User blog comment:Sunshineandravioli/Stuff Sunshine Likes, Issue I/@comment-2186558-20120128020259/@comment-1194745-20120129225150

(SPOILERS IN RESPONSE TO SPOILERS XD) Actually, if I'm renembering correctly, Errol himself wasn't responsible for Damas' death; he and Jak were driving through Metal Head territory and an explosion flipped the car, crushing Damas beneath it. If anything the party most directly responsible for Damas' death would be either the Metal Heads (as they were in Metal Head territory) or Count Veger, who was also present and hung back watching Damas die, only coming forward to mock Jak afterwards. Nevertheless though, it was indeed quite a jack-ass move. I seriously cried a little at that scene. XP And in response to your Layton comment, it's tought to really come up with judgement on the characters based on your current place in the series (midway through the first game), as really the biggest amount of character development and backstory comes in the thrid game (though you can see them experimenting with deeper character work in the second game as well, though more with a few characters that appear only in that game rather than Layton and co., who recieve more development in games 3 + 4 - in particular Layton gets a lot of development in game 3, and a lot of Luke's backstory comes to light in number 4). As I mentioned before, the developers really were focusing more on seeing if the puzzle/adventure gameplay concept would work while they were creating Curious Village, rather than focusing on the characters. Once they knew the concept worked well and started creating more games, they had more freedom to focus on the story and characters, as the success of the first game served as proof that the base gameplay worked as is.

Sprinky... LOL at your serenity in the face of certain doom. I wasn't nearly as noble. The first time I got sent into that pit, I flipped out, turned around, took a flying leap off the moving platform and died drowning in the goo back in the hallway. XDD And I agree with you on the topic of the dialogue; some of the stuff they wrote for that final battle just makes you want to stop and listen to it for a while, especially from the cores (when I got my hands on the third core, which reiterates a "cake recipe" for you, I couldn't make out a lot of the lines, so I looked them up online. They are quite hilarious. XD)

As for Ace Attorney... I never said that didn't bother me, Sprink. XD (SERIOUSLY, EVERY TIME MAYA TRANSFORMED I WAS LIKE, "DOES NO ONE NOTICE THIS GIRL SUDDENLY CAN'T GET HER SHIRT CLOSED?? NO ONE? NO ONE'S BOTHERED BY THIS AT ALL??!" XP) And Mrdaimion, the concept of Ace Attorney is that you're a defense attorney who has to prove your clients innocent after they're accused of a crime (usually murder) using cross-examinations, evidence, investigations and contradictions (which, upon finding, you point out by exclaiming "OBJECTION!").