Episode 5-part 2
[(Dhurke says Maya is safe.) Foreshadowing.]
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
(Inga has the US courtroom bugged, but…how did he know which courtroom to bug when the player doesn't even know where they'll be until the day of the trial? Who planted the bug for him? Did the plant bugs all over the courthouse or just in the courtrooms? And how did he not know Dhurke was there when he literary heard everything from the trial?)
"Okay, I can give you the part about Inga not knowing Dhurke was there. But who's to say Inga had bugged the courtroom? Phoenix assumes that's what happens, but there is a much more simple solution. Maybe Inga had one of his lackies-maybe a member of the secret police-go to the USA, observe the trial and maybe take a video of the proceedings and send it to him. That's just as likely and far less complicated." One sin added.
(What is Inga's plan in calling Dhurke to Amara's tomb? If he gets what he wants and Maya stops channeling Dhurke, he's exposed for Dhurke's murder and the kidnapping of an American citizen. And if you say it isn't a problem for him because Dhurke's a wanted man and he's the justice minister, then you have to ask why Inga's been keeping the secret thus far, especially from the rebels he's trying to take out.)
"Inga did not care about Dhurke. He only wanted the orb. He wanted to use it to gain spiritual power and overthrow Gara'n from the throne. But he didn't know how to get the power from it, the very reason he had Dr. Buff study it. Now that he knows what to do, he wants to get his hands on it again. He asks Dhurke to bring it over because he is now its legal owner and because he is being channeled by Maya. That way he can both get the orb and also capture Maya again, the spirit medium he needed to gain the power. And why would he have to reveal any of it? He could move Dhurke's body elsewhere and pretend he knows nothing about his murder and he could easily refute Maya's accusations since he is the justice minister. So he can become king and avoid all implications for any of his crimes." One sin added.
(Chief prosecutor volunteers to break US law by harboring a declared foreign terrorist on his private jet, and naturally these actions bear no consequences whatsoever. After agreeing to one stowaway, should he really be surprised he got another?
"If nobody finds out Edgeworth help Dhurke travel to Khura'in, nobody would hold his accountable. Also, I know following the law is important and all, but drastic situations call for drastic measures. In cases of emergency, that line tends to get very blurry." One sin added.
(Also, as chief prosecutor, how does he have the ability to do this? I'm not saying he'd never get a vacation day, but would'nt he at least need to call them ahead of time?)
"No. Welcome to "Being the boss." You can leave the office with the slightest excuse on the shortest notice and dump all your work on your subordinates. Haven't you ever had any bosses?" one sin added.
(Athena says we are bound to need her help, but I gotta say. Her role in part two consisted entirely of cracking jokes and begging for a shower. Not that helpful.)
"No, I agree. This is ridiculous. Yes, it is kinda justified, since Phoenix wanted to protect Athena, but that's a shitty excuse. Athena really got the short end of the stick throughout SOJ and it's really a shame since she's one of the best characters in DD." One sin removed.
(Also, all these people take Edgeworth's private jet back to Khura'in, but they don't invite Ema. Why?)
"Because she is not with them right now. They are in the middle of a great emergency. They need to get to Khura'in ASAP. Everyone that goes is everyone that is present in the lobby. You seriously think they have time to search for and invite everyone they know along?" one sin added.
(In Khura'in) Why did they go to the temple if they're in a hurry to the palace? Does the airport bus only stop there?)
"I don't think the buses that contain the general population would be allowed to go anywhere near the palace for fear of someone trying to hurt the crown. So they had to get off at the nearest stop. And that happened to be Tehm'pul temple." One sin added.
(Also, when they left the US, it was the evening of May 17th. When they landed in Khurain after what should be a fifteen-seventeen hour flight and cross the international hour date line, it's the afternoon of the 18th. Yeah, time zones don't work like that.)
"Look, let's try to test this. Let's assume the location of Khura'in in-universe matches with the location of Nepal. There is a 9-hour difference between Nepal and America. And if we say a flight would take around 17 hours…that's one day and 2 hours. That means in order to be in Khura'in at 14:00 on the 18th, they would have to leave at around 12:00 on the 17th. The civil trial began at 10:00 and lasts about two hours in-game, so it probably lasted about as long in-universe too. So…does that match up? Perfectly." one sin added.
(Why were the guards given magatamas? And why do they have swords. We see them with guns later! Their yelltalking style is clearly taken form the crossover, not to mention that unlike those guys, these people have no individual personalities and…basically these characters are just a ten-sin bomb waiting to go off.)
"You asked two completely unrelated questions above. Seriously. Why do they have magatamas? Why do they have swords? Why should we care about those questions enough to blame the game for not answering them? By that logic, blame the MCU for not explaining how Gamma radiation turns Bruce Banner into the Hulk. They never bother explaining that, but everybody is okay with that. There is not a single movie or game or series that answers every single question. Because there is no need to and it would feel very contrived and overstuffed if every single thing was explained in detail." One sin added.
"Also, you say these guys have no character, but…even they make a heel turn in the final trial. They are shown as having undying faith to the crown, to the point where they'll even kill people for their sake. But as soon as Gara'n is exposed as a fraud, they turn on her and arrest her. And that is one of the coolest scenes ever." One sin added.
"And you said they are a ten sins bomb waiting to go off, but...that smells like padding the sin count to me, so I think your entire rant above is a twenty-sin bomb waiting to go off. It just went off." Twenty sins added.
(I know Gara'n has the tomb surrounded so she can frame Dhurke for Inga's murder, but…if she really wanted to get rid of both men, why murder Inga at all? Just trap them in the tomb at the same time Inga devised and arrest him for murder, kidnapping, abuse of power and conspiracy to assassinate the queen. He's finished and probably executed. She'd have the same level of difficulty replacing the people loyal to him. As for the rebellion, reveal Dhurke's death to the dragons, crush their spirit and catch the rebels while they're disorganized. But hey: murder mysteries gotta murder mystery, I guess.)
"Yes, all of your above points are good. Really, if Gara'n had done that, she would have gotten away with everything and kept Khura'in under her heel forever. A more rational and perceptive villain would probably pull all that off. But…what about Gara'n gives you the impression she's rational and perceptive? This woman is obsessive, paranoid and tends to take thoughtless actions. She developed an inferiority complex after losing her claim to the throne, because obsessed with getting the throne and if anyone tried to take it from her, she would kill them. In the end, after her defeat, she goes so over the line that she starts thinking she's the holy mother. She is clearly very mentally unstable and wouldn't think of a good strategy. She instead choose to resort to murder and concoct an unnecessarily convoluted frame job out of madness." One sin added.
(Gara'n isn't showing off her boos or threatening our murder in this scene.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Guards freak out at the sight of murdered people, but they guard Gara'n for a living. Shouldn't they be used to it?)
"Yes. They probably are used to normal murders. But you forgot to mention who the murdered person here is. This is the murder of their minister of justice, one of the biggest figures in their nation. Wouldn't it be even more sinful if they shook it off like it's not a huge deal that will upset their legal further than the events of case three did?" one sin added.
[(Something terrible has happened…Dhurke….th…th…the minster…h…h…he's dead!) Guard is unclear about who was found dead for the sake of suspense. I mean, he's right either way, but…]
"This is a game, you know. Suspense is required to make the game work. This is how all games are written because this is the way they will be better and more appealing to players. Pierce, once again, would suck at mystery writing. And I keep saying this, but…I now have read her fic, AAI3, end of an era. And…it's great. No, really. I really like the mystery, the stories, the characters…it's pretty good. But that just makes her a hypocrite because she keeps asking for games to kill all suspense when it is pretty much everywhere in her own story as well." One sin added.
[(With Dhurke in the detention center.) Blackout in a locked-well, surrounded-room before the murder cliché combo.)
"There is no combo here. Because there was no freakin' blackout! Dhurke blacked out because his spirt was knocked out of Maya's body. Where exactly is blackout related to all this? Or it isn't and you are just making shit up again." One sin added.
(Also, Dhurke claims he was covered in Inga's blood, but his clothes here are perfectly clean. When did he or Amara change clothes?)
"I'm pretty sure the police would give him a new outfit. They would need the clothes with the blood as evidence and bloodstains are not a very welcome fashion statement in prison." One sin added.
(Dhurke's only on trial for two charges? What about the counts of inciting treason and illegally obtained weapons and all sorts of things he's no doubt…oh, fuck it. This case needs to be winnable, doesn't it?)
"Or maybe Gara'n doesn't care about indicting him for those as well. He is charged with two murders, both of important political figures. If Dhurke is found guilty, he will be immediately executed publicly. What would change if he got charged with other stuff? I'll give you a hint to the answer: it starts with "no" and ends in "Thing." Nothing." One sin added.
[(Apollo points out the similarities between AJ Phoenix and Dhurke.) Apollo justice would be excellent at cinemasins.]
"No, I agree. Pointing things most people have figured out on their own for no reason at all if a very cinemasins thing to do." One sin added.
[(Ema in Khura'in again.) Last time she was here, she spent the episode agonizing about Maya, Phoenix and a lack of technology. This case, she comes willingly with no problems at Nahyuta's request. And all I can say is…wow. He must give very nice sermons.]
"Another cringey sexual joke. Ema has grown to like Nahyuta over the course of their time working together. And now she wants to help him out whenever he needs it. That's all there is to it, no need to make this cringey." One sin added.
(Also, Nahyuta called Ema to Khura'in before Inga's body was found at the tomb or anyone outside the defendant's lobby knew he was a kidnapper? Did he predict the case was gonna happen ahead of time?)
"Predict? He didn't need to predict anything. This guy has been forced to serve Gara'n for years. It's clear he was in on the plan, probably from the start. And if he knew what was going to happen before it did, it makes sense he would call Ema for help after it was over." One sin added.
(Athena laughs at funerals.)
"Ever heard of self-defense mechanisms? Rembert Athena's backstory in DD? Yeah, it makes sense she would be uncomfortable with the concept of death." One sin added.
(Apollo and Athena crack jokes inside a tomb. I get the game needs to keep up their investigation camaderie, but I would have trouble doing that in a dark room with a mummy and tons of monk statues.)
"Those things differ for every person. You are incapable of making jokes if scared. Other people, like Apollo and Athena, use humor as defense mechanism to calm themselves down in an ominous environment and to lift their spirits in the middle of a pretty stressful situation. So…judging Apollo and Athena for being human." One sin added.
[(See? Every puzzle has a solution, Athena.) Apollo makes this reference despite not once meeting professor Layton.]
"Pierce makes a pop culture reference…" one sin added.
(Smartphones now exist in this universe, but the rich and powerful Inga still used a flip phone. Why?)
"You think smartphones would make it to Khura'in at the same time that they made it in America? I'm pretty sure their kingdom is still a bit behind since they are isolated and pretty much survive on their own resources. I don't think Inga would waste a tong of money to order a smartphone and have it mailed to Khura'in. He may be rich, but he is not stupid." One sin added.
(How does Ema know members of the secret police?)
"Since she is working with Nahyuta on the murder of the mister of justice, it is entirely possible she has become acquainted with them." One sin added.
(Apollo has problems with Nahyuta prosecuting his father, but had no objections to Klavier helping him convict his brother? What changed over a two year period.)
"In AJ, Kristoph was already in jail for Smith's murder. Everyone knew he wasn't innocent. Apollo wanted to expose him for the murder of Misham as well, since it was the only way to save the 19-year old, dying Vera from a wrongful conviction. Kristoph was a villain and Apollo wanted Klavier to come to terms with that. But Dhurke claims he is innocent, but Nahyuta refuses to believe him and still wants him to be found guilty. So…completely different situations." One sin added.
(We get a grand intro to the audience chamber despite having already seen in in the third case.)
"Well, visiting the queen of an entire nation is always a big deal. They have to make it as pompous as possible." One sin added.
[(Sound effect of Rayfa hitting Phoenix.) Ka-tonk.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Datz is a well-known rebel regularly on the run from the police, so naturally, he's hanging out in a public bazaar lighting firecrackers. Because that makes sense.)
"Well, he says more and more people are joining their cause, which means less people will want to call the police and report his whereabouts. And if they find him here, he can escape by throwing his firecrackers at them as a distraction. That's what he does when Rayfa finds him here, so he probably would do the same to anyone." One sin added.
(Also, Datz cries out of the sides of his head. Did he drop his Frankenstein screws somewhere?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236616." One sin added.
(We leave the royal residence, then five minutes later we go back, why did we leave?)
"Because going to the bazaar establishes the firecrackers, a critical plot point in the trial. Also, Phoenix and Edgeworth didn't not plan to go back. They only go back because Rayfa encourages them to look into Inga's private quarters. They had no reason to go there on their own." One sin added.
(Rayfa insists Inga wanted the founder's orb for her and, I gotta say, it's actually possible. Inga can't remember anyone's face, so what would the point of giving himself spiritual power be? He wouldn't remember any of them long enough to channel anyone. But the game dismisses the possibility entirely and that is a sin.)
"yes, I agree. That was a big mistake on part of the writers. It's clearly impossible for Inga's plan to work the way they build spirit channeling up here. I get both requiring a person's face to channel them and Inga having prosopagnosia are both important to the plot, but they kind of wrote themselves in a corner with that. And since Inga was show as having a soft spot for Rayfa, wanting her to become the next queen would be very logical for him." One sin removed.
(If I were Inga, I'd keep tons of alcohol in my room. Just not in a place where no one can reach it is all.)
"Ever heard of ladders? We don't see one in our viewpoint of the room, but there could very well be one. And since Inga actually has a soft spot for Rayfa, I think he would want to keep his supply of alcohol out of her reach to prevent her from drinking too much." One sin added.
(Phoenix days Nayna could almost be Rayfa's mother.) Foreshadowing.]
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
(L'Belle beauty products still exist.)
"So we are sinning the fact games in the same series make references to each other now?" one sin added.
(Inga made this gold statue-safe for himself, but never became an artist or an engineer. I mean, it's not the statue of Phoenix and Layton in Labyrinthia, but damn. I think he missed his calling.)
"Great…now how is that a sin of turnabout revolution?" one sin added.
(Inga protects his coup plans with a four digit lock.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Edgeworth with Shah'do on his cravat.) This scene.]
[(Trying to pull the dog off.) Haha. It's funny because he's coking.]
"Removing a sin for something and immediately adding it back is the same thing as sinning it in the first place." One sin added.
"Also, sinning this scene." Fifty sins added.
(Shah'do likes to stela frilly things.) Nayna's hat is not frilly.]
"No. But the veil attached to it is." One sin added.
(Datz recruits nine-year old boys to a revolution and randomly throws firecracker in their faces, but is still considered a good guy by the end of the game. That should tell you something about the villains.)
"Well, Datz is hilarious, wholesome and a good guy at heart. Most of the villains in this game are irredeemable assholes. That much is true. What's your point?" one sin added.
(Part of the palace wall is damaged, but no one but Ahlbi ever notices this. How? Why?)
"Well, the hole in the wall is barely enough for Ahlbi, a nine-year old boy, to fit through. It's entirely possible people working in the palace haven't noticed it especially when they are busy serving the queen 24/7." One sin added.
(Game thinks full blown revolutions are capable of gaining steam this quickly, and that the tide can be turned by a single suicide. And it speaks to our society that I call bullshit.)
"Two problems: one, you talk of reality, but this is a game. That automatically nullifies all your complains that call for more realism, since that is the exact opposite of fiction." One sin added.
"Also, the revolution did not just now begin to gain steam. People had been converting over to the rebels' side in secret for the last twenty-three years. Most of them just didn't have the courage to fight the queen's forces openly. Inmee's suicide was the catalyst for the majority of the population to clearly take a stand and fight their authoritative regime. You make it sound like it's not big enough a deal to incite a revolution…when their beloved abbot, who was respected by everyone, killed himself in an effort to protect his wife from a wrongful conviction for a crime she commited in self-defense. The drastic measures he had to take to protect his wife due to the state of the legal system have shocked the whole nation. Put that with the fact that the minster of justice was exposed for having a secret team of assassins that killed hundreds of people and legitimized their murder and that he kidnapped an American citizen in an attempt to perform a coup d'état on his wife…yeah, the system is rotten to the core. Makes sense people would immediately want to fight it." One sin added.
[(Back to Apollo and Athena.) Dhurke took his small children into the city full of guards for any reason.]
"He didn't expect they would actually hunt them down. That is going too far." One sin added.
(Also, how has no one at least tried to buy up Dhurke's old office and use it for something else?)
"Buy it…from whom? From Dhurke? The office still belongs to him. And…how would anyone buy it from Dhurke? You know…the revolutionary that has been on the run for twenty-three years? And do you really think anyone would dare to trespass into the property of a rebel group?" one sin added.
[(Apollo taking over Dhurke's office one day.) Obvious foreshadowing is obvious.]
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
(A collection of documents about a royal assassination somehow boils down to five bullet points. For reference imagine the Kennedy assassination being this simple. Can't? Me neither.)
"But if there was a game about Kennedy's assassination, the information would be limited. Because if you want players to get invested in the game, you have to give them only their information they need to press. You wanted the game to overstuff us with thirty volumes of information, most of which will not be relevant to the trial, just to feel this is realistic? So you wanted to cause the players a headache and make finding the correct evidence to present in court a pain? Because that's just stupid." One sin added.
(Apollo's father thought jangly justice was a good stage name.)
"it's a fine name! You know…jangly, as in the sound made by many guitars?" one sin added.
[(Beh'leeb with a bunch of unnamed people.) When did they show up?]
"Just now." One sin added.
[(Presenting the butterfly pendant.) Dhurke is a terrible liar.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Accusing Dhurke of dating someone new.) This goes on for some time.]
"Missing the obvious humor yet again." One sin added.
(Dhurke completely skips over how he was able to break into the palace more than once, probably to hide the bullshit that would require.)
"You have played the entirety of this game…and you still don't get Dhurke is…that dude?! How?!" one sin added.
(Sickness and gunshot wounds are not the same, Dhurke. But we needed some foreshadowing for the plot twist, I guess.)
"So you wanted Dhurke to outright tell Apollo he is dead and that he is being channeled? And crush his spirit, thus ending the case before it even started? And thus killing one of the coldest, most unsettling scenes in the entire franchise? What?!" one sin added.
(Also, spirt hiding information from lawyer cliché.)
"And, again, you skip over the very important reason why it's done. Dhurke tries to prepare Apollo mentally so that he won't be absolutely shocked when he figures it out. But if he tells him right now, he will most likely break down, give up…boom! End of case. Apollo, Athena, Phoenix, the rebellion all die. Gara'n wins…anything else?" one sin added.
[(They'll be arrested just for protesting?) Did you not hear about the hair pulling and biting?!]
"Pierce yells at the screen cliché." One sin added.
[(Apollo being strip searched.) This was not a cutscene.]
"Yes…because this game is rated T and we don't want to see Apollo in his underwear." One sin added.
(Edgeworth could have researched the assassination or the rebels or done anything to help Apollo's case. But he watches the plumed punisher instead for…comedy I guess?)
"Yes. Congratulations. You finally understand comedy. Good for you, you are making progress…but you still find its use in the middle of dire situation to lift the spirits of the charters and the players sinful. And that, my friend, is sinful as shit!" one sin added.
(Also, out of all the things to complain about, Edgeworth chooses one of the least offensive ones)
"The least? Let me tell you, the plagiarism of the steel samurai is casus belli for Edgeworth. He loves that show and he hates the fact some foreign nation steals their ideas for their own use." One sin added.
(We got more riot footage…to drive home how unstable things are, I guess?)
"Yes, you got it. Earlier, you claimed that the speed at which the revolution guns steam is unrealsitc and contrived…and the game has been hitting you with a sledgehammer over how well it has been built up towards. The events of the third case lead directly to this and they keep showing it for dummies like you who still don't get the seriousness of the events that have led to this." One sin added.
(Gara'n made Nahyuta prepare to prosecute his own father, only to step in at the last minute and do it herself. And while I'm not surprised she's thus much of an asshole, I will be taking sins for it.)
"So we are also sinning hateable, despicable assholes for being hateable, despicable assholes now? Just trying to do my job here." One sin added.
[(The costume change.) Well, Nahyuta got a very nice view of his aunt stripping…]
"Skip!" one sin added.
(Also, this bitch.)
"Again, sinning an asshole for being an asshole. In other words, sinning the writers for doing a good job. What, you wanted the literal villain of the whole game who kills and manipulates everyone around her to be a good person? You wanted us to like her? If nobody in the story is hateable, you will never enjoy yourself because there will be no satisfaction in bringing the villain down. And Gara'n is a very cool villain, she is very terrifying as she has the entire system wrapped around her little finger and can rewrite laws at will. You are only able to take her down thanks to finding a way to dethrone her." One sin added.
(We all might wish we were as badass as Dhruke is in this scene, but…um, Gara'n is still the prosecutor. Dead or not dead, I would be very hesitant to do this much insulting and have my case thrown out.)
"I don't know if you guys realized it…but what Pierce just did is what we call "The strawman argument." That means that she began talking about something in general and then injected her personal opinion in it and passed it off as part of her argument. Really, notice that "I"? Pierce just said she wouldn't do this, so this her personal opinion on Dhurke's action, not a general complain about the game. I don't know if you've noticed, but she does this a lot." One sin added.
(When did Gara'n get the law book? She wasn't carrying it when she walked in. Has it been under the prosecutor's bench this whole time? Did the guard have it?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236617." One sin added.
[(Gara'n swindles her paddle.) Anime wind powers.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
[(Gara'n offers to buy a new servant for Rayfa.) Hire. You mean hire a…oh, fuck it. Would anyone really be surprised if Gara'n had slaves?]
"Look, I am tired of sinning her every time she sins Gara'n for being a proper villain, so…here's a blanket sin. Or sins." Five sins added.
(Apollo doesn't yet know about Nayna's mad teleportation skills. I guess Phoenix forgot to mention it.)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236618." One sin added.
(In the times before, Nahyuta had to recite his Sutra before the beads tighten, but here, he doesn't have to. Why did that change?)
"(Insert Dr. Robotnik.) Nobody cares!" one sin added.
(Gara'n writes in the law book with her nails. Welcome to ace attorney, where keys are knives, lighters are guns, statues are clocks , bracelets are lie detectors, buttons are cameras, cigars are stamps, fans are cigars and nails are pens.)
"Welcome to the "everything wrong with ace attorney" series by Piercetheveils, where Pierce makes cringey sexual jokes, manipulates scenes, says boldface lies, points things out on the screen, sins characterization, sins humor, sins drama, sins foreshadowing, sins narration, sins exposition, sins mystery, sins lack of mystery and just… failing at game logic n. 236619. I feel like I'm forgetting something." One sin added.
(Also, cheating.)
"What did I just tell you? Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." one sin added.
[(This hall has no need for such a worthless royal priestess.) …said the grand priestess with no spiritual power to speak of. Is this foreshadowing, hypocrisy or just irony?]
"I think you would sin any of those things and if so…what did I just tell you, exhibit B." one sin added.
(The last sound Inga heard was Datz laughing at him. What a way to go.)
"At him? Datz was not there. He didn't know anything about the murder. His voice was transmitted over the phone as Inga's lackey was in the bazaar while they were talking. That does not count as laughing at him." one sin added.
"And…Pierce pointing things out on the screen cliché. In other words, what did I just say, exhibit C." one sin added.
[(Heh! Now you see why Justice will always prevail.) Apollo steals lines from detective Fulbright.]
"Pierce pointing things out on the screen cliché. In other words, what did I just say, exhibit D." one sin added.
(Why does Nahyuta have Gara'n schedule on hand?)
"Because Gara'n anticipated it will be required in the trial and asked him to bring it with him. Do you now understand why asking random questions is not something wrong with the game?" one sin added.
(Apollo doesn't take Rayfa up on her offer of a gift horse.)
"Are you padding the sin count, sis?" one sin added.
[(Gara'n changing the law again.) More cheating.]
"Pierce pointing things out on the screen cliché. In other words, what did I just say, exhibit E." one sin added.
(You're the new guy with the loud voice and a bit of an unreliable streak, right?) Phoenix described Apollo to Maya this way when just two years ago.]
""When just two years ago…" She seriously doesn't hear herself." One sin added.
(Inga feeds his kidnap victims burgers and lets them watch TV. I think he might be the nicest kidnapper in the series.)
"Well, he needed Maya to stay unharmed, otherwise he would never get the orb and gain spiritual power." One sin added.
[(Besides, I'd never go along with some criminal's plan.) Unless that criminal dated my sister, of course.]
"Pierce makes a reference to a different game…" one sin added.
(Why is everyone so shocked that Nayna might be Nahyuta's mother. With that hair, I'd be more surprised if they weren't related.)
"I think you are padding the sin count." One sin added.
[(Amara's transformation.) I would just like to point out she came to court prepared to do this-and with an extra set of clothes hidden somewhere-on the off chance her true identity was revealed.]
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236620." One sin added.
[(Where did those animals even come from?) Apollo Justice would be awesome at cinemasins.]
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236621." One sin added.
[(His Magistry says we can't point out contradictions.) In other words, catch-22.]
"Pierce pointing things out on the screen cliché. In other words, what did I just say, exhibit F." one sin added.
(How does Amara make lighting rain behind her indoors?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236622." One sin added.
(Why did Dhurke go to rescue Maya? You could say he knew about Inga's plan, but remember: when he got to the US, he didn't even know yet who'd stolen the founder's orb. He might be a good guy…)
"Pierce answers her own question cliché. Dhurke is a national hero." One sin added.
(Let's examine Dhurke's gunshots for a second.)
"Let's not." One sin added.
(Head of a revolutionary group for twenty three years has no clue how to react in the face of gunfire.)
"What did you want him to do? The first bullet barely missed his heart. It's a miracle he can still stand up. He then got shot two more times. He may be a hero, but even he is not immortal. He uses all of his strength to scare Inga away and tells Maya what to do with his last breath. He has no time to find medical help and he has no means to treat his wounds." One sin added.
(You're telling me at 3 PM, Amara stopped channeling the minister, burnt his clothes, hid herself from Maya as Dhurke, snuck up behind her, used the magatama of parting to take Dhurke's spirit from Maya, knocked Maya out, took off her clothes, put Maya's original clothes back on, changed into Dhurke's clothes, bloodies them up with Inga's blood, tied Maya's unconscious body up and channeled Dhurke all before the guards stormed the tomb?)
"Yes. Who's to say things happened in that order? Maybe she burnt Inga's clothes after knocking Maya out and while tying her up. She would get the two most lengthy tasks done at the same time that way. And all the other things you said would take a few seconds each. Half an hour was more than enough for her." One sin added.
(Also, this game involves waaay too much stripping to be rated T.)
"But most of it is implied and not shown. So it doesn't count." One sin added.
[(Amara gets shot.) This scene is dramatic and all, but there are a few problems. Amara spent several seconds-longer than the average dramatic pause of this game-for no reason.]
"No reason, huh? So you think Amara helped Gara'n in faking her spiritual abilities for twenty-three years for no reason? She did it solely because Gara'n threatened to hurt Rayfa, her daughter. That's the same reason why Amara is hesitant to rat her out right now." One sin added.
(Nahyuta's confession is ridiculous, but he's right about one thing: we have no clue where he was or what he was doing at the time of the crime.)
"Pierce sins something she agrees with cliché." One sin added.
(I consider it divine judgement cast upon a fiend who sought…) When did Light Yagami enter this case?]
"Pierce makes a pop culture reference…" one sin added.
[(The séance of Jove justice.) Even as a baby, Apollo has hair horns.]
"Pierce pointing things out on the screen cliché. In other words, what did I just say, exhibit G." one sin added.
(The only thing that saved Nahyutua from taking the fall for Gara'n…is the fact that a guy who died twenty-three years ago could see a reflection in a shiny plate ten seconds before he died.)
"Yes…and if that hadn't happened, the game would have found some other way to end the case on a happy note…and then you would have complained about that too, huh? Because you still don't get the game or the series would not exist if it weren't for events like this. It's a good think you weren't run down by a car as a child, otherwise, you wouldn't be here writing this silly story." one sin added.
(Also, why would Gara'n touch Jove? Just wait for him to pass out from smoke inhalation and be done with it.)
"There are few ways to explain this: maybe because Jove was also searching for Amara, so Gara'n got afraid he would get to her first, so she killed him. Maybe she wanted to get rid of a potential witness. Or maybe she just did it out of pure pleasure. We have seen she is as sadistic as it gets and takes too much pleasure in causing pain to other people, so it's very possible she would kill an innocent man just because she felt like it." One sin added.
[(Apollo accusing Gara'n of the assassination attempt.) My name is Apollo Justice, you killed my father. Prepared to die]
"Pierce makes a pop culture reference that…" one sin added.
(How does Gara'n reattach her nails so quickly?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236622." One sin added.
(Gara'n's long pause, followed by laughing. I can't be the only one who thought of Damon Gant.)
"No, you weren't. And that's just more proof of how influential rise from the ashes is to the entire series." One sin added.
[(B…but that law is so broad anyone could be convicted under it.) Apollo steals my lines from the first case. If even the game itself was willing to acknowledge how vague and shitty this law was worded, I'm surprised it was able to stick around this long. How has this thing not been amended after twenty-three years?]
"Since when are any laws in monarchies amended without overthrowing the regime?" One sin added.
[(Gara'n tries to summon a lawyer.) Hypocrisy.]
"Pierce pointing things out on the screen cliché. In other words, what did I just say, exhibit H." one sin added.
(Apollo's pointing knocks the guards over.)
"Sinning this scene for any reason at all." Twenty sins added.
[(Apollo says he's eventually return to the US on scout's honor.) When was Apollo ever a boy scout?]
"As a child maybe? We don't know anything about his childhood after he got to America, do we?" one sin added.
(Apollo gets five minutes of being appreciated then has everyone saddle him with ridiculous amounts of work.)
"When you want to rebuild a whole country's legal system from scratch, you gotta work your butt of. Apollo knew what he was getting into. So did you when you decided to sin this finale, but still complained for it taking so long. But I want to reward you for actually making it to the end, so…only one final sin." One sin added.
Total sin tally: 197 + 160= 357
Sentence: defending fifteen clients at the same time.
