Board 8 > Raka also plays The Great Ace Attorney

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So. We went into Soseki's room and found the chest in the ceiling.

We opened it to find...an unusually large collar with a familiar emblem and what looks like bloodstain on it. What is going on?!

Okay, onwards to the next case! Oh, it's the Exhibition! Nice! I did wish we can visit it and turns out we'll likely get to do it now. And there's a...teleportation machine? Wat. o-o

Anyway, Phoenicius is sulking because it's been 6 months since he'd done any lawyering. And Sholmes is sulking for some annoyingly mysterious reason that's probably dumb and random.

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Oh no...Lord Van Zieks is dead...shot by a disgruntled defendant...

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Oh he's alive never mind.

The defendant is a "Bunnybrained" kooky professor, Albert Harebrayne. The explosion killed his investor and mafia don Odious Man. He swore it was an accident.

We visited Van Zieks in his office. He looks no worse for the wear, despite taking a bullet to the head. He also introduced us to his new apprentice, a mysterious masked man who might be Graydon in disguise.
There's also a giant ass portrait on his wall who's actually NOT Van Zieks. Perhaps it's either his father or his brother who died and that would make him a mirror image to Phoenicius.

We also learned that the professor and the Reaper were college mates. And that he was a soft boy (and the darling babby of the Van Zieks clan) during college but something happened that that made him the cold and ruthless Reaper that we know now.

This is all very intriguing backstory. It'll be interesting to see Al's reaction to his buddy Van Zieks being a cold blooded monster in the courtroom tomorrow.

But now it's time to visit the Great Exhibition to see wacky turn-of-the-century science and arts! ...oh, and there's the crime scene too.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Oh he's alive never mind.

Yeah I was wondering where you got the idea he was dead but I didn't wanna say anything

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I spent the entire case trying to figure out what Odie Asman's pun was and you got it in minutes.

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THIS IS THE BEST TWIST BAR NONE

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Agreed, Inspector Gina is so great. Apparently she's named after an inspector in the books, so if you're familiar with them you might've anticipated that, but I'm not.

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hombad46 posted...

Yeah I was wondering where you got the idea he was dead but I didn't wanna say anything

Usually I just play it up to be silly lol.

SSBM_Guy posted...

I spent the entire case trying to figure out what Odie Asman's pun was and you got it in minutes.

I was almost tempted to write it off as a Sherlockian reference, to be honest!

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The character named after Inspector Lestrade becomes an Inspector as well. It's like art imitating...art.

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Yeah I think I mentioned Inspector Lestrade when she first appeared in...TGAA-3? That sounds about right. So happy for her! And her slightly renewed design is super nice! And her dynamics with Gregson is a great one already. And overall I'm just happy to see her again. Wot a pleasant surprise.

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G1-3 was indeed her first appearance

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So nobody's to touch the machine due to Wildlife Machine Endangerment Act.

Well, darn. But we got some clues. A burnt material of some sort and a big chunk of machinery. Did the culprit use balloons to move the body to the tower?

Anyway we looked for Sholmes and found him at a was museum. Madame Tusspell's, even.
That bit about Sholmes pretending to be a figure was hilarious. And I think I spy Roly Beate here?


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Oh we actually see the waxmaker! ...or just witch... probably.

And we found the juror from the first case basically dead behind a curtain. What.

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Case 2-3 is what made me like Gina a lot after I wasn't really fond of her during the first game. She also smiles more than half the time now.
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I can very easily see why. She's also much less testy now.

Another great 'deduction' by Herlock Sholmes. He thinks the gentleman fainted after realizing how much he paid for a waxwork...a feeling I know all too well! Maybe we don't need to course correct after all.

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the best twist in the game would be a Holmes deduction that doesn't require a Course Correction

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LeonhartFour posted...

the best twist in the game would be a Holmes deduction that doesn't require a Course Correction

That would be amazing.

Anyway, we learned that the wax figure of "The Professor" has been kidnapped. Hmm, this may very well be connected to the "teleportation" as a fake body.

Anyway we're starting the trial! I'm happy to see that we have six brand new sparkling jurors! How exciting.

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Diiiiid this defendant just dig his own grave by explaining an inconsistency? =_= you cauliflower buffoon

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His hypothesis is a higher priority than his innocence

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And his life, apparently. lol

Anyway, some inconsistencies later and we move on to our second set of witnesses: a balloon man, Gerome from Fire Emblem Awakening, and our old pal Gina Lestrade.


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God this masked kid is scaring me.

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There was another explosion?

Oh so my tentative hypothesis is that the Asman seen on the stage was actually a wax figure.

After it exploded, a balloon carrying the body of the real Asman was made to explode, dropping the 'carriage basket' that was actually another birdcage containing the body.

The wax figure might have been dropped under the stage or launched somewhere else.

And the culprit is the demon kid.
...him, or this supposed 'assistant' who helped Bunnyforbrains build and operate the machine.

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Oh the kid's not so scary once he took off his mask. But he's still a brat.

...great animations all around though.

Aaand the kid snapped some pics, including one right before the explosion. We've got it now! And the beam of light thing must've been caused by the laser crossbow we found.

Man, the culprit is really sloppy huh. Leaving evidence every way.

I gotta say though I'm enjoying the Italian and Bohemian accents and words greatly. The "wh!" cry was hilarious.

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HE JUST CONFESSED, THE ABSOLUTE MAD LAD. wtf

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Harebrayne sort of kicks ass to be honest, I respect how much he's not fucking around

Raka_Putra posted...

HE JUST CONFESSED, THE ABSOLUTE MAD LAD. wtf

His hypothesis :(

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Yeah, I gotta admire his sincerity and love for science...I suppose.

Anyway, we were in a quandary: do we propose that the machine was fake or do we implicate Bunnyhead by saying that the machine was real? Either way it would break his trust in us. :(

But before we could spiral down deeper into uncertainty a certain Non-Locum Judicial Assistant Esquiress showed up and threw us to the ground! Oh no Phoenicius has really lost his marbles now...he's hallucinating...

Or not! Turns out Susato is really here! She's here for the Forensic conference next month. Actually the ones invited were her father and...the ominously named judge. Judges never get names unless they're crucial to the story, so I've got my eyes on him!

Also of note is that Jezeille Brett is a fake name! I knew it, she's Gina isn't sh-
Ah, actually her name is A. Shinn? What kinda name is that? Though I remember that her name was on that big book at the end of the last game, alongside Kazuma's name...hmm, what is going on here...

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Kazuma's body disappeared?! The grave was empty?

God.

My friend, who's also playing this game (and catching up fast to me), proposed that the masked apprentice was Kazuma.

And well we did have both Olive Green AND Shamspeare as foreshadowing of people thought to be dead but turns out to be alive. Can it be really...???

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dun dun dunnnnnnn

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Wouldn't it be awesome if by the end of the game all previous victims turn out to be alive and well?

We can have a big reunion with Kazuma, Dr. Wilson, Mr. McGilded, Pop Windibanks, Olive Green, Duncan Ross, Selden, Mr. Asman, and even Jezeille Brett/A. Shinn, who cares!

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Raka_Putra posted...

Ah, actually her name is A. Shinn? What kinda name is that?

I misinterpreted things and thought that the pun there was "Asian" as in she was never actually British and that's why she covered her eyes all the time.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Wouldn't it be awesome if by the end of the game all previous victims turn out to be alive and well?

we already did that once...!

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Oh and that rat from the hospital.

"Naruhodo-sama, about the rat we saw licking the bottle of strychnine at the Barts Hospital..."

"Ah yes, I vaguely remember something like that."

"It turns out the hospital staff never disposed of the body."

"W-What? But what does it mean?"

"Well after I searched around the hospital, I found the little fella just wandering around. So I brought him along!"


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LeonhartFour posted...

we already did that once...!

Yeah and that game has a lot of similarities with this once so let's do it again.

hombad46 posted...

I misinterpreted things and thought that the pun there was "Asian" as in she was never actually British and that's why she covered her eyes all the time.

I wouldn't put it past the localization team! She might very well be Asian...

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Also, what's the pun in Enoch Drebber's name?

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That's one of the names from the books

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I think that you can generally predict that if a character's name doesn't seem to have a pun, it's probably a reference to Sherlock Holmes

Yeah...or the pun is too obtuse. Oh well. I'll just assume this new character Courtney Sithe is also from the books. She looks like she's a midboss from a Pokemon villain team.

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According to the wiki her name is probably from her profession. Courtney kinda resembling coroner and Sithe resembling scythe like the grim reaper

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Yeah, Courtney Sithe is not from the books. Enoch Drebber is.

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Ah yeah, I should've made that connection. Geez.

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WHAT.

Gregson is being deployed to Paris?! Isn't he an English bobby? How would that even work?

And he'll bring Gina along? Even when she just adopted the most precious goodest lil boy? :((

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IT'S KAZUMA?! And the classic amnesia plot... should've figured.

Man it would be awesome if when we see the figure under the cloak... it's just some rando.

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Susato be like "If Kazuma-sama is alive that means Mr. Sholmes lied to us."

But like,,, I wouldn't put it past him that he just missed the fact that he was alive.

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Oh god what kind of monstrosity did Dr. Sithe create in her lab and why is it swinging knives in front of my face?!

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Oh so the Professor sent out a large hound to kill his victims. That unnaturally large collar explained it then.

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Found the workshop! :)

Didn't find the man! :(

Found a room where everything is upside down! :O

Found a BOMB AAAAAAAA-- D:


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Oh this room can probably rotate on the horizontal axis.

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Raka_Putra posted...

Found a BOMB AAAAAAAA-- D:

What do you mean? That's clearly a gravity reversal device

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Sholmes really said 'this was once revealed to me in a dream'.

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