Board 8 > Wifebolo's Ace Attorney adventure continues! [progressive spoilers AA5+]

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You could pick Edgeworth if you want a quiet ride in a really nice car!

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LeonhartFour posted...

Pearl would be enjoyable because you could show her all sorts of things she's never seen before.

This was the main draw for me. Plus, no matter how good she is at channeling, she's still a little kid, and little kids [generally] enjoy going places and show that they're excited.
Leonhart4 posted...

You could pick Edgeworth if you want a quiet ride in a really nice car!

That's true, I wonder if he would still volunteer the car if it was not his idea? Then again, depending on his opinion of your car and its cleanliness, he might be trying to maintain his own comfort level. And the control - usually passengers defer to the owner in cases of tunes and climate control. That would really appeal to him.

MrSmartGuy posted...

Vera Misham

(I prefer driving by myself)

I was tempted to pick Vera! We could go different places and draw :3

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The question is which culprit would you go on a trip with and be most confident you wouldn't end up dead or in some other sort of danger or trouble.

I feel like Acro is the obvious answer, but maybe I'm forgetting someone.

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Leonhart4 posted...

The question is which culprit would you go on a trip with and be most confident you wouldn't end up dead or in some other sort of danger or trouble.

I feel like Acro is the obvious answer, but maybe I'm forgetting someone.

Well, Acro is the most inoffensive culprit, for sure - but a fair amount of the AA culprits are tied to crimes that are highly personal, or accidental/spur of the moment. You could go on a trip with almost any of them and not die, because they wouldn't be interested in killing you, specifically.

You'd find all sorts of trouble, not only with the culprits, but with a number of the other morally 'good' characters - their personalities are just too big for real life, and someone's bound to get upset with them.

I pick Mimi Miney, as long as we don't drive :D

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Yeah, most of them wouldn't do anything to you, most likely, but there would probably be a lingering doubt in the back of your mind. Acro is one of the few I wouldn't worry about at all.

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If I'm looking to avoid danger or trouble, I would avoid bringing any of the lawyers. Or Maya. >_>
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well yeah it's the law of the mystery protagonists, that bad stuff has to happen wherever they show up

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As long as I keep track of all the essentials and we bring enough food, Gumshoe would be fun. Or Desiree DeLite, provided she brings her own spending money. Although that might be less of a traditional road trip, and more of a joint effort between car and motorcycle?

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gumshoe would definitely be great! unlike desiree, you wouldn't have to worry at all about overspending either... prepare to feast on five guys, dick
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Gumshoe would weep over that bag of fries

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SeabassDebeste posted...

prepare to feast on five guys, dick

this certainly was a way to phrase this

I'll play more tomorrow!

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Discussion question: of the legal teams [defense/prosecution] or law enforcement, who would you want to directly report to/have as a direct boss/manager and why?

I'll start off. I would want to want to work for Klavier. Even though every prosecutor seems exacting, he seems like the type to also be enthusiastic and encouraging. That's a good balance for me.

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Klavier is hard working but also pretty chill and just generally a good guy, so he probably is the winner. Everyone else would be a nightmare boss or you'd make no money working for them.

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This was not a good week for play AAI, y'all. Thankfully we have the holiday weekend.

[Also not TOO many weird thread trends rolled through. I'm ALWAYS afraid that 17 iterations of:

"Woman, without her, man is nothing"
"Woman without her man, is nothing"
"Nothing, without her woman man, is"
"Is nothing man without her woman"
"Man without crazyisgood is nothing woman"

will roll through and purge my threads...]

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Back in the saddle again

I gotta play more AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout during my lunch, but at least Edgeworth found his first Little Thief contradiction. We did Logic, and updated the scene using Little Thief. The way the crime scene was described, the 'killer' is standing where a stage was set up, before it had been taken down!

We'll have to see where this takes us in a few hours. :D

Discussion question: you need to do a group project for school involving a science experiment - gathering data, analyzing data, and presenting it to the class. You may select 3 AA characters [any alignment or allegiance] to assist you as your 'group', anyone you pick will magically be a willing and able participant. Who do you pick?

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Ema Skye, of course, and probably Edgeworth

and perhaps Wesley Stickler, unfortunately

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AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout

Placing the killer on top of the stage fixed the scenario and completed the investigation.

Lang rolls up and is still stuck on the idea that Meekins did it. Pretty sure that can't be the case because of ballistics and angles and such but WE SHALL SEE. Yup. The killer and victim were switched in our original assessment. Troublingly, it seems that due to footprints BOTH of our players in this scene were wearing Badger costumes :\ Miles suspects that this is a case of kidnappers killing, or attempting to kill, each other.

Lang thanks us in Mandarin, cool. This game is the first appearance iirc of 'Not so fast!' as an exclamation. I love it when new ones pop up :3

Miles' smug sprites in this game are so worth it. Thanks again to @colliding :D

See discussion question from previous post if you like. I would form a team of Dessie DeLite [can run errands, buy supplies with her love of shopping], Vera Misham [we probably need DIY art of some kind], and Will Powers [giving the end presentation]. I can handle the research and experimenting.

Let's see what happens with our Badger-filled crime scene. See you tomorrow!

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NOT SO FAST is great

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time to go langgliding
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Llarian posted...

AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout

Miles' smug sprites in this game are so worth it. Thanks again to @colliding :D

don't mention it! anytime.

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AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout

Lang is pretty sure it's Meekins' Badgermobile that moved the body, and asserts that it's the only thing that would make 3 tracks. But it's not. The other mascots have their own vehicles, plus there's no mud on the tires of Meekin's vehicle [as there would be, since it was muddy in the post-rain Stadium where the crime supposedly took place].

Lang is all "got me there" but then- the kidnapped Lance suddenly appears, shuffling along and barely able to speak! He's alive, but he's in bad shape. Lang insists that we leave, we try to take Ema along to help investigate further, but Lang is having exactly none of that. We shuffle off back to Wild, Wild West land. That's the save point this time around. We start to talk to Mr Amano and Ms Paups.

See you next week!

Discussion question: Which AA character do you find the most attractive/would you go out with [first instinct, don't think about it too much]? Who would you pick if they were magically morally good?

My first pick would be Mia Fey. But if magically morally good, absolutely Kristoph Gavin.

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I feel like Mia is designed to be the most naturally beautiful character in the series, so that's my gut reaction.

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AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout

We investigate the kidnapper's room because Gumshoe told the boys in blue to let us through. Woohoo!

We find a variety of weird things, including 3 coffee cups, 3 folding chairs, a discard bin for old costumes, and !!! The Proto Badger pops up out of the trapdoor/underground passageway. Kay is overjoyed that she's making progress on her Badger Photo Rally. The Proto Badger is shocked that the Bad Badger costume is missing, as they only use it once a day during the special show for the kids where the good Badgers defeat him.

We find a discarded Bad Badger costume in the bin, with a rip on his right hand - where the Bad Badger's firearm would normally be. "Look out, he's got a nug!"

So perhaps there are more kidnappers than we previously imagined, and the gun is loose, even though it's a model/prop gun that only fires blanks. Gumshoe!! reappears, urging us to go to the Main Gate where a Badger costume has been seen. We rush over there to try to get to the evidence before Lang does his hostile takeover act. No dice. We barely get a look at it before the infamous electric guitar theme starts up.

Turns out the name on the back of the necklace we found inside the neck of the Badger costume is engraved "Lauren D." Hmmm... suspich!

We'll see what this means tomorrow. See you then!

Discussion question: what game are you the most excited about this year [doesn't have to be a new game, just new to you]? Could be a replay of an old fave, could be a pre-order, could be a game that's been in your queue and you're finally able to get to it, could be a speedrun.

This is pretty much it, but a tie would be the House in Fata Morgana by Novectacle, a darkly elegant visual novel.

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I'm currently playing it in Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, and second place I'd the New Ratchet & Clank, which I'll be playing next.

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I'm looking forward to Tales of Arise, which I just now started, and SMTV in a couple months.

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Llarian posted...

Discussion question: Which AA character do you find the most attractive/would you go out with [first instinct, don't think about it too much]?

GAA2-3 introduced a certain new character that wins both of these, but if we're going off of characters you've seen, first character that popped into mind was Desiree Delite as hottest, but character I would go out with changes it to Adrian Andrews, cuz Dessie is way too high-maintenance for me.

Llarian posted...

Discussion question: what game are you the most excited about this year [doesn't have to be a new game, just new to you]?

I really don't play new games all that often. In fact, I don't play games of any capacity all that often anymore, which is not something I expected to ever happen in my lifetime. I was really only super excited for GAA and Mario Golf Super Rush, and only one of those really lived up to expectations.

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As for the who I would choose to go out with, adult Ema for sure

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yeah it's easilg GAAC for me, though i theoretically look forward t playing outer wilds on switch. and ffix if that little backlog gets cleared
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Got super distracted by House in Fata Morgana: Requiem for Innocence. We'll see more Edgeworth, Kay, and Gumshoe antics next week!

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AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout

For the love of all that's right in the courtroom, I need Lang to stop.

I've presented everything I can think of that's relevant, and all I get is "Lang Zi says: Miles Edgeworth sucks" :|

I guess I was supposed to present Stolen Costumes. Huh. All righty then. Idk why my brain said we were done with the costumes. Maybe I not-so-secretly wanted to be done with the costumes XD

I now present to you the kidnapper... Lance himself? Got it on the first try after blankly staring at all the profiles for a while. A little less exciting than it usually is.

Lance testifies. Excuuuuse me, princess. He claims the door was locked, so he had to use the underground passageways, extremely unlikely. We still have the now-broken sword that was used to keep the door closed, but it wasn't a serious barrier to exit.

Lang pushes back, saying it's pointless that Lance would stage his own kidnapping. Rich kids get bored, man. You of all people should know that.

We present the Love Letter from Viola at the Tender Lender [shudder... don't remind me]. I guess Lance wanted to get money from dear old dad, but couldn't admit that he already owed so much in debt. Lance claims that he was attacked by Colin/butler Oliver, and that he ran off with the ransom money. I guess Lance and Lauren wore costumes to help themselves move without obstruction.

Goodness, I hate this. If the Bad Badger head was found in the isolation room, how could Lauren claim to have seen the Bad Badger... this is so annoying. Don't play AA when you're PMSing, y'all. It's a bad time.

I will revisit this tomorrow. Hopefully we can wrap it up. See you then!


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Lauren Paups reminded me of how much I loved Ring Pops as a kid

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dunno if i ever had one but man those commercials looked amazing
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Leonhart4 posted...

Lauren Paups reminded me of how much I loved Ring Pops as a kid

SeabassDebeste posted...

dunno if i ever had one but man those commercials looked amazing

Yeah, I've always liked fruit-flavored candy. I always thought the clear ring pops were far superior to those opaque color-swirl ones they came out with later.

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End of the month super biz at werk.

Early October should be good! Celebrating wedding anniversary with the wife in October. :D

See y'all next week!

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congrats!
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Discussion question: How did you hear about / what was your entry point into the AA franchise? Curious to see what people's responses will be.

As for me, I heard about it from Tom. I had seen a lot of fan art and cosplay, but I started playing the games via the Trilogy on Tom's 3DS and got hooked.

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I think most people here learned of it through B8 in some form or fashion.

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definitely B8 yeah. that objection generator was great. took me a few years to actually play the games, but basically is the only game series that i play now!
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Who was the first b8er to talk about the game? For some reason, transience comes to mind.

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I feel like icon was the first guy I really remember to push the series, but transience may have been right there with him.

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i thought tran was way later, but maybe i'm wrong. icon definitely though.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

definitely B8 yeah. that objection generator was great.

Aw man. Did I miss the objection generator?

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Llarian posted...

Aw man. Did I miss the objection generator?

Yep. The site is unfortunately closed now.

I remember emailing the guy behind it asking him to add the Judge, and then he did. It was great.

He also posted a link to the first two Character Battles that Phoenix was in.

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I learned of it from gaming magazines and it sounded right up my alley. I didn't join this board until 2008 and the main reason I stuck around was because it was just as infatuated with the AA games as I was.

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AAI1-3: Kidnapped Turnabout

Sorry about that, y'all. I just did not CARE about the kidnapped kid u_u
I have literally returned to this one month later and I'm in the same spot mood-wise XD;;;

pardon my language but wtf

And it all comes down to Oliver's handedness??? Weeeeeeeeak.

Ugh. It's not even the convolutedness that gets me. It's the sudden shift to WHAT PANTS WAS THE BADGER WEARING like ???? why

I'll finish this up this week if it's the last thing I do. See you tomorrow!


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I gotta say, keep pushing through. AAI-3 is tough, particularly coming after the last two cases, which are not great. I think the next case is a bit of a bright spot.

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I like E1-3 but not because of Lance. I just enjoy the amusement park setting.

I'm not a fan of the next case but most people seem to enjoy it more than I do.

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unsurprisingly, i think this series in general benefits from consistent play. i like e1-3 but it is middling at best, so getting getting stuck on it for months or weeks is a huge downer.

and yeah, i am a fan of the next case, even if it isn't great for the series' canon
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Bump
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Happy Halloween, y'all. What AA character would you spend Halloween with and what would you do together?

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