LogFAQs > #979282002

Yeah, I appreciate that kind of detail rewarding the player.

I'm half tempted to go back and tank McGilded's case to see if there's any interesting dialogue from getting him sentenced in a trial he's done his best to rig.

I start Case 4, intending to play for 5 mins to see what happens directly after the end of the last trial but instead playing through to the first investigation break. Oops! McGilded has died, it was him in the burning omnibus in Case 3's epilogue cutscene. The police claim there was no further investigation into the omnibus due, so either they're lying, Magnus had his own crew there to tamper some more, or he was tricked into a death trap presumably by van Zieks. Perhaps some combo of the above.

The vampire lord's moniker is not an indication of him having a perfect record in trials (we're told that would be an impossible feat, a nice shot at the 21st century AAs), but a far more literal instance of those he prosecutes winding up dead whether he defeats them in court or not. Even in this corrupt system surely these deaths would've merited an investigation into Barok >_> We're later told that he usually targets 'bad' criminals, so I guess this is his way of trying to fix the broken system by instilling his own vengeance or something.

Whatever the case, that doesn't bode well for our latest defendant-to-be, a seemingly clueless Japanese man named Soseki Natsume. I'm glad how directly the game is showing the racism omnipresent in our surroundings. I'm yet to warm to our prospective client's particular quirks, but he seems harmless enough. Will he turn out to be a monster, and if not then why does van Zieks take this trial? Far too early to speculate. We're also introduced to Inspector Gregson. I'd assumed Hosonaga would be this game's recurring inspector friend, did he go back to Japan? Gregson has an infinite supply of battered fish (but never touches the chips), and a rivalry of sorts with one Herlock Sholmes. Sholmes' name is everywhere in London, it's great how we've only met him once but the game can succeed in tantalising both Susato and me with his imminent presence.

We go to 221B Baker Street, but instead of the man himself we meet Iris Wilson, his 10 year old inventor roommate who authors his bestselling stories under a pseudonym and seems to share his brilliant deductive reasoning. OK then! Very anime. She's reasonably fun, I'm struggling to imagine what a conversation between the two of them would be like but I'm eager to see one. Sadly our reunion with Hurley must wait until next time.