Board 8 > Ace Attorney Music: Which generic witness theme is your favorite? (Part 1)

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wBlS-0pb0

Winners:
Courtroom Lobby ~ The First Prelude (PW1)
Ace Attorney 3 ~ Court Begins (Trials & Tribulations)
Logic and Trick (PW1)
Won the Lawsuit! ~ First Victory (PW1)

Personal ranking: Eccentric > Eccentric 2007 > Doubted > Lamenting > Restless > Strange > More Happy > Interesting > Happy > Noisy

Had to split this into two polls just because there are so many of them! I think this is the first time PW1 is a clear loser because Happy People kinda annoys the heck out of me at this point, perhaps because I associate it with Lotta. A lot of these are not very good though. However, I just really love the Eccentric themes. It's the perfect quirky theme for the series.

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This is another one where I think PW1 wins based on first association, for me anyway.

I actually dislike the JFA themes for the same reason you don't like the PW1 one!

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LeonhartFour posted...

I think this is the first time PW1 is a clear loser because Happy People kinda annoys the heck out of me at this point, perhaps because I associate it with Lotta.

What a terrible opinion to have. Lotta is amazing.

It's still Eccentric People, though. I kinda like how it sounds in JFA a little better than in AJ. It's all about that bass.

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Surskit posted...

What a terrible opinion to have. Lotta is amazing.

yikes

I appreciate what Lotta adds to a case as a witness, but "amazing" nope

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I still like "Happy People" quite a bit. It and "Turnabout Sisters" pop into my head all the time.

Eccentric is really good though. I think I like the AJ version more.

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I don't like any of these very much. Went with Lamenting People.

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Kenri posted...

I don't like any of these very much.

This is the opinion closest to mine.

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Does the theme that plays for Grossberg/Caretaker/Meekins not count as a generic witness theme for this?

Eccentric People is easily the worst AA song. Fuck that song and fuck Hotti

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Paratroopa1 posted...

Does the theme that plays for Grossberg/Caretaker/Meekins not count as a generic witness theme for this?

Oh, I didn't even realize that had been left out. I guess it doesn't have "people" in the title so it didn't get included?

Also Hotti and Brushel are great

Hmm, yes

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I would say 'Doubted People' and 'Lamenting People' are less like a generic witness themes and more like AAI1 and AA2's equivalent of a Detention theme. Also speaking of AAI, Noisy People is MY pick for the worst one of the lot.

Anyway, you can't beat the original for this one.

Yeah, I'm kinda thrown off by the sudden anti-PW1 rhetoric in the OP, considering this is my first time voting for its music. I really like the second half off the loop (0:15-0:29).

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Strange>Eccentric>Restless>Interesting>Happy>Noisy>Lamenting>Eccentric 07>>>Doubted>More Happy

strange people is a pretty cool song actually

MrSmartGuy posted...

Yeah, I'm kinda thrown off by the sudden anti-PW1 rhetoric in the OP, considering this is my first time voting for its music. I really like the second half off the loop (0:15-0:29).

I'm kinda thrown off by people liking it! I guess others haven't played PW1 as much as I have! After a while, it's just too much for me.

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I mean what am I going to pick over it? Eccentric People is in 2nd and that song gives me a migraine

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Happy People is one of the few songs of this bunch that I actually like. Most of the witness songs kinda suck.

PW1 gets my vote here.

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yeah doubted people/lamenting people are much more akin to a detention center theme than this - doubted people is actually my favorite track here; lamenting people is kind of meh.

interesting people is great - big spekkio's theme vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL8ehrJcvI4

the two AA2 themes, the AA4 remix, and the rest of AAI1/AAI2 all have the same quality to them, and it's one i don't really care about.

which means my vote goes to AAI1's interesting people, since i'm not really counting doubted people for the purposes of this

doubted people (AAI1) > AAI1 (interesting people) >= AA1 >> the rest
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Leonhart4 posted...

Oh, I didn't even realize that had been left out. I guess it doesn't have "people" in the title so it didn't get included?

Well, it is specifically called Grossberg's theme.

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I'll probably put up part 2 tonight

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Eccentric > Eccentric-AJ > Lamented > Interesting > Doubted > Strange > Restless > Happy > More Happy > Noisy

People songs have always been very whatever to me. It's probably my most apathetic of the recurring themes. I do appreciate that Eccentric is somehow the only one that comes back.

It's a little interesting that PW3 has no People theme. I guess every character has their own specific theme song in that game. Does Desiree use Happy People? I feel like she does.

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Desiree does indeed use Happy People

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I would bet money that AA3's soundtrack was unfinished.

Paratroopa1 posted...

I would bet money that AA3's soundtrack was unfinished.

spent too much time making the best three songs in the series

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Paratroopa1 posted...

I would bet money that AA3's soundtrack was unfinished.

Most likely with the amount of songs they reuse from the first two games

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AA3 is the best game in the series but the awkward usage of reused songs really bothers me in a way, it makes the game feel unfinished in a way that no other game is. Investigation core 2002 sounds like a placeholder every time it's used.

Part 2: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79519734

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Paratroopa1 posted...

AA3 is the best game in the series but the awkward usage of reused songs really bothers me in a way, it makes the game feel unfinished in a way that no other game is. Investigation core 2002 sounds like a placeholder every time it's used.

it does technically have about the same amount of new tracks? 34, compared to JFA's 35 and AA's 26 (35 with 1-5)

maybe they wanted to use their budget on more character/location/reminiscence themes and thought they could re-use stuff, idk