History Headscratchers / GhostTrick

* What about Sissel [[spoiler:getting hit by the meteorite shard in the final timeline? You only change the trajectory of one shard, and it ended up in Jowd's leg. Your actions don't seem to affect Sissel's position at the impact moment (I think), so it doesn't seem like he was hit by one of the other (unseen) shards that didn't hit him in the two first timelines. Was it ever ''stated'' that Sissel was hit a shard, anyway? If I remember well, it was only said by Kamila that he never aged, and it might be due to being the one who pulled the ghost trick that pushed the ResetButton (and, in a sense, still being halfway in the land of the dead, somehow).]]

**** No, no, it does work. You see,[[spoiler:Yomiel originally died in the park. His body since then has been nothing but a shell. Even then in the submarine, he didn't die there, his spirit simply wasn't in the body, and the fragment removed, stopping it's endless regeneration cycle. Going back ten years proves this, because Yomiel was frozen between life and death, but four minutes before he actually died placed him in the park. This action shows that his death was considered to be when he was hit with the fragment, not when it was removed from him.]]

* During the ending, [[spoiler:Kamila says Sissel is special because he's ten years old and still a kitten. Why not "never eats" or "never poops"? Those seem more interesting.]]

**** They probably lived happily ever after in the blue people country. Since in the final timeline Yomiel didn't make his contract with Sith, Jengo and Teego won't go to the dump and try to kill Lynne and end up flattened.
***** That's pretty likely, considering when we see [[spoiler:Beauty and Dandy trying to crack the Chicken Kitchen's safe, there's no indication it has any connection to Commander Sith at all. The dialogue doesn't indicate a third party involved, so they may have just been acting on their own.]] So Jengo and Teego wouldn't necessarily have a reason to be in the city at all.

** That's actually a really good point. The park guy had also been dead like four hours before anyone Lynne found him. If they were actually patrolling the area anywhere near the stone they would have noticed the giant statue had been moved and most likely blood seeping out.

*** [[spoiler:A not exactly stable ex-ME, that's who. Who decides to go and run a junkyard just so they'll have more time to investigate an [[TheXFiles X-File]]? And remember, the door to the basement stairs was locked. It was, by conventional wisdom, impossible for someone to get down there without using the stairs, unless someone just happened to be small enough to make it down the dumbwaiter.]]

* Why is [[spoiler:Yomiel]] portrayed as sympathetic? [[spoiler:Sure he is given a tragic backstory and has had a pretty shitty life. Sure he expresses regret for taking Lynne hostage and yes he loves his cat, but lest we forget some of the sympathetic things he did: he murders a 5 year old girl's mother in front of her and makes her think she did it, he possesses a 10 year old girl and ''tries to make her kill her own father'', he actually succeeds in cold-bloodedly killing her in her own apartment as we see in the alternate timeline. And this is just what he does to Kamila! What's more, he shows no remorse until he's been stabbed in the back. But because he's not had a nice life, the entire last hour of the game is dedicated to making him a sympathetic character, and even the last image of the game is a TearJerker image of him drawing a picture of his precious cat. The actions I mentioned are MoralEventHorizon by most people's standards, no matter how crap your life has been. I'm getting DejaVu to a similar glossing-over-of-a-villain's-faults in the last case of Trials and Tribulations.]]

** 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: 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.
*** [[AceAttorney Turnabout Meteorite]]! Apollo Justice manages to get [[spoiler:Yomiel]] only ten years instead of lifetime!

* On the subject of Jowd and Kamila's backstory, this game really must take place in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' universe, because it contains a very similar headscratcher and it should be brought up here as well. Much like how (first Phoenix Wright game major spoiler) [[spoiler:von Karma's ultimate plan against Edgeworth was to get him to confess to the crime of throwing a gun that accidentally went off and killed his father when he was a child]], why was Jowd in this game so worried that [[spoiler:a young Kamila would be arrested for creating a Rube Goldberg machine that malfunctioned in a way that accidentally killed her mother]]? Is it still standard policy to [[spoiler:treat accidental deaths as murder and prosecute minors]]? Worse, he wasn't protecting her from the truth at all, as she knows how it happened. All he did was ensure that [[spoiler:she now has no actual parents in her life, rather than just one]].

* Ever since the events ten years ago, Temsik Park has been protected by law enforcement to ensure that [[spoiler:the other country couldn't get at the meteorite]]. Basically, there are supposed to be cops everywhere. [[spoiler:How did Dandy grab Kamila and get away with it so easily?]]

* On the subject of Jowd and Kamila's backstory, this game really must take place in the ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' universe, because it contains a very similar headscratcher and it should be brought up here as well. Much like how (first Phoenix Wright game major spoiler) [[spoiler:von Karma's ultimate plan against Edgeworth was to get him to confess to the crime of throwing a gun that accidentally went off and killed his father when he was a child]], why was Jowd in this game so worried that [[spoiler:a young Kamila would be arrested for creating a Rube Goldberg machine that malfunctioned in a way that accidentally killed her mother]]? Is it still standard policy to [[spoiler:treat accidental deaths as murder and prosecute minors]]? Worse, he wasn't protecting her from the truth at all, as she knows how it happened. All he did was ensure that [[spoiler:she now has no actual parents in her life, rather than just one]].

** It would probably depend on [[spoiler: how he was hit, how his legs were broken, and how quickly he got medical treatment for it all. And given that Jowd knows that Yomiel got so hurt saving Lynn, he might have seen to it that Yomiel got really good care for his injuries.]]

*** [[spoiler:It's stated by Yomiel and future!Missile 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.]]

**** No, no, it does work. You see,[[spoiler:Yomiel originally died in the park. His body since then has been nothing but a shell. Even then in the submarine, he didn't die there, his spirit simply wasn't in the body, and the fragment removed, stopping it's endless regeneration cycle. Going back ten years proves this, because Yomiel was frozen between life and death, but four minutes before he acually died placed him in the park. This action shows that his death was considered to be when he was hit with the fragment, not when it was removed from him.]]

* Wouldn't a [[spoiler: knit cap]] and definately a [[spoiler: sweet potato]] be just as deadly as a bullet if moving at bullet speed?

* At the end of the game, [[spoiler: Yomiel saves Lynne from Mino by throwing her out of the way. He lived, and ten years later, we see him again. But, when he saved Lynne, Mino crushed his legs, so how was he still able to walk? Unless he had prosthetic legs (which someone on WMG suggested), he should be unable to use his legs]]

* At the end of the game, [[spoiler: Yomiel saves Lynne from Mino by throwing her out of the way. He lived, and ten years later, we see him again. But, when he saved Lynne, Mino crushed his legs, so how was he still able to walk?]]

** Well once it happened, there would be no getting rid of it. Sissel just didn't want to take the chance.

* Similar to a point made above, I'm not sure why Sissel was worried about [[spoiler: Lynne being traumatized by the memory of being killed as a child.]] That death seems like it'd be instantaneous, and she wasn't even looking at [[spoiler: Mino as it fell]], so would she even really know what happened?

** It's pretty much stated that [[spoiler:Yomiel had totally lost it. He'd careened over the DespairEventHorizon essentially from the moment he walked out of the morgue and discovered what had happened to him. Things ''[[ItGotWorse went downhill from there]]'', and it took five years of steadily growing despair and loneliness before he took action against those he'd decided were responsible for his pain. That doesn't mean anything he did was anywhere ''near'' the realm of okay. Once Lynne snaps him back to sanity and he has a HeelFaceTurn, he himself says this straight out]].

** It's possible that in addition to making her hook up the gun to the contraption, [[spoiler:Yomiel]] manipulated Kamila into loading it.