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SeabassDebeste posted...

also i vastly preferred the 2D sprites, but glad you're having fun with this

The drawback with 3D is that you have to make concrete structural decisions, so rather than looking more natural, Phoenix's hair looks like something straight off the side of an Art Deco building from the 1920s. It also takes the quirkier aspects of the 2D sprites, such as Edgeworth's wide frogmouth, into unsettling territory.

Case 5-5 - Turnabout for Tomorrow

We poke around in Simon Blackquill's testimony, and he starts lying, which causes his emotional noise to rise. He claims to have disassembled Ponco before he could have based on the Photo. Since there was blood on the severed robot arm, he must have done so after the katana blade was covered in blood. At this point he wigs out, and you have to sort out that the source of these overwhelming emotions was Athena.

Athena confesses to killing her mother, but her memory of the event doesn't add up - she talks about blood on her hands, but the katana blade was the only thing marked with blood, not the handle. Phoenix talks about the utility knife that's issued to each Space Tech, and how one was missing from the toolkit in the robotics lab [we can tell bc of the Gyaxa logo across all handles in the kit].

Congratulations, Mr Nick, you played yourself. Now Edgeworth rushes forth for the kill, pointing out that no matter what weapon was used, if Dr Metis Cykes and Athena were the only people in the room, that Athena must still be the killer.

You rethink the scene - with Dr Cykes dead while not wearing her ID card or jacket, Ponco would not have recognized her as herself. Anyone else could have then worn the jacket that she often left over a chair and been misread by the robot as Dr Cykes. To foil the face recognition, they could have worn the Noh theatre mask from the wall in the lab. You posit that the scene of Athena 'hugging' Dr Cykes was the small girl, armed with the utility knife, avenging her mother against an attacker. Athena recalls stabbing an intruder in the hand, and enlisting Ponco to move her mother to the operating table.

In proving the existence of this 3rd person, we rewind the security footage from the hallway to the now-estimated time of death slightly prior to 2:00PM. We see a mysterious man escape wearing Dr Cykes' jacket. But the jacket was there when the body was first found, Edgeworth objects. Too bad - with all the attention on the dead body, the person could have easily slipped it back on the floor in the robotics lab.

Fun fact: Noh 'onna'/women's role masks come in many varieties, but the mouth is carved and painted in such a way that when the actor tilts their chin up or down, the facial expression appears to change from happy to sad. I love that there are extra layers of symbolism here to go along with Dr Cykes' research. Might be my Western sensibilities, but I found the different types of women's role masks to only have slight variations. These masks are honored heirlooms handed down from generation to generation. One type, the 'fukai' mask, specifically represents a woman who has lost a child.

Blackquill takes the stand and gives his psych profile on the spy to Phoenix. Judge rules in favor of Blackquill's innocence, overturning the 7 year old judgement, but is interrupted by Apollo when he is about to issue a verdict for Athena.

What is Apollo's deal? We'll find out tomorrow!


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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself...: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
-Marcus Aurelius