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huh, okay, so they got the Ace Attorney 1 composer to do their music, yeah that makes sense
okay so who did they get for the art...
wh
they got
they got the devs of
HATOFUL BOYFRIEND
to do the character art for their family-friendly murder mystery picross game??To be honest.... I don't think it does, is the thing.
Ace Attorney relies heavily on characters designed with animation in mind, and the stiff expression-changes-only style of MbN really holds it back in terms of trying to execute on physical comedy and punchlines. It's clear they really were deeply inspired by AA but they failed to take advantage of the ways it brought a heavy sense of kineticism to visual novel scenes by making characters be really over the top in terms of looks and motion.
Ah, fair enough, I had simply assumed it worked well given I had mostly heard positive sentiments about the game
The Hatoful artist being the artist was, like, the game's main selling point lol
Honestly really enjoyed it initially and then got frustrated for how long the picross puzzles got. I think a better execution of the same idea was Pixel Puzzle Makeout League, where the puzzles were shorter, more numerous, and played into the story in clever ways thanks to the main character having puzzle powers related to them. That game's story is also way more interesting because while Murder by Numbers ends up pretty bog standard and wastes its best characters, PPML keeps everyone in the loop and completely loses its mind for the finale and true ending. Honestly did not see any of it coming, or for it to be possible to make Eva comparisons.
