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ScarletStudy / DGS1-3DS-Release

Release repository for the 3DS version of The Great Ace Attorney - The Adventure of Ryuunosuke Naruhodou
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Case 4, orientation of the book the victim is grabbing? #73

Closed praabjerg closed 4 years ago

praabjerg commented 5 years ago

Short explanation: In a closeup of the victim in case 4, she's holding a book that's supposed to have been burned (the exact title of the book eludes me now, but it was one of the Sherlock Holmes adventures). If you examine the 3D model of the book in the court record, the burn is clearly visible at the top of the book, but in the closeup photo, the book looks perfectly fine, even though you're looking at it from the top. I actually thought this was going to turn out to be a contradiction in the trial, but it never came up, and they're clearly supposed to be the same book. This could easily be an issue inherited from the original game, so I wasn't sure whether to bring it up. But I admire the way you seem to be shooting for something akin to perfection with this localisation, and I'm actually curious as to the origin of the issue: What I think could have happened (if this is a result of the localisation), is that the title was originally written in Japanese, which would mean that to localise it properly, you may have had to flip the reading direction of the book, and thus the orientation of the title. So in the original game, maybe you were actually seeing the bottom of the book in the photo? But then you would have also had to change the orientation of the 3D model. Is that it?... It feels like they could have had the title in English on the book, even in the original game. It was supposed to be an English book owned by a British character, after all.

The fact that I can't tell if this originates from the original game or the localisation is probably a testament to how much work you put into it. I continue to be fascinated and astonished by it!

AdmiralCurtiss commented 5 years ago

Yeah that was really bothering me too once I noticed it, it was never brought up. Here's the direct side-by-side:

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praabjerg commented 5 years ago

You know, looking at it again, I feel pretty certain this must have been inherited from the original game. Holding the book like that, there's no way the burn wouldn't be visible. The cover is missing an entire corner on one side, after all. And the corners of both sides of the cover are visible in the photo. Another possibility is that it's intentional, and turns out to be a clue to the larger mystery in DGS2. It's a bit of a stretch that the characters would have missed something this obvious in the court case. But likewise, I'm having a hard time imagining the development team missing it. So I have to wonder... I would be absolutely delighted if it gets tied into the second game somehow :D

Hyarion-SS commented 4 years ago

As noted, this is in the original game -- the graphics here are unedited.

Thanks for the report, though.