#aai1-5

[jaronofthebored]

Still thinking about the fact Kay kept a perfume bottle preserved for 7 years and ran into a burning building to catch her father's killer only to be accused of murder by her father's killer in disguise and held at gunpoint by her once she's revealed.

And then she pities her. She sees that wasn't really the person she was chasing, just a pawn. She even politely asks about if she can have the 'hairsticks' from her. 7 years of seeking vengeance, a grudge shattered in 3 minutes.

[ace-attournaments]

Ace Attorney Best Case Tournament | Round 1, Part 1

AAI1-4 | Turnabout Reminiscence

AAI1-5 | Turnabout Ablaze

Voting ended onFeb 22

[strawberrus0da]

Turnabout Ablaze be like:

[jaronofthebored]

In a series that loves its identity twists, I am fascinated by calisto yew/shih-na - because there is no identity to reveal. you get the "calisto yew is shih-na" twist, but then you're told that "calisto yew"... was also a fake name. In both identities she was just a spy for the smuggling ring - she existed purely for that purpose, and didn't exist otherwise.

She has no "real name". She has no "real face". She just follows orders, and reshapes her entire self for whatever job is needed. a puppet with customizable parts.

and then Kay catches on to all of this (in the 5 minutes she's held at gunpoint by her). and feels bad. forgives her. the woman who killed her father. who, again, just HELD HER AT GUNPOINT. I think about that reaction a lot. ily kay

I wish the guy in control of her was even 5% as interesting to talk about but instead he is just annoying and all this gets kinda skipped over and nobody thinks about it because the entire last really repetitive 30% of the case is dedicated to his segment and that's all people remember when talking about this case

[jaronofthebored]

as much as I hate all the Hold It!s while confronting Alba in i1-5 I love that the first one is kay literally threatening blackmail on a foreign ambassador. She just does that. Keep talking or this teenager will get you and you will be done, old man.

I do think she would've gone through with it if she had to even if she doubted the power of the evidence. If it's the only path to the truth she's taking it.

[jaronofthebored]

Fun fact: the AAi1 credits in the Collection accidentally seemingly reveal that for some reason, Ambassador Alba is - for whatever reason - loaded just out of frame, facing backwards, during this scene. (see a little below upper left corner)

This is not visible in the original Nintendo DS version, or in the normal version of this scene. The camera is seemingly moved over slightly in this flashback to focus on Badd, whose credits scene immediately follows, letting Alba into frame.

[jaronofthebored]

One very specific ace attorney moment that kinda irks me and no one else is in aai1-5, where Kay finds the knife pedal near the pool, but then when they're presented Edgeworth acts like he and he alone did... when he genuinely was not even there, and acted like it was garbage when he first saw it. I feel like originally you were meant to find them yourself and then it was given to Kay, but come on, if you rewrote it that far, give my girl a little credit here...

like come on dude you're better than this

[jaronofthebored]

edgeworth is so sleep-deprived in the last third of turnabout ablaze. dude starts blabbering about rotary motion and bilateral symmetry and everyone around him has to have their little "Hold It!" hour just so he doesn't collapse in the middle of revealing a foreign government's smuggling conspiracy at 4 in the morning