The Ace Attorney Series

If that's how the Joint Reasoning mechanic works, then it kind of reminds me of Sherlock's HUD vision in Sherlock.

Except with dramatic spotlights.

EDIT: TGS presentation. Extended trailer around 2:30, Joint Reasoning demonstration around 12:35.

Hey look guys, a jury! And a giant torch scale! Joint Reasoning seems to be more like Confrontation and a bit of the Mood Matrix Overload (in 3D!), though then again we see more of Sherlock's side of the mechanic than Ryuunosuke's.

edited 20th Sep '14 10:08:08 AM by BeholdTheTheremin

So I need help in AAI 2. The bit of Knightley's testimony about the gun, seems like I need to make a far more complex argument than the evidence I have would allow.

Alright, so I've got to the bit of DD where Klavier shows up again, and I have to ask, has anyone written lyrics for Guilty Love? I think there might have been some in AJ, but my memory's a bit fuzzy on that.

While no lyrics existed at the time the game came out, Shu Takumi wrote lyrics for a live performance of the song at an Ace Attorney 10th Anniversary event.

I just realized something. Joint Reasoning is essentially a battle of Deductive wits between Ryuunosuke and Sherlock. Phoenix's Ancestor has to on (presumably since this is a mechanic in the game) multiple occasions Prove Sherlock Is Wrong!!!

Or at least make Sherlock refine his deductions so that they both end up at the truth.

It sounds like you aren't proving him wrong, exactly, so much as pointing out when he's jumping to conclusions. "But couldn't the mud on his coat instead mean...?"

A video containing ONLY the Joint Reasoning Mechanic from the page topper's video. Still only in Japanese though.

Ace Attorney has desensitized me to European child prodigies so Watson being a 8-year old doctor/writer doesn't bug me as much as it should.

But there's something about her voice in the trailer that makes me want to punch something.

edited 26th Sep '14 4:56:08 AM by ukokira

Someone over at CourtRecords.net has translated the Joint Reasoning segment..

Looks like it's going to go the route of the Great detective...either ain't as great as he thinks he is, or he is that good but looks in all the wrong places.

edited 28th Sep '14 8:50:21 PM by TwilightFalchion

So I just finished Prosecutor's Path. I quite enjoyed the game, the interconnectedness of absolutely everything felt like an interesting change of pace and was pulled off very well. The fan translation was up to par with the original translation, especially brilliant was Simon Keyes names. It sounds like just your standard "generic witness/defendant Punny Name making his true importance a genuine shock. It also creates an ironic parralel with the next Simon Edgeworth meets whose story is almost the exact opposite, down to how players will react to his character design. The animations for Simon are really clever too. He'll at points cover his eyes, ears, and mouth. See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, from a Big Bad who never directly killed anyone until the last case. I also really enjoyed how sympathetic Simon ends up. His entire life everyone he's ever trusted, save the hired assassin, has betrayed him. He can see only the darkness in people and devoted himself to getting back at them, in a way where he doesn't have to rely on the (apparently corrupt) courts.

edited 29th Sep '14 10:20:07 AM by RhymeBeat

i agree with all of that. i also really enjoyed blaise as a villain. i was a bit...conflicted about courtney and i really did not like amnesiac kay.

Agreed. Blaise was a great villian, and amnesiac Kay was so much of a Purity Sue it was sickening. I mean Junie Wood had a self-aware edge and it turns out was willing to break to rules for the sake of her friends. Kay without her memories basically becomes everything Junie was parodying. Courtney for the first three cases was the most grating rival in the series, but my god was her swinging the gavel down on Blaise awesome. From that point on I liked her a lot more, especially because they weren't afraid to humanize her.

i suppose the bit that truly bothers me about amnesiac kay is that she tries to martyr herself, which as usual, strays straight into Stop Helping Me territory. i have no idea what leads her to think that proving edgeworth wrong would somehow help him when his entire career hinges on him being right.

as for courtney, i was pretty much conflicted all the way through out; i knew she was going to turn out to be sympathetic because...well, tradition i guess. and then you start seeing blatant hypocrisy and threats from her and it just becomes hard to actually tolerate her...and then she occasionally sticks up for sebastion which gives her a humanising trait...only to then sometimes suggest she was using him (which turned out to be true) and bleh. and then she forces the warden to cooperate in order to allow the case to turn out in your favor, which improved and confused my opinion a bit more. i was always fascinated about where her character was going but it took a while to actually like her because she ping-ponged between being somewhat likable to being incredibly hard to tolerate.

on another note, courtney's breakdown sprites upset me. they seem eerily alike someone having a panic attack, and not in the fun, overblown villainous breakdown way.

I was able to stomach her treatment of Sebastian well enough, because she actually treated him with kindness most of the time, enough that I believed she still liked the kid more than his father did at least appreciating the effore he put into things. As for Kay her logic was "if he hadn't been defending me he wouldn't have lost his badge, so if he gives up he can get his badge back". Not really solid logic, mind you but this was coming from a girl who'd lost a good chunk of her memory.

As I side note I love the incapable inculpable mix up, because inculpable essentially means NOT GUILTY so it's an amusingly ironic mix up for a prosecutor.

"Demetri Demiglace"?!

Didn't say the translation is accurate....or good. Was the only one i could find.

HOLD IT! I have come to join this discussion~ I was introduced to the series with Layton vs. Wright(the only Ace Attorney series game I could find, I looked for months), and it's not only fun but ridiculously challenging. I have completely fallen in love with this series~ It's the first thing I've played in a long time that actually makes me want to shout alongside the characters. OBJECTION! HOLD IT! TAKE THAT!

I was the opposite. I got into Layton once I heard about the crossover.

This is the video that got me into Phoenix Wright.

As for Prof. Layton, seeing the Japanese trailer for this game in 2012 made me start that series.

Never thought I'd get to play this game, though~

Some of my submissions to Ask Ace Attorney were finally published! Allowing me to be unnecessarily mean to some of my favourite witnesses and villains. :D

The defence would like to add to the court record the irrefutable testimony that Myriam's happy shimmy is utterly adorable

One of mine was answered recently as well.

The final boss of Investigations 3.

Wendy Old-Elevator-Quake.

edited 11th Oct '14 12:49:36 AM by Anomalocaris20

Some really neat what could of been, and Japanifornia explained. But seriously. Havamug? That would have turned a tragic character into a joke.

Ask Ace Attorney Mod ships ApolloXAthena?

Hint: Look at Widget in the second picture.

That was an accident on the moderator's part, he meant to use the regular grinning gif.

But he's leaving it as is, so now we all have to wonder just what it is that's upsetting her.