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fandomsecrets2011-03-18 04:39 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #1536 ⌋
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[Man vs Food]
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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #219.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - ships it ].
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Re: What?
Okay, he had no time to prepare and he was desperate (and apparently also a little bit conceited by that time) - but not questioning the source after the trial seems a bit odd. (I can only suppose he did and it didn't lead to anything. We don't know a thing about what Phoenix already did over the 7 years, but I highly assume he investigated.)
It's not that I don't see your (and a lot of other peoples) problems with the case, and there are some things that seem questionable for me, too. But I wasn't aware that those cases always worked perfectly in AA?
It's probably because people look more closely into it because it was about Phoenix, but it didn't bug me more than any other logic problem in any other case.
I just played through the 3rd trial of Trials and Tribulations and... How could ANYONE believe Furio Tigre to be Phoenix?
Apart from that the guy was stupid as hell doing that, because it was bound to be discovered sooner or later. Even people who actually know Phoenix are too dumb to see he has suddenly red skin, talks like a gangster and rawrs like a tiger.
Re: What?
(Anonymous) 2011-03-22 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)Mostly, I just think that if they wanted to make a new game with a new protagonist and a different cast, that's what they should do. Their inclusion of Phoenix in the game just made it "Apollo Justice - Ace Attorney (just kidding, it's still all about Phoenix)" rather than "Apollo Justice - Ace Attorney". If they'd just had AJ be a game about the AJ characters and have Phoenix as some hardly-ever-there mentor because he's busy with his own cases... then Phoenix would just be there as a treat for the old audience and basically serve as Mia did in the first three games.
Oh, I know that there are logic problems with the other cases in the AA series. The reason I have a problem with this one in particular is because it, essentially, destroyed my favourite character and turned him into one I could hardly stomach because I thought he was an arse. It wasn't Phoenix. And the thought of him losing his badge kind of hurt, and then I play the case that's supposed to explain what happened... and this is what I got. It just made me angry that the case that made Phoenix lose his badge and turned him into an asshole was basically riddled with plot holes. (I never saw the point of Zak hiring a lawyer he "trusted" seeing as how he was planning on escaping from the beginning. Seriously, what was the point? There was none).
Yeah, I always thought it was a bit stupid that everyone believed that Furio Tigre was Phoenix, but at the same time... The judge has always been a bit... behind, Payne isn't exactly the smartest of characters and the people in the gallery... what's to say they know what Phoenix looks like? Besides, I kind of forgave them for it since they were consistent about it and had Phoenix playing the only sane man. "HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!" was pretty much Phoenix's feelings throughout the entire case.
"He said he'd gotten a tan."
I do love a good discussion.Re: What?
But I will never complain that they included Phoenix in this game. I do love lawyer!Phoenix for his dorkiness, coolness and his way of always speaking the player's mind - but I do love Hobo!Phoenix, too.
I don't mind so much that he changed a lot, I like it when people change throughout a series, and when I played him, his thoughts still felt very much like lawyer!Phoenix.
To me, Hobo!Phoenix is one of the most epic characters ever. There is nothing about him I don't love, so I am willing to forgive the game a lot of continuity problems.
Maybe the game would have been better storywise without him, but the stories of the games never really convinced me in the first place. I just pretend he did everything he could in that 7 years, and that his friends supported him in that time (especially with his plans with the jury system), and we just never heard of that because the game was about Apollo who Phoenix never told anything about his "missions".
It's the fact that I like almost every character so much that makes me enjoy AA, and especially Apollo Justice. I know that's personal preferences, and we can't argue about that, but I guess one is more willing to let such things slide if one enjoyed the cast and the relationships between almost all characters.
That Maggey did not notice bugged me more than the judge, who isn't the brightest anyway.
Edit: As for Zak Gramarye - god, that made no sense to me, either. Why choose a different lawyer if you want to escape (and thus ruin the case for him) anyway?
And then he wanted to ruin Phoenix career as poker player, too, for no real reason except for hurt pride - completely disregarding the fact the Phoenix was taking care of his daughter, for f*ck's sake.
Zak Gramarye apparently is the greatest jerk in existence - and this game is not made for second-guessing what's happening. Only few things really make sense there. Just wanted to add that I understand that this annoys you, especially since it had so much consequences for Phoenix, even if I can't get myself to mind this much, as I like the consequences.
Re: What?
(Anonymous) 2011-03-23 03:38 am (UTC)(link)I'll admit, during AJ case 1 I thought Hobo!Poenix was awesome what with the way he played with the court. But that was because I thought it was just an act to get the trial to go his way. When he acted the same way throughout the rest of the game... I didn't find him awesome anymore, just annoying and an asshole. (Then again, I didn't think Apollo got to shine at all in his first case. First Kristoph held his hand and led him through it, then Phoenix did. So as a lawyer, I just thought Apollo couldn't hold a candle to Phoenix, even when comparing their first cases).
Yeah, Maggey's ignorance of the whole thing was pretty weird, really.
I think someone called hiimsdaisy made a comic called "Zak Gramarye is a jerk" and it was hilarious. Because seriously, since he didn't care about the case and he was going to escape anyway, he might as well have gone with Kristoph no matter how lousy a person he turned out to be.
Yeah, way to go, man. Ruin Phoenix's, the man whose using his salary to take care of your daughter, source of income simply because you can't stand having lost in a game of poker to the guy. And it's really sucky of him because wow, he's not even going to take his little girl with him when he leaves, so he's going to leave her with a man who now has no source of income. Seriously.
Zak Gramarye is a jerk. And I think we can safely blame the entire mess on Zak Gramarye being a jerk.
Re: What?
Hobo!Phoenix's dry, obscure humour really appealed to me, and I like his hobo ways of dealing with things. I don't think he really doesn't care about things as much as he pretends, judging from his POV, and that it's mostly a facade, so that people underestimate him (or don't know what to make of him at all).
I have to agree on Apollo, though. Throughout the game, he was only used by either Kristoph or Phoenix or led by Klavier, and hardly got anything done on his own.
He grew throughout the game, but it left me wishing for another game where he finally gets to be a cool lawyer on his own.
Because he wasn't an Ace Attorney in the end, maybe he was about to be one, but there was still some independency missing.
Also, I totally want a game were Phoenix is back as a lawyer, after his hobo!phase. Something about Phoenix having been through all that and being in his 30s is just awesome to me. (Also, Maya would finally have grown up, yes, please?)
Both wishes are a bit conflicting, but I'll take whatever there may come, if only one of them comes true. I'd love a game where one could play both, though, although that will never happen.
Oh yes, it all boils down to Zak Gramarye being the biggest jerk ever.
I know, I read those comics! They were brilliant and helped me to laugh at a lot of things that bugged me in the game. ;D
Re: What?
(Anonymous) 2011-03-23 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)I just loved the earnest and nice guy (with a hidden sarcastic side) that Phoenix was. I'd much preferred it if Hobo!Phoenix was someone else. An original character, not Phoenix Wright mutated beyond recognition. I mean, keep Hobo!Phoenix, just... make him Hobo!Pablo or something instead. OTL
I would hope for a second AJ if only because I want a game where the characters can actually stand on their own and where the game doesn't lean on the first three. I wanted AJ to be about Apollo being an awesome lawyer... not Apollo being a puppet so Phoenix could be a lawyer despite being disbarred. >>;;;
I love her comics and her style and oh man. Zal Gramarye, you jerk. Just look what you did.
Re: What?
I actually enjoy good discussions very much, but it's hard to find those on f!s, which is why I usually don't contribute here.
But I have to say, I like the AA fandom in general - it seems to be a rather decent place.
Oh dear, Hobo!Pablo, that shouldn't amuse me that much. XD
I see your point, maybe it would have bugged me, too, if I hadn't started the series with AJ, and then started playing the first three. I guess that explains our different views, although I know a bunch of AA fans that were big fans of lawyer!Phoenix before AJ came out and did love Hobo a lot, too.
It probably depends on a personal view of this character?
Yeah, I do wish we'd get a game like that one day. On this regard, having Phoenix included in AJ sucked, because the characters, especially Apollo, don't really stand on their own.