Those are the games that I purchased (and finished) recently (and by "recently" I mean the past 3 months...):
Ace Attorney Investigations for the NDS and
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 for the PS3.
Ace Attorney Investigations is a spin-off of the Ace Attorney series starring the prosecutor
Edgeworth, and taking place outside the court.
Is more in the vein of the Ace Attorney series than
Apollo Justice, the fourth installment, and the cases are quite good. Despite that, I disliked the "friendly rival"
Shi-Long Lang, and the main sidekick
Kay Faraday was kinda boring and irritating. In fact, for me
Edgeworth's best partner was
Franziska von Karma, specially in her 13 year old appearance:
Cute young
FranziskaIs not not the best game in the Ace Attorney series, but unlike Apollo Justice, is a worth sequel. Too bad that the second game starring Edgeworth is not coming to Occident...
And for
Marvel vs. Capcom 3... I don't like it at all.
My brother and I play a lot of fighting games, mostly Capcom ones, and he was quite hyped for this one so at the end I purchased it, but it never was appealing for me for several reasons.
The first one is that, except for a very few exceptions, I don't like 3D visuals in fighting games. The second is that I dislike about a third of the cast represented. I don't like the recent
Resident Evil games (the last one I liked was
RE2) ,
Devil May Cry or the new
Bionic Commando, so from the start I dislike 6 characters from the Capcom side (not counting the characters that "I can tolerate but I don't really like" like
Zero or
Crimsom Viper), and my knowledge of Marvel characters is mostly from the late 80's to mid 90's, so "new" characters like
x-23 and
Deadpool are pretty much unknown to me (and seemingly quite fan-service characters) and some old-school characters like
Thor,
MODOK or
Dormammu are quite uninteresting... To compare, in
Marvel vs. Capcom 2, with a bigger roster than
MVC3,
the only character that I disliked was
Marrow.
And the 3rd reason is that I dislike the game mechanics, very different from the previous games from the series and with unnecesary gimmicks like the X-factor.
Worst of all is that a couple of weeks after I bought it,
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 was announced Orz
I'm not going to do a lenghty rant about how the recent Capcom fighting games are nowhere as good as they used to be as I did in a previous post, but to summarize after playing the regular Marvel vs. Capcom 3 I adamantly refused to buy those games and was my brother who finally bought them (Marvel vs. Capcom 3 back in December and Street Fighter x Tekken last weekend).
The limited edition included this piggy bank shaped in form of a (fictional) SFxT arcade cabinet
The only interesting extra is a mini-mini comic booklet drawn by Udon Comics. Is nice to see Ingrid, a forgotten character that I really like, as the mastermind behind the Pandora Box...
