History Headscratchers / GhostTrick

* Two questions regarding the ending: [[spoiler:Who gives kitten Sissel the red neckerchief in the ending timeline (I'm assuming Yomiel gave it to Sissel in the game's timeline), and why do the Noisy and Curry-Loving Jailbirds still have their striped "jailbird" clothing if Yomiel never possessed them and committed their crimes?]]

** Though the game makes no hints or mentions to it, this troper believes the rule was put in place to prevent [[spoiler:Sissel from bringing Alma (Jowd's wife) back to life. When Sissel saves Lynne for the second or third time, she asks why she doesn't have the same powers as him, because according to her, they would help. Considering she is looking into a murder case, she may have been considering trying to save Alma with ghost tricks. Although even if they could, Yomiel was there, and he was determined to kill her.]]

** It might be in case Sissel got the sporadic idea to try and save a bunch of random dead people. Or better yet, it was likely a subtle hood-wink from the writers to avoid would've have otherwise been a hanging question of "if he can go back to save people's lives, wouldn't that mean he can save literally every single person who's ever been killed by something other then natural causes?". Limiting it to people who've been dead for only 24 hours limits the unfortunate implications that he could end up accidentally saving...say, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler]]. Just to use an example - My point is that it limits the implications for what Sissel could actually use his powers for (whether it be for good or for evil). Especially since the end of the game reveals [[spoiler:He will actually exist forever. If they didn't have Ray drop that line in it'd have basically meant Sissel was a horrific abomination who had unlimited god like powers.]]

* Minor point: Near the start of the game, Ray mentions that Sissel's power to rewind time will only work on corpses that have not been dead for longer than 24 hours. Why did he point that out? Sissel never encounters any bodies during the game that have been dead for more than a few hours. [[spoiler: Yes, I know that Yomiel has been technically dead for 10 years, but as the Temsik fragment within him kept him trapped in the instant where the fragment pierced his heart, he is not "truly" dead.]]

** We can't see the words anyway so might as well have Sissel get to it and examine it for us. [[spoiler: Besides, he can't read due to being a cat anyway so might as well just have him hop to it]].

** The game did mention about that. At the scene [[where Jeego tries to kill Lynne, if you release the giant box that could kill Jeego without Jeego beneath it]], then this is discussed between Lynne and Sissel. It seems Sissel just tries not to think about that.

** 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.]]

***** The best explanation would be this. [[spoiler: Lynne's body for the first time was at the bottom because that's where her corpse lies at the longest. For Jowd, it's because his corpse was carried away and placed on the table. For the detective in the van, his corpse was in the van so technically, the van was at the park the longest than at the restaurant. For Yomiel, it's because he technically died at the park but the meteor fragment stopped life, death and time. And when the fragment was removed, that's the gateway to the past. But if you add common sense, there is no way you can save the van detective from the restaurant itself and there is obviously no way you can save Yomiel's death from the past in the park]].

* Why does Sissel have to possess the blackboard to read it, but can clearly see the painting Jowd made without having to possess it?

*** Two humans who have [[FridgeHorror NO FUTURE]]

** I think they're all RidiculouslyHumanRobots, myself. Like, all the foreigners. Hence why they have blue skin, even though the game is canonically set in the mostly-realistic ''AceAttorney'' universe.

** Yomiel can manipulate objects far more effectively than Sissel. When he kills Cabanela, he manipulates objects without leaving his body. Assuming he was able to do this 5 years before, it would've made setting up the death trap as Kamila simpler as well (she's too short to reach some of the objects, and Yomiel wouldn't have wanted to leave her body).

* Why is Yomiel able to just have a bunch of random, inanimate objects hover around his soul in order to use as a fully functional body? That's completely different from anything else the ghost tricks are established to be able to do, least of all because he's using multiple things at once.

* Related to an above point, at the start of erasing Yomiel's death, some optional dialogue has Sissel ponder about how the entire situation would resolve itself if little-Lynne just wondered away. The idea is dismissed immediately though. This would make sense if it was just Sissel and Missile. But Yomiel's there too. Why doesn't he possess little-Lynne and force her to run away? The same question applies to himself after he's taken Lynne hostage. Couldn't he just take control of his own body, and force himself to move out of the way of the fragment path? Hell, for that matter, he's clearly shown he has the ability to control people's bodies in complex ways. Couldn't he just possess himself and force himself to drop his gun, or let little-Lynne go? There just seem to be multiple ways they could have resolved things with Yomiel's help, but instead they just put on a dramatic "heroic-sacrifice" finale, so that Yomiel can come off as more sympathetic.

* In the final chapter, when "Mino" is falling onto little-Lynne, Yomiel possesses himself to get himself to throw Lynne away, which results in him getting non-fatally crushed instead. Here's the question: Why didn't he just possess little-Lynne and throw her from underneath? He can possess people. Why does he automatically think to possess himself and not Lynne?
* Related to the above, at the start of erasing Yomiel's death, some optional dialogue has Sissel ponder about how the entire situation would resolve itself if little-Lynne just wondered away. The idea is dismissed immediately though. This would make sense if it was just Sissel and Missile. But Yomiel's there too. Why doesn't he possess little-Lynne and force her to run away? The same question applies to himself after he's taken Lynne hostage. Couldn't he just take control of his own body, and force himself to move out of the way of the fragment path? Hell, for that matter, he's clearly shown he has the ability to control people's bodies in complex ways. Couldn't he just possess himself and force himself to drop his gun, or let little-Lynne go? There just seem to be multiple ways they could have resolved things with Yomiel's help, but instead they just put on a dramatic "heroic-sacrifice" finale, so that Yomiel can come off as more sympathetic.

** [[spoiler: In the ending you're shown the meteorite radiation coming from Sissel, so yes, he was hit. Most likely the shard went through Jowd's leg and then hit Sissel.]]