I think you don't really understand that not every breakdown must be over the top clownery. Acro's and Mimi's are wonderful BECAUSE they are tame and they suit their characters and the tragedy of their situations. Seeing Dee Vasquez scream and foam would break her character too. These are done masterfully and they work well because they are contrasted to real villain breakdowns. If every breakdown had the same energy, none of them would have impact Not being highly animated and extravagant doesn't make breakdowns bad or not impactful or unemotional. If anything, they hit harder
Considering the amount of quiet/emotional breakdowns in high places, I think he understands it well enough. The reason some of them are not higher is explained in the video, namely, many of the lower ranks don't feel different than a regular damaged sprite
Ted Tonate that low is a crime IMO. I think given the context of how he was so narcissistic about his bomb capabilities, and the irony having to resort to breaking the bomb with his head, and then the extra bit where it doesn’t even work at the end is perfect
My problem with Courtney Sithe's breakdown is that it builds up and then "edges" you. The game knows that her confessing is not satisfying enough, so it gives you a second chance to actually break through her, which not only raises the stakes but also makes it more exciting to take her down. And then, her breakdown is just slamming the desk hard, something we've seen already a lot of times. It's just not satisfying and probably would've been much better if she didn't "confess" at all at the first place.
I think Patricia's / Fifi's breakdown is good in retrospect, as it makes you feel bad for her at first, yet you eventually realise how evil of a person she is and start wondering how much of what she said was true, or if she just didn't want Dogen / Kanis to rat her out about the assassination plot
In case anyone is wondering why I used the ds versions of the investigations games, it’s because this was supposed to come out the same weekend as the investigation collection. If I started work on this video after the game released, I would use the official translation
Based on this list, I ranked the games based on their breakdown. 1. T&T 2. SOJ 3. Great Ace Attorney 4. AAI2 5. Apollo Justice 6. Justice for All 7. DD 8. Great Ace Attorney 2 9. Ace Attorney 10. AAI
The video had a lot of effort put into it, but I disagree with the rankings themselves. Animations that are exaggerated or incredibly long tend to be placed really high, even when they look terrible, like Daryan's, Stronghart's or Atishon's, whereas longer animations that have more restraint and aren't as goofy, like Tonate's, or simpler animations like Mimi, Acro, Gant and any others end up rather low. Glad to see Kristoph high, though
While I love the voice acting IDEA and some VA’s did genuinely good enough where I’d praise them, Will all due respect, Im just gonna come out and say this: Most of them fall flat or sound like children are (badly) voice acting, And also I need to say this, Aura’s voice acting (in the robot breakdown) seriously sounded like she was moaning like this was a very different video💀(I’m genuinely sorry there but I couldn’t keep that thought in), I get what the VA was GOING for but it didn’t sound right at all I will give some specific praise though and say the “WÄÄÄH” acting had me busting up though and I also personally really loved how unhinged the voice acting for Ted sounded
