damn this music rocks, really an epic track. they definitely deserve it though, damn
#Ace Attorney
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10 As, it is indeed AA5
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sorry im really enjoying this game again if you cant tell lol
man case 2 was rough though
it was easier as it was the second time i'd done it, but... damn
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Yeah 123 trilogy(PW trilogy) is overall better than 456 trilogy(AJ trilogy), but AJ trilogy is still decent games
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4 was still pretty great, tho i understand why a lot of folks didnt like pheonix losing his badge and being unemployed for 7 years
this one has been fun, tho the cases have all been... very confusing, so many moving parts in a 10 or 20 min window, every time, i swear
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The problem with 4 was that it was placed right after 3 and then it took like 6 years until 5
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in vacuum it was decent, and as the first game of trilogy it works fine
decent, decent...? idk it was a fine game
I heard 6 is very highly praised
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Yeah i'm just hyping 
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i've actually had 6 installed on my phone for a few years now, i downloaded the AA games via google play while i was homeless (i was bored out of my mind) but case 2 on AA was such an... experience, i couldnt bare to continue
i dont know why i bought these remasters again on steam but im glad im did, im enjoying this game a lot now
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Still waiting for 7 
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i do have to make a complaint about this plot point tho: ||why the fuck didnt athena mention that the opposing prosecutor was the guy who (apparently) killed her mother? thats a little detail that would have probably slipped out at some point, come on||
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||and both the previous defendant and this one were both unconscious? really?||
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ok i was using spoilers for ixrec
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i didn't notice it was spoilered, apologies
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that is 100% perfect and funny, i love it
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i didn't notice it was spoilered, apologies
i left the main prosecutor and detective unspoiled because they're not much of a spoiler, but everything post day one of case 2 was a real spoiler, so they're spoilered
dont want to spoil ix's fun when he eventually gets to this game
but i did wanna talk about it, figured you would be around at some point bringi
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You're currently at ep...5, right?
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i honestly dont know
lone wraith
Yeah you're at AA5 ep5
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i do have to make a complaint about this plot point tho: ||why the fuck didnt at...
This kind of plot points tend to have a reason
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i refuse to accept this otherwise well-made story game to have plot points that resolve in a neat way
(it is nice to see the plot points i was complaining about back in case 2 resolving, but man they were rough at the time)
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Yeah AA sometimes just throw something so wild that makes players very confused then later resolve it
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i do love the ||symbology of the phone ringtones, pheonix's is the same as always, apollo's is his mothers song, tho he doesnt know it still...||
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i honestly dont remember details of aa games at this point 
it has been a long time. i do remember really liking athena stuff, which you'll be gettin around to shortly
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i probably will! ||about to start her trial right now, in the ruined courtroom apparently. odd choice||
symbolic tho
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it is
oh her name is pronounces like psychs? i always mentally read it as kikes
damn you writers
oh right, thats a slur lol
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Don't blame writers, they didn't name her in English 
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(i should remind folks not to use the word k'ke as that will get you bapped by the bot)
her name is Athena Cykes
i just read the c as a hard C, like in cream, and the y as an i, like in thyme
but a soft c and an actual y makes more sense
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Her Japanese name is much more straightforward
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thank you cutscene for telling me how to pronounce it
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But I always appreciate how hard they tried while localizing/translating
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also fuck you custscene for the pun, i was happier not knowing >:(
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she is the defacto therapist attorney, i always liked that pun
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But I always appreciate how hard they tried while localizing/translating
they're definitely in an American court, with an American (not Japanese) ninja/samurai prosecutor
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Eat your hamburger, Apollo
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but yes they did a spectacular job translating
captured the feel of the game perfectly
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if I'm the only one in the thread who hasn't played the AJs I could just leave for a while
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ill stop playing the trilogy after dual destinies
then we can maybe play somewhat together for the last one
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that is the single most terrifying image i've ever seen
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this one comes close!
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ok ome done with this game's final case
what a fuckin wild ride
that final case ROCKED
im so glad i pushed through case 2, man the rest of this game was amazing
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i decided to start spirit of justice, i need a new game to play
pfff i love this optional outfit
...not technically the worst one i've seen, but pretty bad
||what the fuck? 10 guys with guns for one kid? tad overkill||
of all the things i've claimed to be the most scary in these games, this would honestly be the scariest
||some angry guy with an automatic rifle||
nope thats scarier
||winston fukken payne
well not winston probably, a distant relative||
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||winston fukken payne
well not winston probably, a distant relative||
also i retract my previous 2 statements, this is the scariest thing i've ever seen 
wait i just got this pun
fuck you AA writers
fuck you
this is the worst one
that includes dustin prints and fukken hugh mann
||Phoenix walks into a foreign country and takes up a defence case in like an hour of being here
never mind that the laws are obviously different, that the justice system is different, that the defendant has already been judged guilty...||
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also i retract my previous 2 statements, this is the scariest thing i've ever se...
keeps getting scarier by the minute, good gravy...
i am shaping up to like this game tho
yeah im liking this game so far
weird but fun
the DC law is fun lol
tad extreme but just a tad more weight to each case lol
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||oh wow, testimony to song? thats awesome||
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case two!
||whoever that cameraman is SUCKS at his job, missed literally every important detail lol||
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this poster screams ||"we added this guy later"
he's got a totally different outfit and outfit style to the others
i kinda dont like that, i wish his getup was more consistent with them||
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
aww, she made it! yay
im genuinely happy to see that
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absolute gem of a character, always love interacting with them. i hope we get to see them in every case and not just this one!
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||hey wait, thats the same symbol from phoenix's hat in the 4th game. it was a special camera there, is this the same brand of camera?
the number mason, what to they mean???||
||nuuu, they made the dusting for prints limited! i cant just pour all the dust i want on screen anymore, that was the fun bit!||
||oh actually you get loads. nvm.||
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these fucking names, my god
at least this one is intentional i suppose
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i hate this game (affectionately)
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one thing i genuinely dont like about these games is how openly hostile the prosecutors are to the defence
like
its just a job for both parties, yet the prosecutors are allowed to verbally assault phoenix's crew, often, with no remorse
and its not limited to verbal assaults, godot threw boiling hot coffee at pheonix, von karma used an actual whip on not just phoenix but the police force, the older manfred von karma literally tazed phoenix and maya in the police station, blackquill ||threatened to kill multiple times and had a trained bird literally attack apollo,|| and this latest prosecutor is just the most openly vile dude i've met, ||constantly berating and harassing the defence with just plain mean and hurtful personal attack after personal attack, for really no reason. well ok, i know the reason, but that only holds true in his home country, not in japanese american court.||
edgeworth looks like a saint compared to most of phoenix's enemies.
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aa4 unironically having one of the most gentle prosecutors
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also this new prosecutor is ||as dense as a brick sometimes. the wright anything agency has proved to him, on multiple occasions, that sometimes innocent people get arrested, yet he insists that the defence are all scum who deserve to die for the crime of defending people.
the bit was fine once, maybe twice, kinda old now tho. its genuinely very vile, and uncomfortable to sit though. especially as he keeps poking at, as he himself describes, a kid. (im doing the 4th case with athena rn)||
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one thing i genuinely dont like about these games is how openly hostile the pros...
yeah... I'm under the impression this is commentary of some kind 
not that that makes it any less uncomfortable
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well so
every prosecutor has a reason for it, in their own way.
edgeworth is a pompous asshole before phoenix knocks some sense back into him
manfred is a murderer
franzisca has a bunch of issues too complicated to get into, and a personal grudge against phoenix
godot has a very personal grudge that gets resolve. he's not a bad guy, not really, just a damaged one.
blackquill is... thats just a barrel of worms. it does get resolved, more or less. ||he's not a bad guy, just on death row and doesnt really care anymore.||
but this current guy? like, theres definitely story and history there, its also blatantly going to be resolved, but as he is for the last 3 cases, ||hes just a genuinely vile man who seems to believe everything he's saying as absolute truth, despite the fact the real truth has been blasted into his face with the full force of apollo's lungs of steel, and a hearty objection from phoenix. ||
the cases are really good too, but at the same time, it really feels that sometimes the writing has slackened. i know the contradiction, but its not the right contradiction right now, you gotta get more statements first or something. not often, but sometimes, and while that happened in past games, it feels like its happening more here, and its more obvious
am i enjoying this game? yeah
i am
its great
but i think it has more flaws than the first 3
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WHY THE FUCK ||IS A KNOWN TERRORIST SHOWING UP IN JAPAN AMERICA, HOW DID HE GET HERE, HOW DID HE GET INTO THE OFFICE WITHOUT BEING ARRESTED ON THE SPOT
WHAT||
||there are SO MANY THING I WANT TO SAY HERE
but most of them can be summed up as "oh for fucks sake"||
this case better shape up
ok i love the references here, ||the gravy stained portrait of misty fey, the many times broken and now painted sacred urn...||
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this case is shaping up, ill grant you
its probably gonna be a good case, i just didnt like the idea of ||a wanted terrorist showing up out of the blue like that. very silly.||
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OH
OK
NOW SHIT'S GETTING REAL
nice
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this is the best line in this game, any of these games... good god i love how dumb it is
i retract my previous statement.
THIS is the best line in any AA game.
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||man maya gets kidnapped a lot...
literal definition of damsel in distress, christ||
good case! i am enjoying this game
i know i bitched about it earlier, and i have complaints, but its a really good game still, and im having fun with it
but for now its definitely sleepy time
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what an amazing scene, i love it
also this new case is pretty great but im pretty sure i already figured it out
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oh
oh wow
ok i did NOT see that plot twist, good gravy
thats a good one
||the ex-queen is still alive, im pretty sure she's been nanya this whole time||
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dont worry, im not a criminal, honest. ||i only prosecuted over the case of my dead sister, accused the defence of using false evidence and then rose to power because of that
no im not evil at all||
...its a fantastic outfit tho, ngl
what a bitch tho, good god
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she really is a right and proper bitch, jesus christ
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wait wait wait wait
did i get it wrong? is she the killer?
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oh oh no i was right the first time
obviously
||i thought they were trying to pull a dalia on us||
YO WHAT
this case is literally just "MAJOR PLOT TWIST" every 30 seconds, goddamn
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i adored that last case
im on the special case now
...wait did i miss any special cases in the last games?
i missed a PIRATE themed one in the last game????
ill have to do that later
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wait, how do you miss a whole case
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the game doesnt automatically progress to the next case when its the special cases it seems
4 only had 4 cases, the others a few more
apparently
probably because the special cases are insane, i doubt pheonix would really be involved in actual piracy with wooden boats and shit, no idea whats actually in that case aside from the titlecard tho
im doing the 6ths game's case first tho
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probably because the special cases are insane, i doubt pheonix would really be i...
it's a neat case. im tryin to figure out what to say about it without spoiling too much, so lets just say there is a funny sort of throwback to the og game you might not expect, and leave it at that
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im really glad i powered though the 5th game's second case tho, the rest of the series has been fantastic
tho i've had legit complaints
its not flawless
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i dont like the one from og triology in that restaurant, im just really not feeling it. its even worse than turnabout big top
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counterpoint: victor kudo
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a youtuber i watch, RT game, played through the game and his comments about don Tigre being everyone were just really funny, it makes the case much better for me these days
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second counterpoint: fanservice of waitress maya-mia
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victor is annoying but he's hardly the worst witness we've had
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meeeh thats relative
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agreed
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honestly i barely notice victor when you have very noticeable personalities like the chef and don tigre, and godot
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lucky you 
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an old man liking maid outfits is not really that weird
not compared to the fucking clown
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https://fxtwitter.com/bi1m_n/status/1854970272488767898
I had to show this
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mod abuse
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What's a little mod abuse when we can do a lotta mod abuse instead?
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this is perfect
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https://www.tumblr.com/doydoune/749201779824148480 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_scrk8dgWJz1xdwlci_720.mp4 warning for rapid color changes, if your eyes are sensitive to them, but i audibly wheezed and so you have to see it
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this is the single most important event in AA lore
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god I was so happy when I figured out ||where the 2nd bullet was|| 
, it's so narratively perfect and in-character dumb at the same time
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augh and then the incredible choice in jfa ||where franziska gets shot in the other dang shoulder to hammer in their mirroring similarities (just like theyve been doing with the spritework), but hers is taken out immediately which accentuates their differences up to that point (like her meticulously going through the cases chasing every crack to pulverize it and achieve perfection, where her papa shuts down anything not supporting his vision and has everything preplanned down to a time limit in court), and how edgeworth was there for both cases but where he injures manfred he´s the one to insist franziska is rushed to the hospital and-||
i have been thinking about how much i adore farewell my turnabout again lately
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the trouble with franziska is that she was doing it to "beat" pheonix, not to do her fucking job
her job is to find the criminal
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I still can't believe Manfred ||tampered with the bird witness||; it's so rare that a story describes a character as impeccably over-prepared and then actually shows it when the cards are on the table
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Lol
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its that time of x year cycles where i get the urge to replay the whole dang series. they really have me trained by now. turnabout sisters ballad playing for 0.03 seconds combined with
???
"Mia! What's up? You haven't called in a while."
and my chest wants to explode. ough. ough i say
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would you be willing to stream playing the games?
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no, i dont have streamin setup for switch
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oh right switch
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finished first four cases. truly inconcievable how they made somethin this good in six months. the fact they expected this to be a one off game..... im glad we got a franchise out of it, but even if it was just this one little visual novel im convinced ppl would still remember it twenty years later
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yeah, six months and like, 8 ppl total, that's how they made the original gba version
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Goddamn
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essentialy shu takumi's "what if lawyer game" kept getting met with "noone would play that, how do you make lawyering not boring, people wouldnt even give it a chance". that changed when he did well on some other capcom game who's name i currently forgot and takumi's boss went "okay, you did well and we need fresh ideas. you have six months and small team to make whatever you want and we'll publish it"
so they do and, oops its reception is popular, lets make it a triology actually. and, oh would you look at that, still popular, lets make some more-
at least thats what i remember offhand about development history, mightve gotten some details or orders of event wrong
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i always forget just how damn frustrating rotating the jar™ is in rise from the ashes. im at attempt.... 15ish? and the game just aaaaaaint doin it. stupid ass extremely specific angle with no damn wiggle room
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yeah its really dumb
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is this the worst "puzzle" in the entire series not to b dramatic but it deadass might be
at least they dont impose penalty on u thank god
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its not the worst puzzle, its the dumbest and finickiest
at least you have unlimited retries
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yeah but at this point of blue badger song loop id almost rather take game over lmao
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ok thats fair
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incredible how i always manage to wipe this part from my memory of the case
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its a defence mechanism
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not to mention the investigation parts in this one. steel samurai case had it too but i think this one has even more frantic jumping around between locations n gettin stuck on "what was i supposed to present to this character to finally move this along". granted thats a series wide thing we all been known but man it feels especially pronounced here
whispers do it for the lana n ema stuff cmon bringi
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lana and ema are absolute gems
its a genuine shame we dont see lana in later games
honestly its a shame we dont get gumshoe in later games, post AA trilogy that is, no mention of him at all
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yeah the insistence of new trilogy to try divorce itself from old triology is a writing decision im not particularly happy with, but what can ya do
oh finallyyyyyy that legit took like ten minutes
the fact game gives you this dialogue afterwards.....
"miracle" ur ass im in pain
i legit think this mightve been made worse in the hd port, i could swear it wasnt that hard in og ds triology
then again when did i last play og ds version, in like. 2014.
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oof
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so i had some other stuff to do in between but im finally wrapping things up, and maaan this line stinks in hindsight
edgeworth is everyone's blorbo for a reason but he makes such shit, hurtful choices at times. bruh bud u had it all laid out in front of ya ||and ya still chose to do the whole letter stunt||
smh my head
(yes yes i know the whole meta reasoning edgeworth is kept aside in second game, this is moreso poking at him. i do think its a great storytelling choice, who doesnt love conflict)
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https://www.awkwardzombie.com/awkward-zombie/pet-projection
this isnt an AA comic, but it feels like an AA comic so im posting it here
similar vibes
i do need to try the game its referencing tho
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..... its incredible given how many times ive replayed these but i just realized Dustin Prince (bet ya dont remember that name lmao. he´s the victim in aa2-1) is "dusting prints" pun. because, because a cop-
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well you're not a native speaker
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yea its kinda why puns remain funny to me, always fun to figure them out
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pun spotting skills also vary
especially since some puns (in either language) are spelling-based and some are pronunciation-based so a lot of people will notice one or the other more easily
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it was Decades before i realised the home of the gods in Terry Pratchett's books, called Dunmanifestin, is really "done manifesting"
clacks messages in later books gives you c-mail
that took me years to get as well
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anyway back to like. one of my least favorite first cases ever. tgaa1´s infinite dragging is probably worse but the amnesia plot 
i just. eugh, an amnesia plot
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sorry what game is that? i dont recognise the code
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tgaa?
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ah, great ace attorney
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aaah
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ya i fumbled
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not played that one
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i enjoyed them a lot, my dear friend herlock sholmes is an absolute peak and u should play the duology just for him alone. the first two cases are admittedly. a weak start, but i think once u get past those the games really pick up
and i dont think theyre as annoying the first time through
though yeah the. the like, six hour long first case is, a choice thats painful first time thru still 
i just dont think we need a six hour tutorial for ace attorney
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oh damn is it really that long or just feels that long
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i didnt state the lenght when i played them first time but i did call it "surprisingly long"
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thats practually the whole game for other AAs
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to be somewhat charitable they are kinda setting up a lot, what with the whole being set in the past in a different country (actual japan? in MY japanifornia game??) and so on so forth, and its not like there isnt fun parts to delve into (we love you kazuma banter), its just that perhaps they couuuldve restructured the witnesses parts because some of those guys definitely didnt need to be there
and combining it with the second case having a chronic feel of claustrophobia given theres like. what, three rooms? four? looking basically the same so u just hop in between constantly like youre doing steel samurai case day 2 on drugs. i know, we are on a boat, but come ooon. at least they introduced herlock there. herlock makes everything better
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man I did not have the steel samurai problems everyone else did
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the main case that suced was the big top case from aa2
i also found the first case from the 5th game really rough
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re:steel samurai, i swear i get stuck on the autograph-trading card part every time. every time!
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the main case that suced was the big top case from aa2
yeaaah. though personally i have larger issue with recipe for turnabout.
regarding big top, is the pedophilia bad? yes absolutely no question. the anime makes that case six million times better already just by cutting that part out. and i have a bone to pick with the mystery itself (how do you not see the rope. i can excuse the cape landing on the bust conveniently, but the rope apparently being invisible is too far for me).
but unlike a lot of ppl i honestly dont mind moe. probably because my humor is just that bad. i like the puns. and the scene where franziska reveals the edgeworth stuff because phoenix is one cagey bastard? excellent.
recipe for turnabout on the other hand has a pervert with maid fetish which we indulge him in with maya and mia because ????, a bad french gay stereotype, and i swear i forget the mystery and victim because its just that unmemorable. paper badge phoenix knockoff couldnt save it for me
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and i have a bone to pick with the mystery itself (how do you not see the rope. i can excuse the cape landing on the bust conveniently, but the rope apparently being invisible is too far for me)
yeah I'm pretty sure I got stuck in the trial part multiple times because the "correct" answer made less sense than some of the alternatives
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yeaaah. though personally i have larger issue with recipe for turnabout.
regard...
oh uh yeah
paedophile? we're talking about the old man in vitamin square? hes not a paedo, hes a pervert, big difference
still a fucking asshole tho yeah
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ah, nah that part was meant regarding big top
sorry, im mixin the two cases in different paragraphs
lemme make it clearer what i meant
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oh fuck yeah you're right, the lion tamer is like 16 or something with two much older men wanting to marry her
id forgotten that
abstract iris
don't worry, we'll all forget it again in a few minutes
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backing up to the first case, the one hilarious thing to me (besides the bananas) is this image. phoenix this is a courthouse, i know you think you're slaying but idk if ur allowed to lounge like this
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my gut feeling would be a) mostly, yes, that's part of what couches are for, b) if no one else wants to sit there, but also c) take your shoes off first 
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next time is pearl tiiiiime 
i love pearl
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who are these characters?
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something about the artstyle makes my brain process this as a Lady Normalgirl and Her Eunuch spinoff despite it obviously not being that
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lol
oh these are characters from the great ace attorney chronicals, i have yet to play that
i ahve it installed for well over a year but shh
you know what? im gonna do that
right now
oh i love the music, the song on the main title screen's got the AA beat underneath but the actual song is new
hmmmmmmmm
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looks right to me lol
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why
just why
i mean, i love it, its amazing, but why
im gonna give that guy his default outfit
at elast for one case
ok while this text was being displayed, the sound was horrible
each letter sounded like a gunshot
i think its a typewriter, but damn, it was so loud
why the sword and red bandanna? is he doing a suicide charge? hes apparently a lawyer
oh nooooooooooooo
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yeah, I was about to say, in this time period my gut feeling is that the sword signifies "cop" more than anything else
(I only played the original trilogy)
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this is actually japan btw
not japanifornia
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ok I guessed that right
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oh we may be going to america anyway
i dunno anything about this game
(im pretty sure its actually the uk we're eventually going to, based on the fact that we're meeting Sherlock Holmes i think)
literally the next line lol
its incredible how many roles this one actor has played in the AA franchise
also this guy
man politicas cant even escape my games
Smh my head
because the vicitim was an englishman, and as we all know, japan and england are strong allies during this clearly established time period, and theres a very real treaty that was only just sighed, japan really wants to arrest someone and my guy is a convenient scapegoat
woke bullshit more like
wow
just wow
ok so this witness is literally coughing up blood
what
he did it
hes the killer
wait, no corss examinaiton of the waiter? what?
i take it back, this guy did it, hes the killer
HOW IS THIS MAN ALIVE WITH A HEAD THAT NARROW
did he get stuck in a vice as a baby or something???
oh wait
edgeworth and pheonix
thats why kazuma is in red, because hes a distant relation to edgy boy
this trial was supposed to make kazumas name but its gonna make my name instead, as a lawyer, even tho i dont have a law degree, because of bullshit circumstances lol
roll credits
ok this is bloody adorable
theres a little animation of the kid blowing the fan
thats cute
so... not the hotti clinic?
oooh i finally get to investigate evidence properly? i dont recall doing that since AA1's DLC case
hey our boy is growing up! managed to say complete sentences with confidence! even slammed the desk rather than slapped it! (thats incredible attention to detail btw, this is a great game so far)
hmmmmmm
||if the "waiter" (who, after looking at the business card he presented to court, is apparently a police inspector) has blood coming out of the side of his mouth, and the victim apparently went to the dentist and got a tooth removed, why do i get the feeling that the victim is not the victim?|| spoilering that because if im right thats a spoiler for who the actual killer is
just a theory tho
ryuonisuke is so naïve, its adorable
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ok thats clever
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oooh, this pursue mechanic is interesting
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ok that bit where i had to present evidence was bull
i knew where the problem was, but thought i couldnt interact with evidence in the present screen
you can, and indeed have to reveal the secret before presenting
annoying and unclear >:(
christ this case needed like 13 different ways to get to the damn point that was bloody obvious 30 mins ago
||the plates were switched obviously, either by accident or intent i dont know yet, but that doesnt matter||
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hmmmmmm
||if the "waiter" (who, after looking at the business card he presented ...
also this was incorrect
wild detail that has zero bearing on the case tho apparently
this is the most insane statement in the entire case, ngl
please dont murder anyone
i mean, that was a great first case
but jesus christ the bit near the end with the fucking ||switched plates||... like yes we got the issue pretty fast, why are we spending ages proving it 4 different ways
i didnt think it would be that long tho lol, its 3:18am
sleep time XD
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oh i shall be waiting for these with great interest. tgaac can definitely have some rough patches but the peaks are soo peak and the characters, oh the charactersssss
the stuff they do with music absolutely slaps (well the music itself slaps naturally, but the way its used is incredible, i loooove all the variations), my man herlock is in these and he's the most entertaining character of the franchise, truly you are in for a treat. .... aaaas long as you're willing to extend some goodwill for execution (but well thats the kinda "criticism" you can apply to investigation games or DD or SoJ and theyre not bad games in the slightest). the first two cases are arguably the weakest ones and you seem to have weathered the six million years long first case just fine so i have hope 
just push thru the second case's dragon age 2 issue of "help the environment is so damn samey" and we golden
like it makes sense why the second case is like that, ||you are on a ship, but i really wish we got like, something more than "our room, hall, second room that's basically the same as ours". at least make use of the deck i swear, maybe the kitchen or something, i am getting claustrophobic here||
still its herlock introduction case i cant be too mad at it
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Yeah i did enjoy that first case, lotta mystery that I suspect will be paid off later was set up
But daym it was rough near the end, that last bit really felt like artificial padding
Also once you realise shat happened to the victim, jesus christ it was dark
Oh but there were also like a bazillion red herrings in the case too, ||the fact anaesthetic was still wearing off could have excused the burn pain, the extra hidden glass could have contained poison, the detective having blood in his mouth in the same place youd expect the victim...||
Oh
||The girl complained that because the MC saw her at the table, she wasnt going to get a clean getaway, but like, all 3 witnesses, including a cop, were able to be threatened into silence. That doesbt make sense really||
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tgaac does a bunch of fun stuff with surprising you where the cases actually go. not in a sudden makes no sense swerve way, more in the "well, ive seen this trope countless times in other cases, now its going to- oh? huh? oh okay, didnt expect that, neat"
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Yeah, at the cost of spending 30 mins on an obvious switch
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admittedly iii was more so thinking about the later cases 
into case couldve been cut by like, a third
like we really didn't need second set of witnesses
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No while we didn't need them, it did explain the cop, and why the girl wasnt immediately arrested, and added context for a lot of the culturein japan at that time
We didn't need them for round 2 however
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yeah thats probably what i meant, its been a while since i played so im kinda goin off of recollection of feelings and matching it to vague memory 
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next case!
wow what in intro to herlock sholms
also damn
waking up in handcuffs
how many times is the main protag, or friends of them, gonna be accused of murder? its literally once a game
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bitch!
also i dont think ive seen people in any position other than standing straight up
man its so easy to prove my innocence in 30 seconds, so why is this case even a thing
jesus susato just destroyed evidence
there books knocked over in as specific pattern and she... fucking moved them
why
is she the killer?
the diseased left a diary! the last entry is half0finished! i must read it!
susato: literally commits assault to prevent that
ok shes the murderer
shy did sholms magically teleport ontop of a table
excuse me but im not watson
im pretty sure this is another sherlock reference but goddamn hes a moron
im not gonna like
im really not liking this case
the accusations are absurd, yeah, and if they were played for jokes it would be fine
but susato believes that im somehow a Russian assassin with 16 kills because.. some crazy guy said so
what
like she actually belives this drivel
ooooooh right hes chat gpt
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did he really just try to say that he has no memory of calling me the suspect? despite calling me the suspect several times? accusing me of being a russian revolutionary with 16 kills? what is with this guy
the first time you see me i have a waiter's outfit therefore to save animation budget i must always have my arm half-raised
even when it makes no sense
so the victim had a fucking bodyguard and still died AND they all blame me
this case sucks
you're damn right you failed
what the hell
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im gonna take a break from this because damn that start was really really rough
did not like it at all
sholms is a moron, the girl is a moron, the sailors arent smart but they atleast have good cause to be actively hostile to me so i dont mind that
and the next door passsenger is obviously the culprit
like blatently so
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im back on the case
...boy it honestly sucks
they're trying to be funny
they are not being funny
wait i have to sort though sholms' deductions? i have to do his fucking job? let me guess, when im done, hes gonna claim that it was all him?
siiiiiiiiiiigh
yeah this is worse than bigtop
that was a low bar and they beat it
christ
i at least dont actively hate everyone in bigtop, just the clown
this case everyones the damn clown
we just barged into this russian guys room and started accusing him of being a revolutionary and kidnapper
man id be furious myself, closing the door, callingth guards
not to mention that when i entered, i was accused of murder and was wearing manacles
...oh yeahh i didnt write it down but ||that the dude is obviously the girl running away with the crown thing||
dunno about whats in the case yet tho, im pretty sure it was a snake that killed the dead guy, and the case moved, so there could be a snek in it i guess
christ you really have to guide sholms step by step
why yes naturally ||nikolina pavlova was indeed kidnapping nikolina pavlova||, its obvious
christ sholms is a moron
...why do i have to look slightly to the left to find the crime
like
its literally slightly to the left
i know its supposed to be easy, but like, if it was under a sheet or something id understand
but no
literally slightly to the left
if i was the mc i would not be putting up with this BS
damn they took fucking ages to get to the damn point
also
fucking drama queens
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gotta say you're having a, significantly worse time than i with that case it wasnt great but i dont think it made me actively angry, just annoyed at the samey room situation. probably helps that i immediately found herlock funny
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i think i have the same problem with this game as i did the last AA game i played, they frontload you with bullshit characters but they smooth out as the game goes on and they all actually learn a thing or two
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if its any consolation i promise this is the low point?
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yeah you did mention
and i loved the other games after the first case
but this one is taking two cases to get to the less bad parts
and that first case was very long
i do feel lke there was a distinct shift in wirting style after aa...4? the first apollo game still felt like 1,2 and 3, but the more modern games have many weird and whacky characters and they're just annoying tbh
at least at first
i guess that makes sense with such big gaps between games, tastes and writers change
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its mostly the team a team b thing
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yeah you mentioned this
like the mystery is sound
its good, im interested to find out what happened
but theres so much bull on top... ugh
yeah i hate this guy.
like i wouldnt mind this tomfoolery... if the mc wasnt in chains because of his whack deductions like this
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ok so both the mc and the inspector had a heavy head
so the food was poisoned, probably with sleeping drugs
someone came in expecting to find the victim asleep
he was not
there was a struggle
he died
but was it assassination or a bungled robbery? why would someone assassinate a school kid visiting from japan? robbery is more likely in my opinion
lets see how right i am
oh someone is singing? maybe its the ||ballerina girl...||
oh no its the detective. naturally.
oh hes singing my way
but its the great detective way
what an ass
oh man everyone, sholms, the lady myself, the undercover cop... everyone has a throbbing headache!
probably unrelated.
what
air raid sirens???
...OH FOR GODS SAKE ||THE DOOR CAN FUCKING BOLT ITSELF IF THE SHIP TILTS
WHICH IT DID LAST NIGHT APARENTLY||
this is a fact that the crew should already have known
yeah i actually hate this case.
"is there anyone who can help me out of this?"
scroll camera to the left
really hate this case.
ok thats new
i mean the snake was blatantly obvious but the fact they wrapped it around this guys head is new
these great deductions are so sloooooow omg shut up sholmes get to the point
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again if you rotate the camera by a tiny amount you see incredibly obvious clues sholmes seemingly intentionally misses
i get that its a game mechanic and a tutorial one but its an obnoxious one
of there was a reason for sholmes to not notice these things, even as simple as a cloth over them, it would all make much more sense but as is, its frustrating
oh for gods sake
once again, im unaware you can interact with something and punished for it
apparently if you point out theres a picture with ||the lady holding a cat|| in it, you get punished, but if you zoom in on the picture its fine
this is a UI issue more than anything, there really should be a clearer marker indicating when something is interactable and not just highlightable
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...theres no way he died by ||tripping over a cat, surely||
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aaaah iiinteresting, the girl ||was a member of the ships crew||
that explains a lot
ok thats very funny lol, i thought the emergency stop was real but it was sholmes fucking about
thats good
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wow what a convoluted case
it sucked
all of it was pure chance
this is worse than big top
way worse
such a sad case
goddamn
easilly bottom teir of cases in AA games, and its not even a competition
naturally the least qualified man in the room would say this
is this... love or masochism? wait those are the same thing, damn
did not enjoy that case. at all. mystery sucked, motive sucked, people sucked, everything took too long to explain
damn
genuinely hated that
this isnt a bit
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...alright i guess ill play the next case now
apparently its better
not sure if funny or insulting that the supreme court is in big ben
also the murder is apparently in a moving carrage with only 2 people in it? for the love of god if its a locked room mystery with the MC again, im gonna be mad
thats based on the intro cutscene thing
the alst one was wrong too tho so who knows
he did it, hes the killer
or A killer
maybe the bbeg of this game
ocd on display here folks
my opinion hasnt changed
hes a killer
ok thats a funny convo
why do i get the feeling the book is fiction?
huh i forgot electricity was a thing during this time, just being implemented
this is fiiiiiiiiiine
im suuuuure nothing will come about from this pact with the devil
fuck sake
literally just get off the boat, 50 days of travelling, 15 of which in a cupboard, and im already assigned a murder trial
not a real lawyer btw, just to be clear
like i said, deal with the devil
its just that easy!
again, no ominous vibes from this at all
none whatsoever
i retract literally everything i just said. this is pretty reasonable actually.
theres literally no-one willing to defend this guy, except maybe me, someone whos not a lawyer, and if i dont, hes dead meat anyway
so using it as a test is actually not unreasonable
still shitty but still
aaah classic bri'ish bobbys in classic bri'ish uniforms
....willy wonka???
did one of the oompa-loompas take wonka's outfit and dye their hair and skin?
so
hes edgeworth?
or franziska von karma?
honestly every time the prosecutor is "someone who's never lost" its hard to give a shit because everyone and their mums know im gonna beat him to a pulp
legally speaking that is
whats the betting he uses forged evidence? or manipulates the witnesses or jury or whatever? some kind of cheating dirty bastard at any rate
tbis is a nightmare scenario for a lawyer, goddamn
wow thats ominous design
judge santa!
fucking vampire prosecution
also
same energy
this is edgeiestworth
i love how everyone describes japan as a tiny island nation
im pretty sure its bigger than the uk, but we are egotistical about our tiny island nation
so anyway
i know nothing about the case right now, aside from it being a murder
but my current running theory is that the defendant is a criminal, not the nice rich guy persona he's putting on, but not the criminal in this case
santa and his elves!
man we actually have a jury! and not a token jury either like in AA4, thats never brought up again
also second from the left is not here at all
vacant, unmoving stare
also the guy in middle left with the knife is the killer
im calling it now
he has a fucking knife, in court for gods sake
oh no...
imagine your lawys saying "how does the court work again? i dont know, lets wing it"
id have a heart attack
hes a fucking vampire! i called it!
fuck off.
i know these guys like their pun names, but this is worse than Hugh Mann
brb
not bruce wayne then?
they brought an entire carrage into court?
wow ok
well...
what a shock! the guy whos definitly the killer has his mind made up about the defendant on tril for the crome this guy definitly commited
oh my bad thsy're doing some random bullshit
apparently THEY'RE THROWING FIRE IN THE COURTROOM
WHAT THE FUCL
hmm, thats an impressive M
or is it a W?????
for WONKA??????????
(its definitely a W)
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i dont really remember most of the details anymore to comment, but its fun to see what ideas and theories of yours are correct or wrong
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ohno im wildly wrong
uh
uh
it was,,,
RYUNOSUKE! HES THE KILLER
also what the fuck kiond of judical system has the jury pass judgement before hearing all the argumensts and seeing all the evidence?
this isnt reality tv for gods sake
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RYUNOSUKE! HES THE KILLER
lmao you reminded me of when gummy played the triology so much rn. anytime he started floundering or even upon meeting a new character he'd go "yep that one's guilty for sure
which tbf that meant he was always right somewhat
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oh im joking when i say this shit
...mostly
i have a lot of sus on the lord judge guy in the clock but then he actually shot back with an actually logical series of arguments as to why hed send a forgine law student to be a murder trial lawyer
and that juror with a knife is sus as heck but i dont know when the real badguy witness will come out
so he could be the killer, might not
not enough info, im just wildly speculating for fun, having an open mind for the case
so far its p good
tho the jury system is bullshit
oh he's unbiased for sure
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so anyway
i know nothing about the case right now, aside from it being a murder
...
called one part at least, but that was brazenly obvious
AAAAH HES DRINKING BLOOOOOOD
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oh right i can share fanart of tgaac now, whee whee wahoo https://endspire.tumblr.com/post/690276556261785600
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT ITS LIKE OMG
WEIRD BULLSHIT LAW EXPLOIT TIME GO!
why is UK law seen as so good when its literally the worst system yet?
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because the developers found an old-new way to extra bully your lawyer naturally
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i eman its good for gamepley i guess but the system is broken AF
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i wonder if that was why the Japanese were brought over? to fix both systems??
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then again, at least they dont kill you? khurain take notes
OH RIGHT I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
i retract my statment
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<https://bringina.tumblr.com/post/668588337273126912>
(i really do genuinely love this guy he´s like my top five favorite aa character ever and i hope you warm up to him during the games, he does get plenty endearing moments but for now ill share silly ones)
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i think hes polarising
you either love him or hate him
hes the embodiment of ADHD
except when you're introduced to him, he accuses you of murdering your best friend
so
yeah
so
reality TV again
ok the juror thing makes for very neat gameplay
its still stupid
bring back speaking to the spirits of the dead, unlocking the secrets of peoples hearts with borrowed psychic powers and using insane powers of observation due to a magical unexplained material that reacts to body heat or something again! way more plausible
what a creepy motherfucker
probably not the killer
in this trial at least
he did switch to not guilty after all
(theres an animation of him licking his knif going on, be glad you cant see it)
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quick question did barok do ~the leg✨ yet
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who?
oh barok is the prosecutor
i genuinely read that as baron
the fuck is a barok?
no he has not done the leg thing yet
he did just smash a glass of definitly not blood in his hand
and threw his cloak across the room
fiscking dramaqueen
(im sayingfuck a lot but so far this case is like 10000% better than the last one)
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hi cat
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right, thank you for the input brie, illuminating
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i wonder if something is wrong with this statement from beppo
its hard to tell
if only this man would maybe make even more exaggerated movements so i could read him better
it would help if i knew how much a guinea was in modern currency
this is pre-decimalised currency after all
which is a weirdly recent thing here
i think post ww2?
witness: there was loads of blood on both his hands!
evidence: gloves with a little blood on one hand
witness: he was ungloved when there was blood!
prosecutor: there was no blood on his hands one the gloves were off
this doesnt seem important at all, no sir
the bus was locked... from the inside... why was this not roguht up? goddamn
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
where oh where could someone sit without being seen from above?
its a mystery
ive gotta name the mystery passenger???
...what the fuck
why did someone throw a smokebomb in a trial???
i assume a smoke bomb and not a real bomb, we already did that plotline
ok it was a smokebomb, good
no-one died
probably
this is AA
who the fuck knows anymore
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oh for gods sake
detective lestrade is from the holmes books, is this his daughter or the replacement in this universe?
ok so all of the jury say not guilty... this means the prosecutor is probably going to do the aooeal to the jury thing that i did earlier, right?
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quick question did barok do *~the leg*✨ yet
yes!
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lol3
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bringi can i get a hint on this? im questioning ||the girl for the first time
im pretty sure the carriage is a trick carriage in some manner, that the floor can move and hide/reveal a hidden compartment or something
i know i saw stuff in the under-seat compartment before the smokebomb||
am i on the right track?
oh i had to press every statement a second time
heres the thing iw as missing
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oops, sorry didnt see the message i got inspired n picked back up my own playthrough
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lol
oh! ||the skylight can likely be opened, i saw a latch on the outside when investigating the carrage, but couldnt investigate it for some reason
so the loud thump everyone heard was the body falling from the top to the bottom
he was already dead, or dying, at that point
thats when the defendant woke up and the girl was pulled from her hiding spot
that likely means someone up top was the killer
dont know who, might be all three are accomplices||
ha called it
annoying i couldnt investigate that soooner but whatever
what on earth is this man doing
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i believe the term is fisticuffs
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hewas bouncing up and down and there was the sound of a horse
i actually thought the sound was that of an engine but it was horse
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oh for gods sake
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oh! ||the skylight can likely be opened, i saw a latch on the outside when inves...
so this is incorrect? ||there was infact tampering afoot? i thought it was odd i didnt notice the blood splatter on the floor
i did notice there being stuff underneath the seat that suddenly disappeared||
uuuuugh
it sucks to ahve the line of logic pulled from beneath you because the game threw a curveball you couldnt possibly predict
oh
so
thats the point of this game, huh?
to fuck you over for having the audacity to belive in evidence
alright
the fuck is this?
why are all these designs so whak?
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shes heeeeeeeere
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wtf
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oh and all the evidence has mysteriously disappeared in a puff of smoke
and by smoke i mean fire
alright then
also the entire case was utterly pointless?
the guy was gonna be found innocent with or without me
wait hang on, at the start of the case sholms said that he worked with me on this case! but he was no-where to be found! what the hell!
what is the pacing in this game???
anyway thats enough for today
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new case!
you did a good job being a lawyer of a case where all the evidence was forged by the defendant, so im making a guy with less than 50 days training a full lawyer
buddy im here to study not be an unpaid lawyer for you, goddamn
dont you have an entire legal team yourself? you're the chief justice!
also last trial was yesterday! if this is the treatment the first japanees lawyer got while in the UK, no wonder japanifornian law is based on the 2 day system, giving defence lawyers no time to prepare
back to this guy being evil again
nani the fuck?????
so
what the fuck?
... EEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIL
oh no im being set up
im a scapegoat
oh nooooooo
...japan does know we dont eat fish and chips constantly, right?
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no i can comfirm. all uk-ians eat fish and chips like all usamericans eat burgers and all canadians poutine.
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i mean, we definitly DO love a good chippie
but its hardly universal
especially these days, price of a good chippie's gone through the bloody roof aint it
back in my day i used to be able to get cod and chips for £3
these days same meal is £15
that was some 15 years ago tho
but thats hadly raising with inflation
i like gregson tho
started appearing in sholmes stories, liked the recognition, but now folks think he's living on that fame
i can respect that motivation
...wait
no
surely not
surely the "reaper of the baily" doesnt fucking ||kill the defendant if they get a not guilty||
surely thats not the plotline they're doing
this has to be a red herring
so is he really a vampire?
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lol
no i dont think hes actually a vampire
a good third of what im saying is me trying to be funny
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im sure theres a vampire au fic somewhere out there
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most of my accusations are jokes
i will give this game credit that the crime is fairly obscured
but i take it away again by the simple fact that its impossible to KNOW the crime because they fail to shed key info on multiple occasions, then they shove any deductions you make out the window anyway
i dont like it
its not twists, its deus ex machina
this is one paranoid mofo
why is he doing action poses
...oh god hes an anime protagonist
oh a poet
christ sholms, how many false accusations have you made this week?
knocker uppers were a real thing back in the day, yeah
didnt know it was the job of a london bobby though, news to me
makes sense tho
20 miles a day? that sounds.... wrong somehow
london is a big place i suppose, even back then
i suppose it would be a 20 mile area rather than literal miles on foot, right?
didnt know that either, but it also makes sense
thank god someone else sees it!
HE LITERALLY ACCUSED ME OF BEING A RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY WITH 16 KILLS AND GOT ME ARRESTED, YES HES A BLOODY DANGER
why is holms roomates with a to year old girl...
im getting very stranger danger vibes now ngl
this explains everything...
...UK medicine has never been so bad that a 10 year old was a doctor of medicine
YEAH IT DOES
sound more like something on a certain list thats being hidden by certain peoples att his exactl moment
oh so iris actually has two braincells
got it
so times havent changed in a hundred years apparently
that was part one?
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oh so iris actually has two braincells
got it
she keeps the hold on hers and also herlocks, since he keeps losing it
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lol
ooooh dear, i really hope hes not another name on a certain list
oh so thats what he gets paid to appear in the books, fair enough
a crown
no idea what that is in todays money again
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this is one paranoid mofo
also he´s another of those divisive characters but personally i think soseki is a riot. whiny doyle estate "no you cant use the exact name of sherlock holmes, thats OUR fictional character" vs based as fuck soseki descendants "yea sure of course you can borrow our real life grand grand so on grandfather, make him a weirdo lol"
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ye he wrote some famous cat stuff
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yes, i can tell this pose means best wishes
why a cannon
everything else is fine, but a cannon?
why
ok they shaped his head like a crescent moon, fine, but the first time we see him is in this profile
siiiigh
sometimes i love the pun names and faces and sometmes i just dont like them
aaaah so hes mad
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https://ministarfruit.tumblr.com/post/665462157499039744 always takes me a little to dig thru my blog but at last time for funky iris and herlock stuff. the duo ever
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yes that sounds about right
she does like to threaten people with a gun
usually a fucking bazooka
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https://bringina.tumblr.com/post/674202522459766784 aw the source died :c
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https://bringina.tumblr.com/post/659530222448836608 by talos this cant be happening (blogs getting disintegrated 
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quick question did they state iris´s surname yet
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yeah you meet her in court and dont know her name but when you meet her the second time she tells you
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apparently theres an acheivement for searching the room before asking her about her name
this is just pheonix wright and ema skye
also we dont do the 4th grade thing here
very american
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this is just pheonix wright and ema skye
and phoenix and maya, phoenix and pearl, miles and kay, apollo and trucy, athena and apollo apollo as weird little girl assistant fight me
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trucy is atleast his actual adopted kid
and appollo is his kinda adopted kid
or is till game 6
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in my heart of hearts phoenix has a chronic "is anyone gonna adopt that" and not waiting for an answer. edgeworth can attest it being contagious
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he is also a cagey prick but we love him anyway
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(my replay is at big top, remember how fucking cagey he is about miles, truly best part of the case)
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thats not actually inaccurate, even in the first three games he aws pretty cagy to others, we just got to see his internal monologue
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(my replay is at big top, remember how fucking cagey he is about miles, truly be...
EDGEWORTH IS DEAD MAYA DONT TALK TO ME ABOUT HIM
meanwhile edgeworth is on the box art
i heard a romour that edgy boy was going to not be in the game but fan backlash demanded he come abck
somehow things are starting to fall into place
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i heard a romour that edgy boy was going to not be in the game but fan backlash ...
hmm, kinda but not quite from what i know of lore (though it might be case of both?). takumi didnt expect edgeworth´s popularity, and it felt weird to have him "get beaten" multiple times, like he´d lose his cool and mystique if phoenix beat him over a circus case for example hence, franziska
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in her defense she got shot
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sure
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but yeaaa
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farewell my turnabout my beloved
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i suppose franziska also shows more of who edgy boy used to be, and the last case shows who he is now
or was in 2002
anyway
why the fuck did this maid just burn garrideb's had???
he asked her to take something off the wall, and she poured him tea, so much tea it overflowed
whats with that???
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truly, a waste of tea
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tea wasnt exactly cheap during this period
affordable, yes, cheap, no
oh she probably didnt want us seeing the medal i guess, thats why she did that
weird detail
he we caught him in a lie! he knows who herlock is because he has a copy of his magazine!
she jsut silled his boiling hot tea again!
why
they're bloody peeping toms! thats what they are! nosy neighbors, keeping an eye on their tenants! the rotters.
that maid is sussy AF
im a call an emegency meeting
the maid did it, shes the killer!
cat!
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i was very happy about wagahai
we looooove kitty in this house
ah yes, thank you obsolete gaming
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oh yeah, duh! gotta point out one of my most favorite art challenge submissions ever https://manebooru.art/images/4023209
i didnt even have to resort to bribery
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oh?
:(
such bricked up windows still exist even to this day!
very reassuring, mr great detective...
oooooooh hes always facing this way because he is hiding ||a slap mark i think, some kind of mark from what looked like a human hand||
iiinteresting
sholmes... how the fuck does anyone fit ||a damn lion|| into a london flat? what the fuck is wrong with you
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once again punished for finding the answer but not investigating it first
like obviously ||the bookmark with a lipstick kiss is the issue here||
do i really need to investigate why? thats the point of me pressing present, to do exactly that
for anyone playing this game, investigate everything before you present it
and you have that as an option even thought investigate doesnt show up as one in the bottom right
this game's ui man
its trash
wont lie, the old boy is in a bit of a spot of bother
i do believe what he says here, thats clearly not his fault, some kind of mix up
he did it, hes the killer
wha the fuck sholmes! you get soseki arrested, then show up at his cell to boast about going through his things, reading his books!
remind me why im supposed to like sholmes again?
way to alleviate the mans fears ryunosuke... goddamn
can this man's day get any worse???
WHY ARE WE HAVING THIC CONVERSATION IN FRONT OF THE ACCUSED????????????
ah yes the great british legal system, with a baked in way for criminals to get off the hook
sholmes... STOP TALKING, FOR GODS SAKE MAN
this defendant is going to have a heart attack before seeing a courtroom
ah yes this sums up the character t a T
my source is that i made it the fuck up
oh this is actually devolving into a heartfelt message
ok fair enough
turns up to the jail cell
terrifies the fuck out of the defendant
leaves without elaborating
yes i know im gonna defend the guy but come on, wtf
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i went back to check obsolete gaming and yeaaaaaaah i think you were very correct when you said he's a love him hate him kinda character
truth to be told i was already biased going into the game 2021 bringi though herlock is the funniest name ever n tbh ye it still cracks me up
i know aa isnt even the first one, like its lupin homage, but still
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yay! judge santa again!
HES THE KILLER HE DID IT LOCK HIM UP NOW
the fuck? of all the millions of people in london, the bloody witness from last trial is a juror?
the defendands fucking landlady? as a juror?????
what the fuck?
thats a heavy glass bottle filled with flammable liquid man! you could ahve killed somebody!
what the fuck does this mean
so my current theory is thus: ||the woman was stabbed at a different time, all the defendant saw was a woman in a green overcoat after all. this lady might be the one who sent that bookmark to the old soldier for example, which makes the landlady maid a suspect? i guess? and shes on the jury, oh no||
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judge: this jury clearly is unbiased and has nothing to do with the case
juror 1: was someone the defence attorney accused of being a murderer only 2 days ago
juror 4: is the defendants landlady
juror 5: ||was in the next road over, doing roadworks that walled off the quickest route home from the bookstore (not noted by the police or the prosecution btw) ||
juror 6: ||was wearing the same coat at the victim, walking the same street as the defendant, on the same day, and also fell down in pain and knocked himself out||
why is the defendant even on trial anymore?
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truely sickening
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jesus christ
imagine todays court, the jury could just decide to end things early, pack it up and go home
anyway tis midnight, i need sleep
ill resume the trial tomorrow
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back to AA
got a headache still, even after taking some paracetamol tho, so not feeling great, and im tired
somehow i cant nap tho
so
fuck it
judicial summation is a system that actually makes sense, and i like the idea of it, but being able to do it unlimited times is like having extra lives in a video game lol
well thats one way of putting things lol
casual domestic abuse
now THATS a facial expression XD
....please dont tell me ||that the maid threw a knife at her husband, missed, and hit the victim?||
thats really dumb if its the case
honestly i got no idea whats going on
this is dumb now
oh for gods sake
he didnt, did he?
||he moved the body across the street||
stupid bastard
stupid boy
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yep thats exactly what happend
dear god what a dumb case
and it took fucking ages to prove it
note: i havent proven it yet
...i really dont like the writing on this game
15 mins to prove it
jesus christ what a slog
i dont blame the guy, ||in this world where rules are firm, where he couldnt ask a fellow copper for help just one bloody night, id honestly probably do the same||
but i do blame the writers
uuuuuuugh
jesus christ ||that woman nearly killed her husband, and the poor nameless victim!||
the fucking irony
utter balls to say such a thing with this travesty of a case
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my thoughts on that case are a little muddled so im gonna do abit of a summary:
||i guess the case wasnt terrible but it was needlessly drawn out and protracted. you have to fight for every inch of ground, at every opportunity! why! your theories are overturned for the most inane reasons, plausible lines of enquiry shut down
2/3 of the damn jury are biased, witnesses or the fucking guilty party||
this case sucked, though not as bad as the boat one
we are NOT having another step-ladder incident
(btw i started a new case)
case 5
the inspeakable story
so i shall say nothign of the story
as it is unspeakable
i will however, type about it
sholmes is mopey this morning
well after all we've been through because of his actions, he can mope all he damn wants
CAT!
very insightful.
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https://www.tumblr.com/sabertoothwalrus/772516763256619008 tis 24th anniversary today!
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why did the game do the action music thing for a steriscope image? i thought there was gonna be a body in there or something
it was just a picture
i tought the picture was of someone we knew
wrong again
ah casual child abuse! twas very common in these times
...but why
thats
well its crazy
ok thats less crazy, but still high on the crazy scale
ngl i was expecting cumberbatch
but this is a an obvious fake name, right? has to be
ok thats funni
im sorry but sholmes is a bloody child
i fail to see whats likable about him
the contradiction is clearly highlights the initials on the cane that clearly arent eggarts the missing ferrule! camera cuts to the bottom of the staff
seriously, a damn child
oh thats actually the right answer?
what?
...ok hes a fucking moron again
jesus christ
oh actually holms had a very plausible idea here
its utterly incorrect, but plausible
walks up to someone he acusses of a bank robber
tells them theres a lot of gold in the bank across the street
but shh please keep it to yourself thanks
siiigh
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this guy did it, hes the killer
why the fuck is every case in this game a locked room case
seriously
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ok this is a funny exchange
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what is wrong with this girl lol
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average pre teen girl behavior
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i meant it affectionatly lol, i like iris
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i know, we love weird little girl assistant trope in this house
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she just showed me her blood gun
i would provide context but its funnier if i dont
the science behind it is a bit whacky
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the science behind it is a bit whacky
tehee. ehee
well. we can revisit that statement after second game is all ill say on that
shame about herly though. i had a blast thanks to him, but i can see how annoying the game would be when you find him grating. i guess i really didnt think him as that much of a love him or hate him character
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i think part of it is tat sherlock is kind of a british icon, you know?
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i blame that on tumblr being very hell yea herlock, i think i got bamboozled by an echo chamber
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and they dont just poke fun, but they turn him into a whiny child
he has little redeeming qualities, tho granted "little" still means "some"
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i think part of it is tat sherlock is kind of a british icon, you know?
well i, guess. sherlock holmes has been iterated and taken inspriation from and transmutated so many times i, kinda forget he's english? i guess when i think of the character "londonian" just isnt the foremost quality at my mind. but well, i also have no stakes in feelings about how english culture is portrayed
insert the meme of "you guys are getting international recognition?" from czech media anything
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my guy you have played athena cykes trauma simulator i mean, dual destinies
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its still somewhat funny thats what finally got them M rating, given all the. stuff of previous games
i guess the 10 year old bit hits 
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that is the single most terrifying image i've ever seen
yeah i took a screencap of it
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oh that one! ... well, actually, i always think of ||metis in chair getting "fixed"|| as THE scene||
i know this one follows it shortly after but just, waugh!
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i dont think i was able to get a screencap of it, happened too fast, but i remember it. just before that screenshot i think
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ace attorney, the funni gay lawyer game
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ok first off, grim AF that ||gina is wearing a coat covered in blood||
second, i think this is the first game we've ||defended a guilty person? like not paid someone to do it, but actually did the deed guilty||
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time for the trial i guess
this game really feels like a slog to me but i wanna finish the story for it
that is very cute lol
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<https://unipacas.tumblr.com/post/661249934453014528>
i thought this third comic was a joke! didnt realise its probably going to happen
leaving this here with zero context
i mean the context is pretty obvious but funnier without it
RACIST!
theres no fucking way we have to deal with this soldier again, the maid again, the old guy, the typewriter lady again and who is obviously the russian assassin from the second case
and i think ive seen juror number 3 before too, cant recall when though
scratch that hes a fucking loon
they take phones away in court sometimes, yet this lady has an active telegram system
that is pretty funny tho
oh good that actually is a plotpoint not a joke
who are these team rocket looking asses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMi2a6m90f8 reminds me of this
god they ARE team rocket
this is pretty finny tho
these three are a right bunch
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fuck off van zieks
thes two are adorable lol
damn i feel bad for the garridebs now
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naturally the russian revolutionary is the one to prolong the trial
somehow
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im kinda stuck on this one tbh
i presented evidence that blatently contradicts the testimony yet it didnt work somehow
looked up a guide
oh i needed to present a different completely unrelated enidence
christ
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really beating the alligations of innocent tourist
also what a fucking shot lol, properly intimidating XD
oh fuck off he was doing surgery on a grape ||(on sholmes)||
who the fuck lined this jury? can i sue for a mistrial?
this brand new evidence is clearly unimportant, but let me just investigate it a little myself...
...ah
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oh god shes gonna kill someone!
uuuuuuuuuuugh
like sure fiune whatever but come on how curated is this jury? seriously?
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what an incompetent buffoon
ok seriously even im thinking shut the fuck up and this guy is my enemy
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this is the best exchange in the whole franchise
imagine a regular court case where ||one of the jurors just stands up and says "nah he totally had means motive AND opportunity, i work with him and this is just common knowledge in the office"||
fucking insane
love it
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i wonder if they know anything?
naaaah probably not
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that is very funny
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that last case was actually good
the trial at least
didnt feel like bullshit at least
there were clues thrown at me that i could ahve worked out from the start of the case, unlike the other cases that threw random bullshit at me
one thing i dont get is that ||herlock's duplicate disk wasnt used in any meaningful way, feels like a wasted opportunity. oh well.||
anyway thats enough for me
its 3:48am lol
nice ending cutscene tho
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congrats on finishing adventures!
i remember calling it a set up game. adventures somewhat awkwardly stumbles so resolve can turn into sonic. its kinda like investigations 2 in case interconnectivity but it pulls from and calls back to first game as well
granted i do have a bit of beef with one (1) plot beat in the final case (however 
i have a funny comic for that) but otherwise i think its just a grand time. .... herlock will probably continue to be irritating to you tho
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maybe my opinion will change in the second game
i did genuinely enjoy the last trial
i fucking hated the windibank bit about ||him threatening to shooting his own head
because its the single dumbest plot point ever and the poorest excuse for for him only having one bullet that night
he owns a pawnbroker, could have had a bespoke flintlock or something, a single shot hunting pistol, lots of legit reasons for that instead of "i will literally commit suicide over tiny mistakes"||
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new case!
game 2 ahoy
well thats a shock
aight
siiiigh
i do like the pun names
but i also hate them
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thats a pun?
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oh
(tiny bit spoiler) ||wow they named her that and then she literally does not matter past the first case||
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i figured
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they even put her on the cover of the game and its like. wow, really? why?
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lol
siiiiigh
this is a great look btw
aww she even slaps her face too
learned a lot from her friend
oh for gods sake, another locked room?
im honestly fed up with locked room cases
gods sake man, get changed
aaand hes back! losing none of his flair for the dramatic it seems
nah he just ikes playing dressup
yeah but thats not proof that its the defendants pen
its a nice modern pen thats only just been brought into the country, why would a Japanese student have an engraved one? thats a london fad
smh
...are you... threatening me judge?
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this is a great look btw
i wish we had that as an alternate outfit, its just so good
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im honestly shocked it isnt! its literally already in the game
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https://jade-doodles-questionmark.tumblr.com/post/667068081077714944 i provide source but dont click it, theres third image thats spoiler
https://www.tumblr.com/garbagebabyjo/660415541906898944 and also an unrelated bonus
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nah this is probably not important
ccant imagine it being relevant at all
lets move on
so wheres the shipping art?
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damn thats cute ngl
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a pair of qts lol
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https://www.tumblr.com/teethaloupe/792087118471217152 and obligatory, of course
https://www.tumblr.com/fnafluffy/739469437695033344/susatos-moving-castle ok i lied, another one
