#‘you like ace attorney a lot again’

[your-local-granny]

fall from grace

#I actually did this for inktober like a year ago whoops #Thinking about her again 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 did you know she makes me ill #hey wasn’t it kind of fucked up she literally got shot #wasn’t it fucked up how she lived with this phantom pain carrying around her father’s greatest failure the mark of a killer #and then. She was also shot. In the same shoulder. Wasn’t that fucked up a bit #Oh also this was gauche on like a 4x6 sketchbook so there’s a lot of patchiness but that was kind of the point srry #all about unlearning imperfection and trying something new yknow #franziska von karma #ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #portal art 💕🌸🌤️

[ministarfruit]

day 7: so we meet again ♡

(prompt list for femslashfeb)

#minifemslashfeb2023 #ace attorney #junithena #juniper woods #athena cykes #THEM THEM THEM #junithena reunion will never not mean a lot to me #it's about meeting someone you love again for the first time #like so much has changed that they aren't the person you knew #but who you're meeting right now #is someone new and exciting #and you have to let your past go and walk forward together #WAHOOOOOOOO #what am I saying. I need to go to sleep #WOOOOO GIRLFRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!

[shikisei]

im doing a lot better now!

#ace attorney #i love adrian :) i think abt her a lot #she's like 'you guys saved me and i feel a lot better now bc of you' like we didnt try accuse her of murder girl IM SO SORRYYYYYY #one thing i did rlly like abt her in 2-4 #was like. phoenix's savior complex in putting all his faith and trust in his clients yea? #and well engarde betrayed that so it was like #this little sink of despair. but adrian ohh adrian she asks phoenix for help when everyone is at rock bottom and when it seems lost #and phoenix does. she becomes his new 'client' to redirect that faith towards #she's been through so much and was so so important to turning 2-4 on its head #IM GONNA GET YOU OUTTA HEEEEERRREEE #i was delighted to see her again when starting aa3 and so soon! im so happy for her. love her so much #definitely top 5 witnesses for me #she got her riza hawkeye fit on ...

[lorillee]

im really normal about them <- lie

#ace attorney #mia fey #diego armando #miego #lorillee.png #THATS RIGHT BABY. AFTER -um . hold on. *checks notes* - SIX MONTHS. LORILLEE IS BACK WITH PHOTOSHOP ART 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 #every now and again i like to put effort into something just to remind everybody that i can actually draw #well i say that but to be honest i put a lot of effort into those ms paint ''diego fey REAL'' doodles #but half of that is just because humans are a . something. to draw. and urban backgrounds are my worst nemesis #and also trying to work with ms paint to like slightly transform things is an incredible pain in the behind #anyways. yeagh 😎👍 behold the power of miego. getting me to actually finish something in photoshop for the first time in months #anyways. ive discovered the secret to getting me to draw stuff on photoshop. prepare yourselves accordingly #what i need to do is sketch & line something in ms paint. and then directly trace it over into photoshop #and then i can go ham #see because the reason i never did this before was because i would sketch things in ms paint #and try to line them in photoshop and it simply Wouldnt Work. #so i had assumed that if i wanted to draw in photoshop id have to sketch in it first. yknow. which i cannot do for some reason #something about the way the pen feels and the . its like the smoothing setting is on even when its on 0 percent. you know. anyways #but with this one i drew mia in ms paint as per usual . and i wanted to mess around with color & light #and i triedddd to do it in ms paint but unfortunately as you can probably imagine. doing stuff like this without layer filters #can get a little difficult. if you know what youre doing its obviously going to be easier but that being said i do not #when i pick colors i am literlaly just wildly guessing 😭🙏 which is fine for more straightforward coloring/shading #but not quite here. which is why i wanted to take a stab at it in the first place #so anyways i was like FINE WHATEVER and tried tracing the lineart in photoshop so i could take a stab at coloring in there #and i was . enlightened. (no pun intended). it WORKS #so anyways . you may actually be able to expect. some photoshop art from me #well ok thats a lie never expect art from me. but we can all dream together #anyways they really are the star-crossed doomed by the narrative romance ever. everything to me

[darklight-owl]

Owl Reviews Stuff She Just Finished: Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright

So yk I didn't know what to expect going into this game, I'd seen really funny dialogue of it and mostly got it because I was extremely hyperfixated on Layton. But I did NOT expect such an emotional rollercoaster of a game with themes that tie into both Professor Layton and Ace Attorney and utilizes the strengths of each series so efficiently. I did not expect this game to make me cry. I did not expect this game to become one of my favorite Professor Layton AND Ace Attorney titles. But it did so I have to talk about it.

With two successful IPs on the cover this game could have easily been halfassed but every corner of it is full of passion for both titles. I mentioned before how they build off and complement each other and I think that's a result of the people working on this game having an in-depth knowledge of what makes PL and AA work and what their shortcomings are.

For example (I mentioned this in the liveblogs but may as well repeat myself here) Ace Attorney games are often limited to just the courtroom and investigation, not to mention you're not going to see 90% of the characters ever again after the case is done. This is serviceable for the kind of game AA is but it makes the world itself feel a bit uninteresting. However Professor Layton games have you confined to one town and make you explore it in depth, with recurring background characters who all have different (yet basic) personalities. Because of this, the Layton segments where you walk around town become crucial parts of the game where you can interact with future or past witnesses as they go about their lives, making these witch trials feel like they're taking part within an actual community, which make the emotional beats in the trials hit REALLY hard.

In turn, AA strengthens PL by adding variety. Layton games can be a bit monotonous if you're not engaged since the gameplay mostly consists of talking to people and solving an occassional puzzle, and there's a lack of interesting smaller mysteries to keep the audience engaged while they work on solving the bigger ones. But Ace Attorney games thrive on side stories, they're what make the trials so interesting! So by adding the smaller mysteries in the form of witch trials and mixing in clues about what the Hell is going on in Laberynthia you make a much more dynamic story that never feels like you're getting nowhere.

Enough about story structure and nerd stuff like that though, let's talk characters!

I love the main four and have always loved the main four so I'm not gonna talk abt them. The original characters for this game were freaking amazing. I see a lot of people really dislike Espella (which is understandable since she's probably the weakest of the cast) but she's pretty alright imo. She's going through a lot of things with the entire town despising her and [SPOILERS] so it makes sense why she would act the way she does, even then I feel like most heartfelt moments with her were a bit forced, which kind of lessens the impact of the last scene. I LOVE the relationship between her and [ANOTHER SPOILER] as well as the dynamic she has with Maya though.

I LOVE BARNHAM. He's one of my favorite prosecutors, he may not have any deep angst or trauma like so many of my favs do, but he's just a well meaning dude who thinks he's doing what he needs to to protect his town, even if it means casting wiitches into the flames. He also goes through a little character arc of his own where he also starts to bend the rules, the only laberynthian to do so. It's fun. Barnham is my best friend.

Unfortunately I can't talk about Darklaw or The Storyteller without getting into spoilers but basically: I love Darklaw and think she deserves the world, I'm on the fence about The Storyteller and feel like parts of his character were extremely rushed.

The secondary characters are also great, you have your classic goofy witnesses but also some really heartfelt characters and relationships in the trials, this is nothing new for Ace Attorney but when you include the conscious knowledge that these characters are going to be cast into the fire then these mini stories are enough to move me to tears (Looking at you, Golden Court).

Anyway, overall a fantastic experience that caught me completely off guard. No notes. I give it 10 burning witches out of 10.

Oh. And also:

#once again spoiler free so i can convince you to like the things i like #sorry for the incomprehensible rambling these 'reviews' are essentially excuses to ramble anyway so #i have a lot more concrete thoughts on this than i did for ghost trick i think thats bc im familiar with these series and ik how they work #owl reviews stuff she just finished #plvspw #professor layton vs phoenix wright #plvsaa #professor layton #ace attorney

[blazingjackdaw]

But your role really wasn’t that of some embodiment of Death. No, you were London’s guardian angel.

I started this months ago and I’m so very glad it’s finally done, even if I’m not entirely satisfied with it :d

#barok van zieks #reaper of the bailey #the great ace attorney #the great ace attorney spoilers #dai gyakuten saiban #dai gyakuten saiban spoilers #blaze draws #I feel like I've forgotten how to draw because this was a struggle to finish #barok my beloved you deserve better #but I'm calling it done and never touching it again even though I see a lot of stuff I could rework

[nyaagolor]

Hey there kitten

#sorry for diego posting it will happen again #diego armando #godot #ace attorney #mod vex #he started calling people kitten and I was like ah. I’m gonna draw you as a catboy a LOT #that’s one of my rules #vex art

[mittenlady]

dropping my klavquill spotify playlist! songs go chronologically and some aren't necessarily for klavier/simon, but for them as individuals and their respective pasts. also tried to curate based on not only the lyrics but what genres i think they would listen to and vibes. tho there are a few exceptions if the lyrics r that important

#klavquill #ace attorney #klavier gavin #simon blackquill #ace attorney playlist #sure whatever i dont know how to tag this. #playlist #spotify playlist #my playlist #ship playlist #Spotify #i am ONLY making this a proper post cuzi tried to use 8tracks again after like over a decade and it would NOT LET ME UPLOAD SONGS #SO HERE YOU GO. I MADE A PRETTY COVER AND EVERYTHING. GOD #anyway i have a lot of thoughts about the songs however i am not going to explain them here . i am broken and defeated. god

[larrythefloridaman]

two very different kinds of siblings

#cpuk #took me FOREVER to make mac and al Feel Right to me and just as long to properly execute on the vibe i knew i wanted for goog always #but pretty happy with these! #cpuk alabaster uppercut #cpuk juniper uppercut #cpuk google #cpuk mac and cheese #you ever call a character by a nickname shortening of their name so long that when you have to type their full name again #it hits you all over again how goofy it is. anyway mack encheez would be an entirely normal ace attorney character name #ive been thinking about Al a lot lately. the difference between him in season one and season 2 is interesting to try to reconcile #because in season one its very explicit- he has beef with The Tournament Itself and that was the only reason he was here. #he was an ideological pacifist who was publically mocked and only came to fight in cpuk to prove a point #when a kid from uppercut village was getting bullied because of contestants mocking him and the village. #but when season two rolls around hes a 'cpuk veteran' who's always fighting at locals and bettering the scene. #which leads me to assume Al arrived to CPUK and went 'damn bitch y'all live like this?' and set to work on repairing the vibes #especially since uppercut village has been utterly ignored by the lore since his introduction and with ncct information... #im not sure it... meaningfully exists? its a part of his concept and self that informs his actions but has never mattered. #and as such with the schrodingers isekai way that submission to cpuk works in nccts worldbuilding #i think it might be. just as unreachable as eric is to thera/folk. something from another reality hes just not part of anymore. #in his second tournament appearance he sets a goal of not coming in last and then he's retiring and he doesnt come in last. #but then he comes back. #imagining this dude trying to get a ride back home to uppercut village and the driver needing directions bc hes got no idea where that is #and al realizing he doesnt. know how to get there either. and so the only place he has to go is back to the tournament. #and the sense of community identity so core to himself he's named after it falters and hes left alone #and so he begins to build a new sense of community for himself out of the new home he's been left with. makes friends. adopts new family. #living in honor of the memory of a village that never was. #at least not here. #juni knows the participants of cpuk as family. uncle cha cha. mama hoedown. #in a sense both al and juni are adopted from elsewhere into the family they know. #smthn smthn 'it takes a village to raise a child.' i am speculating myself into getting emotional about funny punch guy 👍

[sleepdepravity]

finished chapter 2 of dangan ronpa v3. was extremely wrong about the murderer which is irritating me much more than it probably ought to.

#malky plays games #dangan ronpa v3 #good execution though. it's fun. #anyways i was hellbent on it being the artist. i think for a lot of technically narrative-based reasons #because 1. i figured there would be alibi fuckery #so the case would start out with 'oh you think everybody in the insect meet and greet are all safe but ACTUALLY...' #2. it was pretty clear the culprit would be someone involved in the magic show setup and the artist was very much part of it #3. certain things artist did pinged the 'ah doing this would be a good way to again establish an alibi' #(e.g. standing in front of the gym door in the morning) #and then all of that turned out to be. mainly irrelevant #i guess i'm thinking too ace attorney-like maybe. i gotta bring myself to dangan ronpa's level. #it's really frustrating though. i don't actually like playing through dangan ronpa trials.

[aarghstop]

HELLO FOLKS IM ABOUT TO PLAY PHOENIX WRIGHT ACE ATTORNEY TRILOGY ON MY SWITCH!!! (i had it on pc but im in the middle of moving so i don't have it rn.. and it was on sale... for $10 usd...)

#plus this means i can restart and i will remember everything. if i replay . it all #i was halfwayish through the 2nd game but i started in like 2018 so.. safe to say... i dont remember a lot #i am going to play the fuck out of this game. i love you phoenix wright ace attorney trilogy #whoever decides to put this game on sale every 2 months or so. i love you . seriously. i love you. i adore you. i love you. i would kiss you #and i can play my favorite case again... the one .. with the police.. in the first game... idr what its called... #rowan rambles

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

Calisto Yew was so cool, honestly. Wish they'd bring her back

#me and my constant melody of 'they should bring this underrated amazing female character back' #everyone's always going on about simon keyes this & simon keyes that like. you all really saw a twink in makeup and lost sight of all else #huh #shih na did it so much better. she was the moment and she was soooo cool. she literally used aa fans' predisposed sympathy towards sad #sister characters against them. gave a performance so convincing she tricked a top prosecutor and detective into working with her for YEARS #turned around and got close enough to a top interpol agent again for YEARS without any of them catching on #and all without using the soft docile saccharine persona most the other deceptive characters use #she was so brilliant and poised and clever i miss her so much #i know they probably executed her but i feel like she could be one of those people who get taken in by the govt and used in their own #secret services and shit. she's good enough for it. also she was so? complex? like she was EXTREMELY good at keeping her personal feelings #out of her professional work but she didnt have that malice or hostility that a lot of these types do. she calls lang an idiot but that #mockery is just who she is. she does that for everyone. it's not personal. and there are times when you can tell that she did like the #people she was with. she admits as much with lang yet she always maintained her distance. because she's a professional. she's just so. #she was brilliant truly. what an amazing woman #i miss her so dearly #calisto yew #shih-na #ace attorney #ace attorney investigations

[some-zer0]

Replaying AA3 is such an Experience because there's SO MUCH foreshadowing: literally every case ends up connecting back to Bridge to the Turnabout

Of course you have Phoenix claiming the Dahlia that was there during Turnabout Beginnings wasn't the Dahlia he knew, but then you also have the main argument of the Stolen Turnabout (the murderer couldn't have been in two places at once, so one of them had to have been fake), the murder method in Recipe for Turnabout (poison in coffee), and the crime scene and murder method of Turnabout Beginnings (Hazakura and getting stabbed in the back), as well as the constant reoccurrence of Dahlia and Diego/Godot

In terms of actual stakes, AA3 isn't as hardcore as AA1-2. You aren't exposing MvK, or Lana, or Gant, and you aren't dealing with an internationally feared assassin. But unlike the previous two games, every single case in AA3 gives you a piece of the puzzle that is BTTT, even though you don't realize that you've been shown all the clues you need to figure out the mystery until the final piece falls into place

#I forgot a lot about how AA3-2 goes #so when I was playing it again I was deadass just sitting there like #'hey wait that's the exact same argument you make in BTTT' #anyways AA3 is the closest the trilogy gets to being a classic mystery #it's just... such a good game #ace attorney #aa3 spoilers #rambles

[science-lings]

Sometimes I like to entertain the concept of some ships specifically because they're a little silly but not take them seriously at all. Like Phoenix and Godot, it fits Phoenix's type of people who are mean to him and I specifically think that it's funny for Godot to tell Phoenix that he reminds him of his dead girlfriend like... that's a little fruity but ok.

I'm here to have fun and sometimes it's fun to consider things that do not make any sense but are ultimately, just a little funny.

#i also think that phoenix x blackquill could be real funny based specifically on the bird/ emo and sunshine vibes #honestly phoenix could be so silly with a lot of characters #either he's aroace who is afraid of relationships or this man gets around I cant decide which to go with #you cannot tell me this guy hasn't been the delites third once or twice #local trash man accidentally hooks up with his adopted daughters bio mom without anyone realize who each other is #also the bio mom is a famous musician and the trash man has no idea how he rizzed her up #i think he flirts with shadi before getting framed for his murder #franzi totally has a crush on him in the stage plays and its a little funny #again i can't decide whether i like the idea of people being super into him all the time or if I want him to be just a guy with insecurites #i think he thinks hes like below average but half of the people he comes across want to raw him immediately #theres just a massive disconnect on how he sees himself and how everyone else sees him #he wins the lawyer dilf twitter poll but has anxiety over his hair being spikey enough at all times #phoenix wright #ace attorney #this man is either bisexual and on the loose or aroace and just so desirable that it drives people to insanity (literally)

[starswallowingsea]

every time i've gotten into a popular series or franchise i've always been disappointed by it because like. its so hyped up and i watch it and find it mid and it appears we are not watching/playing the same thing

#reasons i wont like. get into ace attorney or fma or anything else #and by popular i mean like. ubiquitously popular. like an 'everyone at least knows of it' type #like ik enstars is popular especially in asia but in the west its a lot more niche #for whatever reason one piece is more niche ime than naruto or bleach despite arguably being bigger and literally still ongoing #and then jjk. god help me jjk is awful now #i was going to say idk if jjk is at that level but i've had easier times finding merch for that than some series here #so its certainly up there. #umu not to say its not good but i just find them being so hyped up leads to a lot of disappointment especially #since i didnt get into them at the same time as everyone else ie during formative times in my life #in middle/high school so it holds a completely different context for me being in my early 20s #anyway. idk where i was going with this. im not not into popular media/anime specifically #obviously. i run a semi popular one piece blog. #but compared to other things i am certainly less drawn to popular series #and find the uber popular ones have. declined in quality recently #what is going on in bsd even these days i should catch up. no i shouldnt. someone tell me when kouyou shows up again #the only redeeming thing in that series is my beloved kouyou you dont understand #and chuuya but mostly kouyou #but if its not just me and 20 other bloggers on this godforsaken site then i dont want it #shay speaks #again this is. just about my personal taste dont try to take this out of context so help me god

[waratteiru]

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#hello #i've actually been active on twitter for the past like 5 years but lately all that website does to me is make me angry #these past few weeks have been walking down memory lane weeks and i was just reading through my tumblr and #those really are super damn good times man #and then i checked and some of my mutuals are still sparsely active here wow hello hi!! #a lot of my followed tags still have a good few posts in them too #ace attorney in particular has like the same amount of notes they did in 2015-2017?? damn #aablr you are still the best fandom community i have ever been a part of #anyway i am kind of considering going back here since my weeby self has been revived due to having to watch anime for work #but i'd need a lot of profile overhaul and also scouring for new people to follow #and clean up my following too maybe #so maybe once i have some free time #but i am heavily considering it #rly want to be actively fandoming again and the state of twitter currently just makes it not a pleasant place to escape for some fandom fun #maybe i'll start sparsely reblogging stuff before the overhaul bcs i just rly need to fill the void (sad) #i've actually been thinking of going back for a WHILE like since twitter's elon era #and literally one of the few accounts that still make me laugh on twitter is exaltiora the tumblr archivist #like the state of twitter is Literally That Bad... #and each time i see her post and laugh i always go like. Why am i not on tumblr #but anyways it's been a while since i've rambled in the tags like this and i'm starting to get carried away lol #either way #hello it's nice to see you all doing well #how do i do this again #shut up hika #ppl still do this right #i need to relearn tumblr culture LOL