How fast was your first playthrough? (PW1/GS1 only)

Wed May 16, 2007 3:57 am

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Mine I think was half a week to a week. I was kinda excited and couldn't put it down, living up to its name of "excellent interactive book".

But the real reason I'm asking is because I lent one of my friends my DS, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and Elite Beat Agents, and it seems that in the course of 3-4 hours yesterday she had completely finished Cases 1 through 3 and is now on Case 4, without rushing. Another friend and I were just staring at her oddly while she was telling me about it on the way to class some 30-45 minutes ago. Beef

How fast was your first playthrough? Did you finish the game in one sitting, two, three, many?

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:03 am

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I took about 3 weeks. Reason being was because I had just gotten it this past christmas and heard about Justice for All, so I tried to take my time and beat it just right before the second game came out because I know if I had beaten it too fast, I woulda died from the anticipation as to what happens next in the sequel. Guess I'm just weird like that.

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Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)

I feel the same

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:15 am

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A week or three, I think. I don't really remember. My husband and I teamed up to plough through Case 5 (and some of the other ones). It was fun playing it together like that. Edgy

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:24 am

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I finished it in several sittings (two or three weeks?) on purpose. I knew the game went by pretty quick (except for the longer cases, 4 and 5), and I wanted to savor it for as long as I could. It's partly out of a weird habit I have anyway. I'm weird like that when it comes to my games. PRECIOUSSSSS. *coughcough*

The sad thing is that I got the second game before the first. It was my sixteenth birthday. I got some money and was let loose in the mall for a day with my best friends. I went to the game store to see if they had PW1, but they only had PW2. I wanted to TRY Phoenix Wright, so I got it anyway. But despite the stupid order I played both games at a pretty slow pace. -.-

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:27 am

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It took me roughly two weeks to beat. Cases 1-4 I beat in two or three days ~~with help from Game FAQs~~. But, case 5 was a prick. That case took me a good five days to beat ~~with help from Game FAQs~~. Beef

The day after I beat the game, I lent it to my friend. Then I immediately started on Justice For All.

*Note of caution - Rushing with no motive is bad for your health.

@Fanfare- Don't worry. We're in the same boat. I like to drag my games out on purpose sometimes too. Especially where Phoenix Wright is concerned. It helps me "get into the mood" for lack of better words. (My God! That was corny.)

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:29 am

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Well, it may have taken me a few days if I played it through the entire time, I got stuck in some parts, so it took me longer to get through. :D

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:43 am

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It took me...four days with life in between. The first game is just too easy compared to the second one. Manfred is not as tough as I expected him to be (dude, Franziska was more challenging!). Gant, though, makes me wreck my head a bit.

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Wed May 16, 2007 4:45 am

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For my course, it took me a week (Around the month of JANUARY) playing the first Phoenix Wright. As most sim-talk games, I always EXAMINE everything throughout all the Episodes. I had a TIPS&TRICKS magazine in which the staff did the whole walkthrough ~~and I use it as my guide~~. The game gave so much tragic events, in which the story was amazing to the end.

I wanted to continue on PART-2 but, I have to give my friends Nintendo DS back.

You can call me a WEIRDO, but I don't have a NINTENDO DS. SERIOUSLY. (Despite owning both games...plus Hotel Dusk Nick

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Wed May 16, 2007 5:13 am

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Wed May 16, 2007 5:32 am

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If you factor out the time lost due to Mom hiding it from me (it was finals week), then... Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney took only a few hours. (I knew exactly what was going to happen beforehand! Eheheheh...) JFA took a little longer. A few days (I totally cheated with an online walkthough!) I remember case 2-4 literally took me a day and a half.

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Wed May 16, 2007 6:19 am

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I finished it in around 6 days, with school, reports, mock trials, and work in between. Call it my stress release ball if you will. :/

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Wed May 16, 2007 6:24 am

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It took me about a week, give or take.

Sadly, I did JFA first, so I thought that the first was quite a bit easier--though 1-5 pounded me into the dirt. Damon

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Wed May 16, 2007 6:46 am

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It took me about 2 days. I was thorroghly addicted. I still am. (lol I'm such a nerd)

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Wed May 16, 2007 10:40 am

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About a week for the first game, though that was 2-3 hours each night for it. Probably took about 15-18 hours playthrough for it.

Second game was over in 3 days, but that was because I couldn't stop playing it heh. Probably about 10-12 hours playtime there.

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Wed May 16, 2007 10:57 am

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Day 1) Case 1, Case 2

Day 2) Case 3, Case 4 investigation 1

Day 3) Case 4 rest, Case 5 investigation 1

Day 4) Case 5 to last investigation

Day 5) Case 5 end

...5 days.

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Wed May 16, 2007 11:32 am

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The first game took me about 2 weeks, I think.

JFA only took me 3 days (I was on vacation and had a LOT of time.)

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Wed May 16, 2007 11:33 am

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I got PW1 during a break, and I completed it in about three to four days.

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Wed May 16, 2007 1:16 pm

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I don't seem to remember, but I guess I did case 1 to 4 in under a week. Case 5 was started one week later, because I didn't like the peek I took after finishing case 4... Somehow, don't ask me Yuusaku

So at most two weeks I presume.

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Wed May 16, 2007 1:40 pm

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Two weeks, maybe? I got stuck at one point during 1-4 when...

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Wed May 16, 2007 1:54 pm

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Two weeks, maybe? I got stuck at one point during 1-4 when...

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Man...that looks dull...this actually makes me worried for KH3 (since that team worked on the battle system)

I feel the same

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Wed May 16, 2007 2:22 pm

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About 3 weeks, I can't exactly remember.

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Wed May 16, 2007 2:45 pm

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I got it for my birthday last year (12th April) and I took about two or three weeks I think, however I did give up halfway through Case 5. I replayed PW in the Autumn and fell in love with it, and finished Case 5. I joined CR, imported GS2 and the rest, as they say, is history. Gant

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But the real reason I'm asking is because I lent one of my friends my DS, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and Elite Beat Agents, and it seems that in the course of 3-4 hours yesterday she had completely finished Cases 1 through 3 and is now on Case 4, without rushing. Another friend and I were just staring at her oddly while she was telling me about it on the way to class some 30-45 minutes ago.

WHAT?!?

I lent AA to one of my friends, and it took her six months! When she finally gave me it back I actually cheered, I'd been wanting to replay it so long. Then she said she didn't really like it! I wouldn't mind, but taking six months to play a game you don't even like while I was desperately wanting to play it... *grumble grumble*

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Wed May 16, 2007 3:27 pm

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Day 1) Case 1, Case 2, Case 3, Case 4
Day 2) Case 5

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Wed May 16, 2007 5:04 pm

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I was so lucky to find the first game. I happened to have gotten a new DS Lite a few days before because the one I had, its touch screen was glitchy. Eh?

So my mom stops by the bank one day and I decide to go into the nearby Toys R Us to look at the games. And viola! There it was. I picked it up because of hearing so many good things about it and it happened to be the last copy and only $22!

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Wed May 16, 2007 5:44 pm

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Wed May 16, 2007 6:54 pm

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lets see it took me 2 says to get by 1-4 with very minimal help but now im on case 5 and am q bit jammed atm

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Wed May 16, 2007 6:55 pm

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It took me something like three days...but it was a weekend, I basically did nothing else, I stayed up all night, and on the fifth case I looked up solutions on gamefaqs once or twice.

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Wed May 16, 2007 6:59 pm

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lol i confess the same for case 5

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Wed May 16, 2007 10:25 pm

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It took me about a week to finish PW1 - and to be honest I didn't really do much else apart from sleep!

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Thu May 17, 2007 12:42 am

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I think it took me almost two weeks, playing a bit each day.

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Thu May 17, 2007 12:53 am

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I bought the first game Saturday 2 weeks ago (April 28). I've beat it late in the night of Friday, May 4th. On May 5th I bought JFA and I completed it on May 12

I had to check on GameFAQs once for each game because I was really stuck. In AA it was for the vase rotation puzzle and on JFA I had no clue what to say to the De Killer.

I enjoyed every minute of it, tough I was really annoyed at Manfred Von Karma's behaviour.

Right now I'm replaying them both, I already completed again case 1-4 in AA and case 1 in JFA. It's been a long, long while since I replayed a game I had already completed...

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Thu May 17, 2007 1:02 am

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I think about 2 weeks. Not sure. I say that's pretty fast. XD

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Thu May 17, 2007 10:40 am

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I went slower on this one than I did on JFA, so it probably took me 2-3 weeks since I wanted to enjoy the game a little longer. I plowed through the first two cases though...

Formerly Avenger...

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Thu May 17, 2007 11:05 am

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3 days. The second fastest completion of a game for me :) (The fastest was the Lion Kind and took 1 hour!!!)
I loved every minute of that game, but I completed it then returned it so I could get another DS game to keep me interested until GS2 came out over here!

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Fri May 18, 2007 4:49 am

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Three hours is inhumanely fast. Yet, to call it that or anything less than that would be a tremendous understatement. That's like the Japanese-kid-who-manages-to-break-every-game-completion-speed-record stereotype-fast. And, maybe not even that! Beef

I'm sorry, but I just can't see someone completing this game in a mere three hours. They must have been obsessively addicted.

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Fri May 18, 2007 8:10 am

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Kay, I'm going to take this challenge! Von Karma

...once my friend has completed the first game I lent him. Well, he has completed it already, but we live at a distance so we have to take the train to meet each other >_>.

It was only case 1 to 4 that was 3-4 hours, right? :D

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Fri May 18, 2007 10:36 am

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SilverZephyr wrote:

...and on the fifth case I looked up solutions on gamefaqs once or twice.

I did that too.

1) Missed the evidence on the car,

2) Couldn't see how exactly the vase looked like the blue badger.

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Fri May 18, 2007 12:51 pm

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ok just got done with it late last night/early this AM.

4 days to beat it with moderate use of faqs for 1-5 and i accidently preesented the cloth early with no sae point the 1st time...oops

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Fri May 18, 2007 4:16 pm

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I did my best not to use GFAQs, but I was so addicted to the game, I was way too impatient to go around and re-talkt to everyone and examine everything, just to check I hadn't missed something crucial... I think I beat the first game in a couple of days. The second one didn't take long either, and I used guides even less.

It's weird; I can generally figure out what to do in court, but I'm hopless at the investigating parts; I'll miss clues, not present things to the right people and end up having to retrace my steps so often, I'll just cave and use a guide to figure out what I'm supposed to do.
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Fri May 18, 2007 5:03 pm

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court wasnt too bad. if i press everything and it cycles back then i know to present

investagations. im too lazy to look at CR to see what i need to present to whom

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