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Gumshoe had one of the most “okay” sprites in the HD trilogy; the harsh contrast lines on his face still bug me though. The shading and line style in Apollo Justice HD matches the native artwork in Apollo Justice better, and also looks nicer to me.

The details in the witness stand are really interesting to me. Those flags have always been abstract scratches; in Apollo Justice HD, they chose to interpret them as being the court emblem, something that doesn’t appear in any other version.

Left to right: GBA; DS; HD trilogy; Apollo Justice HD. https://awoo.space/media/lGs8qrIBfp96EHAEaBU https://awoo.space/media/pZjAUvP2XnyZCNABzzk https://awoo.space/media/UY-oLBUF9RTvbkAQZV8 https://awoo.space/media/C1iNaAFmlz6w5EYaxM8

Next, the prosecutor stand. Sorry we can’t compare prosecutors - Klavier isn’t in the classic games, and I couldn’t find a good screen of this scene in AA DS.

Order, again is: GBA; DS; HD trilogy; Apollo Justice HD. https://awoo.space/media/WDJwbNCky1rgjMvwbL8 https://awoo.space/media/YIQB-MWua2RosqPZJqE https://awoo.space/media/TyE8DsSzhMNnqZrlrIw https://awoo.space/media/6yuvZ69oM901LN91GDE

The outlines of the background are a little more different between the versions; you can tell that the HD trilogy version is traced, while AJ HD is redrawn. The trilogy version is just such a blurry, awkward mess though.

I hate that so much of the art from the HD trilogy is traced so lazily like that. :/ They had an opportunity to do something well and they wasted it.

Might as well start with Phoenix himself. From left to right: GBA; DS; HD trilogy; Apollo Justice HD.

The outlines in AJ HD match the original sprite better, but they also have a shading style that looks nicer to me. https://awoo.space/media/Kb7bvOXLpdvMahXADHI https://awoo.space/media/o8hAuO0seZRn9rNbf_c https://awoo.space/media/FMPNdR8y8NXOAt9Gcc4 https://awoo.space/media/8ovivpT5L8ObpgEoyuY

To my surprise, the answer is… they redrew it all, again! Both backgrounds and characters got redone, and they match the Apollo Justice art style pretty nicely. I’ll post a few samples - sorry that not all of the comparisons show the *same* scene.

Something else I was wondering how they’d deal with in Apollo Justice HD: the flashback scene. There’s a case which takes place around the time of the original three games, and it deliberately reuses backgrounds and sprites from those games.

They very clearly don’t have high-res assets for the graphics from those three games, since they had to redraw all of them for the “Phoenix Wright HD trilogy” rerelease. But the art in that is a) not very good, b) doesn’t match Apollo Justice’s art style.

Something I find interesting in the HD version of Apollo Justice: some fine details that were painted that had no chance of showing up in the downsampled artwork, like Vera’s eyelashes.

The artwork was painted at high resolution, and scaled down to DS resolution back in 2008. Looks like they touched up some details when they were scaled down... https://awoo.space/media/hc8zjDexcmoFd4zzcfs https://awoo.space/media/RI6X_DSFQk8AD2EmEhI

@lindar I haven't seen it but I keep hearing people talk about it!! And after Yuri on Ice I'm really willing to give whatever else she's made a chance...

Twinbee Pro Fusion doesn’t get much love among the Kukeiha Club series, but I really love the track Aerial Corridor. https://youtu.be/Xwt9qRoJbdc

Sayo Yamamoto (dir. Yuri on Ice, here talking about Michiko & Hatchin) is honestly iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayo_Yamamoto https://awoo.space/media/RIUmdrS2-SqpzwS1BBo

Soy Cuba (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) https://youtu.be/qUINE6CrrDc

@posit@chitter.xyz It's a hell of a cover, huh??

Acid Drop (Salu, Atari 2600, 1992) https://awoo.space/media/HaNrXJvIOUscDsTPS6I

PSA: if you want to change your Saturn’s save game battery without losing your save games, all you have to do is leave the system power on while you replace the battery!

@tom frogs..........

FOR BIRDIE (Masters: Haruka Naru Augusta 2, PC-98, 1994) http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc98/masters-haruka-naru-augusta-2 https://awoo.space/media/wC4-y24GXVJ-5v5XoJo

I stumbled on this album for $5 at the record store yesterday, and I feel like I really lucked out. It's good!!

Anita Mui - 情爱火花 https://youtu.be/fPrrBcYPLjA #codingmusic