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Anyway, let's talk about 6-1 and, by extension, SoJ as a whole. I love Khura'in as a setting because it's so exotic and different from anything else we've seen in the series to date. As such, I don't really mind that the game takes about 10 minutes to let Ahlbi give you a quick introduction to it. I love the music in Khura'in, too. It feels very mystical, which is appropriate for a setting like this. The game also wastes no time letting you know Maya is in this game if you somehow managed to start the game without knowing that! Phoenix is here to celebrate the end of Maya's training (and about time!), but he arrived two weeks early due to a misunderstanding that Capcom relegated to a YouTube video, which I guess was a wise decision considering people think the intro is already too long as it is...!

During the Dance of Devotion cutscene, in which Rayfa's outfit is so tight you can see the outline of her belly button through it somehow, Ahlbi gets arrested, which is your first red flag that Khura'in is kinda messed up since they're arresting a 9-year-old kid at gunpoint with several armed guards. Your next sign this place is kinda messed up: The bailiffs are all armed and not afraid to let you know it. They also won't let Phoenix enter the courtroom because they think he's just some punk tourist. One of the bailiffs offers to let Phoenix take a picture of him if he'll just beat it! However, once he tells them he's a lawyer, they're so flabbergasted by it that he's able to slip past them and get into the courtroom.

We get a full motion scene of this, as he looks around to see everyone present...except for Ahlbi's defense attorney. He's understandably confused by all of this, which is further compounded when the Judge is already declaring Ahlbi to be guilty ten minutes into the trial (von Karma sneers at a ten minute trial! He'd have done it in a third of the time!). Because Phoenix is a magnet for trouble (something Ahlbi says Maya told him about him, which feels a little bit like the pot calling the kettle black...! Although maybe she's onto something because she only gets in trouble when he's around!), as well as a glutton for punishment, he OBJECTS and takes up his place at the defense's bench. Your next warning sign that Khura'in is a little messed up is that everyone is utterly baffled by what Phoenix is doing and Ahlbi urges him to stop before it's too late. Perhaps the biggest red flag is that Gaspen Payne is dressed like a king and calling himself the Incredible Payne! He's somehow risen to the rank of Chief Prosecutor in three short months.

The Judge tries to shoo Phoenix out of the courtroom and is willing to excuse it all as an ignorant mistake by a foreigner...but Gaspen says he's willing to play along with Phoenix and give him a shot at defending Ahlbi. I don't really care for the guy in 5-1, but he's great here. He feels way more competent here (He has a witness and evidence ready for nearly all of Phoenix's questions despite the fact that he theoretically should never need them), but he's especially vindictive here because he's trying to lure Phoenix into getting trapped by the DC Act. I dunno if Gaspen thought he would just slink away in shame and fear once he found out about the DC Act or if he was actually trying to get him killed. It's hard to say.

The Judge decides to roll with it, although he needs a refresher course on what a defense attorney actually does since Khura'in hasn't seen one in a courtroom in two decades. I love the fact that he openly laughs at Phoenix, especially when he fails. When you expose the lie in Ahlbi's testimony, he goes, "So this is the power of cross-examination! The more the accused talks, the more suspicious he gets!" I like that he gets in a hurry to leave so he can take a class with his wife and is upset when he gets chewed out by her for missing it. This is probably the Khura'in Judge's best case by a long shot.
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