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bagadew · 3 years

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The Great Ace Attorney Playthrough: The Adventure of the Great Departure (Part 1)

So it’s finally here, The Great Ace Attorney! I know practically nothing about this game, except that it’s a) set in Victorian London, b) has the themes of racism and xenophobia you’d expect from a game where you play a Japanese immigrant in Victorian London, and c) features Herlock Sholmes the himbo detective! (Also I think there might be a cereal killer plot, but I’m not too sure.)

Right away I’m being given a lot of very useful information regarding the historical setting for this game. Unfortunately I’m unable to fully process it because two seconds in and I’ve already been accused of murder!

Oh Ace Attorney how I’ve missed you.

Hello Kazuma! I like the way your headband billows even though there’s no wind, and I hope you have a much longer and fuller life than my last Ace Attorney mentor.

Ok so it seems like we’re both students at the same university, but Kazuma is the protégé golden boy, who’s about to be sent abroad because he’s just That Good. Fortunately I (Ryunosuke) am his beloved best friend, and will therefore be allowed to tag along (which is a really damn good job because I’m the one front and centre of the box).

Say what you will about incredible aura, but I’m pretty sure Kazuma’s just set up some sort of fan mechanism under there.

Hello Pink Lady from the box!

As a seasoned Ace Attorney player I am immediately suspicious of anyone from the first case who isn’t a main character. I’m watching you professor!

Ok so from what I can gather from our exchange the Professor Mikotoba is the forensics pathology professor at the university (I wonder if his daughter, or whoever the pink lady is, will be our Ema Skye), and if Kazuma the golden boy takes our case an loses he won’t get to go fulfill his dream of studying abroad.

Frankly, from all their idealistic chatter about jolly old Britain, I feel like these boys might be in for a bit of a rude awakening once they actually make it to London. And I’m not sure Ryunosuke, with all his beautiful naïve innocence, is going to do too well.

And speaking of beautiful naïve innocence...

No Ryunosuke! Don’t agree to things like that!

I’m beginning to suspect Ryunosuke’s just being used as bait for Kazuma. Like someone out there really doesn’t want Kazuma to go abroad for some reason, and so they’re using his less good best friend to trap him in the country.

Oh Ryunosuke...

In all my years playing Ace Attorney I have never been more torn by a suggestion box. On one hand, the first time I play an Ace Attorney game, I try and play it in the way it should be played. And so, even though this is an UNBELIEVABLY STUPID DECISION, I feel like Ryunosuke, a man who doesn’t seem to have the words ‘Set Up’ in his dictionary, would not even hesitate to bellow I do because Professor Mikiller told him to.

On the other hand this is an UNBELIEVABLY STUPID DECISION and Kazuma should clearly be in charge.

Ok, I’ve decided I’m going to press it (partly because I think the game might punish me if I don’t) but I will have my head in my hands as I do so.

See Kazuma agrees with me.

Oh fuck, the victims John Watson Wilson!!!

Ok, so I’m re-evaluating my assumption that I (Ryunosuke) was simply bait for Kazuma, it looks like I was instead the poor expendable mug who can be pinned with causing an international incident. Is it bad that I feel like I’ve been promoted?

My god, everyone must have had a heart attack when Kazuma the Golden Boy stepped up to defend me. No wonder they didn’t want him involved!

Ok let’s bring out Professor Mikotoba the witness, so he can explain how he’s played us like a damn fiddle-

WHO THE HELL IS THAT!?!

I would like to take this opportunity to apologies to Professor Mikotoba, who is I can only assume a beloved recurring character. I’m very sorry sir but I did not see you on the box. Yes I understand that, as someone who’s favorite character is Gumshoe, this was no excuse. Please forgive me.

Side note though: Satoru’s whole *hacks up blood* ‘It’s nothing, this just happens sometimes, please ignore it and continue’ thing is the most relatable thing I’ve seen so far. As someone with a chest condition whose lungs sometimes just bleed, this is literally the response you develop. I know this guys probably a murderer and that’s probably Crime Related Blood, but for now the two of us understand each other.

Ok, so from that cross examination we’ve got one mysterious lady the waiter says he never saw, one unwillingly received Buisness card from Satoru Hosonaga, and one coughing fit my lungs started after watching Satoru wheezing away.

WHAT IS THIS!!??!!

MORE WITNESSES!!??!!

ON A FIRST CASE??!!!

DO THE SACRED LAWS OF FIRST ACE ATTORNEY CASES MEAN NOTHING TO THIS GAME!?!??

This is a neat mechanic though, and one I’ve been hoping would make it to a cannon Ace Attorney game since the Professor Layton crossover. It seems like we’re just sticking to standard testimony listening for now, rather than checking between reactions, but I’m very happy to see it’s return.

GET HIS ASS KAZUMA!!!

(Kazuma’s quickly becoming my favourite, it’s a lot of fun to have the Edgeworth over your side of the courtroom for once)

Ok, so Kazuma (who’s name my iPad now autocorrects into all caps) has shown me how to examine evidence, meaning that if I had, shall we say, a receipt with the word Maya written on it, I could turn it over to see what was written on the other side.

So, while I now know that Dr Watson Wilson wasn’t able to have tucked into that big juicy steak behind him, I just want to check that business card Satoru was so unhappy to give away...

Interesting...

I don’t know what this means, but it sure is interesting...

Now back to slamming an old man with a stolen coin (that was probably taken by the penniless guy next to him)

I’m not sure how he’s managed it, but Auchi has somehow become the most slapable of the Pains.

GET THEIR ASS RYUNOSUKE!!!

(I like how his desk slam’s changed as he gets more confident)

DAMN STRAIGHT WE’D TAKE ON THE GOVERNMENT!!!

So there’s been a coverup! Well that explains the detective posing as a waiter, but it still leaves a huge question mark over the identity of the woman in question. Other than possibly Satoru, who I can’t see as having any reason to dress up, I don’t feel like any of the current witnesses could fit the bill. Whoever she is, though, it must be someone who’s involvement could cause more problems if she was found out, which would mean that she’s either someone with a lot of political influence in Japan, or she’s someone who followed the good Dr from England (and might well have a lot of influence there).

Either way I’m beginning to suspect that, in great break from Ace Attorney tradition, NONE OF THE WITNESSES COMMITTED THE CRIME!!! (Or at least not this one.)

Don’t worry Kazuma, I turned the receipt business card over this time!

Screenshots don’t do this justice.

I don’t know what makes this better, Ryunosuke’s cheerful mile wide supposition, or the speed at which Satoru cut him off.

...are they Satoru? Are they really?

At this point I would apologies to Satoru Hosonaga, however I feel like he might have been using me as the scape goat for this murder, so I’m going to say that I’m not sorry. (We still have a weird blood related understanding though, and for that reason I am not as hostile as I might have been)

Yeah, that’s fair Ryunosuke.

WAIT WHAT!?!

Oh, it’s just a flash back gunshot. I thought someone had just whipped out a gun and shot the detective before he could say another word!

Oh dear, this goes all the way to the top doesn’t it?

Poor Ryunosuke though, he’s not even made it to the stinky rainy streets of London and already his illusions about justice are being shattered. Given that this is effectively the prologue case, I dread to see what comes next.

HELL YEAH JUGE, WERE GETTING THE KILLER LADS!!!

SATURO HOSONAGA YOU’RE BACK ON THE CHRISTMAS CARD LIST (but on thin ice)

‘So it won’t be a problem?’ Ryunosuke, weren’t you listening, it’s going to be a massive problem! Fortunately everyone else in this courtroom has just decided that you know what fuck the government actually, and so we’re doing it anyway!

Hosonaga’s trying really hard to win me back over folks, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t working.

I like this hardass judge! I’ll send him a Christmas card too.

MADE IT TO THE FIRST HALF!

#tgaa #the great ace attorney #the adventure of the great departure #tgaa spoilers #ryunosuke naruhodo #kazuma asougi #john wilson #satoru hosonaga #japan judge #yuujin mikotoba #again I'm very sorry for wildly accusing you professor

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ladyloveandjustice · 7 years

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PLVAA P9- Maya can’t catch a break.

Maya: Imagine dropping a book all the way from the top of this tower! It could kill someone! Especially a hardcover!

Luke: Miss Maya why...why do you always think about such horrible things..

Look, Luke, Maya grew up being able to channel the dead and being looked after an aunt who was plotting to murder her and/or frame her for murder; she has been on trial for murder more times than she count, including for her own sister’s murder, she regularly calls on her sister’s spirit to help her and her hapless bff save people from beng executed for crimes they didn’t commit, she’s been kidnapped by an assassin who threatened her life as leverage to get a muderer off the hook, she sees dead bodies on a weekly basis and she’s now seen three people die horribly in front of her, one of which was her own mother who was possessed by her cousin who was attempting to kill her.

It’s really not surprising she turned out like this.

(and she’s still got more kidnappings and seeing people die to look forward to in the future thanks aa6).

(...this started out being funny but the more massive the list got the more sad I got about Maya’s life. She has the worst luck and has endured the most tragedies of any Ace Attorney character, and THAT’S SAYING A FUCKING LOT FOR THIS SERIES. I have no doubt that going through all this shit IS where her surprisingly dark sense of humor and nonchalance about death comes from.She pretty much has had one of the most tragic lives in all of fiction, basically. She by all rights shouldn’t even be able to function at this point after going through all that, yet she still does everything she can to be strong and goes out of her way to put on a positive attitude so she can cheer up everyone around her.

She’s so good and she makes me so sad and can she please get a break and when the series features her again i want them to stop making her suffer as a plot device and instead actually sit down, deal with and explore all the shit she’s been through and how it must be affecting her under the surface)

okay before i got distracted by Maya we were looking for a cat. And we found it! Yay! Now it’s time to visit Espella in jail. Maya continues to be gay:

Maya: I can’t believe they’d suspect a cute girl like you!

Meanwhile, Luke and Layton go to meet with the storyteller. It turns out Espella is the storyteller’s daughter and her life has been mis because of it. Maya rightly questions why the fuck he’d put his own daughter through this if he can control the fate of this town.

Maya and Luke heard about an alchemist who was murdered (FMA CROSSOVER TIME) so Nick and Maya go to investigate that. Nick worried about Layton meeting with the storyteller, hoping Layton won’t upset him and make him write some cruel plot twist. Maya is all like “Nick that’d only happen if YOU were the one visiting. The professor wouldn’t let something like that happen!”

Then we immediately cut to the professor immediately pissing off the storyteller (by being “smug”) and causing him to write a plot twist where NICK DIES FROM A CURSE and Maya is Put on her MILLIONTH MURDER TRIAL and BURNED AS A WITCH.

WHOOPS.

Then an owl delivers Luke and Layton a letter. First we were in FMA, now we’re in Harry Potter.

Layton: Luke my boy, we have the need...to rent a steed!

Professor is this really the time for rhymes.

Nick and Maya are talking to the murdered alchemist’s apprentice and he’s embarrassed about setting a fire.

Maya: You should see Nick try and do laundry! Now that’s embarrassing!

Nick: Okay, there was that ONE TIME...

I need to know what happened immedately. Did Nick dye everything blue.

OH GOD THERE’S A TRANSMUTATION CIRCLE WE REALLY HAVE GONE FULL FMA MAYA AND NICK PLEASE HIGHTAIL IT BACK THERE IMMEDIATELY YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE HUMAN TRANSMUTATION SACRIFICES

(Maya calls it a “crop circle” lol’)

Maya says the magatama is her “source of power”. Uh, that’s news to me. Is it a silver crystal situation does she die if you take it.

NO MAYA DON’T LET HIM GO INTO THE CELLAR ALONE HE’S GOING TO DIE.

WELL MIGHT AS WELL GET AS MANY HINT COINS AS I CAN BEFORE NICK BITES IT

Nick is immediately heartbroken over the fate of the dying plotted plants. Charley has made him a plant person awww.

I clicked on the goat last since it looked yellowish. Yep, made of gold. Nick is glad Maya didn’t come down because she would hurt herself trying to carry it away with her.

Oh, it’s Layton who gets turned into a gold statue (AND HIS ARM FALLS OFF), not Nick. Sorry Layton, but better you than him. THOUGH I GUESS THIS WILL BE PRETTY HARD ON THE POOR TEN-YEAR-OLD.

anyway time for Maya’s ten millionth murder trial. what was I just saying about her never catching a break. UP NEXT.

#nev plays plvaa #my thoughts are layton is not a statue and a switcheroo took place #we'll see how it bears out #either way im sure he'll be fine

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