History Headscratchers / GhostTrick

** This is explained as soon as it is lampshaded. Sissel wonders why he still fell after [[spoiler: Jeego]] died, but then Cabanela plays the rest of the tape to show the black cat push him to the ground. [[spoiler: This makes sense when we realize that the cat is posessed, and Yomiel has reason to make his body fall to the ground.]]

* Why didn't Sissel agree to [[spoiler: Let Lynne get crushed so they could retry the final mission? Since this was before her first death, her soul wouldn't be awake, and characters have been shown to not be aware of what happened to them if they were not a part of the Ghost Trick. Plus, she was unconscious at the time, she wouldn't remember betting crushed anyways and would probably chalk it up to being a really bad nightmare. Or they could just redo Yomiel's death and have Yomiel helping the entire time.]]

* Why did Jowd's family keep a ''loaded'' firearm as a decoration? Generally if you're having a gun as decoration, wouldn't unload it before?

** I wondered that, too. Did they not have any relatives who could take her in? My fanwank is that [[spoiler:maybe Kamila was just staying with Lynne over the weekend, or decided to move in with Lynne rather recently; they bonded over the Jowd case and came to be like sisters, and Kamila ended up spending a lot of time at her place, until Lynne ultimately invited her to stay for good. It seems to fit with Lynne's character and I can see how they'd become so close, considering what links them.]]

* How does Lynne go from [[spoiler: being a young girl involved in a hostage situation that Jowd witnessed]] to [[spoiler: living in an apartment with-and apparently being the caretaker of-his daughter? Obviously Kamila needs someone to look after her while her dad's in jail, but I never understood why Lynne was that person.]] It's about the only thing I never got about this game and I keep wondering if it was explained somewhere and I managed to miss it.

* Why do those guards never learn not to fall through the trapdoor after the first time they do it?

* Why didn't [[spoiler: Yomiel's body]] have a core that Sissel could go into [[spoiler: at the beginning of the game]]?

* Why didn't Sissel agree to [[spoiler: Let Lynne get crushed so they could retry the final mission? Since this was before her first death, her soul wouldn't be awake, and characters have been shown to not be aware of what happened to them if they were not a part of the Ghost Trick. Plus, she was unconscious at the time, she wouldn't remember betting crushed anyways and would probably chalk it up to being a really bad nightmare. Or they could just redo Yomiel's death and have Yomiel helping the entire time.]]

* [[spoiler:If animals can get powers of the dead too, then why don't we ever see the ghosts of any tiny animals such as insects? There must have been some that died within the radiation.]]

** An alternate explanation: they just go back to the moment when the person ''would have'' died if their fate had not been changed. Most of the time, it might as well be the present, but this time... nope.

** An alternate explanation: they just go back to the moment when the person ''would have'' died if their fate had not been changed. Most of the time, it might as well be the present, but this time... nope.

Personally, while I don't think that any of that ''excuses'' him -- Yomiel himself said it best, that nothing he could do would be enough to excuse him -- I think that what he did after going back to the past, along with willingly spending ten years in jail to pay for the crimes that he still did commit in the changed timeline, ''and'' the fact that they [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned a happy ending]] and no one but the four of them would ever remember all of that suffering, it's [[{{YMMV}} conceivably]] enough to ''forgive'' him. Not forgive his actions, but to forgive Yomiel himself.]] Or at least put the past where it belongs and move on.\\

*** [[spoiler:It's stated by Yomiel that powers change over time. I guess this means Sissel's powers had limits at first, so he could only manipulate certain objects, like Yomiel who couldn't immediatly possess people but could later on.]]

** Escaping interrogation would have shat all over his case for [[spoiler:not being a spy]], so it's possible that he was never able to clear his name [[spoiler:in the new timeline, even though he had been cleared in the game's timeline]]. Even if he ''was'' found not-guilty of that, he still would have been charged with theft ([[spoiler:of a ''weapon'']]), hostage-taking ([[spoiler:of a ''child'']]), threatening a police officer, resisting arrest... [[spoiler:saving Lynne]] doesn't change that. All of it could easily add up to 10 years, especially given that he would have been tried in an ''AceAttorney'' KangarooCourt.

* Which objects have cores for you to possess seems really arbitrary. Was any explanation ever given for why you can possess a police officer's nightstick, but not his badge, or his hat, or wallet, or etc? One puzzle requires you to possess a shirt on a clothesline, but you can never possess any clothing that anyone is wearing. Except for body armor being worn by prison guards. Huh? Is there any logic behind those cores in inanimate objects?

* In the first chapter, how did Sissel's/[[spoiler: Yomiel's]] get to the bottom floor of the junkyard? The assassin Jeego originally kicked his corpse down there after killing Lynne, but when Sissel changed her fate by killing Jeego, he also prevented the corpse from being knocked down. Yet when you return to the present, it's still been moved, but now without a cause. The game even lampshades this paradox, but it's never explained.

** [[spoiler:Remember that Yomiel can't see a ghost without actually looking for it; you're able to freely manipulate things when he's standing right next to you without him noticing, as long as it's not something big. Also, Missile can jump from core to core even if they're a good distance away, so finding a path isn't as hard for him as it is for Sissel. As long as he's able to get on the sub with Yomiel, he wouldn't have much of a problem getting to his body.]]

** [[spoiler:Remember that Yomiel can't see a ghost without actually looking for it; you're able to freely manipulate things when he's standing right next to you without him noticing, as long as it's not something big. Also, Missile can jump from core to core even if they're a good distance away, so finding a path isn't as hard for him as it is for Sissel. As long as he's able to get on the sub with Yomiel, he wouldn't have much of a problem getting to his body.]]
* Regarding the so-called "impossible move": [[spoiler:Cabanela and the Professor form the theory of a "manipulator" after they re-create the Rube Goldberg machine and cannot find a way to replicate the turn of the Cupid statue: the "impossible move". The problem is that Yomiel can only manipulate ''living'' creatures, and could not have "manipulated" the Cupid in the way Cabanela and the Professor theorise. Furthermore, if Yomiel possessed Kamila and made her sabotage the device, there would still be evidence of the method she used to make the Cupid turn, unless Jowd destroyed it as part of his arrangement of the scene. Is this a genuine plot hole, or a case of Cabanela and the Professor being RightForTheWrongReasons?]]

** [[spoiler:Remember that Yomiel can't see a ghost without actually looking for it; you're able to freely manipulate things when he's standing right next to you without him noticing, as long as it's not something big. Also, Missile can jump from core to core even if they're a good distance away, so finding a path isn't as hard for him as it is for Sissel. As long as he's able to get on the sub with Yomiel, he wouldn't have much of a problem getting to his body.]]

* Regarding the ending, [[spoiler:how did Missile-prime manage to get back in time to ten years ago on the first iteration? He's explicitly stated to not have the ability to go through phone lines, and without Sissel going around throwing a wrench into people's plans, things should have gone very differently -- most of the other characters involved in the submarine raid would have been dead. He also couldn't have snuck in with Yomiel -- his only other connection to the sub -- since Yomiel has the ability to detect ghosts. So how did he end up in the submarine where Yomiel's body was discarded?]]

* Why is Kamila so calm [[spoiler: when we first learn she was kidnapped? When Dandy approaches her to kidnap her in the park, she is frightened and tries to resist, but by the time they meet up with Beauty, Kamila is calmly reading a book, seemingly oblivious to her situation.]]

** There are several possible reasons. My personal theory, however, is that he wanted Jowd to know that ''he'' was the one to save her. He was probably feeling pretty self-sacrificial at the time too, and that was a route that could easily have resulted in his death -- something that he may have wanted. Also, it might have just not occurred to him to do so. He manipulates his own body a lot (And it seems easier for him to do so -- he manipulated his own corpse with ease during a period where he was otherwise unable to manipulate anything other than small objects and small creatures) so he might have done it simply because there was less chance of the possessee resisting him subconsciously or him just plain losing control.