#Hopefully Susato can come back to the present in case 2-3?

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TGAAC Case 2-2 finished!

And like many flashback cases of Ace Attorney, it was actually more complex than it appeared. It also delivered quite the emotional punch.

At first I thought it was silly that Soseki Natsume was Ryunosuke's client again, and I wrote this case off as a one-off filler. But then as I got deeper into the case and started collecting all the facts, it spelled out a greater tragedy for for the characters involved. In the end it's Shamspeare who's mostly responsible for all the tragedy of course.

But Olive Green made her mistakes too. She wasn't being blackmailed into staying quiet. She could have gone to Scotland Yard or even Sholmes to talk about the suspicious death of her fiance, but she chose to take the law into her own hands instead. I understand her motives but at the same time, she still did some attempted murder.

And poor Soseki. He was literally caught in the middle. When he wasn't nearly being poisoned by gas, he stood accused of murder again. All by the same clown-like actor.

This goes to show that you really can't trust people in the performing arts in Ace Attorney. They are almost always up to something shady (Unless they are a pure cinnamon roll like Will Powers, or a salty cinnamon bun like John Marsh from Investigations 2.) Maybe there's a reason a lot of Ace Attorney culprits are performers of some kind? They use their acting/stage skills to appear innocent? Am I onto something here?

But the actual culprits aren't the only suspicious ones here.

Herlock Sholmes is mostly a good person from what I've seen so far, but he's been very cagey when it comes to one (maybe two?) of his cases. There's been at least two incidents where he tells Iris not to write stories based off them. Whether they're two cases, or two events related to the same case remains to be seen...

But Sholmes's secrecy kind of has me doubting him.

If he's a Villain All Along I will absolutely raise Hell.

If he's morally dubious for a "good reason" (like Phoenix in his "Beanix" era of AA4) I will be quite ambivalent about him.

But if he's traumatized by a case where he failed (the culprit escaped, his client died, and he blames himself,) I'll be way more sympathetic.

There are so many directions that Sholmes and his writing can go, and I'll have to wait and see what happens.

The same can apply to Barok Van Zieks. It's still hard to put together just what happened in his past, and why he starts off as being a smug, arrogant Brit who always seems to side with the truth at the very end of every case. I guess he has his own moral compass, however strangely it may be pointed.

Case 2-3 will be next when I pick the game up again.