#dai gyatuken saiban 2

[secondmoonrise]

i just just finished tgaa 2 and i have so many thoughts, mainly i just absolutely loved the game and artstyle and writing but i am left with this just absolute sense of loss because it finishes with these promises of return and meeting again and i become painfully aware that this is set in the past and this is the last tie we'll probably ever see them again. im still confused as to why this is not a trilogy like seriously? and im very sleep deprived but man these are my favorite characters and im upaet that they are all in universe dead and i overall like how they ended it on that note, i mean its supposed to be hopeful bittersweet but man did i just go through a rolercoaser ride that entire last case. 10/10 no notes

[midnigtartist]

Dance practice

[nebulaerage]

I am (briefly) back from the dead to post a Collab piece with my beloved @clockworkvampyre!

No better character to draw for this occasion than the decrepit graverobber twink himself.

Og sketch + timelapse under the cut.

[inbarfink]

I think it’s kinda Thematically Interesting how TGAA2 at first hyped up Prosecutor Asogi as, like, ‘ohhh watch out!! This guy was already a qualified defense attorney! He knows how to use the Defense’s tactics in favor of the Prosecution!’. And, like, yeah, that is a strength Kazuma demonstrated throughout the trial….

But he also ended up facing a lot of the challenges that an AA Defense Attorney usually has to face. 

Like, having a culprit confess to their wrongdoing to you in private

And then being unable to prove this confession ever happened in Court.

That’s what happened to Kazuma in this trial, but it also happened to Phoenix and the rest of the AA crew countless times before.

Or just generally, like, knowing that the case you’re working on now is deeply related to finally solving a previous case from X Years Ago... But to actually peruse investigating it, you need to somehow convince the rival legal counsel to somehow see that connection and trust you that there is a connection - even if you can’t prove it until further down the line. And you can't prove it unless you can get them to trust you....

That’s a pretty common trope for AA Final cases but.... one that Ace Attorney players usually experience only from their side.

But this time, it's the Prosecutor is the one faced with the challenge of proving the connection between the past and present cases. And the Defense, and the Player, are faced with the challenge that the Prosecutor usually faces - the challenge of trusting their rival and their new line of inquiry. 

Prosecutor Kazuma is not just a demonstration of how the Defense’s tactics and tricks look from the perspective of their rivals - he also demonstrates how the challenges of the Defense feel from the other side of the bench. 

[doodlingdoods]

You remind me of someone...

[rocknroll-stolemyass]

this drawing got me barking

[milkymolle]

like a man possessed

[dajinplayswitch]

[midnightfox450]

I know Mikotoba probably named Iris without any input from Sholmes but I still get a real kick out of imagining what Sholmes would have thought to name her instead. Like:

Mikotoba: *vividly reliving the death of his wife and having to deal with the implications of caring for another child when he couldn't even do right by his first one*

Sholmes: ... Ammonia is a beautiful name for a baby girl

[vyzio]

Barok gets comfortable with his dearest

[strawberrycelia]

There’s no reason for Esmeralda Tusspells to be so dang cute 🌙

[daipeanutsaiban]

i want to see their coworker shenanigans so bad pleaaaaaaaaaaaase <- delusional

[midnigtartist]

This one goes out to all the Victorian dads

[nebulaerage]

University may be destroying my poor ass but even then I'll always find a way to draw Ace Attorney.

I love this decrepit goth steampunk twink man so much that I picked him as the main theme for one of my projects (which unfortunately has a traditional drawings only policy rip), can't wait to stick this freak into a cube

[inbarfink]

[doodlingdoods]

Abandon all your stupid dreams about the girl I could have been, my dear.

Alt. version without effects and also the sketch !