lame-teen-blog

[bytedykes]

the stolen turnabout is so good so far wtf i love the new characters theyre introducing and the old characters theyre bringing back. hi larry

[inspector-montoya-fox]

although the Stolen Turnabout was one bitch of an episode, it doesn’t stop the game from being the best in the series. i do have my issues with that episode (and i’ll get back to that) but the other episodes are just that good. firstly, the game manages to tie every loose end together even when you thought it wouldn’t. but it does and it does it so masterfully too. that Morgan Fey revenge threat at the end of Justice for All wasn’t just a throwaway - she really did come for her revenge, even beyond the grave. and they use the lore so well - lore which was set up two games prior - to establish the murder and the motive. you think the Fey clan’s mystic powers are a sidestory but it’s actually the entire premise for the trilogy, like wow. and you don’t realise it up until the very end, because the case itself starts off with ‘oh there’s this mystic temple we want ot visit haha’ and then the Elise Deauxnim thing isn’t really revealed until the trial later on. i mean, even if you saw it coming, the way they fit in Godot and even Dahlia Hawthorne into all of it, it’s amazing. it’s by far and away my favorite case.

as for the other cases, they’re all great too. but i want to get the Stolen Turnabout out of the way first. here’s why i don’t like it: it’s lowkey boring and the characters are annoying. straight-up. i literally did not want to defend Ron DeLite, that little deluded gay dweeb. he has this hot AF wife back home and like, he’d willingly go to jail? why doesn’t he give a fuck about Desiree? if that was my wife i’d be home all day with her, riding on her bike and idk fucking or whatever. and if that wasn’t enough, Luke Atmey is another annoying character, which makes for an ok rival but is gone with just the first trial. so we’re not there to compete against  him or anything, he’s just there, in court, to annoy us. to top it all off, we don’t actually investigate the murder. we start by investigating the theft and then get to the murder, with no cutscene, no body, no substance or anything. the only thing there is a nice takeaway with Larry as the security guard and a nice reference to Wendy Oldbag. welp. i had a hard time finishing that level because the backgrounds weren’t nice as well. the computer room was reminiscent of Jake Marshall’s office from Rise from the Ashes (another horrible case), and the victim’s office was reminiscent of Redd White’s office from Turnabout Sisters (an amazing episode). i honestly hate Stolen Turnabout maybe even more than Turnabout Big Top but as i said, it doesn’t ruin the game experience. instead, it makes the other cases feel like absolute gold.

yes, i know Recipe for Turnabout is problematic because of Jean Armstrong’s presentation and the jokes on his character, i even talked about it with some of my mutuals on here, but it doesn’t ruin the episode for me. i think Recipe for Turnabout is my favorite non-main storyline episode (it’s up there with Turnabout Samurai tbh). El Tigre and Viola are both great characters with awesome designs. the story is intricate, the murder is interesting, the mob is involved, we get to defend Maggie Byrd, we get waitress Maya, and a copycat Phoenix is on the loose. Victor Kudo and Lisa Basil as the minor characters are also superb. the music is great too. and it’s honestly such a sweet little interlude before the main story resumes.

the cherry on top is honestly playing as Mia (twice!). i remember being so upset when she died because we didn’t get enough of her and to have her return as a playable character no less, i was gagged and gooped. add to that Godot and his entire story arc. i lowkey cried when his end came and he started admitting everything. and the MELODRAMA of it all. how he can’t see red, when he cried blood and quotes like ‘the only time a lawyer can cry is when it’s all over’. someone on the Ace Attorney wiki wrote how it’s funny how Mia’s killer is Redd White and Godot can’t see the colour red, and how that ties into how he blamed Phoenix for the murder instead of the actual culprit. that’s... i don’t even know what. on a higher fucking plane of intellect. AND AND AND to have him interact with both Edgeworth and Franziska, the way they brought those characters back in general, playing as Edgeworth too. everything unravels so beautifully, and the story is supported by the cute backgrounds and the absolutely perfect music (Fragrance of Dark Coffee). the game truly completes the series, like i wouldn’t have it any other way. that’s why it’s my favourite in the series.