Board 8 > Raka also plays The Great Ace Attorney

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm already spying a blue mark on the back of that reporter's hand.


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Auchi's 'bud of hope' terrifies me.

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Soseki got a new outfit too.
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I wouldn't say reusing characters is a budget issue. Hosonaga is a detective, and the series always reuses those. Soseki Natsume is a historical figure, so I imagine Takumi wanted to get some mileage out of him.

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Mewtwo59 posted...

Soseki got a new outfit too.

Yeah, I think it's like yukata over his outfit.

Leonhart4 posted...

I wouldn't say reusing characters is a budget issue. Hosonaga is a detective, and the series always reuses those. Soseki Natsume is a historical figure, so I imagine Takumi wanted to get some mileage out of him.

Hm, perhaps. Then again in the opening case of the first game we only had two witnesses so we've come a long way.


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Anyway, someone stole another deadly, untraceable poison from the lab. Rei said she tried to withdraw the knife to lessen the poison's impact.

Oh, there's a small opening at the back of the hut, right behind the chair. That's probably where the reporter stabbed her through.

And there's a crack pattern on both the newest photo AND the newspaper photo, further relating that shady reporter to the case.

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Raka_Putra posted...

And there's a crack pattern on both the newest photo AND the newspaper photo, further relating that shady reporter to the case.

I was honestly dumbfounded when that photo was presented. It's quite possibly the single most self incriminating piece of evidence I've ever seen, and what it shows doesn't even really add anything to the prosecution's case since they already had witness testimony of Rei holding the knife.

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hombad46 posted...

I was honestly dumbfounded when that photo was presented. It's quite possibly the single most self incriminating piece of evidence I've ever seen, and what it shows doesn't even really add anything to the prosecution's case since they already had witness testimony of Rei holding the knife.

That is true. Oh well, a way to keep the game going I guess.

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No poison detected on the blade as expected.
So probably the reporter, R.M. carried the poison with the pen and dripped it into the victim's wine glass.

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He...admitted to the stabbing. But he's saying he was not the one to murder her, as Brett was already poisoned. This guy's pretty good! He's also pretty hot don't judge me

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Roll credits!

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Raka_Putra posted...

Roll credits!

lol great moment. I smh at the players who hate him.
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He's fun enough.

I thought I had posted my final impressions. Dang, and I had a long post too.

Basically this case confirmed that the TGAA games are written as one overarching story. Soseki mentioned a horrifying case that we had never heard before. Because Sholmes forbade everyone of even mentioning it.

Apparently, this case of the haunted lodgings took part after the Garrideb case but before he left Britain to escape the reaper's curse. That must be why in TGAA-4 we had two characters we only saw for like a second (Shamspeare and the guy he was arguing with).

So my guess would be that one of Wilson and Sholmes's misadventures, the one that was written by Iris in the Hound of the Baskervilles, had implications regarding high level of conspiracy involving Britain and Japan. Probably involving the royal family, high nobility, or just important people (Lord Stronghart maybe? It feels like we haven't seen the last of him, though I also got spoiled that he'll be a presiding judge in one of the cases).

And since Wilson was in Japan, maybe some people were worried that he'd blab about the conspiracy (maybe Britain is planning something unsavory towards Japan?). So they sent/instructed Brett to kill him.
The poison research might play into it as well somehow, maybe Britain or some British baddies want to develop a totally untraceable deadly poison for assassinations and/or chemical warfare.


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Nice to find a fellow attorney. Low energy after work means I'm slightly behind you (currently at investigation day 2) as I seem to have enough energy to play only on weekends.

Good luck with your deductions.

Likewise, it's great that have attorneys all around this place. Good luck as well! May truth and justice prevail!

And now, we're continuing to case 2! Oh, its title contained the Clouded Kokoro again.

We're back with Phoenicius! Poor guy. It feels empty without Susato around.

Well, we got a letter and we shared it with Sholmes and Iris. And it made us reminisce about the horrifying, heinous, tragic, worst, most despair-inducing case in the history of mankind. Here we gooo.

We're back on the day after Soseki's acquittal. The victim has woken up! My! It'll be nice to talk to that adorable little lady.

...and it does feel nice having Susato at our side 'again'.

...why is there a well-fed and well-groomed rat in this hospital?


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I like her a lot already! Poor Ms. Green. She should be more confident in herself!
And since we saw a fallen canvas in the room, I assume she's the type of character who's very low on self-confidence but her artwork is amazing.

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Sholmes deduced that Shamspeare died from..eating soap. This is amazing. Why can't this be the real explanation?

Anyway, Soseki is shivery and jittery. He's in rage and misery. He probably was invited by the victim last night and maybe scuffled a bit. Tsk, tsk. One unlucky fellow.

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"It makes me think that you're full of hot air."

OUCH Susato. I know Phoenicius is dumb as rocks during these Course Correcting segments but you didn't have to put it like that lol.

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Oh god he's ALIVE! So this is just... attempted murder?

And why are there two soaps behind his window? Is this a drug deal kind of case? He communicates with his buyers by dropping bars of 'soap' onto the perch?

Ah, we see Mr. Garrideb once again, but without Joan this time. To be honest, it makes me feel kinda sad seeing him alone.

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It's amazing how everyone can just read Phoenicius's inner thoughts.

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Raka_Putra posted...

It's amazing how everyone can just read Phoenicius's inner thoughts.

Everyone can just read his face. Somehow he's even worse than Phoenix himself!

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Leonhart4 posted...

Everyone can just read his face. Somehow he's even worse than Phoenix himself!

Yeah, that's endearing but...poor guy lol. He can't be a criminal, everyone would figure it out in the blink of an eye.

Anyway, Garrideb is telling us about how he can deduce what the other tenants are doing by seeing how his lamp lights up. And Shamspeare's and Sosuke's rooms use slightly different amount of gas. This already reminds me of a logic puzzle and I hope it won't be too annoying when it inevitably comes up in the trial.

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Another great line.

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Soseki mentioned that the previous tenant, a young man, died mysteriously. He also mentioned that he feels like someone was watching him.

And since there was a mention of coal gas or something in one of the headlines at the beginning of the case before the flashback, I assume it's something to do with gas heating in a bricked-up room. =-=

Although it might also hint at a few secretly removable bricks like the ones at Shamspeare's window. Someone spying through it?

Also the soal we pilfered from the crime scene had a red...emblem? Mark? On it, but it's gone now. Maybe it was some sort of red liquid filling the soap.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Maybe it was some sort of red liquid filling the soap.

...was it the tea?

Anyway Shamspeare is now on the stand alongside A Drone Bee Metermann. The latter of whom admitted to spying on Shamspeare's room.

Maybe he knew there was a leakage but don't wanna reveal it? There's a shady we spot below the gas meter...

Either way I have to say Shamspeare's face is up there in my punchability ranking alongside Lance Amano, Maurent LeBlanc, and Wesley Stickler.


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The jurors are back! Except for Mrs. Garrideb, for obvious reasons...
But the new Juror is so glitzy and fab. Love her design.

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Oh she's the queen bee of the Altamont Gas Company. Should've realized it sooner from her color scheme and design.

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Ah there's a small hole at the bottom of the meter.
So the resourceful Shamspeare made his own counterfeit coins using soap blocks as mold and whatever liquid as ice 'coins', then he just made a tiny hole to empty molten liquid. Crafty.

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Oh yeah there should still be some leftover tea at Shamspeare's room!

Oh wow the court is adjourned. Is this our first second day of investigation?

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Huh.

Another of Sholmes's anachronistic invention.

Help, I've doused the room with the spray and nothing's happening.

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....missed a spot at the floor.
I hate it when that happens.

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There's a newspaper clipping about a hoard of treasure left by the Pirate King or some such.

A photographic print of Mr. Garrideb and a young man. Now I'm almost suspicious that the person is Ms. Olive Green when she was less full-figured.

And a small empty chest.

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Hm, so this supposed curse killed the previous tenant by asphyxiation. When Soseki went to sleep, his stove would suddenly turn off and the room would fill with gas.

Ten bucks say this was due to Shamspeare being a cheapskate and trying to redirect gas or some such.

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Oh, Sham just moved here after Selden's death.

So he is probably after his treasure. But the room was already rented by Soseki. So he tries to kill Soseki by diverting the gas line so he can claim the room.


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THE RAT DlED.

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Thanks for helping me realise the pun behind Meterman's name. His name is almost as good as Deid Mann, Albi Urgaid and Puhray Zealot.

My pleasure! I'm still wondering what's the deal with Duncan Ross's name though.

Also we recently learned that by blowing into a gas pipe opening, you can make the lights flicker. Blow harder, and you can turn off lights and stoves. Alright, makes sense now.

Shamspeare has been trying to kill Soseki to claim the room and find the hidden treasure.

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Raka_Putra posted...

My pleasure! I'm still wondering what's the deal with Duncan Ross's name though.

His name is one of the ones taken from a Sherlock Holmes story

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hombad46 posted...

His name is one of the ones taken from a Sherlock Holmes story

Oh gee-willikers, alright then. Thanks.

And now they ask me to point a culprit.
This is...hard.

So the one who lived in Soseki's room was Duncan, and before that, the killer (Selden? something like that).

At first I thought it would be Selden because he wanted to poison people who would try to mess with his room. But he's been dead for months.

Then I thought it was Shamspeare, trying to implicate Soseki so he'll be jailed and Sham can get the room. But it's much too roundabout, if he wants to implicate Soseki there would be easier ways to do it.

Then...I don't wanna believe it, but...

Olive Green would have access to poisons, as evidenced by her almost chugging a bottle of poison herself.

She...would have a motive, if she knew or deduced that Shamspeare killed Duncan Ross.

And there was the yet-to-be-explained remains of an envelope, the rest of which was in her possession alongside a letter.

And...and...she said something about watching it until the end. And she was so harsh on herself, just like Susato was when she made that peephole.

Oh god, it's her, isn't it? The sweet and timid and tragic and lovably round Olive Green...

...dammit.


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OH and that's why she has a key on her person (and design). That would explain how she would have access to Shamspeare's room. Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. I hate this.

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Hmm but WHO exactly sent that note to Ms. Green? Is there a criminal mastermind somewhere?

Also, who paid for Shamspeare's lunch at the fancy tavern? (Serving premium glasses of water in different levels of cloudiness)

This all reeks. Someone wanted to incite Ms. Green to poison the gas hole and bring Shamspeare away from his room.

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She's just so adorable! She can't be a killer!

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Oh the note was written BY Ms. Green, who wanted to shoo Shamspeare from his room so she could poison the pipe. Then she got the letter as she was getting away from the scene.

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Was the summation exam in this trial day the flimsiest, most bull summation exam or what? The jurors voted Soseki guilty of attempted murder because they hate gas companies. Maybe Baron van Zieks had the right idea about juries after all.

PentelPaint posted...

Was the summation exam in this trial day the flimsiest, most bull summation exam or what? The jurors voted Soseki guilty of attempted murder because they hate gas companies. Maybe Baron van Zieks had the right idea about juries after all.

Oh yeah and Quinby just goes along with it for some reason lol. I guess she kind of uses the opportunity to yell at them lol.
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Yeah, it was kinda weird. As is the fact that Van Zieks allowed us to call Ms. Green as a witness without establishing her involvement yet.

Also I dunno if it was just me or was that very long for a second case lol.

But well, overall it was pretty good still and we could make her smile in the end.




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Ace Attorney cases have gotten progressively longer on average since AAI2, it feels like.

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It really shows how much of a direct continuation GAA2 is. The entirety of GAA1 felt like 2nd cases and even the 5th case felt like a 3rd case at best. Meanwhile the 2nd case of GAA2 already feels like a fourth case and the third case is like a 5th case.
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Is wrong of me to feel attracted to Quinby? :3

Leonhart4 posted...

Ace Attorney cases have gotten progressively longer on average since AAI2, it feels like.

Sure feels like it.

GiftedACIII posted...

It really shows how much of a direct continuation GAA2 is. The entirety of GAA1 felt like 2nd cases and even the 5th case felt like a 3rd case at best. Meanwhile the 2nd case of GAA2 already feels like a fourth case and the third case is like a 5th case.

....welp! At least I'll get the buck for my bank.

PentelPaint posted...

Is wrong of me to feel attracted to Quinby? :3

Of course not, she's really nicely designed.

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