Episode 3
[(The opening cutscene) These guards realize prisoner 201 isn't in his cell and immediately sound the alarm on top of the mountain near a city, where they wake everyone up like an asshole. They couldn't have searched the prison first on checked the inner sanctum?]
"But…but they are going to do. What are you even talking about? They still need to sound the alarm. You know nothing about prisons, do you? The building is huge and guards are scattered everywhere. The guards who discovered the inmate escaped need to sound the alarm so everyone can quickly start looking for him. And the fact the prison is on top of the mountain has nothing to do with anything, everyone would be woken up by the alarm no matter the location." One sin added.
(These rebels are talking loudly about rebel activities in public and are surprised when someone catches them.)
"It is pretty late at night, they are in a dark, small alley nobody seems to be near at and are keeping their voices pretty low. Normally nobody should have been there. The only reason Zeh'lot finds them is because he is a special government agent tasked with keeping tabs on all people suspected of being rebels. And since one of them openly warns the other to be quiet or the rebel hunter might find them, I would think he was the opposite of surprised." One sin added.
(Lady Kee'ra flies over.) How did the Khura'inese get jetpacks before we did? I know America's falling behind on math and science, but I never thought this place would pass us.]
"Pierce really thinks Lady Kee'ra had a jetpack. She really hasn't realized this was a deliberately exaggerated animation done both for comedic effect and to signify the rebel hunter as a dangerous enemy. In other words, Pierce failing at game logic n. 236603." One sin added.
[(Gameplay starts.) Narration.]
"Pierce hates narration for no reason cliché. And we are still not one bit closer to finding out why. You do know all stories have narration, right? Remember those nice, funny fairytales your parents told you when you were little? Guess what: they are 90% narration." One sin added.
(Ahlbi says it would take him a day to explain the rite, but we see what they do later: It's a feast followed by two days of praying, unless you are Tahrust Inmee or Maya Fey, in which the latter in dipped in water and walks around lanterns. Not that complicated,)
"You are entirely missing the point. The game is not saying the rite is too long or difficult to explain. Ahlbi has been shown since the first case to be over-enthusiastic about his country's traditions and culture. He likes to go into way too many details and to describe everything down to a T to make sure the tourists get a good understanding of everything and are perfectly aware of every aspect of the Khura'inese way of life. So, even though this is clearly again exaggerated for comedic purposes, it is very much in character for Ahlbi to take a long time to explain something simple." One sin added.
(If people pray for fifteens hours a day, how does anyone keep a job? Is sleep included in that time? Do they measure time differently? Can one pray and work at the same time? I enjoy many of the crazy bits about the game, but I would enjoy them more if they were explained even I the slightest.)
"No, you wouldn't. Really, you think games would be in any way enjoyable or fun of they were explained by real-life logic? That's what pisses me off the most about people playing games nowadays: they ask for games to be more logical and explained in more detail, but completely ignore the fact they would lose half their fun if they were explained. This is clearly meant as a joke to poke fun at this nations' obsession with religion, which is important to the overall story. And this is a game taking place in a fictional universe where almost everything is meant to either make you laugh in a crazy way or trouble you about current real-life problems. So you have to explain why this is bad in that context." One sin added.
(Phoenix lampshades the fact Capcom has done nothing to develop Maya's character after twelve years of not being in the main series and…that' supposed to make it better. Sorry, Capcom, but that shit only works if you are Deadpool.)
"This is actually very important to every fan of the series. Maya is one of the greatest characters in the series and that primarily due to how she was characterized in the main trilogy. Her sense of humor, her combination of craziness and logic, her accepting the faults of herself and her family and trying to correct them…she is amazing! And the fact she is the same here is the best for all of us. That's what she was like when we left her and that's what we want to get back now. You say you would have preferred it if Maya's character had changed, but I can guara-damn-ntee everyone would be disappointed if she was more mature or less witted that she used to be." One sin added.
(I better throw in a few prayers for things to not end in flaming disaster then.) Phoenix did not pray hard enough to prevent the flaming disaster from happening. He is also twenty-three years too late.]
"Okay…but what's your point? This is a game, something was bound to go amiss no matter how much Phoenix prayed. You just described what happens in the game and treated it as a sin. You have got to stop doing that." One sin added.
[(Phoenix questioning the existence of a possessed robe.) And somewhere in nearby Nepal, Dr. Strange feels an odd disruption in the universe.]
"Pierce makes a pop culture reference that isn't a sin of the game cliché." One sin added.
(Maya criticizes Phoenix's 3D character. I realize hers in awesome, but she doesn't have to rub it in.)
"Hey, if she is criticizing anything about him, it's definitely not the 3D character design. Are you serious? You think the characters are aware they are in a game? Yes, they can be aware, but only when it's intentional for the sake of humor. Maya does not know she is in a game, how would she know Phoenix is a 3D animation model?!" one sin added.
(Maya jokes about being the masked killer.) foreshadowing.]
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
(There is no good reason to attach bells to your ankles. Absolutely one.)
"This is the high priest and he is about to perform one of the country's most important rites. If he tied bells to his ankles it may very well be a part of the rite, which instantly creates a very important reason to do it. Pierce thinks she can criticize a culture she doesn't know shit about." One sin added.
(Phoenix has swallowed glass poison, gotten tased, been hit with a fire extinguisher, dropping into a freezing river during Winter and hit with a speeding vehicle, no big deal, but what causes him to get seriously injured? Straining his back in high altitude. At thirty five. What, does being away from his American office make him vulnerable to injury again? Did the magic wear off after all these years? I need answers to solve this case, goddammit it!)
"Apart from the fact you are missing the obvious humor and have yet to realize not everything in a game needs to make sense in order to be enjoyable…sinning the hurt back scene. That's worth…this many sins." Five sins added.
(How does Ema's smartphone work fine up on this mountain? I'm no expert, but I wouldn't think a place like this has good WIFI.)
"Apart from the fact smartphones capable of getting WIFI literally anywhere have existed a long time now…people got reception at Hazakura temple in bridge to the turnabout. So the game has shown you before it is possible to get reception in the mountains." One sin added.
(Also, who the fuck decided to put not one, but several structures on a tall, steep mountain accessible only by foot and-if you're the prison-airplane? Was part of early prisoners' punishment building their prison up here? How many people fall off per year? Does forcing Phoenix to revisit the inner sanctum during investigation during investigations make me an asshole?)
"What even is this sin? You ask a bunch of questions and you make then sound important to the story. But here's the problem: they aren't. At all. If those questions were answered, would anything change about this case or this game? The answer is no. So why should we care about these answers and why is not having them a sin of the game?" one sin added.
(Ema continues to be entirely too helpful for a detective on a murder scene. Is this the game that cliché finally dies? I'm…just not ready to let it go.)
"Again…what the hell is the sin here? What is the point of saying this line? In fact, what is the point of this fanfic? To make jokes nobody laughs at? Because I agree." One sin added.
(So, let me get this straight: a popular God-like figure named Kira-Kee'ra-rises up out of nowhere to rid the place of criminals, no one knows how they can pull it off and it takes the intervention of a famous foreign crime fighter to discern their secret identity? Wow. This case is a lot more death Note than I think they intended.)
"And if it is? Why is that a wrong thing? Death note is very popular. If anything, this case having similarities with it will attract fans of the show to play this case. Means of entertainment such as theater plays, movies, TV shows and games borrowing elements from each other and implementing them to their own specific plotlines has been going on since forever-seriously, ever since Ancient Greece-and it works since it appeals to a specific group of people that have a soft spot for such plot elements. You are making this sound like a bad thing, as if it was contrived, when it actually sticks the landing." One sin added.
(We don't see Nayna in the wide pan shot of the inner sanctum and Phoenix never comments in seeing her up the stairs, but she's up here anyway.)
"Is she? Because I am watching a playthrough of the case right now. I have watched that specific part four times. Nayna is literary nowhere to be seen. And neither Phoenix nor Rayfa even mention her or acknowledge her presence. Maybe that means she is not here. That's what the players who are not morons will understand, anyway." One sin added.
(Fourteen year-old with Inga for a father somehow doesn't know any swearwords. Her insults would be a lot more bearable if she did.)
"This is most definitely done on purpose. It's done to show that even though Rayfa is a very important person in her nation's culture and a lot of expectations are placed on her, she is still a child. She is still very youthful and has a childlike personality. So this is important to show her character growth later on." One sin added.
(if no one comes up here, how do they get prayer flags hung?)
"Who the hell said no one comes here? All Rayfa is saying is that this is one of the most sacred places in Khura'in. And aside from the fact the priest and his wife could have hang them since they live there, you are just making stuff up again, since there is no mention to this "Nobody is allowed up here" nonsense. The only reason Rayfa is opposed to Phoenix being there is because he is a dark-souled lawyer." One sin added.
(The Holy mother and lady Kee'ra are the second pair of women to parallel with Gar'an and Amara. How much foreshadowing do these women need?)
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
(Datz escaped prison yesterday so he…wears his normal clothes and runs around in public talking to strangers? I understand he has amnesia, but…why is no one-say Beh'leeb Inmee or another rebel trying to stop him?)
"Has Beh'leeb realized Datz has been running around the plaza, talking to random people and trying to remember who he is? I don't think she has, seeing how she has not left her house at all since the "Murder." And I don't think any other rebels would risk walking around in broad daylight with a rebel hunter on the loose. So nobody has noticed Datz is doing this right now. You still don't get the characters do not realize they are in the game and they do not have all the knowledge that the players, from their omniscient point of view, do." One sin added.
(How did he get his clothes back? Shouldn't he be in a prison garb of some kind?)
"Why should he? You think Gar'an and Inga would waste money mass producing prison outfits for their hundreds of political prisoners. They are all left with their own clothes. Datz was wearing the same ones he's wearing now." One sin added.
(Also, discount Larry-gone-badass.)
"Pierce makes a pop culture reference…" one sin added.
(This guy has lizards on his hands despite not yet returning to the sewers. Or are you telling me naturally cold-blooded creatures live on top of a snowy mountain?)
"I love how you use that verb. "Live." That's really funny, because they are not alive. Or do you think those non-moving, stuck-on-wooden-sticks-like-Kebob lizards that Datz is gulping down are alive? That's actually seems very likely for you." One sin added.
(The detention center bars are so wide apart, Maya could escape through them. Now that I think about it, so could Ahlbi. This seem like really poor architectural planning.)
"The bars are not that wide apart from a human body to fit through. Pierce is exaggerating. Also there is one detail…one teeny tine detail Pierce forgot to mention…that there is guard with a fucking assault rifle standing right there! This whole nonsense is worth five sins just for the fact Pierce is being intentionally misleading again." five sins added.
(Phoenix freedom express.)
"Pierce points things out on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Rayfa sinks to the ground out of guilt and Phoenix just leaves her there. I guess they had to save all the comforting for the finale.)
"Phoenix can tell Rayfa needs to be alone right now. She is overcome with guilt and confusion over everything that happened in the last trial and needs some time and space to clear her head and figure things out. Phoenix is still right next to her. He just decides to let her calm down while he and Ahlbi have a talk." One sin added.
(Grieving widow imagines her husband talking dirty to her through a portrait in front of a fourteen year-old girl and goes off to mastur…holy shit, I just typed that.)
"Yes…you did...and honestly…I have no idea why…what the fuck is wrong with you?!" thirty sins added.
(Phoenix traveled to a foreign country and didn't bother to learn any of their language.)
"So if you travel to Greece, you'll bother to learn Greek aside from hello and goodbye? I didn't think so." One sin added.
(Discount Steel samurai.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché. Yes, that is a literal plot point in the game, how the plumed punisher is a direct rip-off from the steel samurai. Edgeworth gets mad for them plagiarizing his favorite show and it is important to prove Maya's innocence. You have described what happens in the game, but have yet to explain why that is supposed to be a sin." One sin added.
(Being exposed as a rebel-well, target of a rebel hunter. Same thing, right?-in front of the nation's priestess only warrants three psyche-locks.)
"No, it's not the same thing. Breaking the psyche-locks only gets Beh'leeb to admit her husband was sent the warning by the rebel hunter. She denies that her husband was an insurgent. The mere fact that they received a warning in itself doesn't prove much since Beh'leeb claims the hunter was mistaken and neither she nor her husband had anything to do with the rebel movement." One sin added.
(I can believe this lady having pictures of neutral and smiling abbot Inmee in her house, but why the angry face? Who looked at abbot Inmee giving them the death stare and said. "You know what I need a picture of your face right now." And then actually got it?)
"…."
(I am not saying anything. Really, those dots symbolize my silence, as well as the fact that I'm currently facepalming. What the hell can I even say at this point?) one sin added.
(Visiting the palace.) Gar'an isn't showing off her boobs or threatening our murder in this scene.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Why is Amara helping Inga with execution orders?)
"Because it's her job. She may disagree with all that, but she does not have much of a choice here. Amara is pretty much like all those soldiers in Nazi concentration camps. You think all of them wanted Jewish people to get burnt? No. But you can't exactly go against the boss' orders if you want your head to remain attached to your shoulders." One sin added.
[(Using cigars as a stamp. How does that not burn the paper?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236604." One sin added.
(Inga clearly graduated with honors at the Blackquill school of communicating only through foreshadowing.)
"Really? Because he only has one bit of foreshadowing in the entire dialogue. The rest of their talk about the DC act is not foreshadowing anything. It's the minister of justice and husband of the queen showing off his power to the lawyer who dares oppose the system he put in place." One sin added.
(Did he just call Phoenix White? Hey! Phoenix did not murder his mentor, thank you very much!)
"Pierce yells at the screen cliché. Literally this time." One sin added.
[(Maya says her spirit channeling was hit or miss.) No, it worked perfectly fine when the plot demanded it. You were just a slave to the foreshadowing, that's all.]
"Pierce yells at the screen cliché. Again." One sin added.
(Phoenix wastes precious investigation time discussing the plumed punisher with Maya. I mean, I know it's going to be relevant to the plot later, but no way Phoenix knew about it.)
"Why is it sinful that Phoenix talks about thinks not related to the case? He has pretty much covered every aspect of the investigation. He talked to all people related to the victim or the murder, he investigated the scene, collected evidence and he just learnt everything Maya knew. He has time to spare and he decides to make some small talk with Maya. Also, Maya is very stressed right now. Sure, she has been charged with murder before but not here. Here, she will be executed and so will Phoenix if he fails to defend her. There is a ton of pressure on her and Phoenix wants to get her mind off the murder by talking about something unrelated." One sin added.
(Maya wants to pitch a plumed punisher-steel samurai crossover in the US.) Maya better not take this to take-2 TV or I'm gonna boycott goddammit it!]
"…."
(I'm not saying anything. No. I refuse to say anything. Read the above line and then come and tell me if it's anything wrong with the game or even anything remotely funny.) one sin added.
[(In court) See, the Khura'inese understand how stab wounds and blood splatter works. Why can't American stabbing victims get their shit together? If the game can show off this much blood and still be rated T, the last case could have done so too.]
"Okay, but...how is that supposed to be a sin of this case? That was a sin of the last case. This case does it right, so…why does this case get sinned for it? And let's not forget that in the last case you sinned that particular part five times. Even though this is a different case, I think this should technically count as a sextuple sin and therefore, I should add six sins." Six sins added.
"Also, you are blaming the stabbing victims…for their stabbings not being logical. What kind of nonsensical-eleventh-dimension-logic does that come from?! Are you saying the people being murdered are responsible if their murders don't make sense? Aside from the fact that's stupid even by real-life logic…this is a game. You are blaming the characters for something they literally had no hand in. Pierce yells at the screen instead of, I don't know, the developers." One sin added.
[(The hell of tickling.) Whoa. When did the island of perpetual tickling come to Khura'in? Unexpected Veggie Tales crossover is unexpected.]
"Pierce makes a pop culture reference…" one sin added.
(Creepy séance vision is creepy.)
"So we are sinning the fact that something meant to be creepy is creepy now? Are we sinning the developers for doing a good job? Just asking to know how to proceed from here." One sin added.
(I wish I could sin the refining a sensation gimmick, but…I'm already accepting the fact dancing around a pool can tell a specific pool to play out its last memories. So, instead, I'll just sin the fact this only comes up now, with no previous hint of such a thing being possible.)
"While I can't explain the technicalities of how the divination séance works-and since this is a fictional universe, I don't really have to. That's wat the word fictional means.-the game is showing you right now that it is possible for the séances to be refined. The reason it wasn't shown earlier is because it wasn't necessary. The game has to save a few new tricks for the later cases to be interesting. Who plays a game and wants all of the tricks to be revealed from the beginning?" One sin added.
(Also, what defines a soul's last memories? If they were poisoned with something that takes days to work, would we see their memories from when they were poisoned or just the last minute or so of life? Is there a time limit? A way to go back further and search through their memories? Why is nothing explained in this game?)
"Like I said, the game does not have to explain everything. It's a fictional universe. To be honest, pretty much nothing needs to work according to real-world logic. That's literally the definition of fiction. We are explained everything we need to know to understand the game in a way that makes sense. And the example you used it pretty stupid. The game, in all five divination seances we do, shows that the victims' last memories are the things they see a minute or so before dying. If a person was poisoned, their last memories would be after the poison had started acting up. And since when has going further back than the victim's their last memories been shown as a possibility? Oh, never? And you are saying you wouldn't sin that as well for never being hinted at before?" one sin added.
(Did abbot Inmee climb the mountain barefoot? Just…why?!)
"For the same reason fanatical Christians whip themselves. They believe it will absolve them of their sins, cleanse their souls and act as a sign of their undying faith and devotion to God." One sin added.
(Why don't the bells on Inmee's feet ring when he turns around? Is he magically able to make them silent for the sake of the plot twist?)
"No, I agree. That is pretty stupid. And the fact they don't even ring when he literally walks up to the statue is even worse. The developers should have thought twice about including that part in the game. It seems to create more questions than it answers." One sin removed.
(Defense lawyers suggests the possibility of a third person in a locked room-or in this case, isolated mountaintop-mystery-…and the entire court is surprised by this. I thought they kept up with series clichés, goddammit it!)
"I…."(Raises hands to objects, but then stops, realizing there is no point wasting time on this.) one sin added.
(There were only two people at the scene of the crime. I will prove that by presenting a third party's testimony. I'd reconsider your strategy, Nahyuta. I've seen prosecutors use it before, it never ends well.)
"You sure about that? Because Dazt's testimony actually works against Phoenix. No matter how much Phoenix tries to implicate him, his name is cleared and Phoenix and Maya are declared guilty. If Zeh'lot's body hadn't been found right then, they would be finished. So Nahyuta's strategy works." One sin added.
(How does Datz know we have the weather report in hand? And since when can we trust the weatherman to be right?)
"Pierce makes shit up again and I can't say I'm shocked. Datz does not knew we have a newspaper with the weather. He just says to check a newspaper to see that he's right about there being no clouds. It just so happens Phoenix has one on hand. And the newspaper with the forecast is from the same day as the murder, so the weatherman would have to be pretty shitty to get it wrong on such short notice." one sin added.
(Guy with a shaggy bowl cut and full beard mock someone else's hairstyle.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché. And spiky hair will always be more open to humiliation than straight hair." One sin added.
(Also, why would the people at prison allow Datz to grow his hair out in a way that obscures his face? Wouldn't they want to identify him easily?)
"Pierce thinks the hair doesn't make him easily identifiable. Really, how many people walk around Khura'in looking like bigfoot? They don't find him because no member of the police sees him after his escape. And they have his photo on a wanted poster, so if she shaved, they would still manage to find him." One sin added.
(Phoenix cares whether a witness is credible or not, but given the next case, I don't think anyone else does.)
"Okay…are you going to explain why that's a sin of this case. Sure. The next case is very flawed, but…how is that a sin of this case and why are you sinning Phoenix for being a good lawyer?" One sin added.
(Wouldn't sewing these all these prayer flags together take forever? How did no one in the prison realize what Dazt was doing?)
"Why are you assuming Dazt sewed them together? Maybe Tahrust and Beh'leeb did that before sending them to the prison. They could have claimed it was a new design and the prison staff would not suspect anything since the priest and his wife were both respectable members of Khura'inese society. Nobody would expect them to be rebels. And Nobody would expect Datz to be badass enough to use those flags to parachute down the mountain." One sin added.
(Also, if the only way in and out of the prison is via helicopter, how do guards get home every night? I wish I could say they were flown down, but knowing Gara'n and Inga, that shit's way too humane for them. They're probably trapped up there with prisoners and fucked in case for a riot. Sin for horrid working conditions.)
"Really? That's the issue with this authoritative regime where two tyrants write laws out of thin air to legitimize the murders of innocent people and keep the rest of them suppressed? That they don't give a shit about the prison guards' working conditions?" one sin added.
"Also, how exactly would the guards be fucked? The prisoners are locked all the time in their cells. They are only taken out for interrogations. There is no courtyard for them to wander around at and the guards have literal assault rifles. And there is no way for them to get down, so even if they make a run for it, they will be stuck. If anyone's fucked in case of a riot, it's the inmates." One sin added.
(Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact Datz just wasted forty-five minutes of game time trolling us?)
"Yes, we should. The guy is great, having amnesia and still being able to make stuff up on the fly. I love this guy, he is a true badass. And you even acknowledge how impressive all that is and how great of a character he is. But you still add a sin, even one. So…sinning this." Ten sins added.
(How did Datz get orders to escape while in prison? Were they hidden in the prayer flags abbot Inmee donated?)
"Pierce answers her own question cliché. That is doubled up by the fact the abbot is very respectable and trustworthy among Khura'inese society, which means the guards wouldn't search the flags he donated." one sin added.
(Nahyuta throws his beads at Phoenix, but in the next shot, they are back on his neck. Where is he keeping his unlimited supply?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236605." One sin added.
[(Claiming the Warbaa'd statue is Lady Kee'ra) Once again, Nahyuta is great at figuring out the murderer's plan…but not the murderer's identity. If he has skill to do one, why not the other?]
"Because Nahyuta is obsessed with getting defendants found guilty. He has been forced by Gara'n to get rebels thrown in jail or executed for so long, that he has lost all sight of his moral compass. He believes all defendants are guilty and fights fiercely to prove it, to the point when he can get pretty annoying. He has the brains to figure out who the murder is and why he did it…but he chooses not to do so. He is too stubborn to accept someone else might have done it and only pursues the possibility his narrow-mindedness allow him to see." One sin added.
[(The guilty verdict) Fission mailing. Every player's most hated cliché and it stretches longer than the AA average of five seconds, just to spite you. I can't be the only one who thought they put a bad ending sequence in the third case.)]
"No, you weren't. And that's exactly why this works so well. Really, you admit this raises the stakes pretty high, lasting for longer than it usually does. You says this is hated by so players, but…where is this coming from? Who are you speaking for? I don't know a single person who wasn't on the edge of their seat the whole time. What I think you meant was…you don't like it. I wasn't aware something you don't like can be considered a sin of a game." One sin added.
"Also, sinning this." Five sins added
(In an attempt to make Rayfa feel better, Phoenix…threatens to forge evidence? After all the shit he went through in game number four? Don't you think it's in a bit of poor taste, Capcom?)
"No, it's not. Phoenix is not actually going to do that. He is just doing what he always does: bluffing. He feels sorry for Rayfa, even though she did try to get his friend executed, and says this to get her mind off that and get her to become more invested in what he does in his investigation. He is basically doing what he did with Maya: getting her mind off her troubles by getting her to focus on something unrelated that she cares about." One sin added.
(For what reason would Maya want to kill rebels? She's a foreigner. I highly doubt she cares about the political situation in her training country…or her own country, for that matter.)
"Yes, that's a fair point…Maya has no motive to do that…but what does that prove? They have strong evidence that implicates her for two murders, both allegedly commited by the same rebel hunter. The hunter also began their killing spree at around the same time Maya arrived in their country. That evidence is quite damning. The lack of motive does not mean there is no case. I already said this in my DD fanfic: if there is strong evidence that a person willingly and knowingly commited a crime, there is no need to dwell on motive. If that's how it works in America, why would this place be any different?" one sin added.
[(Beh'leeb kisses the portrait several times and we know from the end of the case she's wearing lipstick, so…why is no lipstick getting on the picture? Was it that hard to animate a red smear on the glass.]
"Not that hard…but why bother doing that? Pierce apparently hasn't heard about lipstick that doesn't leave smear even though there is a ton of those that have existed since forever." One sin added.
(Maya defends Phoenix by…insulting a girl half her age for a system she neither put in place nor has the power to change. And Maya's thanked for it.)
"Well, she is right. She doesn't blame Rayna for the DC act or any other aspect of the legal system. But she tries to give her a reality check: Rayfa claims her insights are infallible and prove the defendant's guilt…even though she has been proven wrong twice. Maya tries to get her to realize if she doesn't allow her Insights to be questioned and enforces them as absolute, innocent people might get wrongly executed. She needs to learn to be more open to the idea of an innocent defendant or an error of judgement and not put her entire faith in her Insights, which have been proven to not be perfect. That's what Maya is telling her and she is absolutely correct." One sin added.
(Tentacled hat frogs.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(After fifteen years of spirit channeling being introduced to the series, we finally learn some rules about it. It's come so far from being a mentor ex machina, I'm almost proud of this plebonium's progress. It's growing up so well.)
"Okay…you can all see it, right? Pierce…sins…something….she likes! It's clear as day here and she still sins it for no reason at all. She is just rubbing it to our faces. "Yeah, I do like this, but if you think I will remove a sin for something the game does well, you've got another sin coming. Just because I can!" Well, guess what: you have ten sins coming for this shit!" ten sins added.
(Discount Tiber claims they've never been invaded.) Tragic Irony.]
"Okay…and what is the sin here again? I don't see any. And I don't think anybody does see any. Pierce just really hates everything: Irony, foreshadowing, narration, bad characterization, good characterization, stupid plots, clever plots…she is one of those people that even hate their own guts." One sin added.
(Gaspen Payne is talked abut in the past tense, which really makes me wonder: if defense attorneys get the same sentence as their clients for losing a case, what happens to prosecutors who lose?)
"Nothing. Literally. The act is called "The Defense culpability act." It only affects defense attorneys who try to support criminals by defending them. Prosecutors don't support the criminals and if they lose, that means everyone is in agreement about the defendant being innocent. Gaspen Payne is referred to in the past tense because Phoenix recalls the events that happened when he met with him, in the past." One sin added.
(Phoenix wants to see Gara'n dance for him. That is a fanfiction…)
"Skip!" one sin added.
[(Shad'do tracks down Datz.) Discount Missile. Because all dogs feel an overwhelming urge to track down the person they smell of a piece of presented evidence.]
"Yes…that's literally what dogs do. That's their thing. They can detect much fainter smells than we can and trail them for far longer than we could. How do you think prison dogs can detective escaped inmates or drugs?" one sin added.
(Datz pulls a knife on Phoenix and pretends he's about to kill him…then pulls out an apple. Because he needed to make sure everyone down at Cinemasins knew he was an asshole.)
"Calling Datz an asshole! That's worth…this many sins." Twenty sins added.
"Also, why do people keep saying this whole "Eating apples makes you an asshole" nonsense! Who came up with that joke and how quickly can it die in a fire?!" one sin added.
(Also, Datz saves one apple…then proceeds to stuff several shaved apples into his mouth, sjut to look like even more of an asshole.)
"Just read above. The same sins apply here." Twenty-one sins added.
(Casual perjury. Also, he never atones for it.)
"Pierce says this…but she conveniently skipped over the part when Datz says to Phoenix he's sorry for the trouble he caused and takes full responsibility for the mess they are in now." One sin added.
(Holy fuck, that spider in the background is huge! And Phoenix just casually examines the coat, giving zero fucks that a spider the size of his head is over there.)
"Well, the spider only comes down when Phoenix is talking to Datz. It climbs back up after that. And it definitely is not next to the coat when Phoenix examines it. So he might actually not have seen it. It's there for the players to notice." One sin added.
(Also, spider imagery is used two cases before becoming thematically significant.)
"Okay…and why is that a sin? Again, the spider plays no role here. it's just to create a more funny background for the players to look at and it literally plays no role in the case or the game." One sin added.
(Phoenix is given the key to a secret rebel hideout, so naturally his first instinct is to lead the nation's priestess there and expose its existence to the police. Phoenix is a dick to the defiant dragons.)
"Well, he has to investigate there since it is important to the case. And Rayfa has made it clear she will stick by his side to watch his every move. So he doesn't really have a choice here. And I don't think the defiant dragons will be using that anymore after what happened." One sin added.
(Now to search every nook and cranny.) Phoenix steal Edgeworth's lines.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(If Dhurke claims violence isn't an aim in his revolution, why are there guns hidden in the rebel base?)
"Maybe in case they get attacked and surrounded by police. They will not exercise violence to prove their point or forcefully overthrow the regime with violence…but they will need to defend themselves to avoid arrest." one sin added.
[(Back in court.) If Rayfa didn't have the correct name for the séance, why are there still waves and bubbles glowing? Shouldn't nothing happen at all since no vision was going to occur? Why does the pool tease us?]
"For the sake of dramaticism. This is a game. Some things are done for the benefit of the audience. They think they will see a vision, but nothing happens, subverting expectations. You have no idea how good stories work." One sin added.
(Ah! No eating in the sacred hall of justice!) Really? This courtroom has rules on what can be taken in and out, but not the courtroom in America? How many times were these people bombed before that happened?]
"They are actually in a middle of a war with revolutionaries trying to overthrow the current regime. I imagine they would be a lot more sensitive to violations. Do you…see why asking random questions does not count as sins?" one sin added.
(Why does Ema put on luminol glasses to check her phone? Did she code her phone to only be read in red?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236606." One sin added.
(If the plumed punisher theme really did start playing around a bunch of praying people, why would no one look up and notice? Were they really that into it?)
"Yes. It is make pretty clear the people of Khura'in are hardcore religious people and do not allow anything to interfere with their prayers to their deity. No matter what happens around them, they will block it out and focus on their prayer. That's why nobody noticed a literal fucking knife sticking out of a guy's neck!" one sin added.
(Phoenix claims the victim shouldn't have seen the ground because it iced that day, but couldn't he have just cleared the ice away before he prayed?)
"Yes, but it would still be pretty obvious. Even if he cleared the ice, the ground would still by moisty and small pieces of ice would be there, since it's impossible to clear all of them out. But the ground in the seance seems completely clear and dry, which is not what iced ground would look like." One sin added.
(Nahyuta wants to give Ema a private sermon joy of eight hours? That beats my fanfiction.)
"Doubling down on the cringey sex humor, eh? I guess that's your backup for when you run out of actual sins and have to pad the sin count." One sin added.
(I just realized: both murders could have been avoided, if an artist made their statue's wings less pointy. That's two fuckin' sins for poor architectural planning.)
"So you are sinning the fact the plot of the case happened in the first place? That's literally what you just said: this plot shouldn't have happened because this specific event that caused it could have been avoid. Yes, it could have, but…it wasn't, which is why the case happened in the first place. Just think of it in terms of real history: World War II could have been avoided if Hitler never rose to power. The murder of Abraham Lincoln could have been avoided if a guy did not hate his guts enough to shoot him. The great London fire would have been avoided if the city wasn't so dry in Summer. Ifs won't get you anywhere. This thing happened. Just because it could have been avoided doesn't make it impossible." Four sins added.
(Why the fuck would the Inmees move Zeh'lot's body to a public area? Is there any reason they couldn't have just prayed and then buried it at the inner sanctum? No one but them comes up there. And if they wanted the body to be found-for some reason-why not simply throw it off the mountain? That way, they can claim he accidentally fell off at the plaza of devotion. I realize they wanted to make a political statement, but they had no reason to frame Maya, so we could have avoided this plot.)
"Not really. I mean, based on your stupid logic, I does look like there were alternatives. But that's because you just choose to ignore all the facts of the case. Zeh'lot was a lackey of the minister of justice. Inga or someone else was bound to notice his disappearance and look for him. Since he stays at the Inner sanctum, they would kook there first. And if the found his body buried there, it would have been all over for the Inmees. Second, ever heard of autopsies? The autopsy would clearly show he had been stabbed in the back of the neck, which would make the story of him falling to his death unlikely, again attracting attention to the only two people staying at the place he supposedly fell from. Yes, the body had to be found. And in a way that would point away from Beh'leeb. It wasn't anything personal against Maya. They just needed someone to frame and Maya was the only likely candidate, since she was the only other person staying with them. See?! See how I debunked all your ridiculous yogic in just one paragraph. It's called common sense: it's been six games and you are still no close to getting how it works." Ten sins added.
"Also, where are you getting the tried to make a political statement? That's just bullshit! All the abbot wanted was to keep his wife, and the child inside of her, alive. If they said the truth, nobody would believe them and Beh'leeb would be executed, since the divination séance would be used against her. There was no direct proof of her acting in self defense and it would be impossible to prove without a lawyer. This has nothing to do with politics." One sin added.
(Also, for the same reason as above, culprits foil their own plot…but carrying it out in the first place.)
"This is a double sin since you are sinning the thing twice." Two sins added.
[(Nahyuta compares Phoenix to a zombie.) Phoenix the zombie did not make it…]
"Skip!" one sin added.
(Nahyuta admonishes Phoenix for trying to pin a crime on a dead man, but in the finale, that's his job. Don't you just love foreshadowing?)
"Yes, we do. Still don't get why you hate it." One sin added.
"Also, this is not foreshadowing, but irony, since Nahyuta's role in the finale is not once hinted at here. This gal can't even Cinemasin correctly." One sin added.
(Also, those tattoos are cool looking, but they raise a lot more questions than they answer.)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236606. Skip!" one sin added.
(How does abbot make the magatama glow? Is it because he's a spirit…)
"Pierce answers her own question cliché." One sin added.
(The head bobbing animation.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Nahyuta want to get Phoenix pregnant? That beats my…)
"Skip!" one sin added.
(If Maya really channeled the historic lady Kee'ra…why would she kill the rebels?)
"Dumb question. Lady Kee'ra is considered a Goddess in Khura'in. They think she is still watching them from the twilight realm and will come back to protect them from their enemies. That's how pretty much every religion works. And I don't think these people will be the ones to question religion." One sin added.
(In the end, the move that saves Maya's life…is the direct plagiarizing of the steel samurai. If these people had been original, she would have been fucked.)
"Then it's good thing that didn't happen, otherwise this would be a pretty depressing case. If you want to case to end on a happy, or at least a hopeful, note, you have to do something that saves the day. And that will be seen as convenient anyway since it happened solely for the good ending to happen." One sin added.
[(Upon realizing Tahrust took his own life.) I would like to once again point out they had no reason to frame Maya, they literally could have just left a note on Tahrust's body explaining what had happened and the political statement would have been made.]
"That's beyond stupid now. Tahrust did not give a fuck about making a political statement! All he wanted was to keep his beloved wife, who was pregnant, alive and out of jail! The sole reason he even commited suicide was to make it look like both him and Zeh'lot had been killed by a serial killer, and they had to make it look like it was Maya since she was the only one staying with them there. If he left a note explaining what happened, Beh'leeb would be arrested, found guilty since the divination séance and lack of attorney would make a self-defense claim impossible to pass and that would literally kill the point of the abbot killing himself in such a way. If the writers listened to you, this series would be fuckin' horrible." Ten sins added.
[(The rebels run through.) Did…did they just bomb the courthouse? Dammit! Courtroom bombing was a big deal in America and these people asked it look like nothing.]
"Yes…and that shows how badass the defiant dragons are. Dhurke and Dazt alone are the most badass characters in the whole series. That's what badass people are good at: making big tasks appear mundane and easy." One sin added.
(Maya doesn't end the case by making Phoenix by her food. I guess she forgot about that cliché.)
"I am not even going to comment. I am over repeating myself and this fic is over anyway so…here's one more sin for good measure," one sin added.
Total sins tally: 229
Sentence: praying for two days straight
