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Rules:

1. Rate each character on a scale from 1 to 10 with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. Anything above 10 gets rounded down to a 10, and anything below a 1 gets rounded up to a 1.
2. Anything beyond one decimal point will be rounded accordingly: .04 and below will be rounded down, .05 and up will be rounded up.
3. You may grade on any criteria you like.
4. Consider the character's appearances throughout the entire Ace Attorney series.
5. You can rate characters from previous topics if you miss a topic.
6. On a day with multiple characters, clearly label which rating applies to which characters.
7. On a day with multiple characters, you may skip a character to rate.
8. Pretty much every character from Ace Attorney will be rated. The schedule will go in chronological game order in the West (with AAI2 being right after AAI just for consistency). When a character debuts and gets a major speaking role, they will show up (so Trucy appearing for a moment in 4-1 doesn't count as a 4-1 character). Major characters get their own day and minor characters are all ranked at once. All extremely minor characters (background, animals, mascots, and jury) will be rated on the final day.
9. The "roles" listed are: Defense, Rival, Assistant, Detective, Judge, Victim, Defendant, Culprit, Witness, Background, Animal, Mascot, Jury. Sorry, I'm not pointing out accomplices.

Spreadsheet and Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uNA5IlyThvd7dEY5dH4BQ3xLdghDnqKm0fsekmGnO7Y/edit?usp=sharing
Results and Discussion: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80783400

Previous Day's Ratings:

Enoch Drebber - 8.9 (9 votes)
Esmeralda Tusspells - 7.2 (9 votes)
Albert Harebrayne - 7.1 (9 votes)
Courtney Sithe - 5.3 (9 votes)
Gotts - 4.4 (9 votes)
Balthazar Lune - 4.3 (9 votes)
Odie Asman - 3.5 (7 votes)

Drebber barely misses the top 10, which is still a great result for a one-case character. Tusspells and Harebrayne also do well. Sithe goes just above average, with many expressing disappointment in her small screentime for a big role. Gotts and Lune do just about what the other more cartoon-y GAA witnesses do. Asman does just fine for a victim.

Character(s):

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Name: Evie Vigil
Game Appearances: GAA2
Roles: Juror, Witness
Profile (Debut): A client who has engaged the services of Mr Sholmes. She has asked the great detective to help track down her missing husband.

Name: Daley Vigil
Game Appearances: GAA2
Roles: Witness
Profile (Debut): A pedlar plying his trade on Fresno Street. He seems to make his money selling interesting items of news to passers-by.
Profile (Conclusion): A man who's disappeared without a word to his family. He was the former chief warder of Barclay Prison.
Aliases: Gossip, Hugh Boone

Name: Barry Caidin
Game Appearances: GAA2
Roles: Witness
Profile: The governor of Barclay Prison. It seems he was good friends with Professor Mikotoba during the Japanese man's time in Britain as a visiting student.

Name: Venus
Game Appearances: GAA2
Roles: Witness
Profile: A pedlar plying her trade on Fresno Street. She seems to make her money selling meagre little fireworks to children.

Name: Fabien de Rousseau
Game Appearances: GAA2
Role: Witness
Profile: The fraudster behind the Red-Headed League swindle, who was caught by Mr Sholmes. He derives from the French aristocracy, it seems.

Name: Peppino de Rossi
Game Appearances: GAA2
Role: Culprit
Profile: A lackey of de Rousseau and conspirator in the Red-Headed League swindle. The third son of a great Italian landowner.

Name: Maria Gorey
Game Appearances: GAA2
Role: Witness
Profile: The daughter of Dr Sithe who's also a coroner like her mother. She carries out all the autopsy work on corpses.

Easy Vote Form:

Evie:
Daley:
Caidin:
Venus:
de Rousseau:
de Rossi:
Gorey:

My ratings:

Evie: 2.7
Daley: 7.5
Caidin: 5.5
Venus: 4
de Rousseau: 6.5
de Rossi: 6.5
Gorey: 6.7

I wouldn't normally do Evie, but she has a profile in the Court Record and you speak to her. She's...there. I do like her design. The G2-3 jury designs tend to be a bit less cartoon-y and I think that fits the vibe more.

Daley's great! He's fun as Gossip, but once you expose him and have him re-live his trauma, it's pretty effective. He has a good role in G2-5 too.

Caidin's fine. A bit plain, but he's a good counter to Daley on the stand.

Venus is carried by her design. I like the Espella-esque look. Not much aside from that.

The Red-Headed League is a bit weaker to the Skulkin Brothers, but I still like them. I actually like both characters just enough for different reasons. de Rossi can be a bit much at times, but I do like his more energized animations.

Gorey's good! That said, I think she could have been really great if we got more Sithe time. They seem to be going for a big misdirection on the nature of Gorey's character and, well, it just doesn't have any time to cook.