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SO I'VE JUST WATCHED THIS AND I AM GOING TO GIVE MY THOUGHTS ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING

First of all, here's the synopsis.

We got a lot of details here !! Tube's Tube. I don't really understand why, but it sounds funny. 12M viens and 12,000,000 likes. Why 12 ? Is it a hint towards à 12th game ? There are currently 11 Ace Attorney games. This vidéo recaps pretty much everything (except the prof Layton crossover...), so it MIGHT point towards a new game :). On the right of "Likes" and "Share" there is "DL|6" :). We cannot see how many subscribers Nick has, but since the video has lots of likes, I think it's safe to assume that he has a good amount of subscribers and that he is possibly a youtuber (in this version of the AA universe at least). On the right we can see 3 other videos : MUST WATCH - Top 3 Bedtime Picture Books by Laurice Deauxnim-Scented Adventures with 3.8K views uploaded 2 weeks ago. We don't know when Nick's video was uploaded (most likely more recently than two weeks) but maybe Larry is a more successful youtuber than Nick ?? Also, I'm pretty sure that Franzy's Whippity-Whip Trip is in this video :). Then we have Her Benevolence dances the Panic Dance by Kingdom of Kura'in Embassy with 3.15M likes and uploaded 1 (idk) ago. Idk who this character is so uh, idk what to say. But "Panic Dance" sounds fun heh. Then we have No Objections Judge's gourmet courthouse specials by His Honor Eats with 2 views uploaded 21 years ago. Poor old Judge :(. Also, Capcom is plastered everywhere. I mean, this video is part of marketing so of course.

Now, let's move on to the actual content of the video !

You. That's you, Phoenix

Wording, Phoenix. Wording.

So Klavier can canonically produce guitar sounds out of thin air ?? I thought it was extradiegetic. Well I guess that's handful when he has to do a concert but forgot his guitar, heh !

This is peak comedy right there. Man I love Ace Attorney.

ACE ATTORNEY AND GHOST TRICK CROSSOVER WHEN ??? (Still gotta play Ghost Trick and finish AA lmao)

This image is cool.

Oh, Nick, honey... that's the kind of reference that I like heheh

I WOULD LIKE TO DISAGREE. ALTHOUGH YOU *COULD* START AT THE APOLLO JUSTICE TRILOGY (I'vo only played the first of this trilogy) WITHOUT BEING TOO LOST, YOU WOULD MISS A LOT OF CHATACTER DEVELOPMENT AND WOULD NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND HOW THE CHATACTERS GOT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

YES PLEASE MILES TELL US ABOUT THE STEEL SAMURAI <3 <3 <3

ALSO ! Turns out that ERIC VALE did Phoenix's voice. ERIC VALE the anime voice actor !!! Thatcis so cool. I didn't recongize Edgeworth's VA (cuz i've only watched the first anime episode + the bloopers) so... idk do your own research I don't care that much honestly. How about the "Objection!" Voiceline actors tho. Who are they. They're the closest to their official voice actors.

Anyways, tl;dr : this is a recap of all of Ace Attorney (minus the Layton crossover) + Ghost Trick. There is the number 12 at the beginning and Ghost Trick is mentionned, so my theory is that they're planning a 12th game which is a Ghost Trick crossover :)

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It was like, my favorite game ever. I'm so mad that it got deleted I'm pretty sure I never unlocked all the files ??

hello tumblr id like to bring up the topic of the video game spy mouse and if anyone besides myself knows of or has played the game before. i was obsessed as a kid with this game.

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5, 6, 12, 17, 19, 21, 37, 44, 49, 61, 62 any or all! for whoever you’d like! 💕

hi thank u so much king.

5. do they follow a higher power? what are their thoughts on divinity?

this first one got really long lmfao. the others are a little shorter bear with me.

skit is funny because for all her "i'm a revolutionary" shtick she has pretty orthodox and also vaguely chauvinistic views on religion. she still believes that the Boar, Sovereign is the last living god which is funny because skit has now very much been to the celestial plane. but in her head she's like, ok, well, those are divine beings, they might be gods but they're not really thee Gods, like, the originals, so. only the Boar, Sovereign is God. and we need to kill that thing btw.

Skit is both religious and very sacrilegious in the way that most people from Seapink are. she fears the Boar, Sovereign because she's afraid to die, which i guess is a kind of reverence? but she also fully buys into the whole "time of the gods is over" thing, which kind of grinds reverence under the boot. skit hates the idea of a divine higher power exerting influence on her life. she only wants sexy tyrannical women to do that.

as for amandine, yes she is a cleric yes she is the only "living" devotee of the Boar, Sovereign, but amandine kind of isn’t religious in a traditional sense. she very much views 'religion' as like, comparable to duty to her mom...... (starts coughing). her connection to the divine is very deep and very important to her but also mundane. amandine is mildly to moderately afraid of her God, as she was of her real mother. her relationship with the Divine isn't... completely lateral, but maybe the word is familiar. amandine and her God are a lot closer than if she had been an acolyte of some deity in some church somewhere, mostly because of their closeness and onlyness to one another

but! a crucial thing informing how amandine views God / divinity is the fact that the Boar is not a god that can just take a human form and chat; She’s a manifestation of the Natural, and in many ways, a wild animal. i don’t think She and amandine can ever fully communicate and understand each other. they're both at peace with that, but because of this, i think its unclear to what degree amandine's ideas about the Boar as a God are projections onto this huge unknowable ancient inhuman Being.

for ex, the Boar taught amandine to find people who were near death out there in the forest and do a little rite to commit their bodies back to the earth and their souls to the Boar. but i think it was amandine who started trying to heal the ones  who she felt could be saved. the Boar didn't stop her, which amandine took as a sign of approval, but it just as easily could have been indifference. to a god, especially one as old and weary as the Boar, what do a few years or decades matter? they're going to die eventually :)

i genuinely don't know if the Boar, Sovereign actually cares about merciful death. She might? amandine thinks She does. The Boar definitely isn’t the malevolent bogeyman that She’s painted as in Seapink culture, but i think the value judgement of mercy is in some ways very human. possibly amandine saw that the Boar, Sovereign did not relish in killing or kill gratuitously, but instead took those who were already dying and ended their suffering. and amandine saw in that mercy instead of pragmatism, because that was what she wanted to see. so it’s anyone's guess what part of amandine’s religion is just amandine and what is the Boar, where that line is, if there is one

all that matters is that amandine trusts her God, loves Her and wants to please Her, and feels, maybe, that the Boar, Sovereign, in Her way, cares about amandine. but also... there's this other shoe that’s gonna drop one day.... the matter of coming back to life the Way She Did. meeting altair has planted a ghost of a thought in amandine’s head that she cannot consciously think about yet. the matter of why altair came back 'right' and amandine came back 'wrong'. the matter of why did the Boar did not tell amandine that she was dead. so that’s gonna be fun

6. which party member do they relate to the most?

for skit it was gaerokas, but honorable mention to sena because she and skit came from a sort of similar place and had compatible politics, and sena reminded her of her sister. other honorable mention to nethal for being skit’s intolerable mirror <3

for amandine it's definitely altair. undead bffs. honorable mention to ahe (amandine ahe 🤝quest for closure, devotion to a villainized god), and, interestingly also garo. garo amandine 🤝being lost in the woods for a long time, being the ghost in ghost stories told about them (which amandine doesn’t know about so i guess it doesn’t count) and having a fairly private but profound connection to God/nature. their clash in personalities and loyalties tends to get in the way of amandine seeing the overlap there. but that’s starting to change i think. also we will see how this plays out but i have a feeling that the more amandine remembers about her life before, the more she will relate to n’ethal actually.amandine nethal 🤝growing up privileged, Vhurask and Lady Iris being Like That

12. have they ever been in love?

skit is obviously in love with myev, and i think she was maybe in love with daya too? possibly? but it was complicated. amandine has not. yet.

17. what do they dream about, when their dreams are their own?

amandine doesn’t really dream anymore. she stopped sleeping mostly because of her dreams. amandine used to dream about dying, even if she didn’t realize that that was what it was for a long time. it was all distorted and hazy and amandine is missing huge chunks of memory so her mind free-form fictionalized to fill in what wasn’t there. she couldn’t make sense of it, only relive the sensations :) which were unpleasant :)

skit has two main genres of recurring dreams. one is redacted, and she doesn’t really dream about it that much anymore. in the other, there are two of her and the other skit is psychologically tormenting her. OR she’s tormenting the other skit. it isn’t clear

19. what haunts them? what doesn’t?

skit is obviously haunted by redacted, but she’s also haunted by what happened to vega, but also what she saw starting to happen to sena, who had been so lighthearted and trusting at the beginning :( she’s also haunted by when her sister was conscripted, and the fact that her dad almost died in the war. i don't think failing to prevent the apocalypse really haunts skit that much. she's like. well we ALMOST stopped them.... and WE didn't open those portals. so. but she is haunted by what happened to senele (i think that was its name? ahe's town that burned). but she’s not haunted by leaving Val in the celestial plane 😔

amandine is haunted by the flickers of memory from before her death and the flickers of memory or the dream distortions, whichever they are, of her death. amandine is haunted by her reflection. amandine is occasionally haunted by gaerokas. amandine is, now, also haunted by her mother's face and the memory of how she felt in the company of her mother. she isn’t haunted by the lives she's taken or all the bones and bodily fluids and entrails she's seen. i think the only body that haunts her is her own

21. do they follow their head, their heart, or their body?

skit: head and heart

amandine: body and heart

37. what is their favorite thing to hold?

for skit its uhh myev. for amandine, i feel like she's someone who reaches out for people a lot and likes to take her friend’s shoulders or rest a hand on their back or grab their hands (when they are ok with it). it's kind of a grounding thing and helps her feel less lonely. she is also comforted by holding fauchet, who is soft even if he unnerves her

44. what do they need to learn?

god where do i START.

i think the main thing skit needs to learn is how to look at herself -- who she really is without the smoke and the mirrors and the masks -- with self-compassion and honesty. skit also desperately needs to learn to communicate and be vulnerable with other people, to ask for help when she is afraid and overwhelmed. i think beginning to repair her toxic relationship with herself and letting people see her will massively help her feel more secure in her relationships, treat others with more kindness, and maybe, one day, face her problems instead of running from them. this is my sincere wish for her. skit is so so terrible but she isn’t irredeemable and i very much want to see her grow ;;

amandine needs to learn uhhh that puppy mills are bad. she also needs to learn how to let people in and ask for help. she’s not as bad as skit, but i do think amandine is scared of seeming weak or useless, and she also struggles to verbalize her thoughts so would sometimes rather not try. also, we haven’t seen this play out much yet because it’s mostly internal, but she does have a problem with internalizing blame for things that aren’t her fault, but also blaming others for things that objectively are her fault. maybe most importantly, amandine needs to learn that her life before was not idyllic and she can’t ever go back. i do think unconsciously lurking in her head all this time has been this feeling like 'oh if i learn who i Am and what happened to me i'll be able to reclaim what i lost and come Back" but... uh.... rip.

they both need to learn how to face their pasts and heal, to build a life that’s no longer chained to What Happened to them

49. what makes them smile?

their friends and loved ones! fucking with people and dancing also makes skit smile. what makes amandine smile is giving friends little trinkets and getting pretty things, going to festivals, being victorious, and Getting a Good Grade in Being a Sort of Dead Sort of Alive Girl

61. what kind of flower would they choose to pick from a meadow?

skit would choose uhhh tacca chantrieri. i’m interpreting the word ‘meadow’ expansively. amandine would of course choose an iris!

62. outside of otherworldly forces, what do they believe in?

skit believes in communism. and Love. kind of. amandine believes in growth from decay, that kind of thing. and friendship :)

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I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS ACTUAL, OFFICIAL CAPCOM ADVERTISEMENT

I hate this so much. Edgeworth Amogus is real and can hurt me. The internet has ruined Among Us for me sorry folks.

Edit : I tomd my best friend about it and kept on saying "Ace Amogus" instead pf Ace Attorney. My brain is melting help.

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Shoutout to the Ace Attorney character designers for making every prosecutor hot.

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Got a fun bug today in AAI2

At first I kinda freaked out, I thought it was the anti-piracy technique, but it didn't look like Babahlese... thankfully, it was just my game being janky. It was resolved with the good ol' "turn it off and back on" technique heh.

But please aai2 don't do that again.

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I'm playing Ace Attorney but I'm french. Therefore I'm used to the english name, but I'd like to point out Edgeworth's name in french.

BENJAMIN HUNTER

I'M SORRY BUT HE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A BENJAMIN TO ME. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIS NICKNAME IS BENJI JSJSJSJJS

Hunter is fine tho. I guess.

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No but seriously, if last year you told me "you're gonna fall deeply in love woth the Half-Life franchise" I would've laughed at your face.

But look at me now. LOOK AT ME NOW !!

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I was today years old when I learned that the DS (Lite, in my case) plays a different sound when your turn it on on your birthday. At first I thought something was wrong with my console and panicked a bit 😭😭

Also PictoChat says happy birthday :D and the green light blinks !

I'm a little sad that I never got to use PictoChat at all. At least not by myself. I do not know anyone who owns a DS and I guess I'm just too young...

I have afew games who do a mittle something on your birtthday, both on DS and 3DS. I'll check them out in a bit !!

Feom what I've gathered, I have :

Pokémon ORAS

Pokémon Pearl

Animal Crossing New Leaf

Tomodachi Life

I had Mario & Luigi Dream Team Bros but lost the cartridge :'( it used to je one of my favorite games...

Puzzle and Dragons Z

Mii Plaza

Whoa, that's a lot to check ! Haha !

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So uhh I just finished Half-Life 2 Episode 2 and..... BRO WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING ???

I pity the people who played it upon release. It's veen 17 goddamn years...

I really liked it. It gave guite a lot of story elements. I epsecially liked learning more about the Vortigaunts. But still, we still don't know WHY the G-Man caused/helped causing the resonance cascade. WHO IS THIS MAN I NEED ANSWERS OOUURRGGHH !!

I hate Magnusson.

I am very curious about the contents of Half-Life : Alyx. I've heard of a mod that allows us to play it like a normal game, and since I don't own a VR headset, it might be the only way for me to play this game. I also still have to play Blue Shift and Opposing Forces... I think I'll play these two first. Then Alyx.

I'll also need to play Portal 2. It seems that Black Mesa and Aperture Science were more closely tied that I thought... maybe the next Half-Life will be sole sort of Portal crossover ? That'd be cool... Gordon meets Chell, you have to use both portals and the gravity gun to resolve puzzles... Yup, that'd be swell !

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I WAS NOT PREPARED TO SEE THIS

My eyes... are burning... a little...

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.... well shit, my circle pad entirely broke tonight. The game that broke the first half was Shovel Knight, and the one that broke the other half is Kid Icarus Uprising

Meh, I can still use it. My 3ds's 11 years old, I suppose it's not too surprising that she's getting a bit damaged.

Gonna change the battery soon too !

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Just finished Apollo Justice : Ace Attorney and my mind is BLOWN. I will repeat this with every game but dear lord I am not clever enough for these games. I loved figuring out how every case intertwine in the span of 7 years. The MASON system was really fun. I purposefully picked the good ending, because I wanted ANSWERS. I might go back and do the bad ending later.

I am extremly exited about the nextgames, however I insist on pmaying them in order of release, which means the next 3 games I'll play will be spin-offs (Investigations 1 + 2 and the Prof. Layton crossover). I am very interested in investigations because 1. Playing as Edgeworth will be very interesting and I look forward to discovering the new mechanics and 2. GUMSHOE. GUMSHOE IS BACK GUYS. MY PAL GUMSHOE.

Dual Destinies will most likely provide thrilling new cases, characters and infos. It kinda makes me want to speedrun the next three games, kinda like I played Trials and Tribulations in only 20 days (I probably can finish a whole game in a couple of days, but on the other hand, I feel like I wouldn't appreciate the game enough...)

Bits of spoilers :

I NEED TO KNOW HOW THE FUTURE GAME WILL HANDLE HOW TRUCY AND APOLLO WILL LEARN THAT THEY ARE RELATED, AND THAT THEIR MOTHER IS STILL ALIVE. I tried not to get too spoiled, but I've never heard anyone adress these facts.

Also KRISTOPH YOU ASSHOOOOOOLEEE

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And what's the best way to celebrate it ? Play the original, unofficial translation that I totally paid for :D

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Just finished Ace Attorney Justice for All

THIS GAME HAS NO BUSINESS MAKING ME SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT PIXELS ON MY SCREEN ARJSLSNSN MAYA !!

Gonna start Trials and Tribulations real soon :D

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I just finished Portal and I LOVED IT SOOOO MUCHHH

First of all, the puzzles. I liked how the first ones were very easy, and then became more and more complicated with time. They were just challenging enough !

Another thing I adored was GLaDOS's voice. Her robotic, sing-song tone was really great. And, of course, her personality.

The story was great as well ! I really liked finding clues hidden in the environment. Some of them could be easily missed. I made my mom play (she enjoy it also, but the movement/portal mechanics make her feel dizzy) and she almost missed the first clue.

The ending, also. It was... quite mysterious. But hey, the cake wasn't a lie after all ! I can't wait to play Portal 2 :D !! But for that I'll have to finish the content of the Orange Box first. Which mean the next game I'll be playing is Half-Life 2 Episode 1.

Also ! I The song at the end. Sung by GLaDOS I guess ? It holds... a mysterious meaning. What is Aperture Science's objective ? Why does it have beef with Black Mesa ?

So many questions. Hope POrtal 2 has some answers :P