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

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Another great line.

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

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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 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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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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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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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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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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Roll credits!

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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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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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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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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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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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Auchi's 'bud of hope' terrifies me.

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


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Wow what, already reusing Hosonaga's AND Natsume's sprites? (Okay, Hosonaga got a new costume).
I did hear the first game sold badly, but this is some serious cost-cutting measure! Also, that random photographer probably did it.

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Susat-- I mean, Ryutaro does look gallant and dashing with that cape.

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hombad46 posted...

Yeah IMO it kinda sounded like he had a cold

Ha, that's true. Though his other clips are pretty good.

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hombad46 posted...

what?

I mixed up Pavlova's age (15) and thought it was Jezeille's age. So when I met the very suspicious Gina in the third case, I thought it was Jezeille in disguise. Now it's just a joke I roll with.

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Rei has a crush on Susato before realizing it's her. Aww...

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We have Susato standing in front of Kazuma's grave, reminiscing on her past.

But she's about to stand in court...as a lawyer?!

And the victim was...GINA LESTRADE? (a.k.a. Jezeille Brett). What happened...

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So here we go! TGAA2!!

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Yeah, actually I liked her wiping her tears a lot. Poor girl, she's been through a lot.

So, anyway...
We bid good bye to Susato (I'm quite surprised, I thought she'd stay for some reason!) and...more questions left than what we began with.

But all is well...for now!

So, overall thoughts:
It was quite good! Phoenicius is pretty likeable, though not outstandingly so, but I'm glad we could see his grow from a student into a lawyer and the circumstances around it. Susato is lovely, a very steadfast and reassuring assistant but with a lovable geeky side to her.

Kazuma really made an impression too for what little showtime he had. He filled the role really well.

Sholmes is... entertaining at times, but I'm not too big on his comedy antics. It's okay. Iris is not as unlikeable as I feared her to be. She's also okay. Though I'm still iffy at her needless child prodigy status, especially the doctorate in medicine...it never even really came to play. They could've just made her an enthusiastic tinkerer/gadgeteer and I would've rolled with that just fine.

The new system is quite good. Deduction is pretty fun. The more than one witness that they brought back from PL vs. AA made for more varied court proceedings, as did the jury system.

Overall, the game is pretty easy though. I was never really stuck by any of the tricks and more by the usual AA logic gates. Though OTOH the game flowed well, so I'm not complaining too much.

The presentation is gorgeous. I really like the setting and the design of the characters are mostly great. It feels great playing AA on a TV. The music is lovely. Though Phoenicius's Objection! feels a bit...weak.

I do like Van Zieks. He's just a menacing prosecutor with a fair sense of justice without being overly sadistic or friendly.

Sadly, the breakdowns are nothing to write home about. They're really weak. The best one was probably Jezeille's and even that could've been better.

Also the game feels very much like a set up. There are still too many things unresolved, like the list of four names, Hound of Baskervilles, Jezaille's motive, and Iris not knowing his dad's fate. I heard TGAA2 is much better so I'm looking forward to that.

To end on a positive note (and since I forgot to mention it earlier), the translation is top notch. It's really fun reading the different accents and affectations, as well as the choice of words. Love it.

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Oh yeah I saved it.

Yeah this is pretty nice.
Though if it were cuter it'll be even better, but hey, glad we could help her! (I might have too skewed a standard).

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K. Asogi
A. Shin
T. Gureguson
J. Wilson

That is all four.

Four...what? And why are (at least) two of them dead? Are they mutants? Spies? Agents? Homosexuals?

THE MYSTERY DEEPENS!

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Glad we can catch Susato before she left for Japan.

...aww she lost a bit of her faith in the law. I don't blame her.

But yeah, that Cat Flapporator 2000 really saved our hide.

Meanwhile, Iris could communicate with the dead and said A...so...gi...kkhihihiih.

Or she transcribed the morse code and deciphered it. Welp. What is the government hiding?


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Huh Van Zieks said something about being betrayed by another Nipponese.
Vague backstory time!

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WE GOT HlM BOYSSS!!!

GINA IS FREE! SHE CAN SHOOT FIREWORKS ANYWHERE SHE WANTS!

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I know! My body is l@dy.

Did she mention where she picked the memes from?

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Oh yeah, we have the other music disc now! We got you now, Inspector Gregson...or should I say...Inspector TREASON?!

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So we had to present the portal gun first. Geez. That doesn't really follow a good logical path but ok.

Anyway, we pushed Graymon to admit his perjury but he's still denying all murder allegations. Gregson, who conspired to get the second disc from Graymon, insisted he was doing it to serve the nation...the nation of EVIL maybe.

Still, we need a hard evidence to prove either the murder or the transaction...do we really even have something like that...time to take another look at the CR.

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But...I can't just present the photograph to that statement. Nyeh.

Though that "only one statement and only one evidence" didn't take huh.


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Oh wow that's genius. I didn't even notice the lack of a peephole in the earlier photograph.

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The... cat door maker?!

Oh damn.

Does this have anything to do with the way the hinge opens? Maybe Gina couldn't have thrown the pistol outside as claimed by Groydon?

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Another clue? Another evidence?!

...or just a parting gift from Susato.

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Iiiit's Holmes?!

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I'll read that later, but thanks.

So...we have Graydon on a corner, kinda. He can't deny that he was there that night. But the little minx switched his tune and said he witnessed Gina shooting the victim! What a load of crock!

He even mentioned he saw the blood splattered onto the overcoat...yeesh.

Hm? Inspector Gregson is, for some reason, being uncharacteristically angry with Nash...wot.

Oh geez, the blood test came back...

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