Or, in short, “Quercus Alba is an idiot.” Obviously, endgame spoilers follow. There’s nothing wrong with the Ace Attorney Investigations
But more than any of the other bosses before him, if this last boss had just kept his head down, stood his ground and DENIED EVERYTHING, he would have walked away a free man. There was no reason for him to cooperate with them at all once they’d caught Shih-na, ‘cos he was in plenty of trouble at that point. Deny, deny, deny, man.
Huh? My plant sticks were used as crossbows? Oh, how horrible, who would do such a thing to my poor flowers? Please find the real killer at once!
Huh? Mask Demasque II? It wasn’t me.
Huh? Loading a pushcart with a body? If someone did that, shouldn’t the suspicion be on the Steel Samurai and his staff? Anyway, it wasn’t me.
Huh? Putting the cart in the reservoir, etc, etc, etc? Shih-na and her mystery accomplice must have done that by themselves, I’m just a weak old man. Anyway, it wasn’t me.
Huh? A knife in my bouquet? Why, so it is! Or the handle, anyway. Please have the florist and my staff investigated at once, or maybe the Steel Samurai snuck it in when I wasn’t looking. Anyway, it wasn’t me.
Huh? Me and Manny in the car together? Okay, you’ve got me, I was there. But that doesn’t mean I knew anything about a so-called smuggling ring or the murder of that poor, poor girl. I was just hitching a ride with Manny to go to the doctor, what with my bad back and all. Anyway, it wasn’t me.
Huh? The fake Primidux statue somehow found its way into my office? What would that have to do with me? I have no motive, and you can’t prove I knew the counterfeit plate was inside. Seeing as Manny was the smuggling boss, maybe he or Ambassador Palaeno did it to make Allebast look bad! Anyway, it wasn’t me.
Huh? “Early Summer Rain Jab”? What can I say, I snuck a peek in the dressing room because I’m such a big fan of the Steel Samurai. Big deal.
Huh? My blood on a box of samurai dogs? Well, you can prove it was my blood, but you can’t prove it got on the box while it was in the dressing room, or that it wasn’t planted there. You say you got this from the Pink Princess? I suggest you investigate her and the Samurai one more time, their timing is especially suspicious. Anyway, it wasn’t me.
Basically you guys have got nothing on me except a bunch of wild guesses and random speculation. You can’t detain me because I’m not going to stick around long enough for you to get my diplomatic immunity revoked. So long, suckers!
Oh, and by the way: It wasn’t me!
hey, great blog ! 🙂
i was just wondering, i’m a really big fan of the Ace Attorney games, but so far i’ve only played the first PW and the second (justice for all), and i can’t figure out which game to play next. a lot of people have been telling me to play them all in a linear fashion, and just omit Apollo Justice because apparently it’s the worst game and the black sheep of the series, but to be honest i don’t know if i want to buy the rest of them because they all look like more of the same (with the exception of Miles Edgeworth, i heard that game introduces a lot of new features). from all the reviews i’ve read, miles edgeworth is one of the best in the entire series, but i can’t figure out why everyone seems to hate apollo justice? the characters look pretty funny, and i would take ANYONE over Maya because i just think she’s really annoying. but i played a bit of trials and tribulations too, (only the beginning of the very first case), and it was a lot of fun, so i was wondering why you didn’t seem to like it much? and if you could tell me which Ace Attorney games you consider to be your favourite?
thank you!!
I wouldn’t dream of telling you what to play and what not to play. If you want to skip AA3 and jump straight to Apollo Justice, you should do just that. Apollo Justice is only tenuously related to the previous games, which is probably the major issue people have with it (okay, I have a problem with it).
Other issues are that the cases are either boring or ridiculously plothole-ridden, the new characters introduced are largely unremarkable and the few characters that reappear from the older games have clearly fallen on hard times. It’s hard for a fan to see them like that. As far as attorneys go, Apollo has very little personality or presence in the game. He’s like a watered down Phoenix on a bad day.
But whether Apollo Justice is the worst game in the series is very much up for debate. To be honest I didn’t like AA3 (Trials and Tribulations) very much at all. The first few cases were pretty much forgettable, the last case dragged on way too much, and while the game tied up some loose ends from the first and second games, it was hardly a satisfactory conclusion. Also I couldn’t stand the new prosecutor Godot. So if you want to skip it, by all means be my guest.
The Edgeworth games are spin-offs, plain and simple. You can play them at any time without too much fear of spoilers.
Anyway. To answer your question, yes, every game is pretty much more of the same. If your wallet’s starting to feel the pain, either get them used or buy them less frequently.