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about to leave this hq... kazuma is indeed the prosecutor, but he's being a jerk... and then... HOLD IT

cue the musix and kazuma acting like kazuma again! this theme is just so hype
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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

well i've just been told that kazuma's request to prosecute being upheld is unprecedented

van zieks seems to choose all his defendants personally though - especially harebrayne, which seems pretty unethical <_<
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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

stronghart is too obvious to be directly guilty here, right? is he the real professor? how can you introduce a guy like this and nothave him be guilty?

also, i predicted we would eventually have to defend sholmes. with a high profile defendant like the reaper, not clear that'll hold anymore!
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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

van zieks getting insecure about not having red or black hair is an amazing easter egg, man
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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 if the reaper is the defendant then i'm all in, fake death or not

let's gooooooo

so... kazuma will be the prosecutor then, right?! maybe stronghart?
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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

wait is gregson actually dead? can't help disbelieving it. but... big if true!
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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

whoa vigil hasn't worked at the prison for ten years

wonder if he was the gunman!
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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

2 hours into g2-4 and no defendant yet, not a great sign

cool to see a juror become more important *after* the trial instead of during

i don't mind longer investigations per se, but this ain't it

sholmes remains a delight
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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

that's a fair point, good comparison! that said, olive is waaay more sympathetic than sithe, while drebber is waaay more sympathetic than shamspeare. sithe has been doing more good than drebber for the last ten years, but the crime she commits, from her position of power, is arguably worse than the one drebber does.
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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!
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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

case done! i did *not* expect that last minute killer swerve during the trial. wish there were a little more evidence on which to nail sithe; she seemed like she could have merited some more time spent on her for being the case's "final boss." another piece of more decisive evidence, a bit more breakdown/closure? because of that, i probably wouldn't quite call this the series's best non-epic case, but man, it's a really good one. also a monster one in terms of length - i have to imagine it exceeds 6-3?

it's a little surprising how much they've now revealed for the coming cases. like, this professor case is the hound of the baskervilles case, and the reason for the secrecy behind it is now clear. but how are we supposed to proceed from here? what is unresolved about that case now? the dog itself isn't that interesting to me in concept, but the murder method and the significance placed on its collar certainly mean that we'll be spending time investigating our canine friend

the gunman who finished off asogi sr has to reappear too.

and von zieks himself seems quite concerned about the reaper's curse. so that absolutely will come up again, whether it's definitively proven to be confidence, or it's legitimately shown to be more
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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 music here presenting the bloodstain during sithe's testimony is a brand new track, right? it's not the objection, cornered, or truth theme
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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

have no idea what to expect from sithe's testimony here - naruhodo is miles ahead of me rn!
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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

SeabassDebeste posted...

seems like this journalist could be important.

i am dumb
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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

just in drebber's testimony about the professor not coming back - seems like this journalist could be important. the gravekeeper and the gunman seem like potential loose ends, too.

also, the things people will do for money continue to be a fantastic theme in these games. harebrayne and drebber were both poor scientists, with harebrayne willing to close his eyes for his dream and drebber forced to rob graves to support himself. all true to the era - i love 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

figured

i adore drebber's character design. he seems inspired by kite from hunter x hunter. and the way he moves plus his sinister grin make for such a great combo. g1-5, g2-2, and g2-3 have had stellar villain animations, i have to say

was dead wrong about the professor sharing osman's face as it turns out.

anyway, finally got sithe to the stand! more to come 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

appreciate naruhodo's composure heading into this summation examination, and the lack of the judge/prosecutor telling us how unusual the practice is. also it coming after some legitinately thrilling events as opposed to a dead-end testimomy is much better pacing.
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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 wow, just realized sithe's first name is courtney - i.e. the same name as the coroner from 10 years ago
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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

just chose to name sithe as the accomplice, which really will fill in the holes about the two bodies. if the evidence is submitted by a liar who could also manipulate bodies behind the scenes, then it is much easier to explain

meanwhile, the revived professor is presumably odious man, or a lookalike of him - the photo must be of the wax doll. have to assume that the motive here was that the professor killed someone dear to young drebber (whose pun i don't get). that's why he wanted to verify the corpse.

the question is - who was actually in the grave? still lots unanswered!
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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 repeated conversion of feet to metres has to be a running joke at this point. i'm loving 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

only one done so far without someone who knew the truth involved, but susato and ryunosuke popping in helped the dynamic direction!
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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

antigravity gun is peak sholmes

sad that the secret wasn't at least an invertible room though - seems wacky enough to explain a lot about it

here we go for trial!
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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

ah, seems our client agrees van zieks was being a bro
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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

LeonhartFour posted...

van Zieks is a loyal friend

honestly, this occurred to me!

anyway, we're told we should get a move on investigating because we don't have all day, but... this investigation is immediately being set up as a doozy! we look for sholmes and get the runaround. then we try to investigate the cringe scene and get the runaround. at stronghart's office we're given a new location/character to interact with, and after taking to stronghart but before taking to sithe, we STILL can't investigate the crime scene. we're also told to look out for van zieks for a photo of the new witness?

it's like 95% confirmed that van zieks's japanese friend is pop mikotoba now, but there's still a small chance that it's jigoku who's the friend instead. we also find out a shin is jezaille brett, meaning three of the four enclosed names are dead, with the survivor, gregson, now being very conspicuously shipped to france... i guess it's also now essentially confirmed that kazuma is the disciple and that sholmes is involved in a coverup

susato being back is great. and ryunosuke really does seem to feel a lot more for her than any last ship teases. i think ryunosuke might now have my single favorite narrative voice.

the game also seems to de-confirm another japan/susato case, which is a bummer.

at sithe's office, which is where i am, we're being told fingerprints placed the victim on the platform. so... how the hell did he get up top?!
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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

hilarious trial day in g2-3 - incredible how hard our client argued against his own case. i think he was a bit annoying outside of court but my god he made a fantastic witness. totally didn't expect van zieks to argue for the success of the experiment; that was super enjoyable

also, no summation examination (but still getting useful info out of the jurors, lol) was a *very* welcome surprise! date i day that i kind of miss having at least some familiar jury faces, though?

feels like we're in a 1-3-esque situation where the defendant seems p obviously not guilty at this point, though

gina is such a great witness, way better than as a defendant

and susato being back is definitely hype. i've been thinking since case 1 that it seems highly likely case 4 would be in japan from susato's POV, and that g2-5 might feature their reunion. i still am expecting/hoping for the former; expect it to be a flashback perhaps, trial-only.

presumably this "professor" case is also the hound of the baskervilles case, so looking forward to that.

one thing i guess i wasn't expecting is that there actually was a body double rather than a wax doll of the victim. that definitely seemed like a person. but in such a case, surely the body double would have to be discovered in person, right?

still, the wax museum wasn't mentioned *at all* in trial 1. sholmes said it might be related to our current case, so i guess esmerelda will be a day 2 witness? or is this mostly setting up the grand finale case?

more to come!
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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

worrying is all i do when i play these games
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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

yes sir

she's enjoyable so far though, and i enjoy her witchy look and the cauldron

have to say that was one of the weakest deductions yet though - all of the interesting information happened with the first reveal, that she was being extorted for ransom. and it's not really clear why she was even hiding any of this, which weakens the justification of this mechanic a lot.
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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

man this is a monster investigation day... just meeting an incredibly suspicious new character now?

i feel like wax doll has to be the secret breeding the "teleportation"
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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

dunno if i ever had one but man those commercials looked amazing
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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 with a "for the money!" reference - love 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

huh, we're reallycurious about the reaper reputation... i had no idea this was actually gonna be addressed, just thought it was a ridiculous/exaggerated point like so many others
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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

also this scrap of fabric is obviously from a really really thick raincoat that was struck by lightning... it indeed sounds sholmesian!
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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 not that bothered by court sessions seeming to take a lot of time. but i'm literally just doing math here using actually stated times! i didn't come up woth the 4+ hours or the 2 hours here,and stronghart mentioned 223 details...!

(also, i'm suddenly reminded that the annoying gina/gregson song is *not* gina's theme, which is now playing and is considerably better - but still not top notch like so many of the others)
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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

yup, definitely noted that.

i'm actually pretty surprised there's a true pre-trial investigation. we started the day late - 9:26 am. then we spent time with sholmes, hoofed it to stronghart's office, and waited 4 hours and 23 minutes or something like that - that'd put us leaving at like 3 pm from stronghart's office given that he bored the bajesus out of us with his love if forensic science. so then a trip to van zieks', two trips to the prison, and now two hours spent in the crowds at the crystal palace... what is it, like 6pm already?

this game is exciting though. i'm reminded of aai2 for sure where you can kind of dive into the good stuff. the crystal tower was set up as a finale-esque area, but we're here already! guess the forensic science part is still yet to come.

also gina's theme and iris's themes are low points of this soundtrack
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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

... er, that was posted before ryunosuke started suspecting it himself/we interested with him
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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

also man if we hadn't been shown kazuma's body (... right?) then this masked figure would totally ne him. or "a shin," i guess

(similar to karma's shoulder-grab, i wonder if van zieks's heart-clutch is related to his backstory. he certainly clenched it when we presented our armband...)
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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

van zieks's chest-clutch animation is great

the way he talks about his reputation gives me make harvey-dent-in-the-dark-knight vibes
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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

thanks for following!

firing up g2-3 now and man, investigating the reaper's office is phenomenal
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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

haha, wouldn't be unearned!
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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 agree, but the sentiment is an old one, and susato/ryunosuke act shocked that he says 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

just wrapped the case. really well set up, though the execution of most of the final trial segment was a little iffy. not a lot of buildup; a lot of redundant comments (soseki definitely swears he's going home after G1-4, for one)

but i reaaaally like the setup with dual murders, especially olive as a "loose end" and soseki's haunted mansion being tied up in the most satisfying possible way. that said i think we could've done just as well if shamspeare and metermann weren't introduced in g1-4.

i commented before that i felt g1-4 was the best social commentary of the series. g2-2 is a better case (probably the best of the GAA cases so far), and it has somewhat similar of a fascinating with how the other half lives - loved delving into the gas - but that part is understandably less of a focus with so much more "murder plot," and revisiting familiar ground

i do like the continued hype for hound of the baskervilles
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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, obviously i had no clue that the victim was blowing on the lamp's pipe - we knew he was probably responsible for tampering with the gas, but not how. the sunstone examinations are ridiculous, but the details cleaned from them are wonderful

and if course because we only learned this during the trial itself, i had no idea who to suspect. i'd continued to suspect shamspeare of poisoning himself

but when asked, it seemed on me who had the motive, and was suspiciously somewhere she shouldn't be, and meet someone at shamspeare's favorite pub, and recently had been seen with poison...

one of the best executed twists for sure - love this. and while he is genuinely a garbage murderer, shamspeare really does think natsume postponed him - or at least was prepared to throw him under the bus.

the only part that's truly unclear right now - what is shamspeare's motive for trying to kill his upstairs neighbors? if it done sort of vengeance for his brother? i imagine that'll come deep into this cross examination with olive....
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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

get thee to a nunneriiiIIIIEEEEEE

also three straight summation "testimonies" about gas - amazing
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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

shamspeare is amazing. i'm loving this case. trial 2 is beginning and while i don't understand the motive for framing soseki, it seems clear he knew the murderer who died - perhaps was related, as we've seen his mask slip a little. it also send to indicate he killed the last remnant and is behind the curse and soseki's issues with gas and sleeping

here we go!
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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

gah, found a photo of garrideb with the man from olive green's bedside photo - but no reaction from naruhodo/susato. c'mon!
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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 drinking ink and then eating soap is brilliant
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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 had no clue what the red substance actually was, and this has company storyline is pretty fascinating

but the biggest shock had to be that there's a second day of investigation!
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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

yeah it's easilg GAAC for me, though i theoretically look forward t playing outer wilds on switch. and ffix if that little backlog gets cleared
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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

naruhodo needs to be reminded of a summation examination two days after performing... what, two or three in the same trial?
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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

wow - trial already! let's go! might have to break garrideb in court again? and *probably* we'll find out thay shamspeare poisoned himself, whether intentionally or not!

this case would also definitely explain why garrideb can't attract any more tenants!
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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