I'm doing it again, aren't I? I'll never be able to talk to people properly. I'll always to mess it up and say and do the wrong thing every time. I try my best. I really do. :(

But anyway, enough vague self pity. I just beat Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, and now seems like a good time to ramble about it. :D


I see that with young Phoenix filling the role of Larry Butz, Larry himself was going to have to try a different approach. Now he appears to be the sort of character that hits on everything that moves, even nine-year-old girls. Also, I laughed so hard when he said that being selfish, antisocial and lazy didn't make him a loser, it made him an artist. Well, you know you have to be lazy to get through art school! That's why they call it school! [/sarcasm]

Gumshoe. <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 I believe that sums it up. Every time he came on screen, I just wanted to hug him so badly. <3<3<3<3<3<3<3

By this game, I'd decided that the English language localisation of the games, which are explicitly not located in Japan, are actually in some made up country that was colonised by both the English and the Japanese during the nineteenth century... Or something. I've forgotten when Japan reopened their borders, and I was concentrating more on the cases than the locations. I'm pretty sure America doesn't have a lot of ancient Japanese style temples lying around, among other things. But then Franziska von Karma comes in and starts talking about how they're totally in America, like some sort of German Bandit Keith. Totally jossed my theory.

Godot's metaphors confuse me. Also, he made me want coffee. I don't even like coffee. And his reason for hating Phoenix seemed really weak. "Mia's death is your fault! Because, uh, you should've followed her around every minute of her life with a can of Corrupt Corporate Executive Repellent! Yeah!" Whatever, Godot. Cool music, though. I could listen to it all day.

I really like Dahlia Hawthorne's music. It's so relaxing. I like that it fits the image she projects instead of the way she really is. It's really... I don't know. I probably should've eaten lunch today.

In the fifth case, when "Iris" turned out to be Dahlia, I realised when Maya was straight away, and it was frustrating to watch Phoenix being all "But... Maya can't be dead!" for so long. Phoenix. Dahlia is dead. Didn't you ever wonder who was chanelling her? He figured it out eventually, though.

I guess they weren't trying to hide the Diego/Godot connection in case four? I was spoiled to it beforehand, but his theme music even started up at the end of the case. It must have been deliberate. Phoenix figured it out, and he only read the case file.

Jean Armstrong made me laugh. I'm not the type to decide that every character ever is gay because they act a bit camp or are close to someone of their own gender, but Jean Armstrong was so gay. When he was on the witness stand, he hit on every other visible character except Maya. It was pretty funny. He also referred to everything with "la", even male characters and words that are masculine in French. I couldn't tell whether that was because he sometimes refers to himself as a woman, or because the people who localised the dialogue are even worse at French than I am. I don't think Tigre would appreciate being called "La Tiger", even if he did know what it meant.

Speaking of Tigre, his yells last for ages. And what are those smashing noises while he's yelling? Does he carry around a punch of pots so that he can bang on them to augment his roars or something?

I don't really know what to say about case two. The robbery to murder thing was interesting, but the TV Tropes Wiki spoiled that for me ages ago.

Um... I really liked the opening to case five. It really felt like the ending to a series of related stories. Which it was. So it was quite well done.

I liked playing as Edgeworth for a while. It was a nice change from being Phoenix all the time, and it was interesting to be able to see into his head. And more Gumshoe is never a bad thing. Also, when all those Psyche-Locks appeared on Larry and Edgeworth was like "NOOOOOOOOO!" reminds me of my own frustrations with the Magatama. I never know if I have enough evidence to use it, unless Phoenix explicitly says that he has enough evidence now.

The ending was great, like it usually is in these games. I'm going to have to pretend that Apollo Justice is AU when I play it, though. I want things to improve even more for Phoenix...

Wendy Oldbag appearing in the credits: A++++. I love Wendy.

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