Mysterious Sirens and Turnabouts Part VI

3209 frames. Once again, quite impressive.
2:30 and we’re only a little over halfway through this trial Justice will be here until 6.
48: Remove the first comma.
Weird. Sometimes the text blips die halfway through a long frame. Must be an editor glitch specific to Chrome. (I can’t stand having the screen be so small in FF, and otherwise I have to put instant text display on.)
61: Comma after “verdict”
67: Add an opening parenthesis.
There’s a catch. Of course there’s a catch.
Oh, this brings back memories of 1-4. Right after the guilty, a loser of a witness shows up out of the blue.
And then Phoenix says the same thing.
126: Comma after “it”
128: Remove comma.
139: Remove the comma after “or”
Name and occupation went surprisingly smoothly.
174: Comma after “Commander”
179: You need an opening ellipsis.
I was an expecting a “Into the man’s chest the cold blade did sweep!”
208: Change “on” to “one”
Yay, a drunk witness. This brings a whole new meaning to “incredible”
OK… How to tackle this testimony… There are a few interesting parts, so I’ll start with pressing.
236: Discrimianted? Odd word.
335: Comma after “certain”
336: Remove the second comma.
OK, the lag is returning. Come to think of it, I played on Chrome a bit in part five, so that may have been the source of those lag issues. Switching to Firefox.
It’s weird that he knew Thalassa was Lamiror, but if he’s been following the trial, it makes sense.
Strudle head!
302+303+304: Comma after “symmetrical”
326: Break up “anymore”
OK, Gaines is hilarious. He claims perfect vision because he’s Zhenganese.
Alright, I’ve finishes pressing everything. Now just to clean up any contradictions.
OK, Room 1001 contradiction spotted. You do love those memory contradictions, don’t you?
Now to see how Gaines handles this. Either way, I think I can use this to support my theory.
378: Comma after “accommodation”
Hmm… I very much doubt Gaines is telling the truth. He had four minutes to descend eight floors, order and have his meal prepared. Even then, there is the huge issue of who gave him the package.
Yeah, it makes no sense. I can’t have him be dismissed, but I have no proof or even an idea.
A reservation…?! I considered that, but I thought that if he had such a thing, surely Gaines would have bothered to TELL US THAT. *sigh*
Yeah, I’m putting instant on. I can’t stand this any longer.
This testimony gives Hall a perfect alibi. There’s got to be some flaw…
Wait a minute… I see the contradiction clear as day. This contradicts Hall’s testimony about a delay in the kitchen. All I need is the evidence to prove it. First, I’ll press everything to see if I can draw anything out.
Kudos on going so long without a correction, by the way.
654: You have double punctuation.
The Edgeworth Dictionary. That’s great.
The example is even better!
I thought it was Scarlet Hall, not the Room Service Records, but I still spotted it without too much trouble.
And come to think of it, it’s another contradiction with a heavy memory requirement.
And, an ace in the hole for my theory. Gaines lied to give Hall an alibi.
740: Remove comma.
I know who it was… THE BELLBOY WITH A WIG, COLORED CONTACTS, AND A REVEALING TOP!
Yep, just as predicted.
Apollo knows Gaines sub-consciously? (Thank you bracelet!) Just how involved is Apollo with UI-4?
839: Add “end” between “an to”
Come on, Apollo! The Bellboy was an accomplice and Hall was the real killer! Prove it!
YES! Hall is now on the stand! I noticed how her account contradicts Oldbag’s a lot earlier, so this part wasn’t that hard for me.
Ha. Flirting with the enemy.
1129: This frame strikes me as awkward.
Lady Justice? So now she’s a prosecutor too?
1152: Comma after “locked” and “answering”
1188: Comma after “locked” and “answering”
Alright, first order of business, press everything. The only thing I can see is that Scarlet doesn’t explain the locked room, but Edgeworth already did.
1206: Remove the apostrophe in “chef’s”
1244: Comma after “public”
I can’t keep up with all these middle names of hers. Scarlet-Don’t-Mess-With-Me-When-I’m-Simply-Making-Sense-Hall, perhaps?
1346: You need an opening parenthesis.
OK, I’ve gone through all the pressing and nothing is particularly sticking out at me. Since I’m not certain, I’ll just have to do some educated guessing. Besides, the last two times I look for a hint, I got spoiled. I am NOT going through that again, especially since this isn’t even a super.
I knew that the Card Key would be a problem because de Killer couldn’t have gotten his hands on it, so I presented it everywhere and got lucky. Unless I’m missing something, that contradiction was illogical. Hall’s statement can just as easily be explained by the card not being where it was supposed to, exactly like Hall said yesterday and the evidence says now. I would say her efforts were in vain because she couldn’t find the key card, not because she couldn’t use it. Further that by the time she had given up, the door was already broken down.
1363: Double punctuation.
1395: What is this frame even saying?
1450: Comma after “seriously”
1499: Comma after “here”
A bit before 1507, there’s a blank frame.
Alright, the contradiction here is easy to spot. Thank you TDG.
1576+1577: Merge.
1607: Why is Edgeworth speaking in co-counsel?!
1608: Comma after “installation”
Well, so much for the contradiction I thought I had.
Ha, glass cannon.
1629: Comma after “child”
After a while, I just gave up on the knife problem. I’m really frustrated with myself, to be honest. If I can’t get the contradiction within three minutes of having pressed everything, it seems like there’s only a 5% chance I ever manage to figure it out on my own.
Yay, final testimony.
Motive? That’s it… I think I can do this one, actually. According to my theory, she was being blackmailed over UI-4.
1896: Comma after “Perceive”
Super-objection? Hmph. Easy enough. The file on Hyde was kept hidden, so that has to be part of it. Hyde File, UI-4 and Hall’s profile!
Portsman… OK… I went wrong somewhere.
Fine. Let’s try removing the Hyde files.
Nope. Let’s take the original three, adding the 2016 files.
Looked for a hint on this one. It turned out that I was a bit off. It was done voluntarily, not out of blackmail. So, UI-4, the confidential files and the calling card. I was too blinded by my own theory to get the hint in the game about how the reason why she brought up de Killer was relevant. Part of this was just me being foolish, again, but I think another part was just how insanely difficult super objections could be.
2090: Change “tells” to “tell”
Hmm? I just noticed this now, but I don’t recall hearing anything on this tip-off during the investigation. I remember the hotel being locked down, but not the reason why.
2155+2156: Comma after “it”
2164: Change “to” to “too”
2189 AND 2190 AND 2191: Change “, which” to “that”
2220: Remove the comma
2261 and 2262: Wrong evidence.
2268: Comma after “hide”
Ugh. This difficulty is completely over-the-top by this point. I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish this without going insane.
Alright, bluffed my way through that present, and first try too.
This is the one case where evidence law matters. The one.
Evidence to prove the obvious… You have got to be kidding me. More bluffing.
Great. Only one shot per refresh. Marvleous.
OK… I’m pretty sure there’s a location that needs to be swept.
Now to think through this. Oldbag’s testimony says that Hall was still in uniform until she left. The “Bellboy” wasn’t there long, so this leads me to conclude she used the secret passage of Room 214.
2559: Change to question
I give up. I’m looking in the walkthrough.
Wait a minute… She was locked inside?! Words cannot express my frustration right now. I specifically went back to Part One to see if there was any way that was possible. I thought that not even Wright and Trucy would possibly miss that Hall was in the room before them, and that would be way too similar to Virtual.
And come to think of it… This contradicts Oldbag!
2649: Comma after “surprised”
2737: Comma after “record”
Of course, Thalassa never gives a name!
2815: Comma after “committed”
Wait, now the Oldbag testimony means something? This makes less and less sense.
Wait… Now I’m really confused. How did Oldbag see Scarlet?
*sigh* This is what you get for using forged evidence, Phoenix.
Err? What happened at the end there? Did Thalassa die or what?

CONCLUSION:

I hate to say it, but the ending was a massive disappointment, and for one simple reason. I don’t know what the other people who played this thought, but for me, this was around halfway between One Hell of a Turnabout and Turnabout of Courage in difficulty. Gaines’s testimonies were fine; a bit easy for me, but fine. Then the time came to accuse Hall, and after that, everything fell downhill. I already ranted about the first testimony. The second one was good. (I was just being a fool about it.) Third testimony... I have to take some credit for my troubles on this one, but even if I hadn’t decided that there was blackmail involved, I probably would never have gotten that combination of evidence. I really, really hate super-objections. After that last cross-examination, I could understand what was being said, but it stopped making sense. I had to look up the answer or some rather large hints every single time, except presenting Hyde’s Assassination and Michelle Hyde. I still have no idea how Oldbag’s Testimony happened.

There’s not much else I can say, really. You probably observed this, but as the trial went on, I had less to say and was less attentive. The characters were good. I did like Trucy’s return and Gaines’s testimony, as well as the dynamic between Hall and Ballard. Presentation was OK… I was too busy trying to keep up with the logic to care that much for the story.

I really don’t know what happened here. Maybe having instant text display on took away the time it took for my brain to process the information. Maybe this part just was harder because it was the end. Maybe I got too frustrated after that second cross… I'm just sorry that I can't say I enjoyed this part.

As I recall, there was a testimony or two where the contradiction was that Naota couldn't have gotten into the crime scene after it was barred shut. I thought it was the same thing this time, but with Hall, but there is a dual set of locks.