#turnabout target

[pochqmqri]

Kay jumping off the truck but then running around the cordon rather than cutting through it so funny to me

[poripato]

Oh well that's not really the Horace Knightley I fell immediately in love with in I2-1. While I think the localized dialogue is overall better and smoother, Knightley lost a lot of his previous personality and sounds more stricter than the free assholeish attitude he had in the first part of the case. A lot of remarkable lines full of personality that he had in the fan translation now sound blander. That's a shame.

His line just before the you-know-what funny thing that happens in the beginning of the case is straight up cringeworthy from how unnaturally long it is. "Hold your horses" is obviously peak writing though.

[bitesizedgummie]

hmm..

[inbarfink]

[mrcorventia]

The karma collection needs more

[super-antelope]

After finishing Disco Elysium a couple of months ago, I’ve been feeling that no game will ever be this good again and excite me and make me that emotional. And now I’m almost done playing the first Ace Attorney trilogy and I’ve realised that there are probably MANY games that I haven’t played yet that are THAT good. And that was a very pleasant thing

[rendevok]

the way you draw phoenix wright has bewitched me body and soul. seriously he is so perfect and i refer to you as "the artist with the sunset colours" because i always stop and admire the warmth and softness of your coloured works. thank you so much for sharing 💖

ANON…. YOU REALLY HIT ME WITH THE MR. DARCY (2005)? FR?

God… this made me cry tbh. Good tears of course. To know that something I fret over as a weakness is actually something that is rejoiced is just… what a gift it is to hear that. Thank you, with all my heart 🥹💜

[aa-ensemble-smackdown]

I'm gonna start putting together the items/in universe characters/concepts I guess?? bracket. I'll be gathering items for it so expect some uh. odd choices

[alynnl]

Ace Attorney: Investigations 2 update 4/7/2023

Phew...

I finished the first chapter of AA: I 2 today.  Are all the chapters going to feel this long, or longer?  I may end up slowing down if this is the type of pacing I get!

Writing and plot wise it seems to pick up where the first Investigations left off as far as mysteries and character dynamics (The Edgeworth-Gumshoe-Kay trio, that is.)

But from what I know of the fanart and text posts I’ve seen looking for fanart, memes and text posts for the original AA trilogy, there is a whole new cast in AA: I 2??  And the trio will not be as present?  (I am leery about this.  But also willing to give the new cast a shot.)

Also the title of chapter 2 is “The Imprisoned Turnabout.”  Is Edgeworth headed to jail??

(I will find out when I start chapter/case 2 but for now I need to take a break.)

More to follow!  I am curious as to why so many players praise this game, after all.

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

Nobody laugh at the fact that I went down the Ace Attorney to Professor Layton pipeline and immediately had my favourite song from that franchise be a track called 'Iris'

[skyefeys]

aai2 fantrans transcripts archive!

so i noticed that the aai2 fantrans transcripts are slowly but surely getting replaced with the official scripts...but i don't want the old ones to be lost to time!! thankfully, they're available via the wayback machine, but they're a bit convoluted to find, so i decided to compile them here for archival purposes! use wisely :)

Turnabout Target / Turnabout Trigger

The Imprisoned Turnabout / The Captive Turnabout, Part 1

The Imprisoned Turnabout / The Captive Turnabout, Part 2

The Inherited Turnabout / Turnabout Legacy, Part 1

The Inherited Turnabout / Turnabout Legacy, Part 2

The Forgotten Turnabout / A Turnabout Forsaken, Part 1

The Forgotten Turnabout / A Turnabout Forsaken, Part 2

The Grand Turnabout / Turnabout for the Ages, Part 1

The Grand Turnabout / Turnabout for the Ages, Part 2

god bless the fantrans team...i thank them for their decade of service to this fanbase. never forget

[poripato]

Hi so um anyway I love Turnabout Target and yeah I love Turnabout Target and I kinda love Turnabout Target and I played it a little and I loved it and I love the chapter and I find it very cool and I fucking love Turnabout Target and I like turnabout target and I love the characters and I love their designs and I fucking love Turnabout Target and the setting the mystery the twists the everything it's an incredibly good chapter and the interactions after they enter the plane Huang being an asshole Knightley being a bigger asshole and whatever the fuck they have going on with each other (not romantic; derogatory) and them teaming up to do these silly little fake assassinations and coverups and dragging innocents into this and Nicole joining in on the conversation to complete the shit trio after Huang's breakdown up until Knightley's testimony which btw is the BEST moment in the chapter God I love Turnabout Target and Knightley doing the 20k word Rooke rant right next to his dead body and Huang being scared to shit of him clueless and Nicole also being scared to shit best chapter ever these people are not ok great designs though I drew this

[demonadelem]

I don't think Apollo would be unaware of Klavier's flirtations.

He would pretend to be unaware but he's known since "first time I felt this way about a man." Pining unaware of each other's affections is NaruMitsu's thing.

Apollo thinks Klavier just wants to sleep with him but he's not "that kind of guy," and "Klavier isn't really in love with him". Apollo catches every double-entandre and complimentary remark when he starts hanging out with Klavier with Trucy but for some reason he doesn't want to give Klavier a solid rejection. Trucy constantly teases Apollo about them but it's true, he secretly enjoys it. Maybe Klavier isn't such a bad guy.

During turnabout serenade, Daryan recognizes Apollo as Klavier's latest project and gives him fair warning, confirming his worst suspicions. Klavier is a bit of a player, a serial flirter as much as he is a serial dater, jumping from girlfriend to girlfriend to boyfriend to girlfriend. As much Klavier rattles on about love, when he is asked commit to a relationship, he can't. Daryan speaks with an air of first hand experience.

But Klavier is earnestly in love with Apollo.

This entire time he's been afraid of commitment out of fear of making them the target of Kristoph's wrath. Now Kristoph is in prison, he's not scared anymore. Apollo is the first person Klavier has ever seen stand up to his brother. The rockstar really thinks Apollo is the most amazing person he's ever.

Klavier doesn't care what other people think about him being friends with a defense attorney. He'll help Apollo with cases he isn't prosecuting and befriend Trucy, Athena and any other friends Apollo has to get close to him and die inside every time Apollo brushes him aside. Klavier even stopped going on dates, he doesn't want anybody else. Not that Apollo knows any of this.

This is their stalemate, this is how they would pine.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Here's the thing that really broke me about the goyische left's response to the Hamas massacre: once again, the uncritical, antisemitic double standard for Israel and Jews versus literally anyone else has now expanded to assume that Jews do not deserve human rights or have lost them by virtue of being Israeli.

Let's say, for a moment, that you have been radicalized to really believe that the Hamas attack on civilians was a liberatory action, perhaps unfortunate that it targeted unarmed civilians, but what else were they supposed to do? Besides, Israel has visited similar and worse attacks on Palestine for years, so turnabout is fair play, especially in service of the struggle of liberation of a brutally oppressed group. [To be clear: I take issue with this and find it morally repugnant. But for the moment, let's accept arguendo this belief as a baseline.]

Do you really include rape, torture, killing children at all but especially in front of their parents, or killing parents in front of their children and taking hostages of the survivors, beheading infants, trapping and burning families hidden together alive, stripping and parading hostages naked through the street, mutilating and displaying the bodies of the dead proudly and celebrating their deaths, and doing all of this on a holy day where Jewish people the world over are supposed to be celebrating the end of the holiday season and the beginning of a new cycle of Torah learning. On a day that people will be resting, with their families, unarmed and in their holy spaces, and are explicitly commanded to be happy.

.......amongst the "unfortunate-but-necessary violent struggle?"

Like even if you believe in your heart of hearts that all Israelis should die or at least are acceptable casualties in the struggle, do you really believe that there is any excuse for the above atrocities? If you do, I need you to ask yourself some things:

Do you think there is any justification for the manner and cruelty of the deaths?

Do you really think that there is anything a person could do in order to deserve any of these actions as a sentence?

Was the cruel nature of this, designed to inflict the greatest amount of trauma on the survivors and the Jewish people at large, actually necessary to accomplishing the goal of liberation?

Would you accept any of these actions being done to any other group?

If you are a white American, do you think you personally deserve this yourself for everything the United States has done to the native population (never mind anyone else)?

Do you think that civilians can be held 100% accountable for their government's actions? Is that a standard you yourself would like to be judged by?

If context is important, how is the last 2000 years of brutal antisemitism from virtually every part of the world not also relevant context? How is the Holocaust not relevant? The Farhud?

Do you think refugees fleeing genocide should be able to live wherever they can and that other countries and peoples have a duty to step up and take them in? If so, would you call refugees of genocide colonists and settlers?

Do you think that children should have to answer for the crimes of adults? That it is ever okay to kill them in cold blood?

Do you think that non-combatant deaths should ever be celebrated?

Theoretically, if the only way Hamas could accomplish its goal (which we will assume arguendo is Palestinian liberation, despite the mounds of evidence against that) is to kill whatever Israelis they could get their hands on, don't you think that a valid liberation force would just kill people as efficiently as possible rather than take the time to brutalize and humiliate them first? Wouldn't that be the more morally understandable thing to do?

Do you think it's ever okay to mock or talk down to people grieving their dead, no matter who they were, especially if they were random citizens rather than, say, high-profile politicians?

These questions to me are unanswerable and the fact that they are even in question at all unjustifiable. The left has either actively participated in this or remained silent in the face of it. And too many friends who I thought were allies have failed to reach out to even ask if we're okay, let alone made even the weakest of condemnations of the brutality my people have experienced this week.

This tells me that you think my humanity, as a Jew, is conditional. That my right not to experience war crimes is up for debate.

How am I supposed to trust you ever again? Feel safe in your presence? Collaborate with you on other issues? Why should I?

For the people who are posting about the situation yet failed to condemn the torture and brutality against my people, please know that I will likely never fully believe you that you are for restorative justice, against the death penalty, against cruel and unusual punishment, against sexual violence, for children's rights and against the murder of children, against terrorism, against civilian casualties, for the rights and protection of refugees, for freedom of movement, support indigenous groups, and certainly certainly anyone claiming to be against antisemitism. There will forever and always be an asterisk next to your statements in favor of universal human rights which reads: *except Jews.

[ind1c0lite]

(Basic context is that AU of Duel Desinties where the phantom impersonates Phoenix to get him found guilty of Clay's murder, I talk more under the cut abt it jkhlj)

-Basically meant to be a parallel to turnabout trump, cause if you can have ONE boss get found guilty of murder, why not a second one?

-OK basically: everything in DD happens normally until like- a day before clays murder, Phoenix gets yoinked by the phantom somehow (he is still alive, just being held captive), Phantom is still Fulbright, but they've decided to be silly goofy (target Phoenix and get him found guilty of murder, escape police custody and then murder phoenix and make it seem like Phoenix accidentally died while on the run, thats why they didn't kill phoenix right away unlike the real Fulbright) there is an imposter amo-

-I dont have the logistics as to how this affects solving Metis's murder, and how it effects what evidence is used n whatnot and turnabout for tomorrow as a whole, so im just going nuts HGJKHLJ

-Originally I was actually imagining this taking place during turnabout for tomorrow and I wanted that case to be apollo v klavier instead of phoenix and edgeworth and thats why klav is in here instead of Simon (I decided that Simon got badly injured and couldn't stand in court for the retrial, so klavier was asked to step in)

-The courtroom bombing still happens the same way it does normally, but Apollo decides to take up the case again instead of taking a leave, instead of like, you know, healing from the traumatic event that just happened, turnabout countdown still happens as well

-Apollo and Athena do not find out about the phantom's existence until well after this trial, so they have no idea that Phoenix could've possibly been replaced, though simon, after hearing about the trial, might be suspicious about whether or not that was the real Phoenix

-The Phantom had been not only keeping an eye on Simon for a while, but was also stalking Phoenix and Edgeworth after they both started looking into UR-1, so they were able to impersonate phoenix so well that not even his own daughter thought that anything was up (though while Trucy did find him a *little* bit off, but she figured that it might've been the bombing that caused him to act ever so slightly weird, so she didn't pay much mind to it until she heard about his confession in court and realized it might've been because he possibly, ya know, killed someone)

-it's pretty much just switching Athena being framed for murder with Phoenix, and instead of the trial ending on a cliffhanger, it continues on (probably with Klavier insisting on it) ending with soloman being found innocent and Phoenix being declared guilty

-There's a couple days inbetween the end of the cosmic turnabout and the start of turnabout for tomorrow, so Athena, Apollo and Trucy all get a little bit to process the fact that "oh god my boss/my dad killed someone" (simons execution date is pushed back a bit in this au) and they probably get to talk with Klavier and eventually a lil bit with Simon after he gets out

-Im not sure how it all winds down in turnabout for tomorrow (Phoenix escaping and being at large is basically the perfect cover for the phantom to resume being fulbright for that trial) but they do eventually realize that the phoenix who confessed wasn't the real one and now there's a search on going to find out where the real one is being held captive, hes fineeee just ready to take a week long nap and a good vacation (along with every other waa member)

-I dont have anything else to add on rn but if you want to add something or just throw in a scenario feel free to!! this idea has been bouncing around my head for like a month now and Im very happy to finally show yall it

[pad-wubbo]

All AAI2 official English character and case names rated based on whether I think they're better or worse than the fan translation equivalents:

Di-Jun Huang > Di-Jun Wang - It's the same.

Horace Knightley > Bronco Knight - Worse.

Ethan Rooke > Bastian Rook - Worse.

Nicole Swift > Tabby Lloyd - Much better.

Raymond Shields > Eddie Fender - Slightly worse.

Jay Elbird > Rocco Carcerato - Much better.

Simon Keyes > Simeon Saint - Slightly worse.

Sebastian Debeste > Eustace Winner - Sounds worse, fits better.

Justine Courtney > Verity Gavèlle - Much better.

Sirhan Dogen > Bodhidharma Kanis - Much better.

Patricia Roland > Fifi Laguarde - Much better, they've already done "patrol" twice.

Jeff Master > Samson Tangaroa - More unique, less punny. Not sure.

Katherine Hall > Judy Bound - Slightly worse because no food pun.

Isaac Dover > Artie Frost - References his nature as an artist, better.

Pierre Hoquet > Paul Halique - Same as Japanese name, no longer parrot.

Dane Gustavia > Carmelo Gusto - Worse, doesn't sound as awesome.

Delicia Scones > Delicia Scone - It's the same.

Karin Jenson > Florence Niedler - Much better. Florence Nightingale and needles.

Bonnie Young > Hilda Hertz - Better, because alliterative.

Jill Crane > Rosie Ringer - Better, alliterative. Different nursery rhyme.

Blaise Debeste > Excelsius Winner - The absolute Winner among these names. It's so pompous, contains "celsius" and "excel" and just sounds like he went to Oxford.

John Marsh > Shaun Fenn - It's the same. Shaun means John and fen means marsh.

Amy Marsh > Amelie Fenn - It's the same.

Dai-Long Lang > Da-Long Lang - It's the same.

Jack Cameron > Alf Aldown - Better, only because it's a Deid Mann tier awful name rather than a boring realistic name.

Turnabout Target > Turnabout Trigger - Better, sounds more like a presidential assassination attempt.

The Imprisoned Turnabout > The Captive Turnabout - Better, less long-winded.

The Inherited Turnabout > Turnabout Legacy - Better for same reason as above.

The Forgotten Turnabout > A Turnabout Forsaken - Sounds more pretentious, but probably better because less confusion with The Lost Turnabout, where Phoenix forgets.

The Grand Turnabout > Turnabout for the Ages - Worse, I think. It sounds cooler, but doesn't have any chess connotations. They should have called it "The Grandmaster's Turnabout" or "Turnabout Checkmate", I think.

Also, have updated case cards to help you get used to the new names.

EDIT;

Some extra things:

* iFly Airlines in AAI1 has been reverted to its Japanese name of "GoYou". This was probably done because iFly is the name of a real Russian airline with global sanctions against it since 2022.

* As a result, Hugo Ifly is now Ugo Hughes and the tanuki called Mr. Ifly is now Captain Ugo.

* Moozilla is now Taurusaurus, which I think is a better name.

* The Grand Tower is now the Bigg Building, suggesting that Big is not merely its size, but a Mr. Bigg is its proprietor.

* The Zodiac Hall galleries are now referred to as seasonal "Wings" rather than "Palaces". Makes more sense.

* Edgeworth Law Offices is now referred to as Edgeworth and Co. Law Offices, the Co. being Eddie Fender (aka Ray Shields). Again, makes more sense.

* Rocky the bear is now Teddy, since his owner is now already Rocco as a Rocky reference.

* Anubis the hunting dog is now Helmut, a lame pun on "hell mutt".

* Astique the elephant is now Azea, like an "Asian" elephant.

* Ally the alligator is still the same. Regina Berry is not very good at naming animals.