#TGAAC 2-2

[alynnl]

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.

[clownowo]

happy pride

Diversity win! This serial killer is an ally!

[wyrtig]

[unluckedtj]

so. this’ll never be real but i think it’d be silly if kazuma got a small white snake. just to hang out with

[magic-metamato]

Despite everything, it’s still you

(Close-up and cat picture under the cut :))

This is Bork :)

[savedatateam]

I couldn't not do it.

[inbarfink]

I think it’s kinda Thematically Interesting how TGAA2 at first hyped up Prosecutor Asogi as, like, ‘ohhh watch out!! This guy was already a qualified defense attorney! He knows how to use the Defense’s tactics in favor of the Prosecution!’. And, like, yeah, that is a strength Kazuma demonstrated throughout the trial….

But he also ended up facing a lot of the challenges that an AA Defense Attorney usually has to face. 

Like, having a culprit confess to their wrongdoing to you in private

And then being unable to prove this confession ever happened in Court.

That’s what happened to Kazuma in this trial, but it also happened to Phoenix and the rest of the AA crew countless times before.

Or just generally, like, knowing that the case you’re working on now is deeply related to finally solving a previous case from X Years Ago... But to actually peruse investigating it, you need to somehow convince the rival legal counsel to somehow see that connection and trust you that there is a connection - even if you can’t prove it until further down the line. And you can't prove it unless you can get them to trust you....

That’s a pretty common trope for AA Final cases but.... one that Ace Attorney players usually experience only from their side.

But this time, it's the Prosecutor is the one faced with the challenge of proving the connection between the past and present cases. And the Defense, and the Player, are faced with the challenge that the Prosecutor usually faces - the challenge of trusting their rival and their new line of inquiry. 

Prosecutor Kazuma is not just a demonstration of how the Defense’s tactics and tricks look from the perspective of their rivals - he also demonstrates how the challenges of the Defense feel from the other side of the bench. 

[nebulaerage]

I am (briefly) back from the dead to post a Collab piece with my beloved @clockworkvampyre!

No better character to draw for this occasion than the decrepit graverobber twink himself.

Og sketch + timelapse under the cut.

[morgynamber]

the game is afoot :3

[tunaricebowl]

pov: van zieks heard you talking shit

[anpiels]

Sketched a little while back and cleaned up for day 5 of Ryuubowl Week (Reunions) :] so-called "free thinkers" when partner's shoulder comfortable and omnibus lamp warm 😴😴😴

[clownowo]

yeah so it turns out "aibou" is. not. really used for romantic partners.

[wyrtig]

asougi

[unluckedtj]

something bad’s about to happen to me

why i feel this way, i don’t know maybe

[itsbebebe]

I swear the line "and to my extortioner, mael stronghart, may you feel the jaw of my beast at your throat every time you swallow" changed me eternally or smth