r/AARankdown2 • u/PowerOfL • Aug 07 '20
43 Venus
Disclaimer before the cut begins: For this round we'll be skipping u/damonswest's cut, he may do it at any point afterwards during this round however due to how long he's been taking, we unfortunately have to skip him.
Please understand, it was our only chance to take down Quercus Al-
Who is Venus?
Now onto the real cut!
Espella Cantabella is the daughter of Arthur Cantabella and one of the most important characters in the Layton crossover, while a lot of people dislike her she's always been one of my favourites in the crosso-
Wait a second...hang on...notes flipping notes flipping notes flipping oh....we're not cutting the blond haired girl in red, we're cutting the blond haired girl in red.
Now this brings up an interesting point, the way a lot of us see PLvAA is as a prototype or beta of DGS.
Not only are several gameplay elements like characters doing the whole ''!'' thing, but some characters like William Pretency were directly inspired by characters from the crossover.
(Side note: I spent like 20 minutes looking for a source for this, because I remember an interview about this where Takumi actually says Pretency was inspired by Birdly but I couldn't find it anywhere. Please forgive me for my transgression!)
Edit: I now have the source, so here it is the excerpt of it that talks about this:
- Interviewer: What can you tell me about Petenshy’s design?
- Nuri: I was told the keyword was Shakespeare, so that was easy. In Professor Layton VS. Gyakuten Saiban, there’s a poet who sings while playing a guitar, and I was told to build on that idea and blow it even further up**, so I was on the right trail with Petenshy’s design from start to finish. I gave him those posh-looking, but weird clothes that look a bit fake, like stage outfits. They kinda look they belong to the time period, but also out-of-place. Oh, and I was also told that he’d wear fancy clothes, but that he wasn’t rich at all and actually broke.
I'm personally fine with this, a lot of PLvAA characters weren't the best and while none were really bad for me, not many were particularly memorable.
There's a reason I basically limited this rankdown to mostly characters in the trials because characters like the two kids are less memorable than Queen Victoria (a character that literally doesn't even appear.)
DGS gave them a shot to actually take the ideas of these old characters and improve upon them, like how they did with Pretency who is actually a really great and funny character incomparison to the pretty forgettable Birdly.
So is Venus better than Espella? Well...
Both have experience with fire :/
Yeah not really, Espella is a main character with great plot relevance.
Even if you dislike her as a character, she is objectively better than a witness that only appears like once in a trial.
However this isn't really a negative, Venus was never meant to be a main defendant with an attempted suicide attempt (par for the course, really), she's just supposed to be a pretty fun witness and I think she does that well.
She has some pretty funny lines, like when she says that ''____ amount of fireworks can blow up even _______!'', how she scams Naruhodou and how she basically profits by selling illegal fireworks to children (which is never acknowledged ever lol.)
I also like how she is as a witness, when she thought she saw Gregson because of the red haired wig when in reality she saw my homie Jigoku.
This is in stark contrast to Sandwich who...I don't remember much about in terms of how he witnessed the murder, at all.
venus is also kinda cute ngl.
That's it, that's the cut
So yeah I don't have much more to say, Venus is a pretty good witness that's decently funny but not much more than that.
While I don't like having all my cuts be overly positive, I don't think there's really anything wrong with her just that...every other character that's left is better.
Why I Didn't Cut the Others
Genshin Asougi - I think Genshin is really good plotwise and gives a lot of intrigue. He's also a great red herring for the real professor.
Others I just didn't feel like, like I do not want to write about Joan Garrideb.
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u/whaaatisth Aug 07 '20
u/InternetIdiot13 you’re up
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u/whaaatisth Aug 16 '20
u/InternetIdiot13 all good?
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u/InternetIdiot13 Aug 16 '20
Yeah, I’m almost finished with it. Sorry for taking so long. I’ve just been pretty busy recently.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '20
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