Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Bridge to the Turnabout, Day Two Trial

Why are none of the attorneys asexual, as far as we know?

Hallo alle miteinander! Welcome back to Wright Wednesday, the weekly blog series where we recap, analyze, and review the various cases of the Ace Attorney series. This week, we are talking about the  first day of trial for the final case of the original trilogy, Bridge to the Turnabout. My name is Roy and I just got back from the store, where I experienced bi panic from looking at a cute boy.

My name is Sam, and I just got back from grocery shopping where I experienced covid panic from being near irresponsible maskless idiots.

Before the trial begins, Edgeworth informs Iris of Laurice’s ill-conceived love letter, promising to get his real secret out after Sister Bikini takes the stand. He also talks about how his job as a prosecutor is to doubt people, but acting as a defense attorney he will instead believe in her.

That idea of belief versus doubt is so interesting, and it's prevalent throughout this trial segment.

The judge for this case is indeed the terrible judge from Mia’s case years before. But the prosecutor’s bench is empty, leaving the judge to hand down a verdict immediately. But wait! A whip, an objection, and Franziska von Karma takes the stand! The judge initially objects to the whip, but Edgeworth argues that the truth cares not whether the prosecution wields a whip or drinks seventeen cups of coffee. So the judge…just lets it go, I guess.

I have to wonder who told Edgeworth about Godot's coffee thing.

Maybe it was a guess. An extremely, weirdly specific guess.

That or Gumshoe told him as part of informing Edgeworth about everything he missed in the last year he was gone.

Franziska outlines the case. The victim, Elise Deauxnim, was found dead in the Courtyard of Hazakura Temple with the ceremonial sword Shichishito stabbed through her torso. Eyewitness testimony claims Iris to be the murderer, so Sister Bikini is brought to the stand to testify. She says she was helping an acolyte with her training in the Inner Temple, but left Iris to help while she returned to the temple to take a warm bath and relieve her back pain. But as she left to return, she saw the murder.

According to Iris’ testimony,  however, she remained at the main temple under Bikini’s instructions, to ring the bell at 10pm. Edgeworth points out that Iris would have no reason to lie about this, since being at the Inner Temple would have been far better alibi. So the judge calls Bikini’s memory into question. She further testifies that Iris had been dressed exactly the same at the Inner Temple as she had been at dinner; but since she gave Phoenix her hood between those two times, Edgeworth knows that’s impossible. He also begins to understand how pointing out contradictions like this is so satisfying.

Fun fact: Edgeworth's court sprite is changed here, not just because he's flipped around, but you can see the yellow badge on his lapel.

I'd been wondering if they did a simple asset flip for him. I guess not entirely!

Mostly it still is, yeah, but that's a fun detail. It's also cool hearing Edgeworth with Hold It and Take That sound clips.

Yes, I love that they redid the voice clips for him.

Von Karma wriggles out of this contradiction, but the judge is clearly beginning to doubt Bikini’s testimony. She then goes on to testify about what she actually saw in the Courtyard. She finished her bath around 11, and walked back toward the Inner Temple. Upon hearing a noise in the Courtyard, she saw Iris stab Elise with the sword. Since the body is bruised, indicating a fall, Bikini suspects she must have been pushed out her window and into the Courtyard before she was stabbed.

It's pretty clear throughout this that Bikini is really torn up about testifying, since she's so close to Iris.

It's a nice little detail, I think.

But the autopsy report states the body fell ten feet after death, not before. To complicate matters, no blood was found in Elise's room. Franziska theorizes that the victim was stabbed in her room, but pushed out the window with the sword still inside the wound, stemming the blood flow until the sword was removed in the Courtyard. With this theory in mind, Bikini testifies again, clarifying that the sword was already in place when she saw Iris handling it. She fainted, and when she woke up, the statue of Mystic Ami was holding the sword straight downward, the point stuck in a prone Elise's back.

It's one of those situations where no matter how much things are clarified, they're never really good for the defense.

Pressing reveals that what she really saw was Iris pulling the sword out of Elise. She makes the mistake of saying it was plunged to the hilt, then was smoothly removed, but that would be impossible due to the branches of the sword's blade. After a bit of conjecture, this contradiction is accepted, and Edgeworth establishes that the sword was probably not the real murder weapon. That said, no other such weapon was found on the scene. At this Bikini thinks she might know where the real murder weapon may have gone. And so, she testifies one more time.

It's...a lot of testifying from Bikini.

I've never ridden a snowmobile.

After getting Phoenix to report the murder, she went back to the main gate and saw snowmobile tracks. The murderer could have driven to Dusky Bridge and thrown the weapon in the river while Bikini had fainted. She notes that Iris knows how to use the snowmobile. But a photo of the snowmobile tracks is presented, and there is only one set of tracks. If it had left and returned in ten minutes, there would be two visible tracks; one when it left, another when it returned. Von Karma tries to say the first set would have been erased by falling snow, but aside from the fact that ten minutes of snow could not erase the tracks of a heavy vehicle, the weather report states that the snow stopped ten minutes before Bikini saw the murder. So the snow could not have covered the tracks.

Franziska tries to evade, saying that weather reports aren't always accurate to the minute, and it could still have been snowing. Edgeworth is tasked with proving conclusively that no snow fell after the murder, which is easy enough since the victim's body has no snow on it in the crime photo. The implication, then, is that someone took the snowmobile long before the murder, and brought it back soon after it. Bikini informs the court that there is only one key to the snowmobile, and it was found in Iris' room, indicating that she must have used it to go to the Inner Temple (despite having told Edgeworth that she had not).

It's also important to note that while Bikini knows how to use the snowmobile, she didn't have the keys and claims to have had a bad accident on one a while ago, so she doesn't go on them anymore.

Well, maybe not important, but interesting.

The confusing detail is that, Bikini should have seen it at the bridge when she left for her bath. Not only did she not see it there, she did see it parked at the main gate, complete with a fresh layer of snow. So it must have been used by someone else, to do something else. There shouldn't be anyone else who could have seen it, but Edgeworth remembers someone else who was out and about in that area that night; Laurice Butz (a combination of first and last name I find very entertaining). So he is summoned, and Edgeworth vows to get his secret out of him.

Wait, do they call him Laurice Butz? Or Laurice Deauxnim? Or Larry Butz?

Oh right, I forgot he's using the last name Deauxnim now. So no, your two are correct.

During the recess, Edgeworth has to ask Iris a few things, since they don't have a lot of time. First, he confirms with her that she never met Sister Bikini at the Inner Temple. To that Iris makes it clear that "until the incident occurred" she was in her room in Hazakura Temple. Second, he asks about the whole snowmobile situation, and Iris tells him that yes, she was the one who drove it to the bridge and back. But she also refuses to explain why, as five Psyche-Locks bar progress there. What Iris will say is that she can't explain any of that until Maya, "the acolyte", is confirmed to be safe.

I admit, I don't remember what that's about, and I look forward to rediscovering it.

Court reconvenes, and Laurice is brought in. Turns out, he tried to resist the subpoena, plus he sketched Franziska in a way that really pissed her off. He starts off trying to avoid any connection to the case, while everyone in the courtroom rags on him constantly. The contradiction in the first testimony is easy: he claims he never ran into anyone, but we know he ran into Phoenix. Turns out, Franziska had no clue that Phoenix had tried something as reckless as crossing a burning bridge, and is left to wonder if Phoenix is lucky or not.

Honestly, a demon with a whip isn't too far off for anyone who's been in court with her. I do wish we got to see the sketch though.

Agreed! The next testimony is all about the bridge burning. Laurice claims to have seen the lightning strike from the room he was laying down in, nearby in the Heavenly Hall. It amazed him at first, then he went up to see it close-up. Pressing him on the timing leads to him claiming he got there just before Phoenix did, which was why he didn't try calling for help on the phone. But the weather data we got shows that doesn't make sense, since the bridge took a half hour to burn down, and it was near destroyed when Phoenix reached it.

Laurice claims he is going to get serious and really talk about what he has been hiding this whole time. During the 15min gap, Laurice claims he was sketching the burning bridge. Throughout this part, Laurice delivers a lot of lines that feel like parodies of the kinds of things the Big Bads tend to say when on the stand.

But from a completely different perspective? Like, he's just incompetent, not evil. If anything, it's kind of in line with his accidental blackmail love letter.

Of course, the only thing to do is get him to show the sketch, and honestly it’s pretty good work. Really strong use of colors, very evocative, oh and there’s a woman flying through the air. Laurice claims to have actually seen that, saying it was Iris he saw. Franziska is clearly getting traumatic flashbacks to her last case with a flying defendant, even acknowledging to a befuddled judge that there is precedent for this. Edgeworth is given the task of doing something about this, though he isn’t exactly keen on it.

I too have bad memories of that trial, Franziska. Pretty much that entire trial.

The problem with this new bit of testimony is that Laurice specifically says he saw Iris’s hood, but it’s already been established that she didn’t have it at the time, having given it to Phoenix. Laurice gets really jealous hearing that, but then claims he can provide proof that what he saw happened, and that it really was Iris. His evidence is a crystal sphere, which he found after searching the area for Iris once he got up there. It had blood on it. And is in no way connected to Iris. I just want it to end.

I could buy this if he wasn't the so-called apprentice to the actual owner of the sphere. He should definitely know whose it is, idiot or no.

The sphere is added into evidence, and the location it was found is pointed out on the map. Apparently he thought the sphere is one from Iris’s hood which...everything I’ve seen tells me the size is way too off for that to be true. The contradiction is to point out there was someone else missing a crystal sphere: the victim. Her staff originally had an amethyst sphere, but it’s disappeared since the murder. This means that the person Laurice saw wasn’t Iris, but Elise, his own mentor.

Really, this segment isn't super challenging (which I appreciate, honestly), but that particular one is... really obvious. Like, "why did I even need to point that out, let alone to Laurice" obvious.

Franziska tries to claim that the sphere is irrelevant to their case, as is the sketch, but Edgeworth disagrees. She argues that it was probably thrown there after the murder, but there’s a big problem with that: it was half-buried in snow, so it landed where it did while the snow was still falling. But the murder happened after the snow had stopped, contradicting Franziska’s argument. Going farther, Edgeworth suggests that the Courtyard was never the real location of the murder.

For something he drew quickly, I hold that Laurice did well.

That does seem to be where the evidence is pointing, yes.

He counters Bikini’s testimony with the fact that what she saw was Iris pulling the sword out of Elise’s body, not stabbing her. But then the question arises: how did the body get to the temple? The answer is clear: Iris took it with a snowmobile. Franziska jumps on that, claiming it proves Iris’s guilt, but Edgeworth points out the more obvious truth, that the case requires further investigation before a verdict can be reached. He even stands firm that Laurice’s sketch, somehow, represents something that actually happened. That closes out things, which Edgeworth is happy about. He did his job, and he can give the badge back to Phoenix to take care of the rest.

I do enjoy Franziska's annoyance that her opportunity to finally defeat Phoenix Wright is once again taken from her.

Well, not to defeat Phoenix, but to defeat her true rival: Miles Edgeworth. While Edgeworth is happy that they at least figured some stuff out, Franziska is pissed off that her one chance to defeat Edgeworth in court is ruined, and blames Laurice, who she whips a bunch. And...that’s it. Court is adjourned, and we’ll find out what happens next another day. For now, Sam, let’s get to analysis already.

Well... stuff sure happened. 

This is a strange one, because it feels like it should be more thematically significant than it is. To me, at least. The main actors in this court case are absent, replaced with others who fill their roles in the interim, and we do actually uncover a number of important facts about the case (unlike the first court sessions of some previous cases). But that also seems to be the only particularly important thing it did manage to accomplish; giving us more information that deepens the mystery and gives us new questions to ask.

I am so glad you're feeling that way too. Continuing your idea of focusing a little on the negative, I think this segment wastes what is thematically and character writing-wise one of the coolest ideas in the series. We are playing as Miles Edgeworth, who is standing on the wrong side of the courtroom, facing off against his adopted sister who is there to settle their rivalry once and for all. This should be huge, this should take her character further steps into character development from where she was at the end of Justice for All. But no. Aside from one fairly neat thematic idea I'll come back to later, this segment does nothing with that premise. It's just a neat thing that's happening, but the focus is entirely on the case at hand. Yeah, that's important, but it would be nice if they'd done something with Franziska after bringing her back.

Pretty much. It's somewhere between the best and worst of these segments, I feel. It wasn't bad at all in terms of moving this story forward and deepening the mystery; we've stared deep into the void of such missteps, and its name was Big Top. So it performs its function for the story quite well, in my opinion. It just did so while bringing in some significant characters, but doing nothing of significance with them. It's like they just did it for the fanservice of seeing popular characters again.

I think I'm a little more down on it than you are. This is just...it's a big opportunity, and I'm sad they tried using it here, where it had no room to breathe. This case, ultimately, isn't about Edgeworth or Franziska, and so it devotes next to no time with their character development. That's actually pretty good prioritization of resources, but like...maybe don't have them front and center then? It just feels like such a colossal waste to me.

In my mind it's a question of how much we want to fault it for wasted potential. I don't think anything here is particularly bad, honestly, and in fact I enjoyed it from beginning to end. It just also could have done a lot more with its characters. I don't know how much weight to give that in this case.

See, I am very much on the other end. If anything, I think I've found myself sitting where you were with Reunion and Turnabout. With that case, the wasted thematic potential was a big negative in how you saw that case, and the way they handled Miles and Franziska here makes me feel similarly. These aren't one-off characters, they're major reoccurring parts of the franchise, and seeing this beautiful opportunity squandered really chafes me. It's one of several things that actually have me feeling fairly negative about this segment on the whole, but we can save my other gripes for a little later.

It's interesting, because I was thinking about that earlier. I'm trying to figure out what makes the same problem less of an issue for me here. It might be that, while I see where you're coming from, I don't necessarily see the mere presence of these characters as indicative of potential? Reunion and Turnabout, in my opinion, actively set up a lot of things it didn't really deliver on, and I do see that as the bigger sin than simply having these characters around and doing nothing with them. I share your frustration here, I guess I just don't see it as quite so egregious a storytelling problem. Just another thing I'd have liked to see, and didn't get to. It affects my opinion of the case, but more in a "what could have been" sense than a "less than it tried to be" sense.

This is one of those fun Wright Wednesday bits where I'm working through my feelings on the case right here, for you, our live studio audience.

That's entirely fair, I just think it's important to recognize that it isn't simply that these characters are here. As the final scene of the last game showed, Franziska's feelings of inferiority towards Edgeworth are the driving force of how we're seen her thus far, and she ended that scene by promising to defeat him one day. This is the chance to deliver on that idea, the one time they can truly face each other in courtroom combat...and there really isn't anything to it. It's less "it would have been nice if they'd done this" and more "I really wish they hadn't completely dropped a character arc".

When you put it like that, maybe it also comes down to how we define "dropping a character arc." I suppose since neither Edgeworth nor Franziska are major characters in this game, I wasn't necessarily thinking of this as a continuation of their character arcs, at least not inherently. I agree it would have been nice to get that, but I just never got the feeling it was really to be expected here. I would hope it happens later on in the case, or future games. 

If it doesn't happen, of course, then yeah, dropped character arc, and that really really sucks. I just didn't get the feeling this particular segment was the one bearing all that responsibility. So I felt weird that it didn't take advantage of the moment, but didn't feel that it completely dropped the dynamic so much as just didn't capitalize on it at this moment.

All my griping aside, this segment did do some things I quite liked, and a lot of them revolved around Franziska. (Surprise, surprise) I do feel there is a tangible difference to her demeanor here, and I really like how she introduced herself. When the judge asks if she's related to the legendary Manfred von Karma, Franziska just says that she is "a von Karma" and that legends are a thing of the past. It's a cool way to show that she is holding onto her family name, and whatever meaning she inscribes to it, while eschewing the direct connection to her famous father. It makes me feel more like she is trying to stand out on her own, as Franziska von Karma, and not as a legacy.

It's true, small details like that really do contribute to a sense that, at the very least, this is not the same person we faced in court in the previous game. It's kind of the bare minimum, but it's still a nice touch.

I also enjoyed seeing Edgeworth in the role of a defense attorney. It's cool to see both how he has to adjust his methods, as well as how he more naturally accepts certain mindsets he would have found absurd mere years before. We get the sense that his usual role is still distinct from Phoenix's, but also that his new understanding of justice allows him to shift perspectives with relative ease.

True, but something I did like with Edgeworth, that I briefly mentioned before, is the difference between belief and doubt. Despite saying before the trial that, since he was playing defense attorney, he was going to have to change his viewpoint to one based in belief, if you look at his narration throughout, he is clearly still coming from a place of doubt. Throughout Bikini's testimonies, he specifically notes several times that he has to sow seeds of doubt in both the judge and Bikini, that's his road to victory.

Yes, the interplay there is interesting. In my estimation, he still used doubt as something of a weapon. He knew that eroding confidence in the prosecution's case was key, so he worked to undermine their narrative. And, ultimately, his goal was always to push toward a more holistic and truthful understanding of the case.

If anything, I find it an interesting contrast to his old methods of, essentially, fabricating a truth that fits his desired outcome. He grounds himself in belief, assaults his opposition with doubt, and works to arrive at truth.

There are also some pretty great moments that make use of Edgeworth's new role for comedic effect, lots of times where he starts to realize what Phoenix has to go through every trial. The best being...

 

I did love that moment, as well as all the others. Poor Edgeworth, getting a taste of his own medicine.

There was something interesting I noted in regards to Franziska and her whip, going back to her. She never uses it on Edgeworth, and neither did she do so in Farewell, My Turnabout. She also doesn't use it on Bikini, who she treats respectfully the entire time she is on the stand, with none of her usual venom directed towards the nun's way. Instead, it is the awful judge and Laurice who get the whipping, and the former really earns one with a semi-lecherous comment early on, which Franziska makes clear will not be allowed when she is there.

I hadn't actually noticed her selective use of the whip. That's a really interesting detail.

Also, yes, this judge did not earn my ire quite as much as he did in Turnabout Memories, but he still made me miss our usual Judge.

Last neat Franziska detail: I love when Edgeworth mentions that Phoenix tries to cross the burned out bridge. Franziska is clearly worried, though also exasperated. They commiserate a little over how much of an idiot he is and it is cute.

Agreed, it's a great moment. Her teasing of Phoenix for his idiocy and luck almost sounds fond, and it's very nice.

Welp...I think I'm ready to talk about the not nice stuff. While you seem largely positive on this segment, I am not. In fact, I think I'll say this is the worst trial day in Trials and Tribulations for me, easily.

Oh. Wow, yeah I honestly don't have any idea where you're coming from there.

It's just a big hodgepodge of issues, and I'll go over them one by one. To start with, the first half of this segment is Oops, All Bikini. I mentioned this last week, but Bikini is a character I want to like, because she has a joviality to her, but the type of comedy associated with her is just uncomfortable for me. Again, she's middle-aged, she's short, she's overweight, and she's confident in how she looks anyway. If that was played straight, it would be awesome, but in the context of the game it is treated as a joke against her. You're supposed to laugh at her.

Combine that with the fact that she gets four testimonies, which is a lot, in a row, and I just got worn down more and more and more. It took me so long to actually play this segment because it just feels like an endless slog to me.

I do agree that I struggle with the character in general, but I have to admit I didn't pick up on the mean-spiritedness of the jokes there. Seemed like most of it was centered in her confidence and good humor in the face of the things others might try to make fun of, and...I guess it didn't generally read as jokes at the expense of her appearance. But I might have misread it, too. 

The number of testimonies was a lot, but the progression felt natural to me. This is helped by the fact that nearly the entire segment hit that sweet spot of Ace Attorney difficulty for me, where I sometimes knew the contradictions early on, sometimes had to think a bit, but rarely had to stretch super far.

So yeah, I don't know. I can see where you're coming from, but it just didn't bother me much.

And that's totally fine! I should say that when I call this the "worst trial segment of this game", that isn't honestly saying much. I have liked every trial segment in this game leagues more than most of the ones in the last game. But I do still have issues with it, and some of them are going to come back later into my final thoughts on the case as a whole.

Something that bothered me with the first half as well was how wishy-washy the whole thing felt. What I was reminded the most of, sadly, was Reunion and Turnabout again. So much of the argumentation going on is over stuff that just feels irrelevant. The whole thing with the sword and the amount of blood and the points they were making just reminded me a lot of the endless debate about if there was a struggle or not and how it took place during that other case. I didn't feel like I was really tackling the mystery, and not in a way that made me feel like it was because this was a difficult case, but in a way that made me feel like we were stuck in the weeds over nothing.

To put it another way, this also reminded me a lot of early trial days during Filler Cases. There just wasn't a lot here for me to feel satisfied about.

His facial hair...is so pointy?

Huh. Yeah I definitely have to disagree there. Those sorts of details may have been small, but they were exactly the kinds of things that make up these kinds of cases; small details that seem irrelevant, but all together change the way we have to look at the case. It was a process of realizing that the murder could not have happened the way it initially appeared to have happened, and gathering more questions to answer in the next investigation segment. I think that's a perfectly legitimate way to spend the first trial of a case.

When I think of the kinds of cases you're talking about, I think about Turnabout Big Top. Where the whole thing basically just existed to introduce more facts that could and should have already been part of the case. That's an extreme example, I know, but it typifies the kind of trial segment I consider a failure. A good first trial segment shifts our perspective on the crime and our evidence, and prompts new questions going into the next investigation segment. I feel like this accomplished that just fine.

I don't, and I think we'll have to agree to disagree there. All of my other complaints are tied to the second half, which I don't think should be a surprise to you or the audience that I wasn't a fan of. I haven't liked how this game has handled Laurice's character, but this might be the low point of that.

The back half of this segment is about 30% characters insulting him. It is just constant. What makes it worse is what I feel like is one of the biggest moments of out of character behavior I've ever seen in this series.

In Turnabout Goodbyes, Larry volunteered to be a witness, saving Edgeworth's life in the process. It wasn't easy to find the truth out of his testimony, but he was fully cooperating from the word 'go'. He knew how serious things were and he wanted to help. Here, Larry is forced to be a witness and does everything he can hide the truth until the end. He stubbornly fights being useful the entire way, and to make things worse, the defendant who his testimony would be helping is the girl who he is in love with. It's such an enormous Flanderization that they feel like two entirely different characters, and the one we're stuck with now frankly sucks.

I can definitely agree with you about his treatment here. The worse thing is this whole segment includes possibly one of my favorite bits of characterization for him, specifically that he would write an impassioned love letter and mess it up so badly it sounds like a blackmail note. That exactly the kind of well-intentioned but incompetent getting into trouble I would expect from The Butz, and it's a very funny setup. But to make him so uncooperative for no particular reason is strange, and makes him more hostile than silly. 

That's the thing, I don't have as much of an issue as you with Butz being the series' butt monkey. It's kind of the role he was cast in from the very beginning. But it feels like they've gotten so lazy with how they use him to that end, he ends up acting out of character and being an active impediment to justice, instead of just a well-intentioned but incompetent dork. And yeah, that's honestly just kind of annoying.

I feel like I do need to clarify that: I do not mind Larry/Laurice being a Butt Monkey. He was one in the first game. My issue is a twofold change in how he is depicted from this game onwards: his negative personality traits have been made more extreme, while also getting new ones and diminishing his good traits; everyone treats him not as their friend who is kind of a doofus, but as someone they can't stand having around who they wish they didn't know.

I also absolutely agree about the love letter, that does feel like a classic Larry Butz mistake, which is why I wish it wasn't attached to all of this other nonsense, like his attempts to avoid helping someone he has every reason to help.

To put it another way, it feels like they turned Larry from the idiot best friend character from a Slice of Life anime, like Sunohara from Clannad, into one of the characters from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

That's fair. And yeah, I do agree that's happening, especially here.

Those are pretty much all my gripes out there. (Aside from the fact I hate Laurice's outfit) I'm trying to think of what else we have to discuss from this segment...Oh! I liked that Franziska made it clear that she'll whip anyone being gross towards women after the judge makes a skeevy comment. That was a legitimately good use of her whip.

Agreed, she can whip people who creep on women as much as she wants. Maybe this judge will finally shape up. Or maybe he likes it like that, who knows.

Oh! There was one more piece of interesting I wanted to talk about. At the very beginning of the segment, I found it very interesting how Iris is clearly worried about the trial, but when Edgeworth gives her a task to complete, namely to watch and evaluate him as her defense attorney, she suddenly drops that nervousness completely, taking the idea seriously. It hints towards something I would say is a vital part of Iris's character, one we will see develop over the next two segments.

Oh, interesting. That's solidly back in the "Sam doesn't remember the case well enough to know what you're talking about" territory, so that will be fun to see.

Was there anything else you can think of? It felt like this was a pretty plot-heavy and theme-light segment, which isn't too surprising. I can't even think of a way to tie the game's central theme in.

That's often the case with the first trial segments. The story and themes have already been set up, and the main goal at this point is deepening the mystery. I'm sure we'll have more thematic meat to dig into next time, and significantly more the time after that.

Speaking of next time, that's what we'll be covering a week from now. Time to get back to being Phoenix Wright in the last investigation segment of the original trilogy. Auf wiedersehen!

See you then!

No comments:

Post a Comment