Ace Attorney!

[Sudo_Nym]

Just started 3-2, and I instantly hate Luke Atmey. I hope he dies.

[Parama]

Spoiler: 6-5

this is actually kind of infuriating. once i saw the picture i immediately discerned
1. amara is still alive
2. nayna is amara
3. amara is rayfa's mother

the game only caught up to 1. where i currently am, the first to be continued of the trial (maybe the only one, i have no clue)

but it's just. okay. the game won't let you point out the glaringly obvious red dot on "dhurke" in the seance
and now apollo's like "lol there's only two spirit mediums in khura'in, ga'ran and maya"

hey guess what dumbnuts
AMARA

THE FORMER QUEEN

IS A SPIRIT MEDIUm

AND YOU KNOW SHE IS ALIVE

AND NYANA IS SUDDENLY MISSING

GEEE I O WOOOONDDDEERRRRRR

omg.

i also don't suspect ga'ran at all, even though the game clearly seems to want me to. she's like the lawful neutral to von karma's lawful evil. she's got nasty words but as a prosecutor she's been fairly reasonable and knows when to not try to deflect an argument. i mean aside from all the "off with their heads" talk. but yeah.

so i secretly suspect amara is actually kind of horrible and set the fire to stage her own death then killed inga and tried to pin the murder on dhurke
i just think she might really hate dhurke for some reason since she's tried to pin a crime on him twice now?

i also have to wonder if the fire armie talked about is related to the fire from 23 years ago, because it probably is, that was not resolved in the first half of the case at all so
anyways that's all my rambling, i don't think i'll be finishing the trial tonight but i have MANY WORDS TO SPEAK

[SleepyKrew]

Spoiler: parama this one is safe to open for you

only thing I'm gonna say is that Dhurke actually has that red dot

[Parama]

Spoiler: well ok

so he does, apparently. fine then. the rest stands

[Parama]

Spoiler: 6-5 whoa

SHE MURDERED DHURKE DIDN'T SHE OH NOOOOO

Spoiler: 6-5 addendum

that makes for like, 5 bodies in this case? both armie's parents, jove, inga, and now dhurke???

is armie's mother going to be brought back up btw. she died in a fire. jove died in a fire. it has to be. connected

[Davsto]

I have to wait a month and a half before I am able to buy this game

I have to wait that long

;-;

[Parama]

i'm sorry

[Davsto]

I'm actually being a good person though and not reading the spoilers because I am usually really bad when it comes to avoiding spoilers (although I'm also avoiding literally any video or screenshots or info of the new Zelda since that trailer announcing its name so it'll be new and exciting for me).

[Parama]

yes please do not read spoilers, you do not want them

[Sudo_Nym]

DID THIS MASK WEARING FUCK JUST THROW HIS GODDAMN COFFEE AT ME? THIS IS WORSE THAN THE WHIP!

[Parama]

phoenixcoffee.gif

that was like one of the first things i saw about ace attorney, that

[Parama]

Spoiler: 6-5

so i got to the second to be continued in the trial

...

there's MORE????

...we gotta investigate the case from 23 years ago, yeah, right, okay.

i s2g if garan is really behind everything that's...

...gonna be a little disappointing, actually

[Quilford]

Spoiler: 6-1 and 6-2

These have been good cases! (although 6-2 was in danger of going ott with the twins and the dead dude impersonation thing, but didn't, mainly because it was so unselfconscious about it)

In my headcanon, Duel Destinies never existed and this is now GS5.

the 'last moments' things is a much better implementation of the same idea as the Mood Matrix idea also I actually quite like the Khura'in setting

so geed for Miss Maya

[Parama]

Spoiler: 6-5 the end but actually mostly 6-4

it was a good case, but it should've been two cases.

and @ SK my issue with 6-4 isn't that it's a filler case but that it's a filler case at the wrong time. case 4, historically, has either been the final case or the lead up to the final case. historically. literally every game. 1-4, 2-4, 4-4, final cases. 3-4, 5-4, both investigation games, big lead-up to case 5. here? a pretty stereotypical case 2 style case where we don't even get to investigate. logically speaking, it's probably a -better- case than 6-1, but it had expectations to live up to. and especially with how bloated 6-5 is there seems to be basically no reason for 6-4 to exist other than to go "oh hey athena and blackquill are in the game btw", that's the disappointing part about it.

that being said i love uendo so

[Parama]

also:

Spoiler: 6-5 there are actual spoilers here

the reveals all felt stunningly obvious, to the point where i did not get a single penalty during the entirety of that massive 3-part trial. maybe it's because i already knew most of the "shocking" reveals beforehand through basic common sense but. the one thing that did catch me off guard was ga'ran not being a spirit medium but there was really no way to even guess that until at least the end of the second part of the trial, so...

also was expecting a bit more out of jove's seance. but it was pathetically easy and really brief too. i like the seance mechanic a lot though, shame it likely won't be returning much if at all.

[Parama]

Investigations 2 is great and Investigations 1 is pretty alright though not great either, probably my least favorite besides Apollo Justice

Me b4 aa6:
AA3
AAI2
AA1
AA5
Layton V Wright
AA2
AAI1
AA4

follow-up to this. pingponging between putting AA6 right above or right under AA1. it's definitely a bit higher than DD in my book but not on the level of AA3 or even AAI2. probably will safely lodge it beneath AA1 for now and see if that changes later

[xyzzy]

I'm playing 6-3 now and a character just used the phrase "scum buddies"

[Marquis]

Spoiler: just finished 6-3

i'm sobbing

[SleepyKrew]

ugh I really want more AA
should I figure out a way to play AAI2
should I figure out a way to play the Sherlock Holmes thing

[Parama]

AAI2 is not hard to figure out a way to play. and it's totally worth playing. most cohesive story of the entire series.

[SleepyKrew]

Do you have a recommend emulator and translation version?

[Not_Mafia]

Blanked. Please do not link to pirated software. (Equinox)

[Parama]

1. desmume is what i always use but it occasionally (not frequently) lags
2. english translation: https://gbatemp.net/threads/ace-attorne ... se.367451/

find the rom yourself (not hard)

[Parama]

wow dang NM livin' on the edge posting pirated games in plain sight

[Not_Mafia]

I'm just posting the link for those of us with the japanese cartridge who want a back up. Everyone else, don't click that link