Because it's amazing and haven't played the enhanced version yet.
Have you not played Great Ace Attorney? It has fantastic character animation even tho it was originally 3DS game.
There is limitation with 2D, if you play Great Ace Attorney, the things they do in that game just was not possible in 2D without spending fortune on it.
With 2D the character animation needs to really good like you see in Vanillaware or games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215. bad 2D animation can make the game look cheap.
Would a game like Wonder Project J be considered an adventure game?
It's the only japanese game that springs to mind regarding traditional animation. One of the animators that worked on the game even went to work on some Studio Ghibli movies afterwards (he already had worked on other movies though)
room 215 another one stuck on the ds sad.With 2D the character animation needs to really good like you see in Vanillaware or games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215. bad 2D animation can make the game look cheap.
If you still have you 3DS you can play this game.
Thank you!
Did you play it? Is it actually good?
Casual reminder that I'm eagerly awaiting those Hotel Dusk takes when you play the game.
Fantastic game, how did you react to the twist with Melkeresa (def butchering that)? Also what was your favorite "level" of the game?
Would a game like Wonder Project J be considered an adventure game?
It's the only japanese game that springs to mind regarding traditional animation. One of the animators that worked on the game even went to work on some Studio Ghibli movies afterwards (he already had worked on other movies though)
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Yep, the paperdoll effect. Also stretching and squashing. I think those "perfect lines" play a part too in cheapening the overall design.Yeah, drawing animations frame-by-frame makes all the difference.
One reason why modern 2D games animations' may look awful is because the character is usually made out of individual pieces, and animated using 3D techniques (i.e. interpolation).
They end up looking like those paper dolls that have the limbs attached to the torso with a nail.
Something like this
For games with a "puppet theatre" aesthetic it might look good, but for anything else it might look cheap.
Vanillaware games use that techinique, but they've managed to hide it pretty well. The "puppet aesthetic" is still noticeable though.
There's an old interview with the developers of Wonder Project J2 if you're interested
Wonder Project J2 – 1995 Developer Interview - shmuplations.com
Wonder Project J2 – 1995 Developer Interview These two Dengeki SFC interviews cover the making of Wonder Project J2, the sequel to Almanac / Givro & Enix’s hit “communication adventure” game and one of only two Enix-published games published for the Nintendo 64. Producer Hiroki Fujimoto and...
Vanillaware games going for much more of a moving painting rather than hand drawn animation.
Mikagura Shoujo Tanteidan actually has one of the most fun mystery solving mechanics I've experienced in a JADV game, or any game really, I honestly wish other devs would rip it off. You go around exploring crime scenes and interrogating witnesses and frequently particular interactions will produce a blue line of text, indicating that there's suspicious or relevant information. At which point you can either pull or decline to pull the "deduction trigger," if you pull the trigger on the correct evidence you gain points and advance. What makes it work is that the game is relatively open ended with a lot of opportunities to pull on the wrong evidence, plus there's only chapter/mid-chapter saves, so I found myself really thinking through the mystery and trying to make the best of each shot.
Finished it today. So good that I played it for three days straight and stopped everything else.
Really looking forward to playing it but I'm nervous about starting this or Born Punk and not finishing them before Friday since nirvanA Initiative is must play for me. Will likely be diving in within the next week or two so I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it so much.
