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Case 3, trial part 2

I don't really want to talk about the case details. part 2 is all about McGilded. he produces a random girl who just happens to be in the stands, and gives her the perfect alibi: hiding under his butt while he sat on the seat. Van Zieks tries to bring up objections, but it just... doesn't work. it's rare that a prosecutor raises an objection that just kinda goes nowhere, but this does.

as the trial goes on, McGilded gets a little more forceful in his commentary. at first he was happy to have Ryunosuke do the work for him, but as we go, he gets to be more and more of a puppet master, pulling the strings. he gets a couple of new animations as Van Zieks tries to tell me that this isn't right. I go along with his objections and it eventually turns into a total Engarde situation.

when I first showed up at the beginning of case 3, my initial thoughts were how counter to the ace attorney mythos it was that I was defending this random dude. AA games always serve you a good sense of believe in your clients, and here was this rich guy just throwing money at me without knowing a single detail. it was fishy for sure, but this was a new character and a new game, so maybe this just wasn't Phoenix Wright. but no, as the case goes on, you start to really doubt what this dude is all about.

by the end, we're uncovering decisive evidence all over. Ryunosuke is coming up with all the off the wall theories, but there's evidence that just wasn't there before, like the blood on the floor. I noticed this in the moment but thought that maybe you just didn't have the view of the floor to see it. turns out that, nope, all of this stuff is just fabricated. McGilded pulls a slight heel turn at this point and is just laughing maniacally. the case ends in a really strange way - with both the prosecution and the defense objecting to the evidence being used and the judge scolding the prosecution for not securing the evidence properly. in a world where cases don't end until we find out culprit, this one ends on what feels like a technicality.

I'm left unsure of how to feel about this. I like that it's a new angle, I think, and I'm sure we'll get this rich moron later in the game. it was an interesting way to go about it. but it also just felt phony the whole way through? this game is making it hard to feel like it's sincere, first with the cat thing in case 2 and now just throwing a sham trial with a mastermind pulling the strings only when needed. if McGilded is truly a mastermind then I'm in on it, I think. but I need to see more.

the last two scenes sure are something. we are introduced to an as of yet unnamed character, a young girl that's younger than Gina and is apparently the inventor of all her wonderful toys. the last scene is kind of shocking: a massive fire in the courtroom that consumes the omnibus, along with what seems to be a person stuck inside. it's a pretty grim sight, and I would assume the target of my next case.

one last note: I noticed that Susato seemed all too happy to get away with the W, even at the expense of the truth. that's an interesting dynamic. our protagonists have always been pure good, in search of the truth at all costs, but Susato seems to be a little more interested in winning than I'm used to. I wonder if the game explores this more or if it's just my perception.

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