#gaac spoilers

[sleepyteapartybackup]

"Average Japanese man uncovers 3 government secrets in his lifetime" factoid actually just statistical error. average Japanese man uncovers 0 goverment secrets a year. Government-Secrets Ryu who lives in an attic & uncovers 10,000 british government secrets yearly is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted

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i'm playing gaac for the first time and. who dares kill kazuma. i am crushed. i am ruined. the game is over and it's only just begun. i loved that man with my whole heart and soul, how can this be happening.

[probablygayattorneys]

...N-no...? Mr. Windibank, I didn't even... why... would you treat me this way...?

[kaijuboarcreations]

Maybe I'm just talking to the wind here but now that the Bvz tag is blowing up to unexpected proportions I want to put my two cents out there for a couple of things. Also spoilers are a big part of this so read at your own risk.

The fact that Barok is racist is an obvious character flaw and not a good thing clearly. It is never stated to be a good thing, it was never put in place as a way to try to justify racism. Why would a Japanese team make a game with a Japanese protag and try to paint racism against Japanese people as a good thing? They also wrote Barok to be an adversary and in many ways esp in game one he plays the role as the xenophobic British empire itself trying to beat down a foreigner. But that being said he is still his own character and that becomes more clear in game two. There's no shortage of racism for racism's sake in the games. Several witnesses and perpetrators like Asa Shin/Jezale Brett, are racist because they live in a society that perpetuates the idea that the British Empire is above the rest of the world.

So let's look back at Barok. As we find out, he was raised in a household were likely his first interaction with any Japanese person on a personal level was in the form of Genshin, who was his older brother's friend and colleague. He looked up to his brother and consequently looked up to Genshin until the Professor situation came about. Obviously we learn that the trauma that Barok experienced at the loss of his brother was not really Genshin's fault (but you know vigilantism may not have been the best answer to the situation he and Klint found themselves in) and obviously it was not the fault of the Japanese populous as a whole. Trauma can make you do shitty things. Does it justify them. Absolutely the fuck not. Even if Genshin was the Professor and Klint was an innocent victim it still would justify nothing. That being said, grief has a way of creating irrational emotional connections to certain things and given that Barok lived in a time where mental health surrounding grief and depression were either never addressed or landed you in a facility were they basically tried to torture the sad out of you meant there was no way for him to get assistance in breaking out of his emotional cycle. Place on top of that, he would have been surrounded by people in British society who would have validated his racism, and now he has an easy scapegoat for his grief. Does that mean it's ok. Again of course not. Even van Zieks himself admits to that.

If van Zieks racism prevents you from enjoying him as a character, no judgement at all. But if you think anyone who likes him is some kind of racism apologist, that just seems like a very unfair judgment.

For one thing he is a fictional character. Liking a character who does bad things is not a reflection on someone's moral compass.

On top of that everything i said above about van Zieks comes down to a very important conclusion, and one that has led me through the transition of hating him with a burning passion to coming to love him. By the end of GAAC he absolutely can and seems to want to get better. Even in the last case where he admits to himself and Ryunosuke that his racist comments are unawarented, wrong, and unfair... that's progress. Even if its miniscule. All Barok wants is the closure he never got and by the end of the last case he has it and can begin his road to recovery. One which Kazuma of all people is willing to stand by him for. You can see through the course of the second game that he makes fewer hits at Ryunosuke's race (simply referring to him as "learned friend"). He intends to make progress. He was not always racist and he doesn't have to be for the rest of his life. Doesn't mean it was ok for him to be and that he shouldn't apologize and make up for his actions. It doesn't mean that anyone is required to forgive him either. But liking a character for intending to make progress doesn't make someone a bad person or apologist. Id argue it's the opposite. As I said I hated Barok for a good chunk of game play and maybe him not having the chance to do a whole lot to make up for himself in game isn't enough by some standards but at the end of the day it was Ryunosuke's story not his, and it seems the writers were intent to say Barok's story goes on from here and the end of Ryunosuke's exploits in London are marking a new beginning for Barok in which we as the player can read into in our own way. Because I highly doubt we'll be getting a spinoff of a spinoff featuring the man. Maybe I'm just an optimist who wants to see the best in this particular character idk.

[pbaintthetb]

ah bro I might actually cry :-(( lol ive been saying if sholmes raised her his whole life he basically is her dad and Iris deciding that's how she feels too (and also calling sholmes/her dad the greatest in the world) man im cracking up

[northlight14]

Update, I’m now onto the Great Ace Attorney chronicles. I have met this man and holy shit y’all weren’t exaggerating. He’s so fucking stupid and yet I’m still simping. I thought I was better than this😭😭 /hj

Ok, so for context I’m still on the “farewell my turnabout” trial in ace attorney meaning I’m nowhere near meeting this dude yet. However, I had heard about the famous Herlock Shlomes and was joking with my partner about the names of Ace Attorney characters and brought him up, having a good laugh about it.

Then I decided “why not google him? I wanna put a face to the name of Herlock fucking Shlomes.” Now, I don’t know what I expected but it wasn’t this!!

What the fuck is this?!?! Why is he so attractive?!?! Who the hell allowed this to happen?!?! I’ve never been more annoyed by a man’s hotness in my entire life, why did they allow this?! Why did they allow me to simp for a named Herlock Shlomes?!😭 /nm

I showed my partner it and now they’re also struggling with the same thing! Why did the creators do this?! What demon of a character designer decided to pair a man with that name with this face?! This is actual bullshit😭 /nm

[tunaricebowl]

pov: van zieks heard you talking shit

[insoucianceart]

Imagine: Gina Lestrade picking Jonah Magnus’s pocket

I think it’d be hilarious

[sleepyteapartybackup]

dgs case 2-2

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haha sholmes funny

[probablygayattorneys]

Great-great-etc. grandpappy’s bestie didn’t die and leave him his sword for this

[askdacast]

MASSIVE ACE ATTORNEY INVESTIGATIONS SPOILERS

the new localized names i can't

(for real this isn't a prank meme I'm ranting/laughing about the new names and voice clips as datamined from the game files, do NOT click if you don't wanna be spoiled)

Blaise Debeste is now Excelsius Winner

i am crying, that's somehow both awful yet perfect for him. The dude really wanted to sound badass like EXCELSIOR, and then he just downgrades his son's own name to be "Eustace", classic deWinner move. I don't like his new Objection voice though. I'm gonna miss the overly gravelly and evil one the fan translation gave him, that was perfection.

but that's not even the funniest one. Simon Keyes is now Simeon Saint.

Like...pour one out for Janet Hsu, I love them and their making the one REALLY good English localization ever in GAAC. But you just know they were consuming 15 cups of coffee dead into the night wracking their brains thinking how the heck they could ever outclass the perfection that was the name Simon Keyes (at least, thematically and foreshadowing his role in the story) and just taking a blunt going "F@#% IT HIS NAME IS SIMEON SAINT, LIKE SIMON SAYS, YOU CAN'T TOP PERFECTION"

I don't have any opinion on Horace/Bronco's Objection. Ray/Eddie's is alright and sounds close enough to the fan voice.

I don't like Gregory Edgeworth and Justine/Verity's new voicelines. The former's a bit unfair given the fan translation got freaking ProZD on the job, but the new voice doesn't...really resemble anything like "an older Edgeworth" at all. Shout out to the comments saying he's doing a Prof. Layton impression.

And Verity...yeah, there was no way they were gonna top the fan voice's overly British "OVERRULED!" but the new actress still sounds so...defeated in comparison

Eustace Winner's horrible localized name is slightly forgiven by having the best Objection voice clip, bar none

[theacehidingupyoursleeve]

Art dump! Some oc art!! ALSO DGS 2 SPOILERS FJFNFJCNCJN

Kirb^^

Gaac Wips ^^

[majjiktricks]

i wanted to see what it would look like

[val-uable-doodles]

I gave the man a taste of his own medicine. Once the omnibus was dowsed in paraffin...one of my sham policemen ushered McGilded inside...and sent him on a one-way journey to Hell. An eye...for an eye.