#which is when i first played tgaa i had to put it down because sholmes was too annoying for me to enjoy it

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Yes yes yes!!!

And beyond that, too - certain cases in the mainline AA and the plot of AA4 is basically just a huge homage/parody to specific acd!holmes short stories. like, The Veiled Lodger's plot will be familiar to AA fans because it's just a mix of both The Big Top and the Gramaryes!

Personally i'm very hopeful that more people will go into the original holmes canon from sholmes, because he's just that good of an adaptation!

as someone who jumped from tgaa!holmes to doyle!holmes, i think shu takumi's just a huge fan of the original canon and sholmes is one of the more authentic adaptations of him so far (i'd put tgaa at granada!holmes level, even, but in a different direction!)

Yeah, that makes sense. Sholmes doesn't even feel like an affectionate parody, he just feels like a variant of the original. I think he's probably more goofy than most adaptations, but he's still, at his core, a very authentic adaptation, and the type of adaptation you can tell was written by a huge fan of the original.

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also inspired by penny parker’s ace attorney liveblog on here, I decided to do a character tier list! I’ll add to it once I start playing tgaa 2. some explanations under the cut

sholmes and iris

honestly I felt pretty unsure about the both of them when I first started the game. I like the few holmes stories I’ve read well enough and obviously have massive respect for their impact on literature and like the character fine but I’m not someone where “holmes is a character in this story!” is a selling point. and when sholmes was first introduced he was fun but his presence also felt kind of invasive. I also found the deduction scenes to be even slightly tedious at times honestly. but by god the way they portray him he just… wore me down lmao. by case 5 I found him fucking hysterical and was enjoying every minute he was on screen. and his relationship with iris gives him a surprising emotional core.

speaking of iris, I also felt hesitant at the whole “what if watson was actually a 10 year old girl” shtick and that brand of “child genius” character tends to annoy me most of the time. but fuck she’s just so immediately loveable. she still feels like a 10 year old despite being written to be a genius and is just truly so kind and sweet and she deserves the world. she’s so smart and curious about the world but she’s also still very naive and vulnerable in a lot of ways and it very literally makes me want to take a bullet for her. I think the idea that she writes the sholmes stories and they’re actually fictional retellings of her father’s diary entries is really cool too. it adds an extra layer that’s more than just “the holmes stories are real in this universe” which I enjoy

susato and van zieks

I’m hoping they’re both going to be in “would take a bullet for” category by the end of the next game but as it stands I feel like there’s a lot about the both of them that remains to be seen. like comparing them to maya and edgeworth at the end of aa1 and the journey we get to go on with those two characters, it feels like I barely know anything about susato and van zieks in comparison. and I am expecting to find out more, I mean… why does susato know about the hound of baskervilles is definitely playing on my mind and van zieks has his whole reaper thing going on as well as the “japan has betrayed me” thing he’s alluded to however of course none of these things have actually been explored yet and I feel a little emotionally distant from them as a result. susato and ryunosuke’s friendship is really sweet though if we get to see more of that I don’t think it’ll be long before she’s bumped up honestly. I also think van zieks is extremely cunty as you all know keep it up king.

ashley graydon

tbh I was so ready to say I just straight up hated this guy and put him in boo 🍅🍅 because he just… refused to take the L and people somehow kept siding with him without much logical reason to do so and it pissed me off… but they just had to make him interesting and throw in themes of the corrupting force of wealth and becoming the very thing you hate right at the very end. very dorian grey of him, just like his character design

taketsuchi auchi

the payne bit feels pretty played out at this point honestly and it feels considerably less charming whenever it’s coming from someone who isn’t actually my boy winston. so auchi just kinda annoys me

if anyone wants me to explain any of my other choices I’d be happy to!