Board 8 > Raka also plays The Great Ace Attorney

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Spoilers as I progress, as usual.

I'm playing with English voice.
Man, Phoenicius Wright is adorable.

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Ah, so we're the killer in this case.

Phoenicius is Canadian, he says sorry too much.

And Kazuma's headbands flowing in the air is majestic but also kinda intimidating.

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Mikotoba is the culprit. Bailiff, take him away.

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Wow the Judge looks scary. Like the final boss of a Chinese epic.

Also "Auchi"? Was that his original name? Either way, great one lol.

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That's Winston and Gaspen Payne's Japanese surname as well. It's a great coincidence that the pun is understandable in English too.

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Oh okay maybe the culprit is the suspiciously dying waiter but his hair is like a skunk, just like Professor Mikotoba, so he's actually the professor's illegitimate son who's only a pawn in the professor's sick mind games.

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Leonhart4 posted...

That's Winston and Gaspen Payne's Japanese surname as well. It's a great coincidence that the pun is understandable in English too.

Oh wow, that's really neat.

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Iyesa Nosa and Kyurio Korekuta???

I love these names, man. Better than Peeshlub'n Undahstaandin or w/e.

Also once upon a time I tried watching a translated playthrough of this game and I remember Nosa had the cutest baby with him. Looking forward to that.

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It feels satisfying blasting two witnesses at once.


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Ah yes surely the waiter is the person influential enough to lord over an army sergeant and a crazy old man.

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The waiter who clearly has tuberculosis no less...!

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Or any number of respiratory diseases, to be fair. But considering the timeline, it is probably TBC...

Only, turns out he's a member of the official royal super duper police or some such, and he's on strict order to defend the mysterious lady. Except he's going to bring her here! The plot thickens.

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Jezeille Brett huh. A pun on Jezebel?

Also wow that hat is humongous.

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I like how they're doing the English people speaking English in-story thing.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Jezeille Brett huh. A pun on Jezebel?

Also wow that hat is humongous.

Her name is a reference to the jezail bullet, which Watson was wounded by while serving in the army in the stories, so it's a fitting name!

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Ah, thanks. That's a pretty deep cut.

Also man this case is pretty great as a first case. And the lady's good. I love to hate her and she's a tough cookie.

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Oh so the inside of the bottle isn't poisoned.

Okay, I got it. She poisoned a needle or some such, glued it to the tip of the bottle and when she opened it, since it was carbonated, the cork shot (making a sound not unlike gun shot) at the professor and the poisoned needle injected Curare. Then she only needed to carry the thingie away on her person.

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I'm thinking too far.
The professor still had wound in his mouth from the dental treatment! I've got you now, swan fake!

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Yay got the verdict! But this lady wants to talk to the judge after the trial? This can't be good...

Also, wow, this case feels very long for an opening case...

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Yeah, it's probably the longest intro case in the series or pretty close.

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Leonhart4 posted...

Yeah, it's probably the longest intro case in the series or pretty close.

It did feel like it.

Okay, glad that case was wrapped up. Sucks that Miss Mask * D'Masque won't get tried here. Maybe it's a Dahlia situation and she'll get convicted in a later case.

Now let's set sail to chapter 2! Shout out to these chapter case graphics being uniquely bespoke to each setting.

The murderer is...Phoenicius! Again! We're the new Maya it seems.

And the victim is...
Nooo :(( our bro for life. Damn. This sucks.

Did we really stowaway in the luggage and (as Susato put it) "lived" in the wardrobe like a Pevensie sibling? lol

These letters are weird. I think it says...Garderon...? Garderos? or maybe it was tampered after and the letters originally said Tarabrob or something...whatever that is.

Or maybe it said wardrobe and he wanted us to be found before we starved to death. Aww Kazuma. :"3

Also from the little prologue cutscene my hot take is that someone sent a trained snake through the vent to bite Kazuma.

...and now we have this freakishly large Herlock Sholmes destroying the crime scene.


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Wow this man is demented and also kinda stupid.

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Holmes is great

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I hope it's not that trope where the seemingly nonsensical guess turns out to be true and the Russian sailor really is the revolutionary.

Also, interesting, we have a case of a missing ballerina AND an ungodly expensive tiara as well.

Oh wow, it REALLY does say wardrobe? I didn't expect that lol.

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Oh god the ballerina is masquerading as a bearded Russian man isn't she?

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So she is.

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Fun fact: Grimesby Roylott is the name of the villain of the Sherlock Holmes story this case was named after, so that was a bit of misdirection you would only catch if you've actually read the story!

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Leonhart4 posted...

Fun fact: Grimesby Roylott is the name of the villain of the Sherlock Holmes story this case was named after, so that was a bit of misdirection you would only catch if you've actually read the story!

Ooh I also didn't know this! I'm much more of a Christie dude. Also I was trying to figure a pun but there's probably none there. But we did get Bif Strogenof so all is well.

And I gotta say... I thought Inspector Hosonaga's bloody coughs would come into play in the first case but it didn't. And he's back here. Maybe it's for a future case.

He's a bit weird but he's really sticking up for us, so he's cool. Poor guy got mauled by the captain.

Also the new Course Correction mechanic is...fine. It's not bad but it's super easy compared to the other gimmicks like Little Thief, Logic, Logic Chess, Perceive, Athena's emotion matrix thing, etc.

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Yeah, if there's no obvious pun at play, chances are good it's a Holmes character.

I like Course Correction from a purely aesthetic perspective. It looks so cool and the music is great.

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His cause of death is blunt force trauma to the neck...? Hmmm that complicates things.

Maybe the wardrobe is actually a secret door and the vent is a red herring.

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Hmm, some weird unexplained things

1. The bell to call waiters seemingly don't work
2. Hosonaga, Phoenicius, and Herlock all have headaches - and gas was mentioned, so maybe some sort of knockout gas was used?
Also Bif didn't fill the ship log after 2AM this morning.
3. The bookcase/sea god statues might have something to do with the case as well. Mechanism to open the wardrobe secret door perhaps?
Maybe after spreading knockout gas throughout first class passenger deck, Ninalova opened the wardrobe hidden door and...killed Kazuma...because she's an assassin? Or there was someone else there...


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Hmm new theory time.

Someone drugged the whole ship's dinner because they knew that Pavlova is in the ship and they wanted to steal the tiara. But since Kazuma didn't eat any of the killer killer chicken dinner, he was still awake. The thief mistakenly entered Kazuma's cabin and the two fought but Kazuma was killed.
Then the thief locked Kazuma's cabin, used the hidden door to get to Pavlova's cabin, but couldn't steal the tiara because of Pavlova's pet standing guard. Then they... escaped. Perfect!!! /jk

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Oh hmm if the ship's thrown off balance the door would lock on its own. So there's a possibility that there's a big coincidence at play here. Let's say when the ballerina wanted to board the ship, she came here on another vessel. That's how the door got locked from the inside.

But then...did the killer plan for it? Did they just leave, knowing that Nina would come on board?

Let's say there's an assassin. He drugged the ship, killed Kazuma, left, and since he's part of the Russian ring that's helping Nina get away, he knew that the door would be locked. Or she I guess.

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So they busted me snooping around in Pavlova's cabin.

> Talked to Hosoda
He can't save us.
> Talked to Pavlova
She wants us out.
> Talked to Bif
He wants to escort us to the cell.

We need a saviour...
> Panned left
> Holmes is hanging from the clothing hooks
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Let's pretend we didn't see that!

Also, I wonder if we'll have a trial, being on a ship and en route to Hong Kong...I guess we can do the trial in HK...or maybe this'll be a purely investigative case.


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Oh geez, Sholmes' deduction is something else. An amazing technicolor snake that changes its pattern every time it sheds? Are you sure you're not an Ushiromiya?

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Holmes' deduction is basically the climax of the original story. I love how Susato pokes holes in how nonsensical the story actually is, haha.

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Leonhart4 posted...

Holmes' deduction is basically the climax of the original story. I love how Susato pokes holes in how nonsensical the story actually is, haha.

Yeah, and probably what many players will assume as well (like I did myself) lol.

Okay, so Bif's uneven coloration is probably because the snake is his pet. And he probably named it something cutesy too, like...Katerina?

And right on, Ninomae's hand has a scratch mark on it.

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D'awww Darka is adorable.

Man, this is all an accident, isn't it? Did the ship going down just knocked the katana to Kazuma's neck or something?

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It was an accident...

OR SO THE CULPRIT WOULD LIKE US TO THINK

Well, things are getting interesting. Kazuma wasn't likely to have written that dying message anyway. If he died instantly, there was no way he could've slided into that DM!

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I appreciate the strange callback to 2-1 of the victim supposedly writing a message they would have never written while having a broken neck

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Oh, that's right.

I was thinking how the case had similarities to 1-3 in that the murder was arguably an accident caused by an untimely push, but the culprit dug herself deeper by tampering with the scene of crime in the hope of getting away.

Anyway, TGAA-2 done! It was pretty good, I like how there are a lot of twists and that the culprit is still portrayed somewhat sympathetically. Although her breakdown was a bit disappointing, animation-wise.

RIP Kazuma though T.T


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Land avast! We're in London and man, they really sold the size and grandiose through the animated cutscene.

This Lord Stronghart is very...imposing. Final villain material to be sure.

Our defendant is this...shorty of a man, but he's very rich. And the prosecutor is Bram Stoker's Dracula. An undefeated prosecutor huh...those never fare well in AA games.


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Raka_Putra posted...

This Lord Stronghart is very...imposing

I love how intimidating he is. His original name was Hart Vortex, so when you put it together with his title you get Lord Chief Justice Hart Vortex, which is just so fantastically extra.

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In this case so far we've gotten the defendant, the prosecutor, Chief Justice, five jurors, three witnesses, and the victim. That's gotta be a record for new characters in a case. Though maybe that PL x AA case with the masochist guards had more witnesses. But this case is just starting!

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A previously unseen third person in the lower cabin? A female urchin, 15 years of age? Did that harlot Jezeille go on a murder spree in London after killing poor Dr. Wilson?? Damn, what a brute.

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She's Jezeille in a disguise isn't she? :((

(I'm loving these English accents in the dialogue by the way.)

Well, either way, she didn't hear the victim boarding and now our suspicion is turned towards Fairplay and Furst, who were on the rooftop. Fairplay's panicking animation is...weird lol but kinda amusing (the one where he gallops like a jockey).

Also I know Lestrade is the name of a recurring inspector in Holmes stories, is the first name Gina a reference as well? (Don't answer yet if it's spoiler-y)

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McGilded is also sus though.

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Did he really instruct Lestrade to shoot the smoke grenade so he can smear blood during the chaos?

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Wow, we're really going with 'the defendant is guilty' for our first "official" case? That's ballsy. Nice. It took Phoenix like 9 cases.

Oh, speaking of Phoenix, nice reference there with the name of the omnibus.

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The case ended...just like that?

Man, the writers really know how to left us wanting more.

Oh here's little Iris and her steampunk-y gadget.

Poor Phoenicius and Susato, nearly spending the night freezing at the park...but instead they spent an enormous sum to spend at a lavish hotel! Better than freezing to death at least.

And...huh...the carriage is on fire...and the victim is...
Mr. McGinty's dead?! I mean, Mr. McGilded...wow...

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