Board 8 > this grand ace attorney overture music is great (spoilers playthrough)

(+) Yeah! (+)

a very Japanese sentiment

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overall pretty solid case for a case 1! a bit long-winded but even though the early contradictions were a little bizarre and the later ones kind of forced/obvious, they were at least all mostly sensible - as opposed to that nonsensical 45-minute diversion into the swapped plates

also builds a lot of hype with all the breadcrumbs about papa mikotoba. looks like we were right to be ultra-suspicious of this dude!
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What'd you expect from someone naming his daughter 'Sus'ato.

...<_< >_>

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true, all the clues were right there
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ah, the shakespearean jester will return this case... kept us waiting way too long for this one!
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I mean you had to wait one epic case and one intro case!

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i'll give you that, but there was no promise that that one would amount to anything - it was so completely random and never-mentioned again, whereas (for example) mcgilded's goings-on and mikotoba's shadiness had way better hooks to them!
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Ace Attorney doesn't waste assets! If they gave those guys animated models, they were coming back.

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"no mr naruhodo! you must never scrutinize a young maiden's belongings"

but the young maiden night have chocolates, or biscuits, or caramel...
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susato and iris are both convinced that we're likely to open cabinets and eat weird chemicals. guess it doesn't help that we're reimagine through bags going for sweets

also if soseki is really gonna be the defendant again UGH
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just think you were very close to him tying Maya's record for most times as the defendant if he had been the one in the intro case

if things had been a little different he could've been accused of the crime!

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herlock sholmes was eating tide pods 120 years before it was cool

... and naruhodo being entirely on board with this theory certainly lends weight to susato and iris's fears about him eating other chemicals...
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i honestly feel like the banter during deduction dances is some of the greatest in the game, i laugh so much during investigating here - entirely justifies an utterly preposterous mechanic
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Dance of Deduction is fantastic even if every single one of them is ridiculously easy

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oh man he's not dead is he - i was kinda relieved to think he was, but this is cool, did want more of this weirdo!

also, that is one of my absolute favorite shakespeare passages they just quoted!
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Gregson showing a surprising level of culture

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glad we're getting some follow-up on just how much the garridebs are a bunch of busybodies
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also soseki keeps growing on me more and more. you'd think i'd be getting sick of him but the posing and alteration crack me up so much and then he says some whack stuff too
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wow - trial already! let's go! might have to break garrideb in court again? and *probably* we'll find out thay shamspeare poisoned himself, whether intentionally or not!

this case would also definitely explain why garrideb can't attract any more tenants!
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naruhodo needs to be reminded of a summation examination two days after performing... what, two or three in the same trial?
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That's what he gets for eating soaps.

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SeabassDebeste posted...

naruhodo needs to be reminded of a summation examination two days after performing... what, two or three in the same trial?

His memory isn't the best

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i had no clue what the red substance actually was, and this has company storyline is pretty fascinating

but the biggest shock had to be that there's a second day of investigation!
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sholmes drinking ink and then eating soap is brilliant
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gah, found a photo of garrideb with the man from olive green's bedside photo - but no reaction from naruhodo/susato. c'mon!
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shamspeare is amazing. i'm loving this case. trial 2 is beginning and while i don't understand the motive for framing soseki, it seems clear he knew the murderer who died - perhaps was related, as we've seen his mask slip a little. it also send to indicate he killed the last remnant and is behind the curse and soseki's issues with gas and sleeping

here we go!
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get thee to a nunnery

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get thee to a nunneriiiIIIIEEEEEE

also three straight summation "testimonies" about gas - amazing
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so, obviously i had no clue that the victim was blowing on the lamp's pipe - we knew he was probably responsible for tampering with the gas, but not how. the sunstone examinations are ridiculous, but the details cleaned from them are wonderful

and if course because we only learned this during the trial itself, i had no idea who to suspect. i'd continued to suspect shamspeare of poisoning himself

but when asked, it seemed on me who had the motive, and was suspiciously somewhere she shouldn't be, and meet someone at shamspeare's favorite pub, and recently had been seen with poison...

one of the best executed twists for sure - love this. and while he is genuinely a garbage murderer, shamspeare really does think natsume postponed him - or at least was prepared to throw him under the bus.

the only part that's truly unclear right now - what is shamspeare's motive for trying to kill his upstairs neighbors? if it done sort of vengeance for his brother? i imagine that'll come deep into this cross examination with olive....
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Yeah, Olive actually being an important part of the case was a cool twist.

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just wrapped the case. really well set up, though the execution of most of the final trial segment was a little iffy. not a lot of buildup; a lot of redundant comments (soseki definitely swears he's going home after G1-4, for one)

but i reaaaally like the setup with dual murders, especially olive as a "loose end" and soseki's haunted mansion being tied up in the most satisfying possible way. that said i think we could've done just as well if shamspeare and metermann weren't introduced in g1-4.

i commented before that i felt g1-4 was the best social commentary of the series. g2-2 is a better case (probably the best of the GAA cases so far), and it has somewhat similar of a fascinating with how the other half lives - loved delving into the gas - but that part is understandably less of a focus with so much more "murder plot," and revisiting familiar ground

i do like the continued hype for hound of the baskervilles
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I mean, Soseki didn't get much of a chance to pack his bags before he got arrested again!

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i agree, but the sentiment is an old one, and susato/ryunosuke act shocked that he says it
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It would have been funny if Soseki said he was going to pack his bags and leave again, but instead of being like "what? so soon?" they were just like "oh yeah, obviously. please get out of here as soon as possible"

haha, wouldn't be unearned!
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Finished reading the first two pages of this topic and all caught up. Great stuff. And yeah, I agree that G2-2 was really good and I loved how Olive played into it. Poor girl.

And the upcoming case is also quite good!

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thanks for following!

firing up g2-3 now and man, investigating the reaper's office is phenomenal
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G2-3 hype

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finally catching on up on these playthrough topics. g2-3 is excellent.

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van zieks's chest-clutch animation is great

the way he talks about his reputation gives me make harvey-dent-in-the-dark-knight vibes
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He's not the prosecutor London deserves but the one it needs right now

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also man if we hadn't been shown kazuma's body (... right?) then this masked figure would totally ne him. or "a shin," i guess

(similar to karma's shoulder-grab, i wonder if van zieks's heart-clutch is related to his backstory. he certainly clenched it when we presented our armband...)
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... er, that was posted before ryunosuke started suspecting it himself/we interested with him
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Ryunosuke only saw a photograph of Kazuma's body. He never got to see the body in person.

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yup, definitely noted that.

i'm actually pretty surprised there's a true pre-trial investigation. we started the day late - 9:26 am. then we spent time with sholmes, hoofed it to stronghart's office, and waited 4 hours and 23 minutes or something like that - that'd put us leaving at like 3 pm from stronghart's office given that he bored the bajesus out of us with his love if forensic science. so then a trip to van zieks', two trips to the prison, and now two hours spent in the crowds at the crystal palace... what is it, like 6pm already?

this game is exciting though. i'm reminded of aai2 for sure where you can kind of dive into the good stuff. the crystal tower was set up as a finale-esque area, but we're here already! guess the forensic science part is still yet to come.

also gina's theme and iris's themes are low points of this soundtrack
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AA's sense of time is always way off lawl

according to the timestamps 1-1 lasted 4 and a half hours

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i'm not that bothered by court sessions seeming to take a lot of time. but i'm literally just doing math here using actually stated times! i didn't come up woth the 4+ hours or the 2 hours here,and stronghart mentioned 223 details...!

(also, i'm suddenly reminded that the annoying gina/gregson song is *not* gina's theme, which is now playing and is considerably better - but still not top notch like so many of the others)
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also this scrap of fabric is obviously from a really really thick raincoat that was struck by lightning... it indeed sounds sholmesian!
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it's the beginnings of Gumshoe's trenchcoat

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SeabassDebeste posted...

also gina's theme and iris's themes are low points of this soundtrack

counterpoint: both are good

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