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UshiromiyaEva posted...

As much as people shit on it now, Twitter as a source of information was a fairly amazing tool in the before times.

Now, a verified account being promoted to the top of the list is almost guaranteed to be spouting nothing but made up shit, since 90%+ of the people paying to use the platform are grifters and people desperate for attention. You have to scroll past the check marks to reach the "real" comments, since nobody with that little blue circle has any value as a person whatsoever.

If anybody ever creates a script or viewing app that auto hides all verified accounts, they'll be a god damn hero.

Oh that exists, but not on the app which is how most people use Twitter.

It even knows the difference between people that paid and people that were "given" Blue, apparently.

Not simply for this story, but in general I can't begin to convey how much the reliability of Twitter replies to contain any accurate information whatsoever is inversely proportional to the number of people replying. Twitter won't even load comments past a certain point so literally everyone there has paid for it.

To put it another way, we somehow live in a world where the top YouTube comments are a more accurate source of information than the top Twitter replies.

6/10

If you go straight to Aava without getting the Eye of the Priestess first, she's invisible. And that's still totally winnable, but the game makes it clear you shouldn't be doing it.

Approaching the fog wall for the first time, a voice warns: "Go back. Aava is watching". After entering the mist, the voice speak again: "Poor Aava, do you miss your king? The one without the sign has arrived. Do be merciful, and end things swiftly." Aava is initially invisible and will attack the player in this form.

Yes

Shame that IP didn't take off more

Did you fight invisible Aava?

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KamikazePotato posted...

Edgeworth shows up and goes 'eeey sorry I couldn't help you out back then', and it's like, why Edgeworth? Why couldn't you or anyone else help Phoenix out back then?

"I'm sorry Phoenix but it was a really crazy couple of weeks before that happened and I needed a good 7 years to decompress."

Real talk though, the only reason for the massive time gap in this game is Trucy. Even though 7 years isn't enough time to fool us into thinking it's his biological daughter, they needed some time gap to give it an air of mystery and forge a believable bond between her and Phoenix.

1/10

It's 4-0 in particular that really seals up the minimum ranking for me. It's fucking baffling that they have to straight up just have Klavier say you can't present the non-forged evidence and that's that. Phoenix can't even be like, "So here's this evidence that some little girl just gave me out of nowhere. Please put it under the highest forensic scrutiny possible." He just goes along with it as if he obtained that evidence completely normally.

Also both AAI games take place before 4-0 so canonically this is the last time we have seen Gumshoe. What a fucking waste.

As for the rest of 4-4 I don't have much to add that hasn't been said. It would probably be more like a 4 for me though.

Also it's time to post this in case anyone hasn't seen it, but parody aside it really does put into perspective how bafflingly batshit Zak really is:

Edit: It's multiple panels and the embed is terrible, so best to actually open it in a new tab.

https://imgur.com/a/8QVtO

Waluigi1 posted...

I think he was using shorthand for Gilgamesh for whatever reason.

Oh, lol

MacArrowny posted...

This makes no sense whatsoever.

It makes perfect sense, just not in the way intended.

RotJ, ToD, and JFA are all examples of what were the worst entry at the time until a fourth one came around to show you what bad actually looked like.

skulltrumpets posted...

i feel like some of y'all are underestimating how crazy some people are about apollo justice

apparently not here in the gamefaqs bubble, evidently.

Some people will go to bat for 4-4. Those same people will just sort of ignore 4-2 and 4-3, aside from liking Klavier I guess.

It was always Gil, just labeled in menus as GP in translations until FF7 when there was an actual different GP.

2/10

Dude fuck magicians. All my homies hate magicians.

At this point though don't the old Angelina Jolie action movies all just blend together for people? They were all just sold on her popularity anyway.

3/10

Ill be honest I don't remember day 2 like at all because by the end of day 1 I was just entirely checked out. I suspect if I replay AJ this could go even lower.

Samus is quite probably a case where her design is more recognizable than Lara but her name isn't.

What I am certain about is that the reboot games have not kept Lara Croft in the minds of non-gamers. She won because it was a British poll, but the ones voting for her probably haven't played a video game in 20 years if ever. The ones that do play games are the ones voting for Shadowheart and Astarion.

TomNook posted...

They straight up dishonestly edited that if that's true.

That's what I was talking about before.

hombad46 posted...

"What is so iconic about Lara Croft is the fact that she is [a] female lead in a video game," she says.

"She's all about girl power and female empowerment. She's at the forefront, she is what the adventure is."

And then Samus is nowhere to be seen lol. Heck, I'd take Aloy or Chelle.

I just want to point out that that "[a]" is an edit to hide what was originally said, which was "the first".

LMAO

8.5/10

To me this is every bit as good as 3-1.

You could say the greatest weakness of this case is that the rest of the game fails spectacularly to follow up on its set up. Kristoph's motivation makes no sense since Zak couldn't have implicated him about anything, nothing Zak does at any point is the least bit sane, and Phoenix's characterization here goes out the window almost immediately. But I truly do not hold it against this case because if the rest of the story held up these things didn't need to be true.

Olga was a great example of a non-guilty witness who actually had every reason to lie. The first usage of Perceive might be the only time I truly like it, particularly in AJ where they confine it to trials and not investigations. Your assistant being the murderer might be the biggest twist to the meta they've ever done. Revealing that Phoenix actually did manipulate this crime scene culminating in Apollo punching him after the trial is such a great finish.

Shame about the rest of the game though.

TomNook7 posted...

Ya know, i never played the DS3 DLC and now i need to add that to the list

All the DLCs have good bosses, but it's really weird how every game manages a far superior dragon boss than their base games. If that trend continues in Elden Ring I'll be really happy about that.

Hopefully I'd fix whatever is going on with the site randomly not loading all the messages in a topic.

Leonhart4 posted...

Well yeah, all Godot had to do was destroy the letter from Morgan with Dahlia's picture in it, and the plan goes nowhere unless Morgan has a secret stash of pictures of her estranged daughter.

Okay I forgot that part. I just misremembered it as Pearls getting the details from visiting Morgan. That's actually pretty funny it could have been that easy.

To be clear, when I say "pass", I mean "believing the character wouldn't see this as a big enough issue to change the plan to something less... deeply flawed." Not like blame for how it ended up playing out.

Leonhart4 posted...

Misty staying quiet because she felt she didn't deserve to have Maya know her (one of the worst parental tropes because it gives no regard to the feelings of the child you're neglecting) is really dumb.

What's even worse to me is that assuming Misty's plan went off without a hitch, Morgan would have simply had Pearls summon Dahlia again. Even if Morgan dies Pearls very likely still keeps trying on her own. Pearls had to be made to understand the full weight of what was going on one way or another. It's hard to even give Godot a complete pass from that angle. Even with his issues he still operates very logically in most situations.

9.9/10

Minus 0.1 for the entire case being completely preventable by both the victim and the semi-unwilling perpetrator. Moreso the victim though. Godot being a broken man who took his only opportunity for revenge at a cost he knew but couldn't process in the moment is actually pretty compelling.

Paratroopa1 posted...

A lot of grief could have been saved by just... I don't know, talking to Phoenix?

Foreshadowing for the next game

NFUN posted...

he got third out of four in the primary, barely beating Dick Gephardt. dude was already losing hard

In the first state after a very recent momentum swing. Inferring that the election was already definitively out of reach for him is just not true.

Wait until LMS finds out about Weinstein.

Personally I'd put Midir, Kalameet, and Sinh well above the others. Maybe Sinh above Kalameet.

Nameless King is an all time great but the dragon phase itself is merely fine. Good enough even to not make me hate fighting him repeatedly, but he can really just waste your time even by dragon standards. Plastic Sacks is like clearly better than all the other ER dragons but is much better spectacle than substance.

I'll bump this one just so it's above the other topic

LightningStrikes posted...

1) Its re-establishing the present day status quo after 2-4.

It literally can't not do that unless it were also a flashback case. But also, and take it from someone who started playing 3-2 before JFA on accident, they keep the circumstances of that case extremely vague. Like I don't want to downplay 2-4 but it's not like it shatters the setting or anything.

9/10

A brilliant usage of a scenario we know we ultimately cannot win.

Also, irrelevant to rankings, but can anyone remind me whether this or E1-4 takes place first?

The difference is there are specific aldehyde chemicals you do or do not taste in cilantro that is also used in making soap. It's not just down to personal taste.

Edit: Too slow

To some extent every case that isn't an intro has "develop the prosecutor" for relevance. This game just does the best job with that.

azuarc posted...

IIRC, this is the one case that has basically nothing to do with the rest of the plot of game 3

Nah 3-2 is very much the same in that regard. That was the trade-off of having 3-1 be relevant.

I like that against all odds Kudo is one of the very few witnesses that actually doesn't lie.

8/10

Tigre is hilarious and I actually like the subversion to making you choose a lot of your presses in this case. Also I don't find Armstrong as bad as a lot of people and I can't really explain why. Viola and the old man (forget his name) aren't bad either.

3-2 - 7/10 - Conversely, Luke and the DeLites never really stuck with me the way I know they do with some, particularly Luke. Also everything Para said in the actual topic was pretty spot on.

Bitto posted...

Or is it because I typoed the case shorthand in the title?

For me it was that.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

Wordle 1,015 4/6

LATER
SNORE
ROGUE

That was not mandatory, btw. I mean it's fine you did it, just want you to feel sufficiently monstrous. Like me!

Also ngl I have no idea how you're supposed to figure out the remaining steps.

8.5/10

I was confused by which game was second and actually played this and a tiny bit of 3-2 until it became clear there were multiple characters I was supposed to know. (Funny enough, I didn't remember Adrian's name and did not recognize her as the same character through the entirety of 2-4 so I was effectively still unspoiled.)

I did not mind replaying this case. God Phoenix sucks so much here though.

colliding posted...

Was the best starter case easily until maybe GA-2

Hard disagree here though.

10/10

I was baffled at first when it seemed like they were doing a finale mystery that had nothing to do with any main characters. And technically that's exactly what it is! But really that was a great decision because it'd be ridiculous to do what 2-4 does while we're defending Franziska or something like that.

Leonhart4 posted...

It's a bummer you don't get to take Engarde down directly

"Please make sure to savor every moment of what little time you have left."

It's a bit of a shame that line is optional. It's all the take down I need.

I'm surprised he lasted this long with the looming threat of the Night Trap remaster.

4/10

I sure did. Swear I was reading that topic when I posted. I'll fix it

4/10

Look, they just don't want spoilers for the next sermon.

I don't know what you specifically hate about the spiritual summoning you think even could be fixed, but the anime really changes nothing about the concept.

Gi in original plot was just, "They attacked, your dad fought them off and was Medusa'd in the process. Also they stick around undead now for no reason."

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