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case 4, trial beginning

sorry for the delay, life has been busy. I only played a few minutes today - just Gregson's testimony and the summation that followed.

first of all, can I say how dumb it is that I don't even get to learn who the victim is until they give it to me at the trial? I thought I was in a rough spot when I walked into McGilded's trial empty handed, but in reality, this isn't much different! I don't feel like this game even cares about investigating, it just wants to tell some kind of story. it feels more visual novel than the past games, I guess, because there's no piecing anything together. recent games haven't been much about investigating either, but at least you found out who was killed! (or not killed!)

the jury here seems more contrived than the last one, with my boy Bruce as one of our jurors and GOD DAMMIT JOAN WHAT THE HELL ARE YA DOIN another. these guys need only the slightest of breezes to blow their votes in one direction or another. here the prosecutor says he has witnesses and the jury's like oh that's cool sure would be nice to se--GUILTY. we change their minds over, like, a hole in the ground and a guy who fell on a street. sure, that could be convincing. van Zieks calls them all idiots and I couldn't agree more.

I stopped here, but not before seeing my next set of witnesses - a sleepyhead named Roly and his wife. really not feeling anything going on in this game right now, but I'm sure pushing through will make it interesting by the end of the trial.

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