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Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an



This is the best Edgeworth sprite.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

I forgot how cutthroat Miles was in the first game.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Edgeworth's life basically goes all downhill from here.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

As a rule, defendants don't tell Phoenix near enough what they should about the situation.

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Feb 26, 2014

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MegaZeroX posted:

: The Steel Samurai is just some silly children's show. There is nothing special about it.
An almost-imperceptible bead of sweat runs down Miles' temple.

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Miles almost certainly got a call from the Chief Prosecutor about half-assing the prosecution for Redd White.

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Feb 26, 2014

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EponymousMrYar posted:

The game isn't done with Edgeworth's arc yet but this is a continuation of the Redd White case for him. In Redd White, he was completely convinced that Pheonix was guilty, just the same as all the others he's prosecuted... And then Pheonix proved him wrong by having Redd White be guilty, who Edgeworth was protecting at the time... Completely at odds with his stated goal of 'convicting the guilty.'

It needs to be emphasized that the last case is the first time Edgeworth has ever outright lost in court. Some rookie lawyer rocked him and he hasn't been the same since. Hence why he tends to break composure more often here.

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

That mafia thing never does come up after the thugs show up in the trailer.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

This is the case that really sets the tone for the rest of the series.

It goes off the rails so fast.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Everyone, please read Manfred in the most stereotypical "angry German asshat" voice you can think of.

Also, Gregory Edgeworth is basically Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Manfred is where the first game's satire on the Japanese legal system gets very direct.

Intimidating the Judge into doing (mostly) whatever Manfred demands is only the tip of the absolutely massive iceberg that is this man's career.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

In hindsight, one realizes that Edgeworth played fair the most out all of Phoenix's prosecutors.

Though Manfred is the pinnacle of flagrant abuse of prosecutor power in the series.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

That loving parrot.

Cyouni posted:

To be fair, that's still pretty commonly used to refer to someone if you've got a Chinese background. Can't speak for any other backgrounds, though.

ONE MOOOOORE THING

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Waffleman_ posted:

This one textbox is the sole foundation we use to lay out the entire Ace Attorney timeline. This is literally the only time a specific year is mentioned in any of the games. Every other time an event from the past is brought up, it's in relative years ago. I didn't even think Capcom had acknowledged the timeline until they started talking about it when it began in real time.

Also, the live-action movie, despite being set in "20XX," has a DL-6 evidence tag show the crime as happening in 2012, the year of the movie's release, making that movie take place in 2027.

2001 is also when the first game came out.

Also, the events of the first game are happening this year.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an



God it feels so good to see this again.

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Feb 26, 2014

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MegaZeroX posted:

Nah, in Japanifornia, parents pay $38.00 for a burger at school.

The Japanifornian regime has let inflation go out of control.

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Feb 26, 2014

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Air is lava! posted:

Wait a second. Phoenix decided to start being a lawyer after Edgeworth was already working for so long that the newspapers started talking about him? Is law school in Japanifornia just a 2 week course?

Edgeworth was like 18 when he passed the bar.

He did it in Europe. They're more progressive there.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

There's a lot more questionable poo poo about Gregory Pecks murder that the game hasn't brought up yet.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

I forgot about Manfred's line about a granddaughter.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

It's generally assumed that Manfred retrained the parrot because he's a severe perfectionist who considers 99.999% of all possibilities when it comes to cases.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

The case that day is the one where Manfred's perfect record got a little asterisk next to it saying "RECEIVED A PENALTY".

There's no way in hell he doesn't have photographic memory of everything that happened that day.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Miles internally is convinced he's guilty of killing his father, add that to Manfred's style of "results at any cost" prosecution and you get the guy from Case 1-2.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

And somehow, Manfred isn't the most petty person in all of Ace Attorney.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Miles was molded into the man he was in 1-2 by Manfred specifically as a "gently caress YOU" to Gregory.

And still, Manfred somehow isn't the pettiest person in all of Ace Attorney.

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Feb 26, 2014

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Mzbundifund posted:

I'd trust Edgeworth. Knowing Japanifornia there's probably no rules against that sort of conflict of interest, either.

"Conflict of interest" is a heretical concept in Japanifornia, as we'll see further along in the series.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Sylphosaurus posted:

Japan must have some really fancy lawyers since I actually believed that this woman was some kind of top brass in the armed forces at first look.

That's Lana's prosecutor gimmick, she makes the defense give her twenty whenever they get a penalty.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Detective Revolver Ocelot is actually third best character in the case.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

The real star of the case, The Blue Badger, has arrived.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

I'm pretty sure Angel's testimony isn't even the longest in the case.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

This is basically Edgeworth's life now. First hour of the trial goes swimmingly, and then the witnesses start talking .

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u13G3riX8HY

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Joe Darke is literally Yoshikage Kira.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

It's actually a sword and shield.

Rock Knight on the far right there won it in a Knight Contest.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Joe Darke only wanted to live a quiet life.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

The series gradually paints a picture of Japanifornia that becomes batshit horrifying.

The fact that apparently half the police department is involved in a murder as either a victim or murderer is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Joe Darke, spree killer, known innocent man.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

It says a lot that the Japanifornia justice system could figure out a spree killer and bring him in, but not have any loving evidence that would convict him.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Gant is very much a AA4 design. The quality of his sprite compared to Phoenix and Edgeworth is notable.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an



This is the best freak out animation until AA4.

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Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Polaron posted:

So was Darke actually a serial killer or not?

Yes he was, the Japanifornia Justice Squad was just so incompetent that they could establish he was a spree killer but not have any evidence that would convict him.

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