So, I played GK for my first time, it was fun. Now, I am from germany and was really surprised when I found the german poem and the call to Schloss Ritter in Germany. The grammar was correct so far and Wolfgang and Gerde (was her name supposed to be "Gerda"?) did their best to pronounce their german text correct and I think they did a good job.

And then... Gabriel visits Schloss Ritter. So, the game takes play during summer, June to be precise and... it's snowing in Germany?
Now, I was only once in Bavaria, during summer and I was still in elementary school. But it was hot and it rained a lot. But it didn't snow. Seriously, who thought it would snow in germany during summer? Who did the research? And even weirder, noone wondered why it was snowing during summer. We are not THAT close to the North Pole.
Just something I had to say.

(And in the bizarre case that it is possible to snow near Munich in summer, feel free to tell me. "With evidence", as Miles Edgeworth would say.)

Thank you for reading and feel free to contribute.

Luckily, they "fixed" that in the sequel. I was also laughing at the hilarity of the snowing in June in Bavaria, particularly since Rittersberg is supposedly located about two-three hours drive from München. XD

In GK2 they set the story in around the time before or after summer. My guess is early april or late september, which is coherent with the weathertype they portrait in the game.

I remember that Gerde emphasized the oddness of snow at that time of year. It's elaborated a bit more in the novelization. There was also severe weather affecting the New Orleans area around the time Gabriel had left for Africa. More likely it was intentionally written like that to suggest a bad omen.

The most jarring aspect for me, was not the weather phenomenon, but rather how completely different Schloss Ritter looks between the two games.

Yes, I remember the Newspaper when Gabriel was back in New Orleans. It said there was a storm and some people died and some citizen mentioned the grey clouds during the early days. Now I have no clue about the common weather in New Orleans at that time of year, but storms and heavy rainfalls sound alright to me.
Maybe because this kind of weather isn't uncommon in germany. We do have this kind of weather, too.
No tornados, granted, but still enough for some damage from falling trees to floods.

I can't remember that Gerde said anything about the weather, she probably mentioned it when our cat was begging to be left into the garden. I have to play this segment again, it seems.

As for the castle, I think Sierra took some pictures of a real castle near Munich and there was no other which looked like Schloss Ritter from the first game?
Now you made me really curious.

Heh heh, the weather...

Ya, only two geological things that might allow for snow in the summer... Being near the polar regions (doesn't work for germany), or extreme high altitude with glaciers (don't think there is any place in Bavaria like that). Or global cooling/climate change...

Beyond that chock it up to the supernatural, heh heh.

I think you're right about that one. Since the second game is a bluescreenproduction, they had to find a real castle or at least a mansion large enough to pose as a castle. Since they animated/drew the original based on what they needed in it, the sequel is naturally a bit off target, even though they did manage to find a good one :)
Then again, they might actually have drawn the original from photos of the one from the sequel, as we see different areas of the castle in the sequel. Only the developers know for sure ;)

As for the museums, and the other places in the sequel, all of them are real places only slightly shortened as we for instance didn't need to see the entire castle of Neuschwanstein as it is presented to the open public.