Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! This time we're inverting things and talking to someone inspired by Ace Attorney, Famicom Detective Club, and Hotel Dusk! Joey from Armonica is the lead developer on Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved, which is a soon-to-be-released adventure game with a command select interface and a groovy soundtrack! We discuss his inspirations, work on the game, and the game design ethos behind it. We also evangelize the command select menus, adventure games as a whole, and get a few tangents in there, too! (Let us know if you like the idea of interviewing game devs about their work in the adventure game and visual novel genres more in the future!)

NEXT TIME: Episode 100 Celebration!

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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on Steam

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Dessy returns, and we discuss one of the most influential games of all time, but has never come out in English officially! The Portopia Serial Murder Case is an early adventure game made by Yuji Horii, which combines adventure game mechanics with text adventures and hard-boiled detective stories! The result? A surprising game that seems almost banal and short by today's standards, but had a huge impact on creators like Hideo Kojima, Eiji Aonuma, Shu Takumi, and many, many more. We discuss Portopia '81, Ace Attorney canon fursonas, spending time at the long day factory, and uh... police brutality! A little something for everyone!

NEXT TIME: Bonus Episode! Interview with Joey from Armonic, chatting about Detective Instinct: Farewell My Beloved!

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Further read/watching on Portopia as well as some of my reference material: Jeremy Parish NES Works video on Portopia Hardcore Gaming 101: Portopia Tsundoku Diving - Talking Games | The Portopia Serial Murder Case

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Unfortunately Dessy is out this time around, because they got roped into helping to plan a wedding! The rest of the crew solemnly carries on... We've met Alice Arisugawa, but now it's time to meet the work that inspired HIM! Ellery Queen, one of the most famous American detectives, has finally entered the podcast. Today we discuss the 1929 novel's first half, with an explosive play at the start, an expansive cast of characters, and the father-son detecting duo at the heart of it all. Rose also gets herself in hot water with an "I think Coolsville sucks!" moment, Tiago restrains himself more than once, and we all bonk Queen on the head with a baseball bat through time because of the, you know, racism. But at the heart of it all is some compelling writing, lots of fun characters, and one very important missing hat!

NEXT TIME: "The Roman Hat Mystery" by Ellery Queen (Parts 3 & 4)

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