Board 8 > I finally finished my Ace Attorney Line Counts

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sBPDmATQERIv7R3VvvXx43DRJZNOwnSwmLkZhfWLqSc

For those of you who recall, this is a project I started many years ago. I stopped after completing Spirit of Justice because I dreaded the prospect of Layton vs. Ace Attorney (for good reason). The release of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles last year got me to pick this up again, and now after completing Layton/AA, it's finished (until Ace Attorney 7 anyway). I also have some Time Stats left to do. The only thing I'm missing there is a replay of the GAA games, but it's hard to get dedicated time to sit down and time my playthroughs with a 6 month old baby, so who knows when I'll get around to that. Perhaps an AA7 announcement would get me into gear...!

I won't post everything in here since that Google Doc is now 67 pages long, but a few highlights for those who don't want to look through the whole thing:

Total lines by character:

1. Phoenix Wright - 27029
2. Miles Edgeworth - 15375
3. Ryunosuke Naruhodo - 11491
4. Apollo Justice - 10237
5. The Judge - 6966
6. Maya Fey - 6352
7. Athena Cykes - 4816
8. Susato Mikotoba - 4674
9. Dick Gumshoe - 4089
10. Kay Faraday - 3370
11. Trucy Wright - 2629
12. Ema Skye - 2434
13. Franziska von Karma - 2314
14. Sherlock Holmes - 1855
15. Barok van Zieks - 1651
16. Professor Hershel Layton - 1563
17. Judge of the Old Bailey - 1493
18. Iris Wilson - 1450
19. Mia Fey - 1418
20. Luke Triton - 1417
21. Pearl Fey - 1281
22. Simon Blackquill - 1280
23. Larry Butz - 1205
24. Klavier Gavin - 1154
25. Kazuma Asogi - 1145
26. Shi-Long Lang - 1101
27. Justine Courtney - 1016
28. Rayfa Padma Khura'in - 988
29. Raymond Shields - 971
30. Godot - 902

Total lines by case:

6-5 - 6722
G1-5 - 6033
2-4 - 5946
1-5 - 5913
3-5 - 5815
L-4 - 5343
G2-3 - 5257
E1-5 - 4831
E2-5 - 4777
4-3 - 4494
G2-4 - 4309
3-2 - 4151
3-3 - 4063
6-3 - 3979
E2-3 - 3959
4-4 - 3952
E2-2 - 3936
2-3 - 3884
G2-2 - 3752
5-2 - 3750
G1-4 - 3620
5-6 - 3616
4-2 - 3468
1-4 - 3466
L-3 - 3413
G2-5 - 3211
5-3 - 3202
6-6 - 3134
2-2 - 3119
6-2 - 2987
E1-4 - 2935
E2-4 - 2868
1-3 - 2741
L-2 - 2698
5-5 - 2550
E1-3 - 2412
G1-2 - 2352
5-4 - 2018
G1-3 - 1998
E1-2 - 1995
G1-1 - 1985
E2-1 - 1923
1-2 - 1773
6-4 - 1650
G2-1 - 1548
4-1 - 1421
6-1 - 1362
3-4 - 1225
L-1 - 1188
3-1 - 1167
5-1 - 1102
E1-1 - 1039
2-1 - 899
4-0 - 679
1-1 - 389

Totals lines by game:

SoJ - 19834 (11.58%)
GAA2 - 18077 (10.55%)
AAI2 - 17463 (10.19%)
T&T - 16422 (9.58%)
DD - 16238 (9.48%)
GAA1 - 15988 (9.33%)
PW1 - 14282 (8.34%)
JFA - 13848 (8.08%)
AJ - 13335 (7.78%)
AAI1 - 13212 (7.71%)
PL/PW - 12642 (7.38%)

Overall total lines - 171341

good lord!

LeonhartFour posted...

30. Godot - 902

waiting for godot indeed

the sad thing is that this isn't even all the possible lines because I didn't bother trying to get all the unique "wrong answer" dialogue since I didn't want to keep having to reset constantly

LeonhartFour posted...

the sad thing is that this isn't even all the possible lines because I didn't bother trying to get all the unique "wrong answer" dialogue since I didn't want to keep having to reset constantly

Thats the only way I can bring myself to play these games; gotta read it all!

I wish there were an easier way to save scum that didn't require me to exit the game and start it back up

Very nice. Crazy how 6-5 has the most lines despite having only one trial day.

Most shocking thing about this to me is that AA6's cases line up pretty well with the rest of the games. They all felt insanely long-winded to me but I guess it wasn't in terms of actual text.

Haste_2 posted...

Very nice. Crazy how 6-5 has the most lines despite having only one trial day.

I didn't break 6-5 into two parts, so it's two trial days.

Kenri posted...

Most shocking thing about this to me is that AA6's cases line up pretty well with the rest of the games. They all felt insanely long-winded to me but I guess it wasn't in terms of actual text.

Yeah, in terms of time, the SoJ cases are longer, but they aren't that much more text-heavy for whatever the reason. It could be because the animations in the later games are longer, or because investigations are streamlined and there's less banter.

This is the kind of crazy data hoarding that I love.

Phoenix actually has less comparative lines than I would have expected.

LeonhartFour posted...

I dreaded the prospect of Layton vs. Ace Attorney (for good reason).

LeonhartFour posted...

PL/PW - 12642 (7.38%)

Not sure I understand....!

Also it's very surprising to me because it felt like that game dragged on forever
So to see it somehow has the lowest amount of lines is pretty much...what

Deid Mann - 0

It's not the amount of lines. It's the format of the game.

Apollo justice has about 10k too many lines

4-3 - 4494

More reasons this is the worst case in the series. It sucks AND it drags on for forever. Imagine if you could somehow factor the amount of times you have to watch The Video as well. 4-4 barely edges it out once you include 4-0, too, which is beyond ridiculous for such a stupid case.

Yeah, I think one of the most surprising things with my line counts is how absurdly long 4-3 is. I wouldn't have guessed that.

The protagonist from The Great Ace Attorney games.

Leonhart4 posted...

animations in the later games are longer,

almost certainly - it's awesome replaying early games with how snappy the animations are

aa6 also has longer single days. 6-2 is a one day case longer than 1-3 and 90% the length of 2-2.