#gyakuten series

[arimiadev]

phoenix wright: ace attorney trilogy is on sale for less than $10 this week. that's 3 games for basically $3.30 each. each of those games are 20+ hours long.

become a visual novel player. do it.

[laurellala-comics]

A Shakespearean comedy of errors

bonus:

[princema-k]

so draw your blade, you wretched fiend and let's you and i fight like the dishonourable dogs we are savage, violent, yet free and when the curtain calls, let me put you out of my misery

[eggtempest]

THE WHEEL 🙌🙌🙌

[milkcurdles]

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT, SIR! !!!

RAAAAAHHHHHH I CANT BELIEVE IT ITS FINALLY HERE…. I CAN PLAY THIS GAME FOR REALSIES!!!

[juckalope]

some aa4 face sketches from some time ago!! the switch port makes me feel nostalgic 🫶

[beneaththebloodylake]

i think the games have established quite clearly by now that law is phoenixs thing. honestly i really dont get the people who are like if it hadnt been for dl6 hed have been an actor or whatever, im positive hed have ended up as a lawyer somehow. especially if as a consequence of no dl6 he stayed friends with edgeworth, surely your best friend who you look up to and make a big deal about standing up for you becoming a lawyer would be a bit of a motivation. not to mention he still wouldve met mia and been defended by her. but even if you remove both of them from his life im still convinced hed end up doing law somehow. larry gets arrested for murdering his ex and phoenix decides to represent him, no experience he studies overnight to take the bar and passes, it legitimately wouldnt be out of character or unrealistic to the internal logic of the ace attorney universe

[lunacias]

Sooo happy to share my newest mascot buttons! These thick buttons are soft to touch and best of all: SQUISHY!!

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[ermitanyoh]

ROCK & LAW (1/?)

[pumpkajelly]

I find it so funny in Ace Attorney that they attribute the dark age of the law with Phoenix being disbarred for forgery. Attorneys are getting put away for murder left right and center. Attorney Von Karma found guilty of killing another attorney, adopting his son, and then attempting to frame that son for murder. Thats ok. Attorney Godot found guilty of murder! We've got Large Scale murder and conspiracy with Attorney Lana Skye and co, Attorney Calipso Yew is found to be dealing with a drug ring? Attorney Blackquill has been in jail for years. BUT. World's blorbo lawyer Mr. Wright accused of forgery?? 1000 years dark ages for the law.

[inbarfink]

One thing I really appreciate about Ace Attorney is that ‘Main Character has a Quirky Upbeat Girl Sidekick’ became a Series Rule pretty much immediately and also every single Quirky Upbeat Girl Sidekick in the series is a different kind of Wacky and so the AA Cast pretty quickly became a very good showcase of all the different flavors of Weirdgirl.

[makaira-art]

Apollo Justice - Orchestra Series

The Apollo Justice port releases... TODAY! The orchestra hall with the game has new character outfits, and I started an art series of character posters featuring their special designs.

Other lineart for the game below the cut:

[visiblespiketrap]

You know, one of my favorite tidbits in ace attorney fanfiction is seeing all the ways people incorporate descriptions of the games' sprites into each character's movements in their own words.

Like Edgeworth gripping his arm, Phoenix scratching the back of his neck. Trucy putting her hands on her hips and so on.

I love seeing their ticks made apparent in the game being written and expanded upon. It seems obvious that they're a good reference and way to call back to the game and characters, but somehow I'm delighted each and every time.

[tainebot01]

Was messing around with facial features / proportions and accidentally ended up with my new favourite drawing of The Investigations Kids.

[Image Description: a digital illustration of Eustace née Sebastian (upper left) and Kay (lower right) from Ace Attorney, with a colour gradient from blue to magenta. Both are shown from the shoulders up and looking off in the distance. End Description]

[pandadrake]

More things should have canon chibi animal mascots for the main characters.

Spoiler mention below the cut

This was basically my vibe for Case 2-4, like damn Asougi chill.

[characteroulette]

Okay y'know despite not receiving any answers on Apollo's apparent lack of character, I think I have figured out why people think as much about him. It's purely that they tend to just fill in their perceived lack with a more Phoenix motivation than Apollo's own actual motivations. Apollo gets conflated with Phoenix, especially in DD, despite how in AJ he wants nothing to do with Phoenix after his first case. It's easier to just treat Apollo as an extension of Phoenix since Phoenix is the main stay, the main focus, even if that couldn't be the furthest thing from the reality of the text.

Apollo wants the truth above all else. It's why he reveals that Machi is a smuggler and Vera is a forger despite how it might damage his clients' credibility. (We don't get things like this in DD, and in SOJ it's more revealing Datz is a terrorist would lose his case immediately. I think, at least.) But usually, when I see people muse in their fics on how Apollo would take defending an actually guilty client, they have him swap sides immediately. Just like Phoenix would. And I think that's not what Apollo would do. There's plenty of evidence in AJ that shows Apollo doesn't flip sides so immediately. He accused his teacher since the evidence and logic led him (/us) to that conclusion, but the entire time he was hoping for a different explanation. He pursued the truth in spite of his own misgivings on the situation. He presents the forged card because he is being manipulated into this, being led straight into the waiting jaws of that snake trap made specially to snare Kristoph.

He was naive, and he makes sure that doesn't happen again. Even in the final case of AJ, he makes sure to explain the second forged piece, to explain the same trick of it that Phoenix made for the first forged piece. It doesn't work this time (and I am begging Phoenix to have thought up a better way to get traces of poison from a convicted inmate's cell, even despite how favoured Kristoph was), but Apollo knows what he is doing now. He acknowledges instead of attempting to fudge anything, in direct contrast to Phoenix's own actions from the original trilogy.

I don't think he'd deny his client's guilt if they did truly commit the murder. I think he'd still fight for the truth, wouldn't settle for just a guilty verdict until the whole plot was figured out. Apollo wants to help his clients, sure, but that's never been his driving force. How could it be when it was never his choice who he ended up defending? What he wants is to know the truth. He wants to understand how the crime happened and follows the logical conclusion from that on how this crime occurred.

To be fair to Phoenix, he was under duress when this happened to him both times (Matt and Iris). But Phoenix is driven by belief in his clients while Apollo is driven by the desire to uncover the truth. Similar but very different motivations, I think.

I think this is also what separates Phoenix from Ryuunosuke. Phoenix believes in his clients. Ryuunosuke had to learn that belief but also carries Apollo's drive for the truth. He will claw and scrape until the worst is revealed, even if it hurts someone. (He'll feel terrible about it later, but he will still expose Kazuma's guilt in almost killing a man for the sake of the truth.) Taking this even further, the one who decides how like Phoenix or Apollo's motivations Ryuunosuke is are the choices the player can make. They might be meaningless choices narratively, but they matter in the same way the Matt Endgarde decision matters. You can choose for Ryuunosuke to turn a blind eye to McGilded's forgeries, belief in your client above all else. Or you can have Ryuunosuke acknowledge there is something shady happening here, truth above all else. Or you can have a mixture of the two! (I chose this option, making Ryuunosuke question the new evidence but ultimately pleading for a Not Guilty verdict.) It's a fascinating way to mix these two's strongest driving forces and leave it to the player to determine how much each side affects Ryuunosuke's personality as shown in the text.

Phoenix is willing to fudge the truth for the sake of his clients. We see as much in 3-3. Apollo would never do such a thing, he is here to find out the truth, no matter how ugly. And Ryuunosuke sits in-between the two, a little of column A and a little of column P. I just find this distinction between all of them so fascinating.

All this being said, I'd love to see Phoenix be put in this situation where he isn't under duress for once, actually. What he would do is fascinating to me hahaha