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-He looks like Dobby being forced to celebrate mer-Christmas.
-Sparky: Spontaneous defolicalisation. It can happen to a mer-elf in times of extreme stress. Thats why he needs to join Hair Club For Mer-Evles.
-Lox breaks down and apologizes and were about to get the trial dismissed but RIZZLE ROUGHRIDER shows up.
-Wait her last name is Roughrider? Thats a weird last name for an elf. Sorry. Mer-elf.
-So wait is Rizzle really the culprit then? Is the game ending already?
-Rizzle: When I saw this awful defense lawyer, with her simply dreadful hair, trying to let Seanta get away scot free, I just had to step in. First off, rude. Second off, WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.
-Rizzle says she was there and saw Seanta come back just before the explosion. Wow. Bold move putting yourself at the scene of the crime.
-Rizzle was the one who gave Lox the cocoa, which always makes him fall asleep. OH MY GOD. SHE ADMIT IT!
-Rizzle says she didnt have any cocoa herself because shes careful what she drinks around men.
-You know what boys are like. Id hate to wake up and find one of them had done something awful to me while I was sleeping ERRRRR
-RIzzle: like draw on my face with a pen! Ah. Ok.
-Couple of problems with Rizzles testimony comes out. First, if she was there during the explosion, Lox wouldve seen her. Second, Sparky was the first one on the scene and he didnt see Rizzle there. Hey Rizzle, this was a bad lie and you should feel bad.
-Rizzle now changes her testimony that she went down to the warehouse to look and heard an ominoius ticking, so she jumped out of the way just before the explosion. Wow. Placing yourself even closer to the scene of the crime. Bold move, lets see how it pays off.
-I can now present evidence, and I show her the clock when she talks about the clock. Yep. Great lawyering here.
-She talks about how that clock is a toy one they built by the thousands and I TURNABOUT her and ask why then she assumed it was a bomb and jumped for cover if theyre that common.
-ANOTHER testimony revision. This time she claims she followed Seanta to the warehouse and saw him place a clock, which is why she was so concerned.
-I get stuck on this last bit. The first thing I try is showing Santa when she talks about planting the bomb since he had said his hands are too big and he cant handle electronics earlier. That did nothing. After some experimenting, you had to actually show the clock whichdoesnt really disprove anything about what she was saying. It does trigger the dialogue I want though about Santa's hands being too big for electronics, which, again, makes more sense if I presented Santa's picture.
-Yknow, having two pieces of evidence that should work and punishing you for guessing the wrong one is also Phoenix Wrights thing!
-Sparky vouches that Santa cant even work the light switch in his room. Just how big ARE Santas fingers? Santa over here with hulk hands just uselessly mashing a light switch.
-Rizzle: Shut up Sparky, you stupid little nerd! Youre just saying that to side with your new girlfriend here! First off I dont date mer-elves.
-Rizzle accidentally lets slip that she knew about the Giftmaker 5000 because she just cant stop snitching on herself.
-The ending is a little messy and essentially she was like oh no one ever really cared about me so I wanted to destroy Christmas and replace it with a holiday celebrating me and Sparky was all we all cared for you, even now! and things sort of just end happily with Rizzle going back home to her family.
-Hey not to be a downer but WHAT ABOUT THE EXPLOSION AND BOMB THING? Just going to let her go?
-There is some sort of backstory between Trickle and Nettle that comes up again, but it isnt explained. Nettle is basically just like "I KNOW YOU" and runs away. Stay tuned for that sequel, I guess!
-And they all come celebrate Christmas at Trickles office. Even Rizzle, which seems like a bad idea on account of the whole bomb thing, but whatever.
-Shes determined to chase Sparky around with the mistletoe. I feel like mer-elves need a mer-HR department, ASAP.
-Well thats it. It certainly is a thing. It is a mildly amusing concept mostly just for how blatantly it rips off Phoenix Wright. I wouldnt say I hated it but it also isnt what Id consider good. Mostly just a strange concept that doesnt really get the most out of the premise.

Time Played: Roughly 60-90 minutes. Hard to tell with all my diligent note taking, but it felt roughly the length of an intro Phoenix Wright case.
High Score: One guilty mer-elf punished. Or not punished, I guess.
Beaten? Yep
Grade: Probably another 3. It's Phoenix Wright without any of the fun gameplay and like a tenth of the charm. Imagine what a small inexperienced indie developer could do in a month making a PW clone, and you can get a good approximation of what this is.
Favorite Part So Far: Good ol' Lox sleepily muttering about someone stealing "mah biscuits" got a smile out of me, I'll admit.