Why Ace Attorney Is A Classic 

Pinned comment question: *If you were an Ace Attorney character, what would be your horrible pun-laden name?* Edit: Probably should have clarified I haven't played AA5 or 6 yet, before tons of comments spoiled the latter for me but oh well, lol.

I have a HUGE soft spot for the first case in Ace Attorney because my favorite teacher had us as a class play it to show us how persuasive writing worked. Show how our thesis is the argument and evidence backs it up like it did in the game. The whole class was stumped at the clock being off and I was the one that gasped and said "She Just Got Back From Paris!" I felt so smart and I have never forgotten that or my amazing teacher

Still can't believe there were two times in this game where Phoenix basically went: "Hey, you murdered someone! And I have the receipts!" "... So not only are you confronting me alone, but you say that this is the only copy you have?" "Yup!" "And you didn't show this to your detective friend or ANYONE else with authority at all?" "Hmmm. No, why?" "... Say, how do you like the taste of extreme violence?"

"Mia is still M.I.A in more ways than one" is a *_genius_* bit of writing

The underappreciated Arc of Gumshue: giving us an Autopsy report Ch2: Mhh, alright Alright, pal, I'm not really supposed to do this, but here's the report Ch3: Yeah alright here's the report. Ch4: Oh here I already made a copy of the report just for you

Gotta love that Case 2 is Phoenix forgetting to turn over a piece of paper and Case 5 is Phoenix finally learning to turn pieces of evidence around 😁

When you started voicing the characters at the beginning i legitimately thought "Oh these must be voice lines from the anime or something" like wow your good at voice acting

The mutilation of Japanese culture into "Japanifornia" or "Los Japangeles" is something that's grown on me over the years. I actually love the stupid localisation choices now, and wish they'd stuck with it in later installments. The writers even came up with a backstory for why Japanese immigration would have caused this in Ace Attorney's alternate history. God I love this series.

There's a great moment in case 3 where you realize that you've convinced Edgeworth of Vasquez's guilt, and he's subtly trying to back you up. He can't directly accuse her, but he can keep her on the stand so that you can continue to poke holes in her story. It does a lot to make Edgeworth more likeable (which is important going into case 4), not to mention it's just extremely hype

Fun fact, Von Karma's common tic of grasping his arm is actually a pretty clever bit of physical foreshadowing in hindsight. He's actually grasping the same arm that has the injured shoulder. With a little bit of symbolism tied in about how he's still obsessed all this time with the stain on his record. Just figured I'd share that tidbit since it's probably one of the more subtle details a lot of people tend to miss regarding the character. Also, your voice acting for Gant was top notch. Probably my favorite performance of yours in this video, and that's saying something given the great stuff you have in here. Bang-up job. - Quick edit note, I sadly made the mistake of saying he was grabbing the arm with the injured shoulder when that is not the case (the foreshadowing detail is still technically the same, but this is enough of an important distinction to point out the discrepancy I made above). Many people have pointed this out so I felt the need to add this correction. TY to everyone who brought it to my attention!

For what it's worth, I always figured Von Karma took Edgeworth in and mentored him because he wanted to turn Edgeworth against his father's ideals, driving the knife into his old rival even further by tainting Gregory's legacy and replacing it with his own.

1:22:45 Shu Takumi got his pet Pomeranian Missile somewhere around 2007-2008, years after Ace Attorney 1 came out and just as Ghost Trick started development. Missile passed away at age 10 or 11 in 2018, I don't really recall exactlty. He named his dog Missile as he was a very energetic pup that would dart around the room. He felt it was only appropriate to name him after the Shiba Inu from AA1. That's why Missile isn't a Pomeranian in AA1. As far as I know, the name Missile in AA1 originated as a joke. Gumshoe reveals that one of his secret investigation weapons is a missile, only to reveal that it's the name of a cute police pup and not a piece of artillery.

2:01:45 I always assumed Lana telling Ema to go to Mia was a bit of general advise, like a few years ago she gave her sister a name address and phone number and now that Lana's accused of murder Ema decided to get help using old information. Something to that effect and less Lana telling her sister to go to a dead person for help.

Your voicing of the von karma meltdown went so hard oh my lord that was immaculate

Gant is such a good villain, and what i also like is that Gant is how he used to be a genuine good person. The judge knowing him personally, the fact that he warns Edgeworth about how people are willing to to take down criminals, and how he is respected police member. To me, it oozes a lot of compelling nature and tells a lot more about Gant as a character

What I love most about Rise From The Ashes is the fact that up until the very end, Lana doesn't smile once, only when you unmistakenly prove that she and Ema are not guilty of murder is the moment when she smiles for the first time on screen and not gonna lie, I got emotional after that. Also the recurring gag of Gumshoe interrupting serious moments during Trial recesses

1:33:23 I’m glad to see someone give Larry his due diligence. Like you said, Capcom certainly played up up his comedic side, for better or worse, but what I always liked is his artistic side; he *made* those Thinker clocks and later expanded on his talents, even though characters never take his talent seriously. I just wish we got more of this Larry. 😢

That voice acting for Karma was actually pretty horrifying, I FELT his actual blood lust and rage there. well done to whoever did it.

It’s pretty insane to think that everything that happened in this game could be traced back to Von Karma deciding to shoot Edgeworth’s father.

“It isn’t a sin to ask for help and it isn’t a bad thing to need it either.” That is one deep quote. Great video.

on the matter of the receipt in turnabout sisters, what i find more unbelievable than phoenix being unable to turn over a receipt is that phoenix, who has been working for/with mia for _at least_ a month at this point, wouldnt know that the glass light stand was a much more recent addition.

Speaking as someone in law school who has taken evidence, Rise from the Ashes is legit kind of genius in how it uses the fairly basic evidence rules of the AA world to emulate the kind of thinking you have to do involving evidence in a real case. It’s probably the most accurate the game ever gets to the true “feel” of the profession.

If you're actually covering the whole series with this much depth, you're doing something incredibly unique. As someone who loves this series so much to the point that I made a school project with my friends using ace attorney, finding in-depth retrospectives about the series is quite hard but it's refreshing to see. Let alone a three hour video about aa1 alone. Good job!

every time i get nostalgically engrossed in a series Nezumi is there to provide me with a video essay on it literally the timing couldn't be more perfect lol

That glare phoenix gave gant when he thought he had him for the cloth is priceless. He was just staring like " im going to end his whole career"

He's a cowboy because the 5th case was made circa Apollo Justice, by which point they've leaned much more heavily into the "goofy gimmick" characters. Every character needs a dramatic quirk by that point. This evolution in goofiness can be seen really clearly in the prosecutors. Rather than just having other prosecutors, every prosecutor in the subsequent games evolves from having a small quirk (using a whip, drinking coffee) to having entire additional defining qualities (prosecutor + rock star, prosecutor + samurai, prosecutor + monk). The main reason they do this, I suspect, is by giving them these additional defining qualities they can use these in order to easily shape distinct personalities, so they aren't essentially retreads of existing characters who fill the same role in the earlier games.

PhD legal student in Japan here (and who, coincidentally, wrote his thesis on the relationships between Criminal Law and media - including both fictional and non-fictional media, with a specific chapter devoted to Ace Attorney). I very much agree with the video when it states that Ace Attorney is not meant to be taken as satire. Rather, the reason why the game is focused on the defence side is not as a denouncement of wrongdoing by the Japanese criminal system, but as a way to provide an outlet for real-life experiences that resonate with the viewership for the game (and that they cannot directly address otherwise). If we were to consider the viewpoint of media in Japan vs. most western countries, we can clearly identify that the role taken by the protagonist is often reversed in these jurisdictions: American shows tend to emphasise the investigative or prosecutorial side (CSI, Law and Order, NCIS) and perhaps even stories in which a person who does not belong to a governmental force acts as an enforcer for law when legally there is no justification to prosecute (Dexter), whereas Japanese shows frequently portray lawyers as their main characters. Yet, few would dare say that CSI or Law and Order are satirical shows. Rather, they serve as a way to represent some acts the general public perceives as unfair, even when based on law (e.g., someone being declared as innocent because relevant issues surfaced in the chain of custody, or evidence was obtained through illegal methods). The core of those programs is the ever-present duality between legality and morality, and the overall feeling that a legal decision may be at odds with what's generally regarded as socially desired. Ace Attorney serves to sate the same kind of social hunger, but on the opposite side of the spectrum. Yes, it is true that the Japanese prosecutorial system is highly stacked against defendants, particularly in light of its emphasis on confessions and the possibility to coerce a defendant into admitting the "existence" of a crime in exchange for a perceived sense of social absolution or a return to normalcy ("sign these papers and we won't need to detain you any longer" / "sign these papers, so when - not if - you are convicted, at least people will think you're someone decent enough who owned up to your mistakes"), and that these events are perceived as condemnable by some Japanese people... ...and yet, satire requires a deliberate desire to exaggerate, to mock an entire system rather than just bring forward the possibility of criticism and rational discussion without necessarily resorting to a personal attack. Ace Attorney does the latter, and it is for that very reason that issues regarding the burden of evidence are not the only focal point of the game: one may consider the legal issues posed by the second game's last case as yet another example of very pressing question covered by it, and one that definitely subverts the thesis that the game is a mere parody of Japan's courts. In short, Ace Attorney is not satire. It's a game that brings forward important questions for the most savvy viewers, but pointing out the flaws of a system and mocking that system are two completely different things.

So on the topic of Wrightworth, supposedly AA takes a decent amount of inspiration from BL. The story goes that originally Edgeworth was originally going to be in his 40s but then character designer Kumiko Suekane (she drew BLs outside of her professional life) was like "If we age him down, this will become very popular with a certain subsection of fans (aka BL fans lol)." The director decided to go with it. The game got more than enough BL fans that for subsequent games, they decided to consciously lean into their relationship. They even have official wedding ring merchandise based on them.

Wow, Larry is a pretty fun character in the first game! He sure does help his good friend Phoenix out! I sure hope he doesn’t suffer from a character assassination in later games and makes everyone in the series hate him and include a random blurb where he considers dating a 7 year old girl! That’d suck…

I think that Lana did know about Mia's death, but Ema didn't know. I don't remember if it was told to us exactly when Lana told Ema to seek out Mia. Ema said she was supposed to seek out Mia "when they are in trouble" so it's possible that Lana told this to Ema before she distanced herself from Ema. So because they weren't that close leading up to Rise from the ashes, Lana didn't tell Ema that Mia had died.

Oh God that dialogue about Damon Gant Wielding the system and how we have to change things for it not to happen again with another villain made my mind flash to a certain other character. And knowing how this episode was made after 3 and right before 4 it almost feels like a set up for a particular character we will meet down the line. I really love that.

It's touched on is this video, but I really feel like it can't be understated how much case three in the first game builds everyone's characters and their interactions. All of the other cases are personal for the cast and that means they already have a sense of investment to find the true killer, but seeing Phoenix fight as hard as he does for someone he doesn't know is important for building who he is and his sense of justice. Maya also gets to really shine as her cheery self and shows how much she supports Phoenix in her own ways, Gumshoe shows that he's really a good and earnest guy when he saves us from literally being killed, and Edgeworth gets to become a more flushed out character that I'd actually want to see saved from a false conviction. Case four would feel completely unearned without case three laying down the emotional investment for these characters. I really thinks it's not until the next game that "third case syndrome" really starts, with most subsequent third cases being painfully slow and filler.

I hope this retrospective goes all the way into the Great Ace Attorney games. They are a personal favorite of mine, but I am equally as excited to see your thoughts on the other entries in the series as well!! Here's to ace attorney.

One more thing about Ryuichi Sakamoto, Phoenix's Japanese namesake, is that one of his songs is actually referenced in the iconic courtroom theme of the first game. If you listen to the song "Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto" & compare that to the trial music in AA, you'll notice that the chord progression (& general chill-synthesizer vibe) are very similar to one another. (AA's music is by no means a one-to-one copy, though, Thousand Knives & the courtroom theme diverge from one another in many ways.) I think that anyone who's into video game music should check out the works of Sakamoto & Yellow Magic Orchestra (a band he was closely affiliated with). there's so much amazing, experimental, & influential stuff to be found.

Never played one of these games and always thought Edgeworth was just another antagonist, but after listening to this he’s like the best, most interesting and compelling character.

tbh gregory lying to protect his son was so sweet and quite literally made me cry

I've watched this video a good few times across the last month, and I keep coming back to the same thought; teenage me playing Rise from the Ashes and seeing Lana for the first time: "she's really pretty"...and then seeing her smile: "😳 She's...*really* pretty..."

I'm currently playing through ace attorney for the first time so I can watch this video (nearing the end of the 4th trial as I type this) and I'm having a blast! Thanks for (indirectly) introducing me to this fantastic series!

Yknow I never really thought about it but you're right, Phoenix really does jump up pretty drastically in skill level during rfta 💀 i cant complain too much though because its just so damn exciting when you first play that bit where he manages to trap Gant, I was kicking and screaming I was so proud of him 😭😭 oh how far we've come from the days of... not flipping receipts......

I like to believe that von Karma took Edgeworth under his wing because he knew it would be the ultimate revenge against a dead man: by converting Miles to the von Karma career path, he would effectively erase Gregory's legacy. Then, by keeping a close eye on the young Edgeworth, von Karma would be in a better position to exact revenge on Miles over DL-6 on a much more personal level. He didn't want to disclose this to Phoenix in the evidence room because that would take too long to explain. Which is why the ending of Ace Attorney Investigations 2 is so satisfying.

Quite frankly I would prefer if Mia didn't appear after case 1. Her contributions in trials were minimal and usually made Nick look silly. If the writer *really* wanted to include Maya channelling Mia in the game he should have left that for case 4. Maya finally managing to use her powers and Mia helping take down the man who indirectly destroyed her family would be a powerful moment. Especially if previously Phoenix didn't believe Maya's claims about Fey channelling powers. Also, case 1-4 is my favourite case in the series. At times it feels too long but taking down von Karma is *so* *satisfying*. Also cross-examinating parrot has to be one of the most bizarre and funny gaming experiences I had. On a side note I *wish* AA games let you choose a chapter AND day of the case when you replay game like Danganronpa games. It would make replaying my favourite moments in the games much easier.

I swear Marcie, Dir is your own personal Pursuit theme. Every time you play it makes me just feel so hyped especially during V3-6 and Rise From the ashes. It's so pretty yet upbeat, it's graceful yet fierce, I just love it. It's one of my new favorite songs now

I was first introduced to Ace Attorney though, of all things, a "My Little Pony" fan project. I don't know who thought it was a good idea to combine convoluted murder mysteries with candy-colored equines, but I'm glad they did. "Turnabout Storm," unprofessional as it may look today, did a surprisingly good job of welding these two worlds together (at least thematically,) it got me interested enough to buy the only Ace Attorney game I could find at a local game shop (the second one, "Justice for All,") and I've been following the franchise ever since.

Idk why but whenever I read Damon Gant's lines it's always in J.K. Simmons' voice. I think it's cuz Simmons can also effortlessly pull off the kind of jovial yet clearly authoritative voice and seamless transition from personable to cruel that Gant is so recognizable for. That being said your voicing of the dialogue in this vid was astounding and top notch per usual, great vid all around!

Legit these games have impacted me so much, and I wish I saw them so much earlier. Only checking them out when Press Buttons and Talk (ProZD's old let's play channel) played them. The insanity of the final cases and the "AHA!" moments actually inspired me to work on my own Ace Attorney inspired game... Still in the concept phase but I legitimately hope it comes to see the light of day. (For those curious, it's a fantasy setting with learning the rules of magic as a core concept to proving magic users innocent)

Hi there Marcie I wanted to say the stars really aligned for this video fittingly not unlike an actual Ace Attorney case. I was naturally excited when this was announced because I had started getting into Ace Attorney but not only was I able to complete Rise from the Ashes just in time, but by complete coincidence this came out on my birthday today. And not only was it a stellar surprise gift to receive but also your closing notes here really gave me pause for thought and made me realize how far I’ve come and all the relationships that I’ve grown so close to and helped me to come so far. You’ve inspired me so much with all the commitment and heartfelt dedication you place into all these videos and I can never thank you enough. Thank you so much for the awesome birthday gift Marcie and for always brightening my day.

I still feel visceral anger at the rotating vase mini game in Rise From The Ashes, it took so long to get it right while playing the remake on switch. I wanted to die. IT TOOK ME 10-20 MINUTES OF FAILURES! I will never be over this.

When I was studying law we played real life ace attorney in the classroom one of the main reasons I ended up with my law degree - the lecturer knew family and corporate law can be really heavy so to lighten the room we played real life ace attorney it was fun

Thank you and curse you for finally encouraging me to play this series just so I could watch your retrospectives. My life is now forever ruined because of this funny lawyer game. Your little diatribe about Larry at the end of Turnabout Goodbyes really struck a chord with me and reminded me, fresh off the ending of Trials and Turnabouts, why I had initially thought to myself "Wow, Larry really isn't as bad as the fandom's jokes made him out to be". Obviously, Wright and Edgeworth's dynamic is unmatchable in terms of... everything. But Larry definitely came in clutch towards the end with how he ultimately helped out Edgeworth's case. And even though it practically doubled the video's length, your analysis of Rise from the Ashes was EVERYTHING. Even just relistening to it, I got newly feral over just how great that chapter was in discussing the corruption of the police system and the blossoming relationship (romantic or otherwise) between Edgeworth and Phoenix. The whole first game was a blast, but Rise from the Ashes permanently altered my brain chemistry despite how grueling it was figuring out how everything worked. Lovely work as always!

if you prefer it anyway, i vote using ds footage! i think the pixel art looks much better than the "upscales" in the hd collection. i really wish they had a toggle to use the original art with expanded backgrounds/CGs to fit the widescreen resolution, or even that they'd used the 3d style of the 3ds releases

"Phoenix isnt gonna take down a prime minister" ... ... ... ... *several years later*

Man I cannot wait for this one! Ace attorney has been such a comfort franchise for me the last 4 years so i know this will be a joy to watch through!

Just finished listening to your case 3 review. I always found Cody's denial of reality to be very emotional. A little innocent boy seeing something he cannot accept, which he will not admit, because his hero always wins. It's a loss of innocence when we pull the truth out of him, and he's left much quieter after the fact.

"Phoenix isn't going to take down the prime minister" I mean, in the last game... Also, a wonderful video as always ! I hope you review more games from this franchise ^^

I love how at first we all think "How boring this game sounds" and after giving it a try, we realize that we've already passed the entire trilogy. It really makes me feel a lot to hear other people talk about how great this game is and I would like to be able to introduce my friends to this game but I don't know how to do it.

It really makes me happy that one of my favorite content creators is gonna talk about one of my favorite series ever now. Really excited to hear your perspectives!

As much as Darke's crime spree might sound cartoonish it was a foreshadowing of what Gant was doing. Sure, before the events of case 1-5 Gant opted for just firing and blackmailing people who might rise fuss over Darke's case, but that is because those methods are less risky than straight-out murder. EDIT: I wonder what would happen to the fired detectives if Gant succeeded in pinning the murder on either Lana or Edgeworth. If they kept snooping around, would they also end up in jail or murdered?

Personally I found Red White a very satisfying villain. He’s painfully reminiscent of my egotistical, blustering, sociopathic grandfather, who even used nonsense words like that.

When I was playing Rise from the Ashes on my Switch, I didn't really feel to bogged down by the Evidence Room video. I had actually liked Blue Badger's theme when I heard it before, so hearing it play over the violence shown was haunting for me, especially with it being a relatively graphic scene compared to other violent moments in VNs. I also really liked going back and forth in the video, since it felt more like an actual search for clues rather than just pointing everywhere until the day's over. Maybe it was because my first look at the video stunned me so much that the following watches were more like an investigation. No, the thing I hated about this case was the vase. Micromanaging the placement of the thing was so bad. I'm surprised it's never been fixed

I think that Rise from the Ashes really deserved an OVA or Anime Mini-Series. Too long to be a single film, but obviously not long enough for an entire season.

Hearing all of this in a row, I've come to a realization. Phoenix is a fucking idiot in the first game. In all three cases where he's not having his hand held through its entirety, he waves incriminating evidence in each killers face to increasingly worse results. In the second case, he was ready to accept a very likely death sentence because it was so difficult to flip over a piece of paper. Not to mention his go to strategy is to bluff even if he has no idea, hoping that something will just fall out of the sky to help him, which to be fair happens on multiple occasions. Even though said bluffing leads to said insanities such as prosecuting a parrot.

Fun Fact: For the Wiiware release of Ace Attorney, Rise from the Ashes was made purchasable dlc, and wasn't made available until after Trials and Tribulations was released on Wiiware four months later. Because of that, I actually ended up playing that case after T&T, mirroring japanese fans' experience playing the ds port after playing the original trilogy on GBA.

My game store of choice had some games on a table which were highly discounted. I bought three of them: Custom Robo Arena (10€), Star Fox Command (7€) and the first Ace Attorney (5€). The game was heavily marketed on afternoon TV and I thought: "Ok, it's only 5€, I'll try it out." I couldn't stop playing once I had started and it is the reason why I fell so madly in love with Danganronpa two years ago. Thank you, Ace Attorney. And thanks to you for making this retrospective! Your voice acting bits were a joy to listen to!

Your announcement in making this not only made me replay the Ace Attorney trilogy but also start The Great Ace Attorney and what a blast it was. I really hope you will someday also find time to make a video on the latter :) but for now, I will enjoy this to the fullest. Thank you for your hard work!

this is the video that convinced me to play ace attorney. i watched until the end of the first case, went "omfg i need to play this", and then watched each segment of the video as i finished the chapters. thank you, sincerely, because this game is insanely good, and though its been on my backlog for ever and ever, i dont think i would have ever actually played it without this video pushing me to

Honestly I could hear you talk about the rest of the trilogy in this style, it's simple yet soothing and entertaining, great job!

I had found and gotten into your channel through your Danganronpa series. I was literally playing the games alongside them, finishing a game and then right after watching your retrospectives. I had always wondered what you had thought of the Ace Attorney games, since I had actually played through all of them before stumbling upon the DGR series & your channel. Needless to say, based on how well formed this video is, I’m confident that you’re going to give this series the justice it deserves. This was an excellent video, and I cannot wait for more Ace Attorney content to come!

the thing you say about phoenix becoming so much more competent in rfta and that that's probably because it was written after t&t just made me imagine that the fire extinguisher hit to the head in 2-1 did something to his brain

Having played these games for the first time as an adult (literally I started them last summer when I was 29), the satisfying narrative/game elements (music pausing, objection theme, etc.) are just as effective and serotonin-inducing as they are for the younger crowd this was clearly first geared towards. RFTA has a special place in my heart because it was the only case my partner HADN'T played as a kid so we both got to experience it for the first time together (they are the one that got me hooked on these games which are so up my alley I'm almost offended I didn't know about them when I was younger haha). We're currently working out way through Apollo Justice and as much as I still thoroughly enjoyed the more in-depth investigation on the console port, yeah, getting to actually use the touch screen elements to dispense fingerprinting powder filled me with utter glee, like that was already a really neat mechanic and then it became infinitely cooler.

Playing through the Ace Attorney trilogy soon made realize that in the whole series that the bonus episode "Rise from the Ashes" was my favourite story in the whole series. And this makes sense, because it was the newest episode in the series once it came to the DS and I believe that the team exactly knew what they were doing and they wrote the most exciting and twisting story in the series.

I was expecting this to cover all 3 games when i saw it’s length, so i was pretty surprised that it was only covering the first game. gotta say, this video was great to have on in the background while gaming or working on stuff. you’ve earned yourself a new subscriber!

Yes, i love AA retrospectives, and this might be the best yet. I still remember buying this for my DS back in 2005, and I've been hooked on this series ever since, and still play the trilogy every now and then. Also, my birth year is the same as Mia in canon, and the Skye sisters have the same age gape as me and my older brother, which i always thought was a funny coincidence.

This silly little attorney and his friends mean so much to me.

My god, you have no idea how hyped I was for this video ever since you put it on that community poll after wrapping DR up. This is the kind of narratively invested analysis of these games I've been yearning to find for so long, I couldn't express it in a simple youtube comment. I can count the number of videos that I feel appreciate the underlying themes and messages of these games on one hand, and I'm so happy to count this retrospective among them. No matter how much of the series you decide to cover, be it only the trilogy or even as far as the Layton crossover, I will be looking forward to your takes. That Damon Gant analysis at the end was phenomenal.

Cross-examining the parrot was forged from pure gold. At first you think Pheonix is the crazy one, but von Karma literally retrained this parrot in case this would happened.

I've been waiting in baited breath for this video's release and I couldn't be more stoked to say it's delivered on all fronts. Ace Attorney is such an important series to me personally and I'm as excited for the following videos as I am satisfied with this in particular. I can tell this will be a video/series I'll constantly return to for when I want to reexperience the games without having the time to replay them myself. The quality of your content never ceases to amaze me!

This is seriously one of the best tribute videos to a video game if not the best tribute video i’ve ever seen. I did not expect to watch all 3 and a half hours but every part of your script was so well written and interesting throughout the entire video! I cant wait till you make a video on justice for all!

this video is just so well made the voice acting, the editing, the humor, the way the writing flows, all just really well done

3:20:25 Foreshadowing is a narrative device in which-

ahhhh!!!!! i cant wait!!! this has become my favorite game series over the past year, im so happy to see you cover it!!

Me: *see’s 3 hour video about Ace Attorney* oh it’s probably the trilogy. Video: “This video contains *full spoilers* for “ *Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney* “, but not for any of the subsequent games in the series. Me: We’re in for some real s#$t today aren’t we.

It's interesting how they combined Gantz with Manfred in the movie. The movie was honestly pretty rushed, but the presentation was great. The final moment where Manfred proudly stated that putting criminals behind bar is their duty while Phoenix rebuts that finding the truth is more important was very memorable to me.

"... So not only are you confronting me alone, but you say that this is the only copy you have?"

ALL UR VIDEOS ARE SUCH BANGERS, I always get a little bit emotional towards the end. You have such a wonderful way of tying together the games thematics in a genuine heartfelt way while also remaining constructively critical :)

YIPPEE a new video!!!!! marcie's commentary is really soothing on the ears imo

I totally agree with you about the upscales. It looks pretty at the start, but the more you watch it, the flaws get more obvious. I'll be expecting the JFA video, and I truly hope you'll make retrospectives of the "Apollo trilogy" some day. The final case of Dual Destiny is one of my personal favorites.

Strange to say but thank you for making this video overviewing and celebrating this beautiful game series. I am so excited for your upcoming videos covering the next games as cases ramp up in complexity and character development, as well as further tug on our collective heartstrings! Your nostalgia and passion for the game is practically palpable. Also, great job on the voice acting! I had no idea they were all done by you, until I saw your channel bio (yes I failed to register the "VA" clearly in your name oops). Your emotions come through very well particularly on Von Karma's raw breakdown. It's the cherry on top to an amazing video!

I love Ace Attorney, and I love this video, but I have to say OH MY GOODNESS your voice acting skills are PHENOMENAL! All the little segments you dubbed were amazing to watch! (Though, honestly, this whole video was!)

This series is 80% responsible for me having learned to speak English. Thank you TFS!

I remember playing the og ace attorney in 2014 on a ds emulator on my phone. This was one of the games that made my childhood

AGHH this was such a lovely retrospective!!! i've both played and watched playthroughs of the first game (and the main trilogy) enough times that it kinda surprises me how invested i am in this series to keep reliving it, but your breakdowns of the cases and the cast, and especially chapter 7 and the clips you chose to accompany that section, managed to put every emotion i feel about this game into words in ways that i couldn't ever figure out myself, and i feel really grateful to you for that! i always love it when something manages to fully remind me why i love something so much, and that's exactly what your retrospective did for me. thank you for all your work on this video!!!

your voice acting for this is crazy, i love it so much, von karma’s breakdown was so well done

Gotta say, this couldn't have come at a better time for me. I've been hyperfixating on this series for the past month or two, and I love your style of analysis content! It's really nice to see one of my favorite creators covering one of my favorite game series!

i really appreciate how much effort you put into this video, and there are so many more things i could talk about that are more relevant to the actual subject of it than this... but holy shit your voice acting is absolutely enthralling. especially during the confrontation between von karma, phoenix, and maya in the evidence room before the third trial day. you have an incredible range!!!

I always love these retrospective essays you do, they're such a treat to listen to and never fails to entertain. I hope you take care in the process of making these as its easy to neglect your own needs while making such high effort videos! I await with bated breath for the next masterpiece you upload :3

I found out about Ace Attorney through a Drawfee video about creating new characters following the pun name format and I’ll always be grateful for that introduction It’s without a doubt my favorite piece of media I discovered through Drawfee references

A 3.5 hour video essay on one of my favorite games ever? Sign me up! Can’t believe I haven’t found your channel sooner, this is some good stuff!

I actually like the hd version weirdly enough. Ace attorney was the main reason I started seriously drawing and this art style from the games really helped me in trying to find my own style. It pivoted me more towards anime art styles and really helped me get motivated to try and practice drawing more. I guess I am just more emotionally attached to this style though I do also find the original style charming. (The first ever playthrough I watched of ace attorney also was in this style so I suppose that has to do with this too lol)

One name pun with Gumshoe is that his English name and title all translate to Detective. 'Dick' is a 1900's slang term for a detective or privates eye, and a 'gumshoe' is also slang for detective.

this is such an impressive video. i watched the whole thing in one go! i loved the voice acting, as well as just you going through all the games with new insights even when i knew the story. overall, greatly made and i look forward to the next one :)