Episode 2
(Opening narration.)
"Pierce hates narration for no reason cliché. Have you ever seen any noir films? I guess not, since you don't understand why narration is used in mystery fiction." One sin added.
(Game flashes back to two days ago, then has the audacity to pretend for even a second Edgeworth was the victim of the case. Anyone's who's played the first case knows he survives this, so what did they think they were accomplishing here.)
"Making a dramatic opening? Really, that's a cornerstone of every mystery story. Make openings that both intrigue the reader to make him want to read the whole thing and don't tell him the important parts of the story. That's what's being done here." Ne sin added.
"And I'm gonna add three more sins for you lying again. Really, where exactly is Edgeworth being shown as a victim here? He is lying out cold, but…that is not meant to show is he's dead. We know he survives, but he still seems to be in trouble. He might even have been lying next to another person's body for all we know. And he kind of was. And because I know you will try to claim the red stains next to him look like blood…it is shown to be grape juice in the first three seconds, so there goes that." Three sins added.
[(Gameplay beings.) In the opening cutscene, the spilled grape juice is right next to Edgeworth's head. Here, it's several feet away.]
"it's almost like the cutscene does not have to be perfectly accurate since it's only meant to show you a part of the case without being 100% exactly like the game itself." One sin added.
(If Edgeworth is this reluctant to get on an elevator, how did he get down here in the first place? We later assume he took a staircase down here, but if that's the case why doesn't he take one back up?)
"He could take the stairs up…but this is him manning up. He decides it is time to face his fears like a grown up and take the elevator. He is trying to be stronger." One sin added.
(Edgeworth narrates to himself about the DL-6 incident while-thinking-he's alone. Why would he do this?)
"Because people often talk to themselves out loud or silently when thinking they are alone. I do that all the time. Helps you get a hold of yourself and figure things out. It's not that weird." One sin added.
"And you say it makes no sense for Edgeworth, but…he is about to get in an elevator, something he has been traumatized about since he was 9. You think it's easy? He needs to calm himself and get his feelings in order before he tries to do something so difficult for himself." One sin added.
(The one time Edgeworth decides he should overcome his fear of elevators is the time he opens an elevator door on a dead body. Talk about shit luck.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Edgeworth's face upon seeing the body.) This closeup.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Where did all these passengers come from? The lounge was deserted a literal fucking minute ago.)
"Yup…Pierce really believes the events of the opening cutscene happened one minute ago in game time. Just because we saw it a minute ago. In other words, the passage of time still confounds the cinemasins office." One sin added.
(Wow. I knew first class was nice, but do they really let you drink two dozen bottles of alcohol in one flight?)
"….yes." one sin added.
(No plane has this much free room and turns a profit, even in first class. I don't even think a plane like this is capable of flight. Let's get that sin out of the way now.)
"A plane in real life…maybe. But this ain't real life! This is a videogame. Rules are made to be broken here!" one sin added.
(Rhoda teneiro's hair.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
"Also, sinning Rhoda for any reason at all. The woman's a goddamn treasure!" twenty sins added.
[(Grape juice instead of alcohol.) Obvious substitution of alcohol is obvious. I get the strangest feeling I've written this sin before. Can't say where.]
"I get the strangest feeling I've sinned you for writing this sin before. Can't say where." One sin added.
[(Zinc LaBlanc's character design.) The feels racist somehow.]
"Why? Does anyone insult him for being a foreigner? Does anyone comment on his clothes or his way of talking? No. This guy is just designed like a foreign man. There is no racism here. This is getting out of hand. I agree there are still extreme cases of racism and sexism today, but those words lose their weight when used literally everywhere. Racist this, sexist that…you people have been calling everything one of those, to the point of overkill. And now those words have lost all their meaning. They have become actual clichés." One sin added.
( Also, this guy. Where is Borginia supposed to be located at anyway?)
"In Northern Europe. That much is true. But since this is a game…that doesn't mean the people from Borginia need to look like Europeans. Really, it's a fictional, nonexistent country. There is no need for its culture to be perfectly fitting with one place. It could be in Europe but retain an Eastern culture, at least in part of it. Like, let's say LaBlanc is from the part of the country that is modeled after the East while Hicks comes from the more Western, European part. That doesn't seem to make sense in the real world, but…it doesn't need to! Why does everything in fictional stories needs to make sense? It's fiction, it's never supposed to make sense." One sin added.
(Hey, whatever happened to staying to our seats? Teneiro told everyone to, then Edgeworth argued with her and now both Edgeworth and LaBlanc can wander around whenever? The fuck?)
"Edgeworth is allowed to wander around because Teneiro obtained "permission" from the captain for him to investigate. So Edgeworth has to get to the crime scene. And LaBlanc stays put for now, until he goes to find Meele to complain about the movie being late." One sin added.
(If anyone really suspected Edgeworth of killing an Interpol agent, what good does supervision by a small woman do?)
"Two sins: one, at this point nobody is aware Hocks is an Interpol agent. You have knowledge the characters in the game don't at any given time and sin them for not having it at any given time." One sin added.
"And two, you are manipulating the scene. Teneiro says the captain has approved of Edgeworth investigating under her supervision. Sure, she was lying, but the passengers don't know that. And they can't exactly disobey the captain's orders." One sin added.
(The in-flight meal is lobster, where did this guy get a giant stake? Do they really have both on board ready to serve? What kind of fantasy plane is this?)
"A fictional one." One sin added.
[(Investigating the lounge.) Edgeworth takes time out of his crew sanctioned investigation to speak with the clouds.]
"Pierce points out on the screen cliché." One sin added.
"Also, sinning the talking to the clouds scene." Fifteen sins added.
(What does Teneiro put in her laundry to make it smell like bloody grapes?)
"Oh, My God! Who…the fuck…cares?!" one sin added.
(Cammy Meele is allowed to come to work without a bra and part of her uniform missing. I am okay with that. And I am not okay with that.)
"This bullshit." One sin added.
(Cammy Meele's theme. It suits her well, but is I annoying as fuck.)
"Then it does its job perfectly fine." One sin added.
(Meele tells Edgeworth Hicks was alive at five am before he suspects anything.) This, in retrospect, was actually pretty clever of her. Couple this with her half-decent frame job of Teneiro and Meele is a pretty competent killer considering she never planned to do any of it. Now if only she were less boring…)
"Sinning Meele for being a great villain. She even puts on that lazy act and everything…oh, I see. You don't get that's what happening here." One sin added.
(Meele can sleep standing up. Is she related to Yanni Yogi by any chance?)
"Pierce makes a reference to a different game…" one sin added.
[(The hideous suitcases.) These exist.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Meele actually does a decent job framing Teneiro.) Why is a flight attendant better at frame job than a corrupt prosecutor?]
"So you think People's level of smartness and competence relies on their profession? That's classist." One sin added.
(Franziska's second argument relies on Edgeworth willingly using an elevator for any reason. How well does she know her little brother again?)
"Since they've been apart for a good part of their adult lives…she probably is not aware he still hasn't overcome his fear. She expects him to have grown out of it." One sin added.
[(Franziska accuses Teneiro.) We're never given a clear reason for Edgeworth defending Teneiro.]
"Really? Edgeworth was suspicious of her at first, but he has gotten to know her in their time investigating together. It wasn't long, but Edgeworth is a good judge of character, most of the times. So he has realized she is a good, innocent woman that couldn't hurt anyone. So he wants to help her out now that she needs his help since she already helped him make progress in his own investigation." One sin added.
(Teneiro's been buying her suitcases.) Since when does a flight attendant make enough money to drop over a grand on a ugly suitcase?]
"Who's to say she got the money from her job? Maybe she had rich parents that died or won the lottery. And if you are going to ask why she still works like a flight attendant in that case…she may like it." One sin added.
(Neither prosecutor gives any fucks that LaBlacn fell beyond providing the real murder weapon. Some caring citizens they are.)
"This guy tried to knock over a police officer to get to the crime scene. He had it coming, is what I'm saying." One sin added.
(Meele's testimony. Much like Miney, I would like this villain a lot more if her fake persona wasn't so goddamn annoying.)
"That's literary the point. To annoy people with her behavior, so she will avoid suspicion I can tell you the annoying people are the ones you least want to talk to. So If Meele Annoys the fuck out of Edgeworth and Franziska, they will prefer to pursue another avenue rather than try and get he to talk. This is the best way to manipulate people." One sin added.
(When Meel reveals hee true nature, she gains pupils. I'm glad for her, but…why?)
"Again: who the fuck cares?! You keep sticking to these menial details, but you never, not once, have given a reason why they are bad and why the game should be sinned for them." One sin added.
[(Meele blows bubbles through a pipe. ) Obvious allusion to smoking is obvious.]
"It's can't be that obvious if you failed ot get the actual point. Meele was showing having a bubble in her mouth when dozing off. This is used very often in Japanese anime to show people falling asleep, so it makes sense it was used here. When she drops her façade, she is shown to have been using a bubble blower, thus emphasizing how she has been faking everything so far. You complain a lot about this game's plot, but you sure don't seem to follow it very well." One sin added.
[(Franziska and Hick's phones look the same except color.) Obvious palette swapping.]
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(And in the end, the move that seals Meele's doom…is her choice of blood-wiping materials. If she had gone with her first language and used Bedsheets, Teneiro would have been fucked.)
"Then good thing that didn't happen, otherwise, there wouldn't be a case. Again, the game happens because of these events. They seem convenient, but you always have to have one or two things that seem convenient, considering they are the reason the case reaches a natural conclusion and a happy ending. Maybe Edgeworth being on the same plane as the murder is convenient…but it happened." One sin added.
[(Meele's breakdown.) Where are the new bubbles coming from? Franziska only blew up so many.]
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236634." One sin added.
(Ending narration.)
"Pierce hates narration for no reason cliché." One sin added.
Total sin tally: 76
Sentence: grape juice spilled on you.
