Lurker > SeabassDebeste

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

the ending here is pretty clever from what i remember. ernest showing up is a cool turning point.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i mean i never figured out gregson was a reaper myself, but ... i mean i believed the game when they told me it was true as if it wasn't a plot twist, and then proceeded to give me a ton of supporting evidence <_<
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

congrats on finishing the game! and on making a lot of good calls, particularly the professor's identity
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

unsurprisingly, i think this series in general benefits from consistent play. i like e1-3 but it is middling at best, so getting getting stuck on it for months or weeks is a huge downer.

and yeah, i am a fan of the next case, even if it isn't great for the series' canon
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i'm almost certain i wouldn't have most of these cases quite that high, due to their at times shocking lows. that said, i really do think ryunosuke might be the single best playable character in the series. (which is not to say i like him overall more than phoenix or edgeworth, but as a playable character, i think he's highly competitive there.) with the "older/saner guy, younger peppier girl" dynamic pretty established at this point - and the series does do it well - the fact that so many of GAA's investigative jokes are at ryunosuke's own expense is fantastic.

currently i have AAI2 as my favorite game overall, in a pretty close heat with AA3 (and i say this having never replayed a case outside of the original three games). GAA2 had a lot of AAI2 vibes throughout it - as the second entry of its gaiden series, it no longer needed to lean into playing with gimmicks so much and could deliver harder-hitting cases. the times it does use the gimmicks wind up being stronger too. AA3 is kind of similar as well; with all of its new mechanics fleshed out in AA2, i've often described the "heart of the lineup" cases - 3-2 and 3-3 - as feeling like a victory lap of sorts.

will think through it a bit before coming out with new full rankingz, which i haven't done since AA5
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so, wrap up of these two games i guess

overall, they felt like they had a lot in common with layton games - trials that were unsatisfying at times, similar scores, similar character designs, multiple-witness trials, and the like

one thing that caught me way off guard was how ryunosuke was so often the smartest person in the room, including me. he'd see things coming that i would only realize after ryunosuke himself pointed it out. there's a moment in 6-5 where apollo recognizes this, but it happens repeatedly in GAA2. i think there's a case to be made that some of this was somewhat poor foreshadowing/logic not following entirely cleanly (G2-3 and G2-4 might have some of this) - but the most notable big twist about the professor killings in G2-5 is brilliant and entirely earned, and ryunosuke saw it coming before i did.

as much as i hate to say it, G2-5 also gave me some 4-4 vibes with the way it ended. just as G1-1 had some 4-1 vibes with the lack of confession and the flimsy-ish way in which the villain was caught, G2-5 decided to follow 4-4's path in having the climax be resolved not by using real evidence, but by pulling a plot device out of its ass. 2-4 arguably suffers a little bit from this as well but is executed so much better it's not even in question. i'm also reminded of 1-2, where the perp confesses to murder because of the threat that a list of his victims will be read (lol).

additionally, G1-5, G2-2, and G2-3 all have a 4-3-like element where you essentially get one character to rat out another or stop defending another. it's an interesting dynamic but IMO, not the most satisfying way to finish off an opponent in court.

so overall, i'm conflicted here. the two-part finale was brilliant in many ways but i have just weird reservations about it!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

took a break after the trial because i didn't think i'd have the hour+ required... and i was right <_<
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

done! man these epilogues are so long
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

sholmes's troll dance LOLLLLL what the hell
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

i raised an objection because i didn't think the "evidence" to present could possibly be summoning sholmes' astral projection. that is not evidence, lol

musix is hype enough to get me through this though
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

these chants do not sound at all british lmao
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

three-paged last will and testament...?!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

this is absolutely fascinating. stronghart is 100% the present day reaper ordering assassinations, but he's doing it all as a coverup for someone else's crimes.

but what the heck is he doing confessing himself as the reaper here?! surely this can't be the end

edit: sholmes still has a role to play, and the confession is unfound, and there's a gunman to unmask. so this should continue despite the confession (?!)
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

oh man - stronghart just confirmed it... but there's no evidence on this, is there?

can there be?
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so, pausing as ryunosuke apparently has figured out the contents of klint's will... my suspicion was initially that it simply outed stronghart as the professor.

but ryunosuke thinks there is an unthinkable truth that turns everything on its head.

which means... maybe klint's will was a confession - that he actually was the professor himself. and that perhaps asogi took the fall for klint, and in fact actually killed klint himself to secure the document?

just idle spec. it could just be indicting stronghart i guess.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

huh... wondering if the asogi papers are sonehow hidden inside karuma. that sword is obviously insanely important
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

suspecting caidin now of being the gunsman, i guess.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

"Losh, Vigil... I cannae apologise enough."

"No, Governor, I don't believe you can.
It won"t change what's happened."

"..."
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

so i finished interrogating mikotoba, and caidin/vigil are next. really like the witness train going on here. dressing the sholmes/iris intervention unless it's just to provide more witnesses. though in fairness, the dog collar almost certainly get to be what they're fetching.

at this point, in addition to being the reaper, stronghart also had to be the answer to "who was the professor" and "who shot genshin asogi."

the motive for editing asogi is obvious; the former must have to do with political rivals or something. the trailer situation might have been just to set up a fall guy or because he hates criminals?

unanswered and perhaps discarded til after the trial: why did kazuma's sword end up in gregson's trunk?
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

the crushed wine glass not leaving any stains on van zieks"s white gloves suddenly bothers me so much
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

it looks like the real trial will indeed be a lot more substantive - though i really hope it relies a lot on the evidence we've already collected as opposed to being a parade of new evidence we didn't collect ourselves.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

okay, the second half of the jigoku cross examination went a lot better. he actually tried to shift his story in a more satisfying way. it's not the best victim-take, but neither was taking down yanni yogi.

kazuma"s objection here is probably his best moment as a prosecutor so far. let's do this thing!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

the witness is also using logic (a prosecutor's job) that the lack of his being arrested meant that the sailor heard nothing. i mean we know the boat stopped, but we also know that very same sailor was deliberately comforting with the witness
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

and now kazuma is more witness than prosecutor, while stronghart is more prosecutor than judge. sigh. hopefully their positions go where they belong soon!
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness

god what the hell jigoku is just admittinf to the assassination plot openly. this is so insanely unsatisfying. the guy you confirm to assassinate is dead after visiting you. you'd think he'd try way harder to deny this plot.

this is on tier with jezaille brett confessing for no reason in g1-1. super disappointing.
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yet all azuarc of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness