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Flame Wheel Division
62 Blastoise
23 Misdreavus
19 Bidoof
14 Riolu
9 Politoed
7 Natu
-21 Shroomish
-26 Ekans
-33 Ferroseed
-54 Silvally

Belch Division
43 Charmeleon
31 Drifblim
29 Chikorita
13 Hitmonchan
6 Dhelmise
-7 Inkay
-10 Amoonguss
-14 Beldum
-31 Swirlix
-60 Magby

Star of the Day: Blastoise
Blastoise looks, unsurprisingly, like a real contender to go far in the contest.

Dud of the Day: Ekans
Not that Ekans was ever a wildly popular Pokemon in gen 1, but Shroomish topping Ekans might be the most surprised I've been by a result to date. Bonus dud of the day goes to Silvally, who they really tried to make a popular Pokemon and BOY did it not take.

7/10

It's solid. I like Franziska on day 1 a lot - the thing about her being taken the most seriously here is definitely true. I generally like the mystery about the bullet hole in the screen and stuff. And obviously the twist at the end is fun. What I find less great are the pretty dry investigation sequences (I think this case unfortunately suffers a lot from locking Maya up) and the fact that really the only thing you prove to show that Ini Miney is guilty is that she didn't see Pearl in the hallway, which felt like a really lame contradiction to pin her down with. Also never really getting to confront Morgan Fey just feels wrong.

Every new Aang is more cursed than the last

Just kidding the first Aang was the most cursed

Xtlm posted...

It's like I've stepped back in time

to another world, when you can be mine

Bob-omb Battlefield
Whomp's Fortress
Jolly Roger Bay
Cool, Cool Mountain

I don't know, just feels right

MrSmartGuy posted...

"Oh, Flinhart is speaking with my mo- my mentor right now."

OK, either my dreams are dead immediately, or this is even better than I could've imagined.

lol

I hope you like it enough to justify a playthrough topic! I've hyped it up as "it's better than Apollo Justice at least" and I know that's still kind of a high bar

Donkey Kong Country 2

I want a crossover between Shamspeare and the dancing security guard from Ghost Trick

My hot take is that the three most iconic pieces of vgm are the Overworld theme from SMB, the Underground theme from SMB, and the Underwater theme from SMB

I know right, can you believe it? A two day case, in Great Ace Attorney?

FOCUS ENERGY
+3 Pikachu
+2 Marill
+1 Cottonee
-1 Krookodile
-2 Smoochum
-3 Chimchar

ASTRAL BARRAGE
+3 Floatzel
+2 Klefki
+1 Chien-Pao
-1 Mewtwo
-2 Aipom
-3 Conkeldurr

Also thought of you right away FFD. I can't even imagine.

By the way, if this is data anyone wants, I do have complete ledgers of every vote cast so far, including from days that have already purged. I'm not really planning to use it, but if someone DOES want to see it, it exists.

Rocket

BTW forgot to mark the Aurorus/Braviary tiebreaker as also unresolved, Aria hasn't gotten back to me yet

I was sitting on yesterday's results but then i was like what the fuck ever it's a race for last place it doesn't affect anything lol

Octazooka Division
54 Marowak
42 Kingambit
40 Braviary
40 Aurorus
3 Blissey
-27 Iron Boulder
-29 Glimmet
-31 Mr. Mime
-41 Unfezant
-51 Crabominable

Pain Split Division
43 Serperior
29 Tatsugiri
7 Cyclizar
5 Beartic
3 Deerling
-5 Fidough
-11 Deino
-16 Stantler
-22 Urshifu
-33 Woobat

Star of the Day: Kingambit
Hey, finally gen 9 getting some decent results! Kingambit and Tatsugiri repping gen 9 well by taking two second-place spots. And hey, even Iron Boulder and Glimmet avoided elimination. Gen 9 has definitely been taking it on the chin this contest so this was a pretty good result for it.

Dud of the Day: Urshifu
Oh man that is an embarrassing result for a Pokemon that gets a whole DLC spotlighting it.

Pika Papow Division
44 Giratina
35 Sigilyph
16 Tandemaus
8 Iron Valiant
-7 Zweilous
-12 Bagon
-19 Iron Hands
-21 Mantyke
-22 Crabrawler (Tiebreaker?)
-22 Trubbish (Tiebreaker?)

Amnesia Division
36 Lucario
32 Rockruff
29 Butterfree
28 Quilava
12 Scolipede
-2 Boltund
-19 Trumbreak
-21 Azelf
-41 Spinda
-54 Regidrago

Extremely tight race at the bottom of one divison, and a pretty tight race at the top of another.

Star of the Day: Sigilyph
Giratina's win feels a little bit too expected to me, but Sigilyph's performance is impressive, especially for a fairly abstract and not frequently used mon.

Dud of the Day: Scolipede
I really thought Scolipede would do a lot better than 5th in a division? Kind of a flat performance for something I thought would be semi-strong.

Fun fact: I'm pretty confident that -22 is the highest bottom score yet. Also, congrats to the future paradox mons for both surviving somehow! I think Iron Valiant might be the first one with a positive score.

4/10

It's overhated. Maggey is good, Wellington is a fun villain, and the whole Phoenix has amnesia thing is kinda funny for a quick throwaway tutorial plot. The writing is significantly better than 1-1 - this is classic AA at its full stride, not pilot-episode AA - and the trick with the phone at the end is clever enough.

But yeah there isn't really a whole lot to judge this on, it's pretty short.

Mega Man X2

FLAME WHEEL
+3 Natu
+2 Politoed
+1 Shroomish
-1 Bidoof
-2 Silvally
-3 Ferroseed

Not a whole lot I really wanted to - here

BELCH
+3 Chikorita
+2 Swirlix
+1 Charmeleon
-1 Amoonguss
-2 Magby
-3 Hitmonchan

Easily the weakest division yet for me, there's just nothing here that I would have given a + to under normal conditions

Hot take: Meekins is good in this case and the Meekins part of court is great

9/10

For whatever reason, it doesn't really have that 'quintessential AA feeling' that the other cases from the first game have - it occupies a really strange place, being from the first Ace Attorney game we all played but clearly not of its game - but also not really of any game. Just a standalone case that really has a completely unique feeling to it. It's great, regardless - one of the most thorough and expansive murder mysteries in the entire franchise, with a well-written cast and some great moments. Some pacing issues do cause it to get kind of memory holed for me and there are some minor Edgeworth characterization issues but I can mostly overlook them.

Leonhart4 posted...

Phoenix calmly reading the DL-6 case file during the recess right after Edgeworth has confessed to the crime might be low key one of his baddest moments.

It's my favorite Phoenix moment. Like, it's the defining moment of Phoenix's entire character for me.

OCTAZOOKA
+3 Serperior
+2 Tatsugiri
+1 Cyclizar
-1 Beartic
-2 Woobat
-3 Urshifu

PAIN SPLIT
+3 Aurorus
+2 Blissey
+1 Unfezant
-1 Kingambit
-2 Crabominable
-3 Mr. Mime

when you hear the initial leadup to the objection theme, I just sat and listened to it for a while, and I'm glad I did because I didn't really get as many opportunities in this case as I thought I would

It's fucking wild, like, in a normal story the spirit medium would be disgraced because she couldn't spirit channel (for some reason) and everyone thought she was a fraud and that spirit channeling was fake, but no, the spirit channeling WORKED, they DID talk to the victim, but the victim's information wasn't able to solve the murder, and NOT EVEN because he didn't know, because everyone believed him about Yanni Yogi being the killer anyway, but because they were able to get Yanni Yogi off on an insanity plea? THAT'S why she's disgraced? it makes NO FUCKING SENSE

9/10

There's only two cases I'm gonna give a 10/10 to and this ain't it

It is good though, like 1-3 it's just got so much iconic AA stuff in it and while some aspects of the mystery don't make a ton of sense (von Karma's motivations are weird, the thing about Misty Fey being disgraced makes NO sense) but the character beats are flawless and that's what really counts here.

Raka_Putra posted...

Chairs at empty tables

this is what I meant to say, I dunno why I said and

Chairs and Empty Tables

You Don't Know Jack

ctesjbuvf posted...

Poor Rhydon doing just fine in a decent division and somehow getting turd of the day for it.

Idk what else to give it to, everything that's supposed to do bad is doing bad, lol

Vivillon is adorable, one of my fave mons (I don't care about the gimmick)

Triple Dive Division
35 Victini
30 Honedge
24 Zygarde
15 Buneary
9 Crocalor
-1 Cetoddle
-3 Squawkabilly
-13 Carbink
-18 Duosion
-78 Enamorus

Hyper Beam Division
46 Vivillon
42 Sirfetch'd
37 Falinks
23 Rhydon
15 Girafarig
-4 Sealeo
-18 Oinkologne
-34 Chingling
-51 Patrat
-56 Chewtle

Star of the Day: Vivillon
Very diverse generational representation at the top of these lists today! Lot of strong performances but Vivillon winning its division stands out.

Dud of the Day: Rhydon
Jeez, gen 1 slipping today.

Fun fact: My +3 is the only thing keeping Enamorus from going under -80, lol. Me and Luster are the only ones who gave her a + oh no (yes, it is actually my favorite Pokemon in that division)

Didn't quite have the most ballots though, 33 out of 40. But I'm pretty confident it has the most -3s yet - 22 of 40 ballots gave it a -3!

I correctly predicted Susato would be the playable character in the first case based on this logic: Auchi is literally required to be the prosecutor in the first case, so either he comes to London or we begin in Japan, and it makes more sense to begin in Japan since we sent Susato there anyway, and Susato is the only person who could be the playable lawyer in that case

PIKA PAPOW
+3 Mantyke
+2 Sigilyph
+1 Tandemaus
-1 Bagon
-2 Crabrawler
-3 Trubbish

AMNESIA
+3 Scolipede
+2 Butterfree
+1 Azelf
-1 Trumbeak
-2 Boltund
-3 Regidrago

Yeah I was like "oh, what's that really old game? oh right, chess"

Assed

It's kind of ridiculous how much better gen 8 and 9 are than every other gen which makes it extra ridiculous that gen 1 is winning somehow

Chrono Trigger

8/10

The pacing is weird - the investigations feel like they involve too much back-and-forth between annoying locations while the trial segments go a little bit too quickly. But other than that this is like - one of the most quintessential AA cases. It's one of the rare times that we ACTUALLY have Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Maya all together, it's the first case to have a really compelling murder mystery, the villain and the side characters are all great (Oldbag is awesome), and there's just so much classic, iconic AA stuff going on here. This was the case that made me fall in love with this game fully.

v_charon posted...

Chess
Monopoly
Scrabble
Sorry!

you should be

The problem with board games is that there's really three distinct eras of board games - the ancient ones that are universal (chess, go etc), the 'classics' that every family has in their closet (monopoly, clue) and the modern ones that are way better than the classics (catan and everything onward)

actually nevermind I'll just go with

Go
Chess
Checkers
Mancala

lol

trying to figure out if Dominion, Codenames, or 7 Wonders count as board games or not

I ain't fucking voting for Monopoly jesus christ

Water Sport Division
38 Slowbro
34 Crustle
33 Gligar
30 Zangoose
9 Lokix
-2 Runerigus
-8 Garbodor
-13 Bastiodon
-47 Beheeyem
-73 Bruxish

Electro Web Division
39 Drilbur
28 Mabosstiff
17 Sneasler
12 Dewgong
9 Koffing
6 Finizen
4 Fezandipiti
-21 Silicobra
-30 Pincurchin
-63 Purugly

Star of the Day: Drilbur
Wait, what??? DRILBUR won a division? It had two gen 1 mons in it even!

Dud of the Day: Runerigus
I dunno who to give this to but honestly I thought this guy would do a lot better

Fun fact: Bruxish is probably the most universally voted-on Pokemon so far with 38 out of 43 ballots weighing in, and that will probably hold true for all of one day until we get Enamorus's results in

Fun fact: You're all monsters what did Pincurchin do to you

TRIPLE DIVE
+3 Enamorus
+2 Buneary
+1 Carbink
-1 Crocalor
-2 Duosion
-3 Squawkabilly

HYPER BEAM
+3 Vivillon
+2 Sirfetch'd
+1 Falinks
-1 Oinkologne
-2 Chewtle
-3 Patrat

I have always found it really funny that for as much reputation as Edgeworth has for the 'updated autopsy report', that's literally a thing he only ever does once. 1-2 is the only time we see Edgeworth's darker side in real time - he gets so immediately cut down to size by the witnesses in 1-3 that we never really see it again. It's kind of a shame - one of the things 1-2 does incredibly well is just how QUICKLY it establishes Edgeworth as a character, that by the end of the case everyone who plays it is like, "he's objecting again? That's classic Edgeworth!"

That's what makes 1-1 and 1-2 so difficult for me to rate. They're weak, by comparison to the amazing heights that this series reaches pretty consistently starting immediately after this case, but they're undeniably effective at establishing the series.

Phoenix

Donkey Kong Country 2
Panel de Pon

That said the game probably does suck