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.... but testimony was perfectly good evidence before. I'm confused, did they have to go and create a ton of problems in their insane legal system just to make Phoenix a hobo? Also, Apollo is still a moron and I can prove it with evidence. Just like I could prove the entire case with evidence before he'd let me.

I really don't like case 4-3. It's nowhere near as tightly plotted as the other cases in the series and even ignores some of the precedents set in earlier cases--just so the legal system can be well and truly screwed up--I remember, vaguely, one of the Phoenix Wright games having a bit of dialogue that went something like "I may not have all the evidence needed to prove this but there's still one thing left. Testimony." Now, testimony is not enough, even if we have evidence that substantiates it because the witness might be lying. Ignoring that the prosecution often bases their cases off of witness testimony, ignoring the fact that I(or the defense attorney, if you'd rather) has proven plenty of things not only possible but that they had to have happened based on the actual evidence why is testimony now considered useless? What's the point in even having testimony if it can't be used as the basis for forming a case?

lkjndfnj;lsdflnk. I really hope 4-4 is better than the previous two cases. Because if not I'm going to have to go find the writers and smack them with well constructed mysteries until they can write something that is not so full of obvious contradictions.

I've just started Apollo Justice (thank you Erin for keeping Kyle from gnawing it open) and I must say I really prefer Phoenix as the Defense Attorney/ main character. Perhaps it's because my inner monologue and his a eerily similar at times, perhaps it's because Apollo is a little naïve and really, incredibly thick and perhaps it's because the writers decided to ::spoiler alert for the people who care and don't already have some knowledge of 4-1. Oh and spoilers for the first three games like woah:: decided to steal Phoenix's sense of fun with his badge. Hobo-Phoenix is a brilliant, manipulative bastard, who certainly likes toying with people and seems to have more of an idea of what the devil is going on, but he's lost that happy-go-lucky doormat, willing to push through anything no matter how insane (your honor I'm going to cross exam the parrot) to find the truth attitude that was so characteristic of him in the first three games.

I know we'll be getting back story as to how and why he lost his badge but I don't see him taking seven years to get to the bottom of it and fighting back. Because for him, the truth was always what came first no matter how much it sucked getting there, and how much pain it would cause to the people involved. (Look at the last case in the second game where he has to make the choice between the truth and convicting his client and Maya, granted you can pick either choice, and Franziska will still come save you at the end with the evidence Detective Scruffy collected but it's fairly obvious what choice goes best with the games' "finding the truth" theme. Not to mention the final case of 3-5 where he presses on until he proves Godot is the real murdered, even though his assistant was trying to protect the prosecutor.) I also can't see Phoenix forging evidence even to get to the truth, even after he lost his badge. It just doesn't fit with what we know of his character. Sure a lot can happen in seven years but . . . Phoenix Wright would have fought the wrongful charges of knowingly presenting forged evidence (since we already know from 1-5 that they don't care if you present forged evidence if it wasn't your fault and you thought it was real) he would have gotten his badge back (or not taken away at all) and then we wouldn't be in this particular mess seven years later. They'd better give some damn good reasons why he didn't do that.::End Spoilers::

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney just feels a lot more serious than the first three. Maybe it's the music which seems to be lacking in the happy upbeat racks (we wouldn't be seeing the Steel Samurai theme here) and focus on the more sombre, serious tracks. Theres less of a "oh crap I'm so completely screwed if I mess this up" feel to the piece of that plays when you're directed to point out contradictions in evidence and more of a relaxed "la de da we'll get there eventually" thing. Remember the 'Cornered' themes from the last three games, and how the music would take a definite upswing whenever you were getting close to breaking the witness the truth? Seems to be gone, at least in the first case. And the rest of the court suite music is all laid-back and doesn't seem to fit the series. Yeah, the games still have the trademark whacked-outedness what with Apollo's Chords of Steel, the rule that anyone Phoenix spends more than five minutes in a room with has to be completely nuts still holds true, and the Judge is still the Judge, but Apollo feels a lot more straight-laced than Phoenix ever was and a lot less capable of coping with insanity.

It's still fun, but I miss the old cast. I miss the old sound track. I hope the insanity increases, Apollo becomes less of a complete dork, and Phoenix finally has something go right for him. Because even if his life didn't suck on the same epic level that Edegeworth's did the man needs to go at least a decade without being charged with something he didn't do, have someone he cares about disappear, get accused of murder, die, or make him think they committed suicide. I swear the writers delight on fucking with the characters so much that you just want to scream, wait, let something good happen to them for a change, I thought Phoenix Wright supposedly had extraordinarily good luck!

Now, excuse me while I spend the next week with the DS propped up in front of my face, narrowly avoiding running into lampposts, walking past my house at night, complaining and generally enjoying the heck out of myself.

. . . and so do you. Someone has taken the time, trouble and effort to compile all the music from the Phoenix Wright games here. Including the fancy jazz and orchestra versions. Is anyone else disturbed that the title of Gant's theme is Swimming, anyone?? Maybe it's just because I find that character so disturbing. He's all . . . orange.

Off to go take my anthropology final! Hooray for teachers who don't want to be on campus at 7:30 in the morning to administer a test and so stick it online. (Wish me luck on the wonderful multiple guess test!)

Mike has decided that I'm not working nearly hard enough on the D&D campaign he wanted me to create to satiate his craving for dice rolling and roleplaying and is so going to make one himself. Anyone want to join in? I will still work on mine, now that I've figured out how to make my initial scenario idea actually work and be beatable by the players if they don't do too much stupid crap. I'm excited about it. Not nearly as excited as I am about the IOU campaign though, Erin made that sound really fun. Ah, summer, so much gaming, so much time.

I'm still doing the summer program. It's delightfully sucky. The students keep trying to come into the lab during unscheduled hours, talking in non-indoor voices, and now they've decided to start stealing my doodles. Yes, my doodles. I was bored I scribbled something on a piece of paper, moved it to the desk behind me and when I was going to go back and finish it up someone had gone and taken my doodle! What the heck!? High School students are weird.

Erin wants me to post a collection of my webcomic links somewhere where she can have ready and easy access to them. I think I'll do that tonight--give me a good reason to sort out the links section "something I read, something I read, something I decided to check out when I had more time and didn't, something that I read and that I find awesome, something that stopped updating and wasn't worth reading anyway, something on hiatus . . ." you get the idea. It's been a long time since I've gone through my collection of links and sorted them by category. I'll also have to type little blurbs about all the webcomics again since I can't find the e-mails I've sent out to spread the webcomic love. At least it gives me something to do besides play Sudoku.

Only 24 more pages to write until the end of the semester! I am so insanely happy about this. Everything else is multiple guess tests, stupid yet easy group discussion and extra credit. Wheee, it’s almost over!

My game systems and I shall soon be reunited!