Episode 3
(First things first.) I forgot to add this case to the category with the lost turnabout, the stolen turnabout and the forgotten turnabout when writing my T&T review. Basically, I forgot this case existed. So…is this a sin on me for having a shitty ass memory or on the game for its two unmemorable cases?]
"It's both actually. It's a sin on the game for having one of the worst cases in the series and a sin on you for thinking you even need to make big-fat-nothing sins here to pad the sin count. And since this is everything wrong with Piercetheveil's everything wrong with…" one sin added.
(Gatewater Land.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(So…is Gatewater land open to visitors right now? In the middle of a live kidnapping the police know abut and the presence of bystanders van only serve to complicate? Nobody even wanted to quietly try and evacuate the park?)
"Do you have any idea how long that would take? There are thousands of people there and getting all of them to leave will take a ton of time. And if they told everyone there was a kidnapping going on, they would panic and the pandemonium would make the case even harder to get under control." One sin added.
(Where is this badger keeping the sign on his person?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236634." One sin added.
(Why is it so hard for Edgeworth to stand up? He is tied up to neither the floor nor the pole on this shot. All he has are hands tied behind his back.)
"Yes, he could stand up with some effort. But that still won't do him any good with his hands tied to the beam. So he needs to get free from the rope first. I am saying all this because, if you are as dumb as I think you are, you probably though he was putting an effort to get up and not, I don't know, break the ropes." One sin added.
(I understand this is a running joke, but for an aspiring vigilante thief, Kay sure is doing shit at doing anything sneaky.)
"Are you sure? Are you sure you understand it's a joke, girl?" one sin added.
[(Kay unties Edgewirth.) Where did the ropes go?]
"Probably behind the beam. The reason we can't see them is because the bad badger head is in the way." One sin added.
[(I was not aware thieves could pass down their titles like that.) Why not? Assassins do it.]
"Pierce yells at the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Police-sponsored theme parks. Because that's a wonderful use of taxpayer money.)
"It's better than most of the ones in real life, let me tell you." One sin added.
[(Escaping the costume room.) We interrupt your regularly scheduled murder mystery to bring you…escape rooms.]
"See what I keep talking about guys?! Pierce is sinning one of the weakest cases in the entire series-the weakest one according to many-and she still does shit like this. It's actually impressive how despite her being a nitpicky asshole, she manages to avoid a ton of actual criticisms in favor of made up ones." One sin added.
[(The comedic relief character jumps to the aide of his master…how cliché.) Lang tries and fails to do my job.]
"You are not exactly hard competition on this market. I'm pretty sure Lang can wipe the floor with you." One sin added.
[(Gumshoe says he's Edgeworth's true assistant and Kay brags she stole his supporting role.) Sorry, Gumshoe, but you are not a teenage girl and therefore allowed to serve in the assistant role.]
"Pierce yells at the screen cliché." One sin added.
[(Edgeworth remembers the Yatagarasu) If the case being discussed in a flashback does this still count as foreshadowing?]
"No. Foreshadowing means to drop a warning or indication of a future event. Something that happened in the past is by definition not foreshadowed. You sure are shit at getting movie tropes for a girl parodying cinemasins." One sin added.
[(Explaining the kidnapping plot.) Rick evil brat and their tutor…]
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a goddamn second! What was that?! Colin Devorae was Lance's tutor? Since when?! He was the family butler! These things have nothing to do each other! I get you are trying to make a parallel with the kidnapping plot in T&T, but…why not just say "Rich evil brat and the adult working for his family" or something? That would work and you would be accurate instead of actually making more shit up in the kidnapped turnabout of all cases." One sin added.
(If Edgeworth is so unwilling to let kay tag along, is there any reason he can't get her evicted from the premises? You know, ask one of the detectives to escort the civilian away from the site of an ongoing investigation?)
"That's going too far, isn't it? Have the police detain a small girl and drag her out. And besides, Edgeworth is grateful to her. She did save him from the kidnappers and Edgeworth can tell she wants to help and is capable of doing so. So he might as well go with it. No harm can come out of it." One sin added.
(Edgeworth claims he needs to investigate the murder scene quickly before Lang's men report it in, but how have they not done so already? Three of his officers are stationed to the immediate vicinity.)
"Yes, and they are going to call Lang to inform him. But it will take a while for them to report and for Lang to get back. So Edgeworth is saying they need to take advantage of the few minutes they have left to look at the scene." One sin added.
[(Oliver Deacon vs Colin Devorae.) Obvious anagram is obvious.]
"I don't think it was supposed to be hidden. The players could figure it out pretty quickly, but the in-game police would never realize the existence of an anagram." One sin added.
[(Meeting Lauren Paups.) Paups forgot to put her text in blue. Luckily, Kay caught her mistake.]
"Yes…that's the joke. You see, this is the difference between actual comedy and people who only pretend to be comedy." One sin added.
(Paups cries about her lack of sex with Lance to a guy she just met.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
[(Lang descends from the in-game version of…Shang Yang and quotes him often.) This shtick gets old. Quickly.]
"Let me get that pop culture reference out of the way now." One sin added.
"And now…sinning Lang Zi. That's worth…this many sins!" thirty sins added.
(According to this game, the US will have passed and implemented the federal firearms restriction act by March 2019. At the rate this country is going? I'm…having my doubts.)
"Then maybe this is one aspect of the ace attorney universe that the USA in real life should follow." One sin added.
(The idea that Meekins in competent enough to commit murder in any way. I don't think he has the brain function for anything higher than manslaughter.)
"Yes, we know he doesn't…but how would Lang know that? He literary just met the guy!" one sin added.
(Ema takes notes on her DSLite.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Hey, why couldn't we have made Ema rescue Edgeworth from prison?)
"Okay, I will stop here. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Kay is one the best characters in the entire series. We love her and she always brings a smile to our face. She single-handedly saves this case from being unplayable. I love Ema too, but there is no comparison here. You just asked for Ema to save Edgeworth…in other words, you asked for Ema to become the main assistant in the game and Kay to be reduced to a mere witness or one-off character. Yes, she later in this sin even asked for Ema to be the one to use little thief…when that would means she would have to appear in every case. And considering Kay is the one with all the high stakes in the finale…yeah, that's just stupid." Ten sins added.
[(Edgeworth says the pink bagdermobile is a retina-searing pink.) Your suit is, like, two shades darker. Do you really have room to talk?]
"Pierce yells at the screen cliché." One sin added.
"Also, how exactly does Edgeworth's suit being darker make it eye-searing? Do you actually know what that phrase means?" one sin added.
(The return of Wendy Oldbag.)
"Sinning Oldbag. She may not be great, but she is comedy gold, even in this case. That's all there is to it. You gave her thirty sins, so…" thirty sins added.
[(Noooooo! Why HER?! Why HERE?! Why NOW?!) Edgeworth speaks for every player ever at this stage in the case.]
"Aside from the fact you are sinning something you agree with…sinning this line. The fact there are quite a few golden lines in this case says a lot about the series as a whole. "five sins added.
(Lang concedes to Edgeworth because both killer and victim were costumed.) Do we have any proof that the victim was costumed anymore? Yes, it would explain the lack of blood…]
"I will stop you there because you answered your own question. And since you then claim the blood could have been wiped off…luminol tests would find that. The fact there just isn't blood there means something absorbed it." One sin added.
[(Lance Amano faints.) Fainting in…well, this is actually an investigation, isn't it? Eh, core of the cliché remains.]
"No, it doesn't." one sin added.
[(Paups about her father: "It's been so long…I don't think I'd recognize him if we were to meet again.) Foreshadowing.]
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
(Kay wants pictures of all the badgers for the photo rally, but she only snaps images of them from behind. Why is that?)
"Who the fuck cares?! Really, is that a sin of the case in any way? No is the answer." One sin added.
(Penn E. Dent prison.)
"Pierce points out things on the screen cliché." One sin added.
(Lance Amano gets hair tips from Drew Misham. Calling the theory now.)
"Holy shit, she has been possessed by Mattpad again." One sin added.
[(Lance's motive.) If Amana can drop one million dollars at a day's notice to get his son back, why couldn't Lance have just asked his daddy for the money? Why borrow it from Tender Lender to begin with? Did he forget he is a rich kid?]
"No, I agree. This is stupid. Lance tried to extort money out of his dad instead of just asking. His dad is clearly willing to pay for him. If they said Amamo refused to pay for Lance anymore, it would be justifiable. But Amano even tries to impede the police's investigation to protect Lance, even after he finds out he tried to steal his money. Both Lance and Amano are boring and clichéd characters…but they also have the added bonus of not making any damn sense. Their actions are ridiculous and come out of nowhere for the sake of the plot." One sin removed.
[(Lauren's second confession.) No matter which murder scenario you go with at this point, they all end in justifiable self-defense. Sure, that's still a crime in this universe, but would it really be bad for Paups to go down for it?
"Yes. She would be branded as a murderer while being innocent…and Lance would get away. Is that enough?" one sin added.
(Left-hand right-hand contradiction. Good luck naming a mystery story that isn't used it.)
"Okay…and? Mystery stories borrow elements from each other all the time. They may seem clichéd, but you cannot write a story and not include any usual tricks, lest you risk alienating a particular group of players. Things like this are meant to appeal to people who are fan of other mystery stories. It's an intentional choice and not a contrived one, is what I'm trying to say. And therefore, not a sin." One sin added.
(Ernest Amano found the victim's costume and the murder weapon before anyone else did. The how is never explained.)
"Rich people be rich people'n." one sin added.
[(Letter from the chief of police.) Well, this city didin't throw its corruption problem out with Gant and the trash two years ago.]
"You shouldn't hope that will ever happen, in real life or otherwise. Power is too sweet to refuse temptation to abuse." One sin added.
(Why does Gumshoe have the haunted house blueprints on his person? It makes this minigame halfway believable, sure, but I still want to know what those papers are doing here to begin with.)
"Since the haunted house was the site of the kidnapping and Gumshoe was investigating the kidnapping under Lang…I assume he had to keep the blueprints on hand as evidence to figure out how the kidnappers escaped." One sin added.
[(Shin-na: It was all I could do to hold my laughter in) Bet you didin't this line was foreshadowing the first time through. But it is.]
"Yes. One of the best bits of foreshadowing in the entire series. So I will add three sins. One for sinning foreshadowing in general, one for this particular case and one because you have removed sins for foreshadowing before but have yet to draw the line at what makes foreshadowing good or bad." three sins added.
(Speaking of Shin-na…how does she slide one and off the screen so smoothly?)
"Pierce failing at game logic n. 236635." One sin added.
(The holographic projection sure covers a lot of ground. Imagine walking into the entrance fountain because of this thing. And I don't even wanna know what it looks like from the outside.)
"While the practicalities of little thief are not clear….they don't need to be. This is a videogame, we don't care about doing everything logically. It is never made perfectly clear how little thief works…but we still love it. Even more so exactly because it is not perfectly realistic. Realism and fun don't go together." One sin added.
[(Agent Lang, the entirety of my logic is my final, decisive piece of evidence.) Redundancy.]
"So is smiling happily, consensus of opinion and past history. Some phrases are just used even though they are wrong." One sin added.
(Shin-na explains why Lang hates prosecutors.) Sequel-shadowing.]
"Pierce hates foreshadowing for no reason cliché." One sin added.
"Also, words amalgamation. That's just wrong, no matter how you look at it." One sin added
[(Kay showing Edgeworth a cravat causes him to remember turnabout reminiscence.) Ending narration.]
"Pierce hates narration for no reason cliché." One sin added.
"And now that I have read the whole thing, I can say…not removing any sins for Phoenix, Maya and Pearl's cameo." Thirty sins added.
Total sin tally: 120
Sentence: trapped in the haunted house.
