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The best thing ever.

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I fear that Susato and Naruhodo are gonna do a Phoenix and never tell Apollo and Trucy they're sib-- er I mean never tell Iris her father is dead.

Edit: #296 Spot on!

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This case sure has a slow windup, holy hell.

Heh. Eggs Benedict.

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The suicidal pawnbroker is making me very uncomfortable.

He gonna be the victim?

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Finished the fourth case and it was... good? I liked a lot of it, but something about it just feels kind of underwhelming. I'm not sure. Maybe its that it isn't a murder case, but there's something about the narrative of the case that just doesn't engage. But there's a lot to like about it. I think the Beates are probably my all time favourite witness in the series. I don't like the Garridebs very much. Natsume himself is a really pleasing character, especially how his overstated neuroticism ties into his real life counterpart. I really like Sholmes in the case. His characterization is much better than in case 2, I feel. A couple of the jury characters are really good, and I like how you engage with their reasoning here more than I did in case 3. And overall there's something about the court proceedings in the case that feels overwhelmingly genuine. Like we're not just going through the motions of a trial like I often feel in the Phoenix Wright games. Most everything that happens here has well-written underlying purpose. So yeah, pretty good, but there is a certain something that feels a bit lacking.

Excited about the next and last case of the first game. I'm kind fo assuming that all the loose ends are gonna get tied up in this game and won't transfer into the next one, so we gonna have to get into all the stuff about the British woman in the first case (totally forgot her name, lol), Kazuma's intentions in Britain, Gina Lestrade, What's up with Van Zieks, probably Natsume escaping the reaper's curse as he must, what happened with Ebenezer Scrooge, what role Wilson's death plays, the evil-looking troubadour and his buddy we saw for one second in this case, and of course, whether Stronghart is as evil as he looks and his name suggests. ...It's gonna be a long case.

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Man, what a fucking nutterbutter Examination Summation.

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Mr. Natsume sure as shit is lucky that half the jury was present around the scene of the crime when it happened.

This is a much more adorable couple than Ron and Desiree Delight.

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Finished the investigation and about to start the trial. With my amazing 2 pieces of "evidence", lol. Good times ahead.

Gotta say, that last section of the investigation where you have to decide if you want to defend the accused was really fucking good. It's the first time that the whole "believe in your client" spiel the games like to do has felt like anything other than Phoenix being a moron. They made it a matter of Naruhodo's heart rather than trying to instill it as some sort of lawyer's tenet, and it was very genuine and pleasing to read.

Edit: This jury seems highly partial.

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I'm kind of slow with these kind of games. Still only on the investigation phase of this case. I have 1 piece of evidence in my court record and it's a map >_>

Natsume's kitty is cute.

I'm really enjoying how openly they're just disregarding blue text in this game and how other characters can just tell exactly what Naruhodo is thinking. They usually play around with it a bit, but nothing like this.

Also, Susato is probably my favourite Maya clone in the series. She's a lot better than Kay and Trucy. Might even like her more than Maya herself, tbh.

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I actually read his Tower of London many years ago. This is hella awesome.

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What the hell, I'm defending Natsume Soseki?

This is cool as balls.

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No worries. It was all good, and you really didn't say anything, my head just got spinning and I landed somewhere along the right path.

Started episode 4 last night, but didn't get very far. Only finished talking to Mr. Fish n Chips. Haven't seen the crime scene yet.

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So I finished case 3. That was honestly amazing. Probably the best third case in the franchise. Only one that has it possibly beat is Turnabout Academy. Inherited Turnabout would finish out the top 3. That snafu where I was stuck for an hour+ aside, I loved everything. The characters, the the visual language of the jury system, of Van Zieks, etc. Like the first case, the animations were spectacular. The outcome was really great (although I must kind of say post #264 unintentionally lead my brain to the result). I really like the differentiated structuring of cases in the game with the second one having no trial and the third one have a full-sized case without an investigation. It's such a simple way to spruce up a by now well-worn formula. Curious though how Sholmes got no exposure. I'm excited for how Scrooge McDuck features into the story going forward. I'm kind of assuming that was him in the omnibus at the end.

This game is kind of great.

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I'm at a loss for what to do. Unless I fucked up, I presented every evidence to every statement and got nothing. I even went back and looked at everything in the cabin again to make sure I didn't miss an update to that evidence. But there also is no weird reaction during pressing. And Susato is incredibly unhelpful. Honestly, I dunno if I missed something somehow, like can you need to point to someone who isn't reacting weirdly at some point?

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Actually hit a roadblock in the case. A spot where I can't discern the game's logic on what it want me to do. I'm going to have to brute force try out all the evidence of all statements, but I'll do that tomorrow. It's during Lestrade's first testimony. Really loving the case so far. The characters, the jury system, the twists (though we haven't had anything major yet). Van Zieks' boot. It's great.

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This Van Zieks guy is kind of a fan favourite prosecutor, isn't he?

He's definitely got charm.

"Please forgive the discourtesy", that his catchphrase or sumfin?

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Not yet. Didn't play much of anything yesterday.

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Examination Summations are super fun. I like this trial a lot.

This judge is a lot less stupid than is usual from the franchise.

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"Phoenix Wright Omnibus"

That's a little on the nose.

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Finished case 2 and pretty much everything after the point I was writing from in the last post was so much better. It was really great and surprisingly emotional. Very well constructed. Even made me like Sholmes a whole lot more. I really dig that there was a chapter without a trial. Only thing is that anything involving the deductions never rose above mind-numbingly easy and the way it's presented there's nothing that suggests it ever will, though I hope so. I also don't really like how the answer to those things is hidden until you start spinning the room around as you're responding. It means you can't "figure it out" on your own beforehand in a way that's more annoying than when the main games pull a last minute plot reveal. So yeah, I still really don't like the first part of the case, but when it starts to build towards its climax, it gets very good and I'm happy it ended up that way.

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I'm in the middle of case 2 in the first game, and...

I'm really not liking whats happening here. I'm on part 3 of the opening investigation and I feel like based on the actual information given out, there's no reason we're not still in part 1. Everything takes forever. We've literally only visited three areas and talked with the same three people over and over. Snail's pace is an overstatement. This echoes into the "deduction" game, which feels like it takes 60 words to say something that could be said in 10. I could forgive that if the answer to the riddle wasn't blatantly obvious in both instances I've played it. Hopefully it gets more convoluted as we go on, but so far, the style of it is the only positive I feel about it. It's very amusingly made. The whole case reminds me a bunch of the second case in the first Edgeworth Investigations game, where a murder occured while he was stuck on a plane and he was also suspected as the culprit. That case was really good. Probably my favourite of that game. And yeah, I'm not at the end of this, so it might be premature, but it just compares very poorly. I feel like it might be a case that doesn't have a trial segment (though it probably will) based on how its going so far, and I'd be fine with that if not for how slow paced it is. It also doesn't play to the strength of the game's first case, which was its fantastic courtroom animations. They're quite a lot less engaging in the investigation phrase, probably because Naruhodo's were so good and he's the PoV character now.

I also really fucking hate the Sholmes character. He's infuriatingly annoying and dumb. Hosonaga is a much more likeable character, though I fear he'll never shine in a detective role. I suspect Sholmes is our new Gumshoe. In the intro cutscene where he used weird x-ray technology to investigate looked really interesting and its what I wanted from a detective character, not this Lotta Hart-level dumbery combined with an enourmous ego. I know this game is well-liked so I'm assuming shit gets better, but... this is bad right now.

Not really related, but Susato's portrait is so much better than her model.

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No, see, he makes sure to point out that he was ALREADY playing Ass Creed Oddcreed so its okay to take sponsorship. And I'm sure he was already drinking whatever imaginary drink he wanted to sponsor him.

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What I gathered from that video is that Phil knows what he's doing is begging and that he knows that what he's doing to his viewers is unreasonable, but he just does it anyway and outside of such a moment of "honesty" (though not really since he obviously gets much more money than he needs already) like this one just pretends that its okay because being honest about what he's doing on a daily basis would be a bad look, but having a "sad breakdown" like this once in a while might actually be beneficial to him.

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It was pretty hilarious when he said he never wagequits and then two days later he threatened to wagequit Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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LightningAce11 posted...

They gave me a fantastic title for the next topic: Acksis Powers.

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He has lowered his membership goal with a couple of days left to reach it. Coincidentally, his reward to his fans for reaching it is a marathon event, which usually brings in significantly higher amounts of donations than regular streaming days.

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Apparently he is suffering chargebacks that are erasing hundreds of dollars from his bank account and his paypigs should throw more money at him to fix it.

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https://youtu.be/T19fK44i1n4

Phil lying about how he sees his gamepass experience in order to shit on industry reviewers

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The TIHYDPs I was talking about in my last post were the FF13 series ones. I literally just watched this for the first time a few hours ago, and now he's going insane about it. It was fucking painful to listen to. Like, the "intentional" part in it was that he intentionally sat there and tried to talk over a blaring fire alarm giving the listener ear damage, because he's such a moron that he wouldn't dream of delaying filming until he can make a product that reaches his standard bare minimum quality.

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Been watching some older This is How You Don't Plays and Phil used to do massive off-camera grinding sessions for all his RPGs. It's fucking crazy. Did nobody ever tell him to stop taking every bit of fun out of games?

And in his final review of the game he grinded the fuck out of, he complains about it being too easy.

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lmao, three of the four new hats supposed to revitalize viewer's desire to reach the tips goal are camo hats with minor differences. Such fucking originality.

And of course, the last one is a nazi hat.

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I cant remember the clip, probably from an1337, he was talking about needing to take Jasper to the vet and as he always does he can't just talk about a situation without shitting on everyone else. So he could not just say that there was a long queue to get admittance, which sucks, he also had to point out how there's a long queue because all these irresponsible pet owners who bought a pet to entertain them during lockdown and now they don't know what to do with them.

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According to Phil, getting a pet to improve your mental wellbeing during COVID lockdown is irresponsible. But having a pet while your financial situation is so bad you need to beg for money every day is not irresponsible?

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Phil is confused and bothered that he can't buy Ghost of Tsushima DLC on his PSN account when the game itself was bought on his wife's account.

Also, this means his wife buys a significant amount of the games he plays for his business, removing yet another element for his money to go to.

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https://youtu.be/n6fkjr8_tLA

Lol, damn.

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I dunno if we can link to the subreddit here, but the nazi hat memes over there are pretty ace.

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If Phil was sane he'd immediately retire the Nazi hat and just use whichever others he got. But he spent money on it, so he would find that proposition ridiculous.

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Snowkarl is banned?

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LightningAce11 posted...

OIC bragged about making more sock accounts to donate money to phil.

Link?

Why would he not just donate on his normal account? To make it seem like Phil has broader support?

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He actually did do some Hades and I think he might do more, but I'm not sure. From what I saw on the session and comments afterwards it functions as a vector for him to shit on Returnal the same way Ghost of Tsushima existed as an excuse for him to constantly whine about The Last of Us 2.

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Yeah, I saw a clip of him basically going "I guess people are just bored by the Xbox now, I thought it would have been more interesting to people"

Which is incredibly ungrateful to the fan who exists that just up and gave him an Xbox that he bought when the console was just released and never opened.

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Couple of days ago: I don't wagequit, that's a detractor meme

Now: https://youtu.be/hOGpN1UFfTI

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Okay, I really don't understand why him saying he's never changed his number proves the WWEC account is his. That would imply that the phone number associated with the account is known and that it matches Phil's old, also known, number. But if that was the case the evidence would already be known that the account was associated with his number. I don't get it.

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Can it definitely be linked to the WWEC account?

Also why did he give him phone number out?

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Need a link to rant. Also what does "connects into the line app"? I don't understand these technical words.

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My any logical analysis of the money he gets in and the expenses he claims, it's pretty clear that Kat pays for literally nothing.

But obviously that's not true. The lie is that Phil is not using his money for necessities.

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But remember, superchats don't help him, only tips. People who give him money in superchats are out to screw him over because they don't hand him money in the exact way he prefers. Only tips are real support.

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Anyone know what the final tally was? Also, apparently he didn't reach the goal and just said it was fine, even though for the last week or so he kept saying that if he didn't reach the tips goal he couldn't pay his mortgage.

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No I was saying he 'just' burped into the mic while I was directly listening to it. As in it happened just now.

But yes, he hadn't started the game yet when I was watching and the info box said "Stream started 112 minutes ago". He was talking about how it was a chill stream and they didn't need to start the game yet. I saw cult members in chat echoing "I don't need gameplay to have fun!

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What you mean? I only watched his stream for maybe 3 minutes. I'm not hardcore enough to watch his content directly.

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