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Video Game Track Bracket Round 3

Athena Cykes - Courtroom Révolutionnaire from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

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Defy the Legends (Vs Rayquaza) from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

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Defy the Legends (Vs Rayquaza):

Everything in this song goes hard. The congos, the chip tune, THE TRIANGLE. This song seems the threat the world faces and demands you to focus and defy the god of the sky

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Thoughts on Ace Attorney’s Music Part 4: Spirit of Justice

I finished Spirit of Justice last year before I finished posting, but I didn’t complete this post in time. So, I’m making another one of these Ace Attorney soundtrack blog posts, because listening to Ace Attorney music is pretty much a habit of mine now.

So here are my top 5 songs again.

SPIRIT OF JUSTICE SPOILERS IN CASE THAT’S STILL RELEVANT

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice

Nahyuta Sahdmadhi ~ The Last Rites Prosecutor

Possibly my favourite rival theme in the series. It uses the Khura’inese instruments found throughout the soundtrack extremely well, and then gives it some background sound (something other Khura’inese songs lack enough of) in the form of the mystical synth instruments that Noriyuki Iwadare used so well in Trials and Tribulations. And THEN, just to make it sound really majestic and authoritative, he chucks on some dope choral vocals. It just sounds cool.

Athena Cykes ~ Courtroom Révolutionnaire 2016

I named this last year as one of my favourites from Dual Destinies, knowing full well that there was a better version in Spirit of Justice. They took the most danceable song in the series, make it twice as danceable as it already was, and added electric guitars to the mix. They lost a tiny bit of the melody along the way, but this is easily my favourite Objection theme of all. In fact, I think it’s so grandiose that you could just change the drums a bit and turn it into a Pursuit theme.

Investigation ~ Core 2016

Core themes have varied wildly between Ace Attorney games, in my opinion. The original one was top-notch, JFA’s was better as a song but didn’t suit the mood as well, Apollo’s was pretty good, T&T didn’t even have one, and the rest have been adequate.

But I think this one was finally as good as the original (as I was hoping it would be). The quick, low strings combined with the synths makes it just the right amount of mysterious, tense, and exciting.

Detention Center ~ Iron-Bar Elegy

After I played the first Ace Attorney and fell in love with the original Detention Center theme, I paid special attention to the corresponding theme in each game that followed.

They were all okay, except this one.

This one has a similar feel to the first one, making you feel sorry for the defendant who’s been left totally helpless. That was part of what made this theme about as good as the first one for me, but another part of it was just that it sounded good.

What? Can’t a guy just enjoy a song without having to write an essay about it? The ambient noise combined with the Khura’inese instruments sounded good, and sad, and stuff. Like a good detention center theme. It’s not that hard.

And this one.

This track is so obscure that it doesn’t have a name, and I had to link to it via a different channel. It’s left off the OST completely, and it plays once, over 5 textboxes (about 30 seconds), in the entire game. But I think it packed an incredible emotional punch.

Okay, serious spoiler time. So serious I’m going to hide it behind a “Keep reading” link (with the honourable mentions and conclusion).

This is the track that plays just as Apollo figures out that the second victim of the final case was Dhurke, and that he’s been dead for 3 days or so.

This track represents that moment when time slows down, and Apollo knows the truth but hasn’t processed what it means yet. He’s realised that Dhurke Sahdmadhi is dead, but not that his adoptive father who he cared so much about is dead.

This track is quite similar to the Suspense theme, but slowed way down, which is pretty suited to the situation - it’s not fast-paced, or sudden, but it is tense, mysterious, and suspenseful in a different kind of way to the usual courtroom antics.

The drum beats become more like slow heartbeats as if everything has gone quiet and Apollo can’t hear anything else. What used to be the bass becomes a slow organ, which are associated with death and much less intrusive.

It's a very well crafted piece, if very short and simple.

Honourable mentions:

Phoenix Wright ~ Objection! 2016, Troupe Gramarye 2016, Ema Skye ~ The Scientific Detective 2016, Apollo Justice ~ A New Chapter of Trials! 2016, A Cornered Heart, Andistan'dhin ~ Head-Banging

Unfortunately, I’ve now run out of Ace Attorney soundtracks to analyse, unless I play the Layton crossover or Capcom localises Dai Gyakuten Saiban, neither of which are probably happening soon.

I might analyse Ace Attorney for itself in the future, but this will probably be the last I post about their music. Which you’ll be very sad to hear, I’m sure.

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Video Game Track Bracket Round 2

Athena Cykes - Courtroom Révolutionnaire from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

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Breaking Free from NEO: The World Ends with You

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