#tgaa case 2

[hexadonis]

assassin exchange

#my art #i have so many feelings abt the final case #they rlly did a number on each other and we moved on too fast #like to susato that’s her brother and her idol….and then to her and ryu he’s a stranger #idk idk this line just rlly stuck w me #esp when van zieks says kazuma is in danger of becoming an even worse reaper……. #tgaa 2 spoilers #tgaa #tgaa 2 #tgaa spoilers #kazuma asogi #ryunosuke naruhodo #susato mikotoba #great ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #ace attorney #tgaa fanart #asoryuu

[pherredraws]

i loeve you dai gyakuten saiban

#ace attorney #the great ace attorney #dai gyakuten saiban #dgs #tgaa #this is my valentines day post <3 i love you little game #the dancing men do spell something out but i won’t tell what #dgs 2 spoilers #tgaa 2 spoilers #just to b clear the hand reaching for stronghart is the professor #hopefully thats clear though lmao #well. the person who was in the professor’s grave anyhow #i tried to match these to the cases but i had to take liberties with some lol #like gina having Toby #and the legendary pair segment technically happens is 2-5 but they’re introduced in 2-4 so

[liimonadas]

finished dgs2-3 last night and im deeply unwell about it. if anything bad happens to them in 2-4 or 2-5 im choosing to belive it doesn't.

#dgs2 spoilers #dgs #tgaa #tgaa 2 spoilers #asoryuu #ace attorney #fanart #art #ryunosuke naruhodo #kazuma asogi #i actually really liked 2-3 a lot #i think it had very fun and interesting characters #and the plot was cool too #favorite case in tgaa so far

[caiabresebun]

getting ready for halloween 🎀

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #shigeo kageyama #ekubo #tgaa #sorta #i havent watched s3 yet and im only on case 2 in dgs but it felt right!! #i was gonna have eku left out but ONE's ribbon omake got me...

[crocrubies]

been playing dgs and I'm a little obsessed with this guy

#dgs #dai gyakuten saiban #ace attorney #the great ace attorney #tgaa #dgs2 #enoch drebber #j's art #top 10 characters that were designed specifically for me I think #2-3 is so fire all the side characters in this case are sooooo fine ahkdnqkfs

[hychlorions]

ill-fitting

[ID: Art of Ryuunosuke Naruhodou’s attorney armband as depicted in the Great Ace Attorney. It’s on his arm, and Ryuunosuke (mostly off-screen) is tugging at it to show that there’s some leftover space — the armband is slightly too large for him. Susato Mikotoba (also mostly off-screen) reaches to touch the sunflower pattern on the armband. End ID]

#ryuunosuke naruhodou #susato mikotoba #dgs #tgaa #.png #dgs spoilers #tgaa spoilers #<- just in case #anyway. i FINALLY noticed ryuu adjusting kazuma's armband after it falls when he's cornered #and two things: #1) oh my god it's such a good symbol for how he feels about his role as a lawyer in case 3 in and the beginning of case 4 #it was kazuma's. it doesn't fit him because it was kazuma's. #2) HAHA!!!! KAZUMA B U F F

[andstuffsketches]

[sketches of Susato Mikotoba in TGAA case 2-1. 1. Haori, blushing and eyes sparkling, says “you’re sooo handsome Susato”. Susato, sweating, responds “I’m trying to get you off for murder here”. 2. Susato awkwardly says “Ryuunosuke, my cousin Ryuunosuke” 3. Susato grins forcedly and says, “women, am i right?” 4. Susato beams after the trial, taking off her cap as petals rain down around her]

#dgs #dgs 2 #dgs spoilers #dgs 2 spoilers #tgaa #tgaa2 #susato mikotoba #mikotoba susato #haori murasame #rei membami #susahao #susarei #i drew these foreverrr ago but i can finally post them cause the blue phantom got to this case lol #aa #ace attorney #the great ace attorney #comic #comics #2022 #shes soooo cute in her lawyer outfit #ryuutaro naruhodou #ryutaro naruhodo

[departedmars]

inside your restless soul, your heart is dying

alternate version:

#barok van zieks #the great ace attorney #dai gyakuten saiban #tgaa #dgs #ace attorney #aa #tgaa fanart #dgs fanart #aa fanart #tgaa 2 spoilers #tgaa spoilers #dgs 2 spoilers #dgs spoilers #<- just in case! #it took me. embarrassingly long to draw the alternate version #then i decided i hated it and changed the colors completely #and i put too much effort into it to just not let it see the light of day LMAOOO #i spent way too much time on this basically #departedmars arts #departedmars fanarts

[kazumasdiary]

one of the things im only now noticing about 2-3 is just how well it sets up for 2-4.

because. okay. 2-4 has a lot of big, dramatic moments. and these are powerful reveals, but they won't hit as hard if you're not invested: if you don't care about gregson and barok, then you're not going to care when bad things happen to them.

so 2-3 does its absolute best to make you care.

going into 2-4, the characters that are immediately going to have the biggest problems are, again, gregson and barok: you need to care that gregson dies, and you need to care that barok is arrested for it.

so, when you're investigating the exhibition stage, 2-3 reintroduces gina, and reintroduces her as gregson's apprentice. their relationship is antagonistic, but lighthearted: gregson clearly cares for her, at least enough to try and protect her, and to bring her to paris with him. and gina, for her part, looks markedly happier when you meet her again in 2-3- she has a dog and a brand new badge and she's having fun, because for once in her life, someone else is looking after her. gregson is looking after her.

and that way, when gregson dies, it matters- because even if you don't care, gina does.

gregson's death hurts, in part, because of gina's reaction. it's her grief that lets the player know what's been lost. and that grief gets its basis in 2-3, because 2-3 shows us that they care about each other- in establishing this relationship, 2-3 gives gina, and the player, something to lose when gregson dies.

and, speaking of giving people a relationship with another character to get you to care about them- then we have barok.

the first investigation phase of 2-3 begins by humanizing barok as hard as it possibly can. ryunosuke is allowed into his office for the first time, and- and least for me- whenever we examined something in there, the vibe of the subsequent interaction felt like nothing so much as "grumpy man dragged unwillingly into friendship." we're touching everything in his office, and he's clearly exasperated with us, but not enough to stop us from touching everything in his office. this is also, i think, the first example of ryunosuke and barok having any kind of relationship outside of the courtroom. we see ryunosuke's concern when he first finds out barok's been attacked, and if you examine the chessboard in his office, you can get a line about ryunosuke wanting to challenge him to a contest of shogi problems. so 2-3 starts by introducing us to a barok that is somebody outside of the prosecutor across the courtroom, that is something more than the terror of the reaper, and that'll matter later.

but most importantly, 2-3 gives barok a friend.

specifically, a friend that is silly. ridiculous, even. his character design and personality contrast starkly with barok's, and yet he's the one who tells us repeatedly that barok's really nice, actually- that barok was kind when albert knew him, and he doesn't know what happened to change him ten years ago but he still considers barok a friend.

and what's more, albert believes in him. when he's speaking to barok in the prison, you get this exchange:

Harebrayne: ......... Since I returned to England, I've heard lots of stories. Barok, are you really...? Van Zieks: What? Harebrayne: ......... Never mind. I know that you have my best interests at heart.

he's well aware that barok is known for essentially killing the people who prosecutes. and he almost asks about it! but he doesn't- he chooses to trust barok, instead.

ryunosuke is not even there for this interaction in the prison. the game makes a point of showing it to the player anyway. and i think it's because we need to know that at least one person is capable of trusting barok, that at least one person thinks barok is someone worth believing in.

because one case later, we're going to see barok in a prison cell, and he's going to tell us, "i'm not the reaper and i didn't do it." and we're going to have to believe him.

2-3 does a number of other things to lay the groundwork for 2-4: establishing the professor case, bringing kazuma back, all of that. but i highlight gregson and barok as examples because i think they focus on setting up emotional investment, as opposed to setting up plot elements. and maybe because of that, they stand on their own. gregson's relationship with gina and barok's relationship with albert have emotional weight, even without the context of anything that happens after. but those relationships also make what happens after matter more, because they give us a reason to care.

2-3 is not really a self-contained story, by any means, but it manages to be its own thing, with its own satisfying conclusion, while also serving the overarching plot. it's not perfect- by the end of the case, the professor mystery had so wholly overtaken the actual crime that i almost forgot harebrayne was the defendant. but i think 2-3 does a pretty good job, and i think that might be part of the reason why i like it.

(or it might just be the goths. this case has some really good witnesses, and i freely admit i may be biased.)

#dgs #dgs2 #tgaa #dgs spoilers #dgs2 spoilers #tgaa spoilers #meta #my meta #barok van zieks #albert harebrayne #i'm actually not sure what the protocol on names is? #i know barok's friend as albert because i played the game in english #but i know he has a different name in japanese #is it a ''english names in tgaa japanese names in dgs'' or something different? #if it is i'll change the tags #but yeah. 2-3! fun case

[snivyartjpeg]

baroryuu week day 1 - Dark/Light

#tgaa #the great ace attorney chronicles #baroryuu #ryunosuke naruhodo #barok van zieks #baroryuu week #ryuubaro #case 2-4 had me feeling some type of way #baroryuuweek2023

[5231045]

some edits xposted from twt

#tgaa spoilers #tgaa 2 spoilers #dgs spoilers #dgs 2 spoilers #the great ace attorney #dai gyakuten saiban #asobaro #homubaro #asoryuu #< tagged just in case

[saltyloafy]

playing dgs2-4 rn and bro the way that kazuma smiles at ryunosuke from the prosecution bench,, THE WAY HE LAUGHS WHEN HE DESTROYS HIS ARGUMENT!! god he loves ryuu so much and he's so happy to watch him match him in court,,,

THEY'RE SO IN LOVE I'M SICK 😭😭😭

kazuma is probably so flabbergasted comparing his most recent memory of ryuu being him defending himself in court vs how he is NOW. HE'S IMPROVED SO MUCH 😭😭 AND HE'S DESTROYING HIM!!! god I wonder how he feels abt ryunosuke wearing his defense band,,,, I'm gonna vom they're insane

also sidebar it's so funny that when kazuma finally got karuma back he didn't discard his placement sword he just,, has two swords now. what a guy, absolutely no notes I love him

#ryunosuke naruhodo #ace attorney #ryuunosuke naruhodou #kazuma asougi #kazuma asogi #the great ace attorney #tgaa #tgaa2 #tgaa2 spoilers #dgs2 spoilers #dgs #this game goes so crazy I love all these characters #I only have 2 more cases left until I've played every single ace attorney game to completion godbless #will probably be making more dgs posts in the recent future #but for now. kazuma asogi *kisses my fingers and points then towards the sky* this one's for you #asoryuu

[vonlipvig]

tgaa2-3 the return of the great departed soul is such a standout case for all the best reasons. it literally has something for everyone. the drebber girls. the harebrayne girls. the milf lovers. there's old friends reuniting, there's enemies living under the same roof. there are masked amnesiacs and the unearthing of a long-forgotten conspiracy. at one moment they go into barok's office and roast the living shit out of him. there's a little bohemian boy who likes balloons. it's a case 3 that doesn't suck ass. it's glorious.

#ALL MY HOMIES LOVE THE RETURN OF THE GREAT DEPARTED SOUL #dgs #tgaa #tgaa 2 #ace attorney #truly the case of all time #according to jules

[jorenilee]

watching a playthrough of tgaa 2 and I think its very funny you open the game and immediately get flashbanged by lesbians, and then you finally reunite with the other protagonist and he's had sex with fucking sherlock holmes

#not actually but believe in a world where he did #so many times this damn game #about 90% of characters i think of the tumblr “he fucked that old man” post #spoilers #tgaa spoilers #but like. the girls were gonna have a date and called each other dashing and lovely #and ur like wow sickening sweet. but its time for the second case #and both of these dudes have dead ass partners so its Time for Business #and then sholmes ripped a button from ryunos shirt and its just. ok. ok. #so many middle aged babygirls i love tgaa #my silly words #also do not spoil past 2-1 this game is also fucking LONG

[mooseghost]

I've been simultaneously playing The Great Ace Attorney with my brother while also trying to introduce it to a different person who has never played it

Unforseen side effect is that now I'm constantly switching between pretending that Kazuma is alive and pretending that Kazuma is dead

#if someone hasn't played any of it yet I'm like yes that's the cool guy on the cover! nothing bad happens to him #if they've played past case 2 i have to go wow so tragic that he died like that :((( #ace attorney #the great ace attorney #tgaa spoilers #the great ace attorney spoilers #tgaa2 spoilers #great ace attorney #great ace attorney spoilers #my post

[ryutarotakedown]

i have been slacking on posting dgs stuff here because the aa tumblr server is so good at quarantining my brainrot but No Longer. here is my latest subject of dgs thought™

gregson & gina are transmasc & transfem solidarity

gregson is a stealth trans guy. literally no one on earth knows this about him other than maybe herlock though i'm not sure how he would have found out either. he is very aware of what his empire thinks of people who don't conform and in true gregson style has decided that if he conforms well enough then maybe britain will finally love him back

gina would be stealth if she could but living on the streets isn't really conducive to voice training or outfit experimentation or anything so instead she's proud of it — she won't tell anyone who doesn't ask but doesn't try to hide that she's trans. she figures that the other gnc east end kids need someone to look up to and she'll be that person if necessary. better she be a target than them

gregson sees gina and feels a hot prickling shame settle over him. doesn't she know she needs to be careful?

gina sees gregson and thinks he's never had to worry about violence in his entire life. typical copper.

when he moves her into his flat she sees him getting ready one day with the victorian equivalent of a binder (a.k.a. a really tight corset) and thinks Oh

they never talk about it, because there's nothing to talk about. but she understands him a little more and he feels more understood around her.

there is once when she asks whether the corset damages his chest, wearing it that long. he scoffs and says that of course it does. she asks why he doesn't take it off except for sleep then. he says he can't take the risk.

she's always seen him as an unwilling dog to the state, but this is the first time she's felt a sort of weird compassion-pity about it.

when she first gets her inspector uniform he starts fussing over doing the sleeves properly. she says, "what are you, my old man?" and it stuns both of them into silence for a good minute

when he dies she runs to the coroner's and demands to look at his autopsy report. maria says gina has nothing to worry about. she understands too.

when the truth comes out she just feels this sort of hollow emptiness in her chest. she knows how much danger gregson was in. she knows how much it meant to him to be able to stay in the good graces of a government that would have hated him if he ever tried to be truer to himself.

but all the same, she wishes he had loved her more than the empire that killed him anyway

she puts flowers on his headstone and then goes to sholmes's for their weekly karaoke. she's brought some of her friends. they call each other the irregulars.

#idk man #tgaa spoilers #g: ace attorney #jules.txt #tobias gregson #gina lestrade #transphobia #<- just in case #i dont have like any real world experience with this please do tell me if something's wrong #dgs spoilers #tgaa 2 spoilers #tgaa2 spoilers #dgs 2 spoilers #dgs2 spoilers