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Was on the ace attorney subreddit and was reading a thread asking what cases made you angry and someone said they thought Bridge to the Turnabout was bad because it was about spirit channelers and someone was like “it’s about the Fey family?? Of course there’s spirit stuff?” and they were like “I don’t want supernatural elements in my detective stories.”

Ok why did you play Ace Attorney then KDNDK

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i don't dislike Vriska as a concept. she's a good and interesting character. but i will never forgive Hussie for bringing her back and having her magically fix every single meteor crew members' problems. motherfucker spent literal years developing Rose's teen alcoholism, Terezi going through an abusive relationship, so on, only to retcon all of that and say Vriska fixed everything so it never actually happened in the new timeline. realistically Vriska would've made everything worse. honestly

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I might be a crazy person but I think the flowers at Hinawa’s grave change colors every chapter. That’s a neat detail, showing that Flint really is constantly bringing new flowers there

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He loves birds so much I’m gonna cry

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i know Nahyuta's whole thing is he's extremely calm and well-put together but i want this dude to be constantly under the threat of disintegrating. he definitely is calm and put together SURE and that is a core element of him no matter what (and i like that about him!) but i also like the idea of, once he no longer has to be that perfect person to survive, that the reality of everything, all his anxieties n guilt n discomfort with himself comes crashing in when it's finally safe for him to feel this way. a miserable kind of catharsis, but a catharsis nonetheless. a necessary one for him to unravel the real version of himself he had to keep deep inside. do you understand my vision

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If I had a nickel for every time fans of a game that has a clearly India-coded fake nation in it insist the country is supposed to be China, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

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people always complain about the Tazmily villagers being massive cunts to Lucas during Mother 3 (understandably so, though i think it’s given the entire town a bad rap that isn’t totally deserved) but honestly i kinda. really like it? there’s just something interesting about how a lot of rpgs like this have your town or whatever town you go to supporting you. it’s a neat subversion to have the town you grow up in turn on you for trying to save them because they don’t know any better.

it’s extremely interesting seeing your town, people who have known you your whole life, fall victim to propaganda and lies to the point that they act in unrecognizable ways, but you choose to help them anyways because it’s in your nature.  when the world resets, it gives them a chance to start over.  i think that’s the implication of the ending, considering a lot of Mother 3 is about letting go and forgiving.  i think the villagers needed to be shitty to help drive home that theme (though a lot of them remained relatively kind, i’d say about 50/50 either way).

it also does a lot to say that cruelty can come from anywhere. you don’t have to be a bad person to do bad things like that, but also that it isn’t necessarily a permanent thing, or that there’s more to people than just the bad things they’ve done.  i feel like Mother 3 ends with the idea that the world is given another chance, and that’s huge.  even if the world was cruel, it still deserved kindness back in hopes of a better future.  the Tazmily villagers are still just people, after all.

Itoi gave the villagers a lot of depth to show how multi-faceted people can be, both kind and cruel, good and bad, and leaves the ending up in the air for people to decide what everyone will choose to do once the world begins anew.  one can only hope that they would do better.

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Consider: Dual Destinies au where Bobby is simply kidnapped and is saved after the conclusion of the final case . And also that he really did interact with Blackquill and the gang before being replaced in 5-4. Imagine him meeting up with Blackquill and the first thing Bobby does is celebrate that Blackquill’s sentence was overturned. Doesn’t think about himself for a second, doesn’t really care about the spy who impersonated him (aside from being very sorry that this fake Bobby hurt his friends and wasn’t fighting for Justice), just relishes in the excitement of knowing this man he believed in so much finally walks free— and just in the nick of time. It’s what he wanted for Blackquill, and it’s a relief because he was on pins and needles knowing Blackquill’s execution date was the next day, and he wouldn’t be there if he wasn’t saved or escaped in time. But everyone is safe, and everyone is happy, just this once.

and then they sloppy make out with each other

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i was thinking about the Tazmily villagers again and i realize that i think one of the biggest tests for how complex n fleshed out you think Nowhere is is entirely dependent on whether you notice how much the villagers change over the course of the game. except for chapter... 8, the villagers all have multiple dialogue changes per chapter that i feel generally go unnoticed. you talk to them once a chapter, then move on, but that misses a lot of out-of-the-way dialogue and moments that Itoi pretty carefully sets up.

it's not necessary to making the world feel lived in, since Earthbound feels very lived in without a main central town (Onett notwithstanding) and lots of dialogue changes, but i think it was very necessary in the case of Tazmily, since the world is much smaller and you keep coming back to the same place over and over again. it's one of the smarter things they did with the writing. those villagers have so much work put into them. they add a LOT of complexity to the world going on, and it's sad to see them forgotten about or reduced to just "people who are cunts to the main characters."

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just found out that utopia, on an etymological level, means “nowhere" (or, literally, “no place”). interesting to think about how the Nowhere Islands were considered a utopia prior to the Pigmasks.

if you think about it like that (insert “it’s not that deep” image here), it feels like Nowhere’s utopian nature inherently forewarns its own demise.  no place can ever be utopian, and even Nowhere, paradoxically existing as utopian and not at all times, can’t escape that.

like, even prior to the Pigmasks, i get this feeling that Nowhere was never able to be a utopia forever. Tazmily was built upon the notion of destroying one’s memories in hopes of creating something better. it inevitably led to its own destruction in ignorance of suffering and evil. ignorance of that begets those things, i guess, so inevitably, the utopian paths leads down towards dystopia. inherently, utopia is its own undoing-- at least in Nowhere’s case it is.

there is no such thing as utopia. to have a loving, kind society takes active effort and energy. i don’t think the villagers were selfish for how they chose to go about creating Tazmily; it’s understandable. but it was a lesson to be learned-- that they can’t avoid the effort of kindness. without active choice towards kindness, they became cruel with ease.

it’s why Nowhere can only improve if the people who live there-- not just villagers, but everyone left behind there-- choose to make the world better than it once was. the core of Mother 3 is Lucas choosing kindness at every possible turn no matter the cost, after all.

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I got my custom plushes of Abbot and Abbey today!!! They turned out so damn cute, I love them so much

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i was looking at some of the old awkwardzombie Ace Attorney comics and oh my god y'all look at this one. obsessed with how dissheveled Yuta looks

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love going into the yuta tag and seeing people hating on him and saying he’s boring. he’s boring to YOU. i can see he’s actually the most interesting character in SOJ though

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