storytelling and it seems like absolute fucking hell to play. he'd definitely enjoy it. KJHVSDKFJHSJD

im actually not the best person to ask this because i havent played many games myself HAHAKJSHDVFJ but im very endeared by marius flailing around with beat saber <3 go off, u lanky blueberry

[autisticempathydaemon]

Alright, let's do this, i guess

My ennagram is propably either 6w5 or 5w6 i'm not quit sure

I do watch a lot of video essays, too many to name any favorites, most of them about fiction/media analysis, a few channel examples being: cj the x, ragnarrox, lindsay ellis, ladyknightthebrave (though i've admittedly only seen her the haunting of hill house/bly manor videos), what's so great about that & hbomberguy (fuck tommy tallarico)

My favorite audio rn is probably "Your Chaotic Roommate Confesses His Feelings For You", for multiple reasons i probably can't get into in a post like this

In terms of who hold no appeal for me, mostly david but also vincent, he's just too idk clasically romantic for my tastes

Speaking of which, i'm generally not the most traditionally romantic person which sometimes makes me worried that i'm not affectionate enough/in the right way for people

I generally love horror and/or fantasy and/or mystery media of all types.

I used to watch a lot of rpg maker horror game lets plays during a generally rough time in my life (though i've still never played one of them myself) mostly the channel manlybadasshero and the german channel nesfatelp.

The professor layton series of puzzle/mystery games are a cornerstone of my child & and early teenagehood, the two with the spookiest athmospheres (the diabolical/pandoras box and spectres call) probably being my favorites if i had to choose. I also recently (finally) started getting into the ace attorny series.

In terms of platonic attraction: just the entire damn squad, including gavin.

I don't really have any guilty pleasure favorites i think, but for some reason i had this weird cheap dvd which was a fairy tale themed collection of german knock studio cartoon films as a kid. There where a few by this studio called dingo pictures (as i would later find out, here's the german wikipedia page since there isn't an english one: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Pictures) on there including an alladin knock of (here's a clip of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4h5STlXUc&pp=ygUVYWxhZGluIGRpbmdvIHBpY3R1cmVz)

It seems to be the same german animation team/studio as that film where the yeee dinosaur meme/clip comes from (this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ&pp=ygUMeWVlIGRpbm9zYXVy)

Though the dino movie wasn't on the dvd, probably since it isn't fairytale themed, so i never saw that one as a kid.

And there also was a bambi knock of by dingo pictures called goldie that i even had as a seperate dvd of as well for some reason (here's a clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WNza6_Z2c&pp=ygUMR29sZGllIGJhbWJp) there also where films clearly made by other small studios on that dvd as well, it really was a weird mix.

And although i could even as a kid tell that these films were objectivly "bad" i still found some strange enjoyment and fascination in them at the time and looking up these clips gave me immense nostalgia, i even have to say i enjoyed goldie more than disney's bambi, simply because it was more intersting in it's strangeness while i found bambi always boring.

Well, there you go, hope that's enough/helpful

Addendum: As a kid i used to always just say my hobbies are reading and drawing/painting and while i still like these activities (and i still read a book every once in a while) it started to feel kind of dishonest since i haven't actually been doing these things as much anymore (especially drawing/painting, i really need to get back into that) so last year i started to get into new hobbies i had interested in trying for a while, like learning to play guitar as well as starting to do archery and now also wanting to get into general martial arts (i mean, i gotta get buff arms somehow, right)

Ooh, I like you. Type 5w6, the Troubleshooters, are such an interesting type, and you have fantastic taste in movies, interests, video essays, and games. You know who else would like you? Guy~!

The enneagram types you align with, plus the video essays and games you like, give me the vibe of someone really thoughtful and in their head, like Honey, and we all know what a fuckin great match they are with Guy. This also works because Honey doesn’t strike me as traditionally romantic or saccharine sappy either.

I’m imagining a really loving, lowkey in its intimacy kind of relationship, the kind that’s built on a companionable compatibility you two have. It’s lots of chill nights watching horror movies that he talks through non-stop, mystery movies where he always guesses the killer. Its trying new hobbies, sports, and classes together and getting adorably, lovingly competitive. It’s Guy being very cute but entirely unhelpful with the Professor Layton puzzles.

Song:

It's funny 'cause you drive me half insane/ A universe without you would be thoroughly mundane/ There's no one else I'd rather fall in love with/ And that is my best friend in the world

Yeah, I’ve just designated you Honey-kinnie, friends/roommates to lovers vibes, I hope you’re okay with that /lh Guy’s just the perfect guy (ha) for sneaking himself into your heart, you know? He’s there and silly and incorrigible and inexplicably charming, and then you can’t imagine home with him.

Runner-Ups:

Asher is a really cute choice for runner-up because he strikes me as a scaredy-cat who pretends to be tough, and I love to pair wimps with horror buffs. Ollie is also a good option because I think you, he, and Guy would like all the same things. That would be a really cute fucking friend group actually.

note: you have, again, excellent taste in video essays I highly recommend ladyknighttothebrave’s video about Sense8 it’s my favorite one about one of my favorite shows 💕 you’re also totally fine for sending in two asks, all input is helpful and valuable 💚

Read this post and send me an ask if you’d like a match-up of your own! 💌

[tyrahmen]

I know I’m 15 years late, but I need to talk about the Professor Layton prequel games.

Includes spoilers for Last Specter, Miracle Mask and Azran Legacy. Because I have words to say.

As a kid, I was a huge fan of the original three Layton games. Even though it was a long time ago, I still have fond memories of pouring over the riddles with my brother. We also watched the movie together some time back then, but only recently upon rewatching it did I find out that it belongs to a prequel series of games.

I got my hands on them and immediately my love for the games was reignited. I absolutely adore Last Specter, it was everything I still held dear in my memories and more. I finished the game at almost 100% in only two days or so. I’m planning on replaying the original games soon, but Last Specter might just stay my favourite game of them all.

Then I jumped into Miracle Mask and… I don’t want to say I hated it, but I struggle to find a less intense word to describe my disappointment. I really disliked the 3D graphics, the new controls, and most importantly, almost every single screen of the game. Professor Layton, for me, equals a cozy but slightly mysterious setting. It equals calm. Monte d’Or is anything but. It’s colorful and visually noisy, and that combined with the 3D graphics I dislike made for a very exhausting experience. I ended up rushing through the game to get it done instead of enjoying it and seeking out every puzzle I could.

I guess I went into Azran Legacy with lower expectations, because I found the graphics and controls much more tolerable there (even though I still don’t quite like them). It’s still competing with Miracle Mask for least favourite in my list simply because of the story.

Now don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy the story for the most part. It just… takes away so much from the other stories, especially from the previous two games. I loved the Layton stories in great part because they are so personal – the mystery is meaningful because it means something to characters we love/get to love throughout the game. Azran Legacy’s story is too grand. It affects the whole world, takes place throughout the whole world, and feels like it spreads itself too thin because of it. It doesn’t have enough time for individuals because there’s so much to do. And in the face of such high stakes, what was the meaning of saving a single town in Last Specter or Miracle Mask? That Garden of Healing, that was so important at the end of Last Specter because it means Arianna can live, is now relegated to being “just one of the Azran ruins”, just like the ruins of Akbadain (or however you write it, I can’t quite remember sorry), which had so much meaning to our beloved Professor and his childhood friends. Which, by the way, despite being alluded to being incredibly vital in unveiling the Azran Legacy, have no role besides like a half-sentence in the third game.

And… the ending. I refuse to accept what they did to Emmy as canon because it feels less like a plot twist and more like a “Oh, we forgot these are prequels and we need a reason for her not to be in the other games”. It doesn’t fit her character at all. It’s not a betrayal from her, but from the writers – they made this really cool character that we love and care about, and then, three games and a movie in, go like “haha jinx, she was against you this entire time”. Like—no?? Have you read your own characterization of her? Because I did, and there wasn’t a single line that didn’t read “she genuinely cares about the Professor and Luke and EVERYONE THEY MEET”. She saw how Targent treated people. No way would she still be unquestioningly loyal to Bronev, especially after knowing the Professor for a while. If you wanna drop this kind of “plot twist” on a main character, making them go completely against their morals and their previous characteristics, you have to have at least one thing, literally anything that foreshadows it. The Professor more or less got closure with his family matters there (which also seemed a little bit shoe-horned in, in my opinion, they could have just left it out and it still would have been fine), but the conclusion of everyone else’s arcs felt… so unsatisfying. Emmy I already went into way too much detail about. But Aurora too – her death was so cliché I couldn’t even be sad about it. They literally did the exact same with her as with Loosha, the “sacrificed herself so we don’t have to figure out the consequences of her existing in this universe”. I already didn’t like it in Last Specter, but I could accept it. But them pulling the same thing at the end of the series just feels cheap.

I think this is enough of a rant. If anyone ever reads this far, thank you! Feel free to let me know what you think/thought about the development of the games, and which one of all of them is your favourite.

I’m gonna go replay Curious Village now. It’s been so many years I barely remember the story, so let’s see if I remember any puzzles :D

[wearenotasfarwest]

Literal years ago (the first one I made, the DEH one, was made in August of 2021) I had an idea to make a full ten edit set of letters in musicals. But then... well, a lot of things happened and the project never got finished and in fact, I stopped making musical theatre gifs at all. Without any note or explanation, I just kind of disappeared, and then only recently resurfaced to start posting about Death Note. But while looking through my hard drive, I found these.

They were hard to make and I'm proud of them, but I also know the final four will never be made. I don't even know if I remember now what they were supposed to be. So here.

My final general musical theatre gifset and the farewell I owed you all years ago. This blog will remain, continuing to post about Death Note with a heavy preference to my personal favorite version (the musical) until the hyperfixation passes and then it will probably go dormant again, but I will always be around, even if I'm not posting. If you send an ask or a DM, I will almost always get back to you within 24 hours, usually even less, but if you want daily posts, then you'd have to go find me at @probablygayattorneys which is my most active sideblog, dedicated to the DS puzzle games of the aughts, primarily Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Trace Memory/Another Code Recollection.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the last of the musical theatre gifsets, and so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.

[hearthomelesbian]

i did enjoy eow a lot though. it feels a little easy and a little handhold-y but thats kinda a gripe i have with most newer nintendo games at this point, and as far as companions go tri is far less guilty of that sort of thing than fi or navi. even though i like the companion characters i do see where ppl are coming from especially with fi...

ive seen lots of complaints about the combat but i generally found the puzzle-fication of the combat way more enjoyable. but then i love puzzle games, and do not like combat (girl whose most recent games are professor layton and ghost trick and couldnt get through hollow knight due to being bad at combat). i <3 problem solving

mostly i liked how much it feels like they truly put effort into making it Zelda's game rather than just a game where it could have been link but happened to be zelda. i kinda wish the sword fighter form wasnt there at all and you had like. a bow of light or something with limited energy instead. spoilers below the cut

my main gripe is with the final boss to be honest 😭 i really liked the puzzle solving at the lead up, where link and zelda are seperated by a wall and you have to help him so you can both get through, and the Concept of link and zelda fighting the boss together is really sweet and something i like. conceptually. but in action it just sort of felt like link was fighting the final boss for me, and all i could do was throw a guy in there to try help. i wish they'd given zelda Something other than the echoes for the final fight, like her hylia powers or something to make it feel less like youre taking a backseat in your own game while link does all the hard work...

also minor gripe but it irritated me that every time you use the sword spirit form it changes the music. ruins the atmosphere of my boss fight if it interrupts the boss music to do link music. and because i was turning it on and off to preserve energy it was constant switching. music is important to my game experience and it took me out of it

[textheslightlymorelimited]

Never did go to r/196 either, but…

1. Name: TEx or Tex is alright.

2. Pronouns/Gender: He/Him, Cis Male

3. Sexuality: Aroace

4. Country: Germany

5. Top 5 Fandoms: Pokemon (Mystery Dungeon), Professor Layton, Ultrakill, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

6. Forbidden Snack: I want to eat the Algae Blankets they fished out of the Town Pond.

7. Petting Bugs: Bees! They Fluffi. Especially Bumblebees.

8. Weird Story: I shit in a Bush as a Kid during a Game of Hide and Seek cause I didnt want to give away my Location. No one found me, or the Poop.

9. Taste of Blue: Tastes like… uh… Smurf?

10. Most Beautiful Thing: One Night, it rained heavily, and the Stone Path before my House got real sopping Wet. Theres a Lamp outside too, and when it turned on, it looked pretty incredible. I then proceeded to freeze up and gain an Inspiration Buff for like… Four Hours? I didnt do anything with it.

11. Stupidest Thing: Until recently, I did not know how to wash my Hair correctly. This is a Problem, as my Hair is laughably Thick and Long.

12. Stupidest Thing of someone Else: I once got into a discussion with someone on the Street during a Light Drizzle. The Question? Was the over a Hundred Year Old Church still where it used to be, or did they move it.

13. Hyperfixation Song: Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy.

14. Meaning behind Username/PfP: Im sorry, were supposed to have a Meaning for those?

15. Dream Carrier as a Child: I have no Idea. I cant remember a Thing.

16. Dream Carrier as Adult: I dunno, stop making me think about my Future.

17. Cilantro: I have it in my Garden. I cant tell you more about it.

18. Banned from a Location: No. I think. I once almost got banned from an Outdoor Pool cause I kept running around everywhere with Giant Chess Pieces.

19. Cursed Food Combo: Not really the Guy to ask for that, Im too particular with my Food. I dont even like it when theres things on my Pizza. However, I once saw my Father eat a Bread that contained Nutella, Cheese and Salami. Still scarred from that one.

20. Trans Rights: Obviously.

I dont know that many People, but uh: @a-shard-of-ace @juunimeta @the-atrium-of-fools @suspiciousplant0583 @starfightervicki @patchx @the-beef-man @assistant-honcho @clangpan @gemsweater72

(sorry if anyone was tagged a second time, I didnt see this Post on any of your Blogs.)

“I just came from r/196” ask game

Saw another post. I think I should invite y'all to one of our longstanding traditions. Answer the questions then tag 10 (or more) people. I'll go first.

Name? Frankie

Pronouns and gender? he/they/it, transmasc

Sexuality? Lesbian

Country? USA

Top 5 fandoms? Bungou Stray Dogs, Cosmere, All for the Game, Fundiesnark (not a series but I'm too deep in it to not consider it a fandom), .....the tornado fandom? (they're my special interest)

What is your Most forbidden snack? The preserved bones at the Atlanta Bodies Exhibition. They looked so crunchy...

Would you pet a bug? If it's big enough, it is pettable.

Share a weird fact/story about yourself with the class. I like to drive around rural areas and photograph old, sometimes abandoned locations in the dead of night. I have been literally chased out of towns by foot and by car on two separate occasions. The second time this happened, "See You Again" by Miley Cyrus came up on shuffle and that's the soundtrack my friend and I tore out of town to. Also every "guy" I've dated except for my most recent ex (who has big egg energy) is a lesbian now.

What does the color blue taste like? Creme brulee

What is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen? The appalachian mountains of Tennessee in the middle of summer. There's kudzu everywhere. On the backroads, there were several old, dilapidated Baptist churches barely hanging to the side of the mountain. I wonder how many of them were still in use.

What is the stupidest thing you've ever done? Short version: my friend's house almost got broken into by this dude who'd been stalking us for months while we were home alone. Instead of calling the cops, we decided to confront him with a bow and arrow (me), a hatchet, and a baseball bat (him). The plan was that if it went badly, we would simply throw his corpse into one of the many lakes in the neighborhood and let the alligators eat his remains (this was Florida). Why? Because we were afraid of having our home-alone privileges revoked. Luckily for us all, the guy fucked off and we never saw him again.

Stupidest thing you've seen/heard someone else do/say? My ex thought that Jackalopes were real. Also, a nurse I was doing rotations with apparently thought that "Witness Protection" was for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hyperfixation song? Young Enough + Bleach by Charly Bliss

Is there any meaning behind your profile picture and/or username? Profile pic; I'm transmasc and I'm currently obsessed with TriStamp. Username; It was my fake internet name when I was like 13. I won't change it because I want my mutuals to recognize me, and because I do have a viral post associated with this name.

Dream career as a child? Doctor (funnily enough I'm now in nursing school)

Dream career as an adult? Professional Jester. Not a comedian. I just want to be some weird little guy who dresses silly and you can hire me to roast your boss at work parties.

Thoughts on cilantro? Delicious

Have you ever been banned from a location and if so, why? I honestly can't remember? Probably... but in recent memory I've mainly banned people from places.

What is your cursed food combination? Pineapple on a hotdog with grilled onions. It Slaps.

Trans rights? TRANS RIGHTS

Tagging: @rocket-mankoi @mostlymarco @atleast8courics @jazzlike39 @gemsweater72 @limbobilbo @ameliaaltare @redcrane112 @theoneofwhomisblue @twinkenjoyer @theultimatecarp and anyone else who wants to jump on

[alto-tenure]

Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright - Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who took my Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright survey, whether you found it from the PL or AA subreddits, from my earlier post here, or from my Twitter! Almost 350 people responded, which is way more than I expected.

Overall, the results pretty heavily skewed towards people who have played Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright -- around 81% said they had played it, and only 19% hadn’t. That’s about what I expected, given the nature of the survey. I tried to market it to people who hadn’t played the crossover too, because I wanted to know whether Ace Attorney fans or Professor Layton fans were more likely to have played the crossover, but I wasn’t very successful. Around two-thirds of responders said they were fans of both Professor Layton and Ace Attorney, but I had a bigger reach to just Ace Attorney fans over just Professor Layton fans. I suspect there are multiple reasons for this -- the first being that the Ace Attorney fandom is just...bigger. There are a lot more Ace Attorney fans than there are Professor Layton fans active on the Internet right now. Layton hasn’t had the same publicity in recent times that Ace Attorney has gotten from both the release of DGS in English and some prominent streamers (RTGame comes to mind). The other reason is that I’m in a lot more fan spaces for Ace Attorney than Professor Layton -- I basically only engage with Professor Layton via the Discord I run and posting on Tumblr, but I’m in at least half a dozen Ace Attorney centric Discord servers, so this survey was promoted to more Ace Attorney fans.

Only seven responders said that they didn’t enjoy Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, and of those, two of them said they disliked the Professor Layton mechanics and two said they disliked the Ace Attorney mechanics. One other person said they disliked the Ace Attorney mechanics and didn’t play the Ace Attorney games because of it but still enjoyed Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, and two other people said they disliked the Professor Layton mechanics and didn’t play the Professor Layton games because of it but still enjoyed Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright.

Of course, most people were fans of at least one franchise before playing Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright. About 33% of responders that have played the crossover said they were fans of both series before, which makes about 30% of responders being only fans of Professor Layton or Ace Attorney before playing the crossover.

More results under the cut!

Most people have played at the very least the first game of both series (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney + Professor Layton and the Curious Village). The majority of responders said that they’ve played the whole Phoenix Wright trilogy. The least played Ace Attorney game was Gyakuten Kenji 2, which I suspect just comes down to the fact that you can’t legally play it in English, and the least played Professor Layton game was Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. I don’t quite have as good of a pulse on trends in the Layton fandom, being relatively new to it myself, but it’s not as tied to the rest of the Layton franchise as far as I’m aware.

The favorite games among people who had played the crossover roughly reflects the distributions among the fandom at large -- there isn’t much correlation between “having played Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright” and any game in particular, to the best of my awareness.

The favorite Ace Attorney game was fairly evenly spread, with Trials & Tribulations being the top one at 25.4%. Here’s the top 5:

1) Trials & Tribulations (25.4%) 2) The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve (18%) 3) Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (13.7%) 4) Gyakuten Kenji 2/Investigations 2 (11.6%) 5) Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (9.5%)

Every game in the series got at least one vote (shoutout to the three people who said Investigations 1 was their favorite, I didn’t think there was anyone who thought that game was their favorite. play Investigations 2 if you have the chance).

The Professor Layton favorite game results were much more heavily skewed towards Unwound/Lost Future, which is about what I expected. Diabolical Box/Pandora’s Box did much better than I had anticipated, and so did Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. I suspect that Mystery Room is the only one that has any connection to “liking and having played Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright”, since it’s also a murder mystery game (according to my friends who have played it, at least). Here’s the top 5, again:

1) Unwound/Lost Future (40.5%) 2) Diabolical/Pandora’s Box (16.2%) 3) Curious Village (10.9%) 4) Miracle Mask (9.2%) 5) Last Specter/Spectre’s Call (5.3%)

Azran Legacy and Mystery Room are both tied at 3.2%. Nobody selected Katrielle’s game.

Most people said they already knew everything there was to know about either franchise before playing, but there were a lot more people who said they knew nothing (1) or almost nothing (2) about Professor Layton. I suspect this one is due to how Ace Attorney is more pervasive in general pop culture; I had been aware of Ace Attorney before I got into it (mostly from Tumblr reposting “almost Christmas means it wasn’t Christmas” yearly). Meanwhile I didn’t know Professor Layton existed until I heard about the crossover. Then again, that’s just me, I’m fairly young (the first Ace Attorney game is older than I am) and thus don’t have a pulse on 2000s video game fandom. Someone who was around at the time the games were first released could probably tell me more about the culture.

This is the graph of how much people said they knew about Ace Attorney:

And this is the graph of how much people said they knew about Professor Layton:

About 28% of people said that Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright had an impact on why they played Professor Layton, with most of this group saying they played Professor Layton because they enjoyed the puzzles. About 32% of people said that Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright had an impact on why they played Ace Attorney, with most of this group saying they played Ace Attorney because they enjoyed the trials. Overall, most people said they played it either because they liked the main characters that appeared in the game, or because they enjoyed the mechanics, if the crossover had any impact on why they decided to play the game.

Some things I want to address:

1) Why Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright couldn’t be selected as favorite game in either series

I wanted to see if there was any major differences between the regular fandoms of Ace Attorney and Professor Layton in their preferences and people who have played the crossover. The answer was no. I appreciate the people who would say that Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright is their favorite in either series; it’s a great game (personally, it’s not mine -- yes yes I’m a little stereotypical but my favorites are TGAA2 and Unwound Future).

2) Why I made you choose between Barnham and Darklaw

Originally, this question was going to be “favorite inquisitor”, since the prosecution is a key part of any Ace Attorney game, but I knew that most people were going to select Layton for this question, so I took him out and just made it Barnham and Darklaw.

3) Yes, Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright was released almost ten years ago, I realize that

I’ve only been in the Ace Attorney fandom for around a year, and in the Professor Layton fandom for about a month. I know that there are a lot of long-time fans who have played the games as they came out, so thank you for trying to remember what your experience was like nearly ten years ago now! I appreciate it greatly.

4) Why I didn’t include “Yes, because I disliked [the characters]”

It would have made me sad if anyone said “Yes, the crossover impacted my desire to play PL because I didn’t like Luke and Layton/my desire to play AA because I didn’t like Phoenix and Maya”. It’s a little selfish, I’ll admit -- but I don’t regret my decision. It made me sad enough to see the few people who disliked a fundamental mechanic of one of the game series haha, especially since I got into PL to solve puzzles

Some comments people left on the survey that I want to highlight:

- People tended to talk positively about the Golden Court and the soundtrack! Both of which, in my opinion, are major highlights.

- A lot of people complained in the comments about the ending, which is fair. Some people said they disliked how Barnham was shoved aside, or how Espella’s relationship with her father was written, or just in general how it felt like they were going way too big on the scale of the twists.

- Shoutout to the people that mentioned minor characters in there. Jean Greyerl is indeed best girl (and also trans, which yes was brought up in my comments). Emeer Punchenbaug is one of my least favorite characters from either franchise (none of the Layton NPCs annoyed me nearly as much as he did), but I respect the bit. And to the one person who mentioned Johnny Smiles, massive respect for liking a witness from the tutorial case that doesn’t really show up again.

- Another shoutout to the Professor Layton fan dating an Ace Attorney fan -- I’m glad the two of you had fun with the crossover!

- A couple people mentioned that they have a big soft spot for the game because it got them into one of their current favorite game series, most of those being Ace Attorney fans who got into Layton because of the crossover. I am high-fiving each and every one of you. I see you. I understand you.

- To the person that mentioned Danganrompa v3 -- I’ve never played Danganrompa and I have no interest in doing so, so I have...no idea what you meant by copying the ending of Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, but I am vaguely intrigued because I can hardly see anyone copying it because of how crazy it gets.

- To the person who wants a TGAA/PL crossover -- that sounds like a really fun idea. I’ve thought about it before, but it requires either digging into Layton’s backstory as portrayed in AL or messing with the canon of Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright to make the timeline work.

- To the person who said Maya was their favorite animal -- I see you, and I salute you. Creachur vibes indeed.

Re: The Fun Questions:

1) The Barnham-Darklaw question did favor Barnham, but by a much smaller margin than I expected, if I’m being honest. It was 51.3% to 48.7%. I was expecting for there to be a lot more people who chose Barnham. It’s nice to know that it’s closer than I expected, especially as a Darklaw Enjoyer myself.

2) Eve the cat beat Constantine, but both of them beat Cracker. One person wrote in Snowy the goat, which I am deeply ashamed of forgetting. I’m sorry :(

3) The plurality of people didn’t like that I made them choose which crossover team-up was the best, but Phoenix and Layton took the crown, followed by Luke and Maya, then Phoenix and Luke, and then Layton and Maya.

I kind of wish I had included a question about side media, especially with Eternal Diva and LMDA being canon parts of the Layton franchise, but Ace Attorney doesn’t really have any equivalent (most of the non-game-media is just adaptations, either of the first game or the trilogy), so it would have been unbalanced. Besides, then it’d be a question of which media exactly I should include, because there’s a lot out there on both sides, and I’d probably have to exclude some.

Anyways, here’s the link to the results spreadsheet, feel free to make a copy and use the data yourself for some other analyses. I’d love to see if there are any correlations.