Fighting for the acquittal... literally
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How would she have been unhappy with a NOT GUILTY verdict? Just wondering...
Phoenix wouldn't be able to face Maya, destroying Pearl's dream of a relationship between them.
I am the Objector.
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Anyhow, I chose guilty. Yes. I was willing to kill Maya for greater justice. I am such a terrible human being.
I brought this up in a discussion I had in English class about man vs. society. And my friend, who knows about my PW obsession but hates PW himself, start punching me.
"Suspense msuic plays" Oh crap, SAVESAVESAVE! Oh wait, that's my phone. And the caller ID is... MOM!?
"Cornered music plays"
Oh, ****
IT'S A STEPLADDER, DAMMIT.
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D: Now that ain't right.
You should have objected. And bludgeoned him with a gavel.
"THAT'S MY JUSTICE, BITCH!"
No, I'm joking XD;
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However, in real life I think that I would've more likely picked Not Guilty. I wouldn't believe that a miracle would happen. I can't count on something like that in such a tight situation, so I would have to do what I can to save my friend. I don't know how I would deal with getting Adrian convicted, though...
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If you choose not guilty, you sentence an innocent person to death and let the killer go and possibly kill more people... if you choose guilty, you let an assassin kill an innocent person and get a murderer.
Why yes, I am overly calculating
Manipulative jerks are just better.
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If you want to see Matt act self-absorbed and extremely bastardy, you choose guilty. "Guilty? My wonderful self?" And he will claw up his face in horror because he was found guilty.
If you want to see Matt get what he deserves, and show a more human side, choose not guilty. He will stammer and beg and claw up his face because he is begging to be in jail, rather than live in fear.
"People are simply things to be used. Used and thrown away. Put on a sweet, innocent face, and people will swallow anything you feed them."
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about that but...I chose GUILTY cause I sort of believed that even if Maya couldn`t haunt me for all my life she`ll be dissapointed, Edgeworth who gave what he could to help you and on top of things Adrian getting the shock of getting involved... I... I didn`t want to believe I would betray all those people for that.
And something else I... the whole time trusted in Gumshoe I never gave up on him.
I never spected Franziska
to show up for me like that... I felt happy cause I love Franziska 
So... Thanks. Its a pleasure. JI...Ji...Ji...
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Oh snap! I do not hear such a truth...?!
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Just because Maya told me to...
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And when the second decision came, I chose "Not Guilty" for fun, and saw Engarde's breakdown. =D
But still, it was an unfair choice.
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And when the second decision came, I chose "Not Guilty" for fun, and saw Engarde's breakdown. =D
But still, it was an unfair choice.
That's exactly what I liked most about the case (and the whole game, really). Edgeworth tells you you must learn something, and the situation gives you a moral dilemma for you to make a moral decision. Whatever you decide would be what you've learnt from the case - the game doesn't decide what it is.
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(then again, choosing not guilty would be even better for revenge... even though dekiller would probably get him quicker than death sentece, so he wouldnt have to suffer much. but still XD if it wasnt for edgeworth and adrian, i think i could choose it, just to be sadistic
)i also didnt think they'll let maya die in the game XD
but i dont think i would act the other way if i was forced to choose in real life. i mean, with maya its like i couldn't save her - but with adrian it would just make me a murderer. i felt much easier with the first option...
I really didn't care about Maya, but I've always felt that it was my duty to make sure my client got a fair trial, regardless of whether he did t or not.
anyway both choices sucked. it was one of the best moments in the whole ace attorney series, i think.
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This is the awsomest GIF I've seen in my life.
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Guilty!
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Guilty!
Yeah. I went the same way.
I was pretty darn mad at Engarde, and really, that case was designed to get at your emotions, as I remember it being an emotional roller coaster. So, I guess that was my chance to get back at him.
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Guilty!
I agree. Matt deserves to rot in prison.
This is the awsomest GIF I've seen in my life.
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1. Its the truth
2. Maya expressly stated that she wanted Matt found guilty
3. Its his fault that I had to make the decision in the first place, and an innocent would die either way, so the least that should happen is the person resposible be punished.
But it turns out it didn't matter.
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I chose Guilty.
It seriously took me minutes to make my decision, which sucked because I wondered how I would fare in real life, as well. The question What does it mean to be a defense attorney really made its value increase in my head during that situation. It's been said that "Regardless of truth, your job as a defense attorney is to give your client a fair defense." But I wanted the truth, I wanted... what felt more right to me. I somehow seriously felt as if I was right there, standing as Phoenix in court. I know it's just a game... but it's amazing how I took it so deeply in. (Mainly because I never thought I'd get so emotional over something like this.)
I thought... prosecutors and defense attorneys were supposed to work together, somehow -- and I felt as if Phoenix had already did a lot, making it seem as if he really believed that Adrian was the killer after all -- it seemed like a fair defense.
And Maya wanted the truth, Miles wanted the truth -- a lot of people did. And I did, too -- so I chose Guilty.
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It's either losing "the person closest to you", or condemning an innocent person. Its a true moral dilemma...
Even though 2-4 is just a game, when you're playing such a story-intensive game you tend to get attached to the characters, or at least I do. I was genuinely worried for Maya, and Adrian but more for Maya because she's been with Phoenix since the beginning. Still, choosing "Not Guilty" would indicate that you are no better than any other criminal who pinned their crime on another, and you end up living with the same guilt as an assassin's client (as de Killer says). So in choosing "Not Guilty", phoenix effectively would condemn himself along with Adrian...but then, if he chooses "Guilty" he would have to live with the weight of Maya's death on his shoulders for the rest of his life (as Mia says)...etc. etc.
And this was my dialectic. Of course, Phoenix gets lucky in the end and chooses the third option...but what if Franziska never arrived? We effectively see the result of choosing "Not Guilty" in the bad ending. As for choosing "Guilty", we see what happens to Phoenix every time Maya nearly gets killed/sentenced in games 2 and 3 (not so much in 1, the tazer thing I guess).
In the end, I chose "Guilty" because living with Maya's death seemed to weigh less than living with the guilt of being a murderer yourself, that and it's what Maya wanted. If Phoenix couldn't save her, at least he could fulfill her last wish...
And that picture of Phoenix, Maya, and Pearl at the end was the most satisfying moment of the series for me.
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Oh yeah, and also for truth and justice and nonsense like that.
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xD.
And Maya had told me to get Engarde a guilty verdict, so...
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And I thought Maya haunting Phoenix would be something he just couldn't bear xD
Oh, and I also wanted to shout : HE'S GUILTY, THAT B*STARD !!!
when we're given the choice ^^
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"Guilty? Not? Guilty? Not. Nah, guilty!"
I was quite amused by Phoenix's "My client is.... *Whip + Objection* Franziska Von Karma!" So he's been changing his clients, eh?
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Do I realy need to say more?
Oh my god WHATS GOING ON
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Everyone was doing everything they could to both help me and bring Matt to justice, and I guess I just couldn't allow a murderer to go free and an innocent woman be convicted. It was already painful enough presenting Adrian's profile when I needed to stall for time. In that moment, a dedication to the truth was what it meant to be a lawyer.
But it kinda helped that I knew Franzy would show up to save the day.
As for the second time you have to choose? Guilty again, because it was appropriate. And fun to watch.
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I picked Not Guilty. Because I think something inside me told me that no matter what I picked, it would be alright. c:
(I vaguely remember thinking "uh yeeeah I'll apologize to Adrian later ... ")
But the second time I chose Guilty, haha.
I feel no emotional attachment to Matt at all, gosh darnit!
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I was quite amused by Phoenix's "My client is.... *Whip + Objection* Franziska Von Karma!" So he's been changing his clients, eh?
Not only that, but he actually says... "My client, Matt Engarde, is....... Franziska von Karma!"
Yeah, like some others have said I didn't really deliberate much over the choice. You already learn by that point that most of the time in AA your choices lead down the same roads in the end (I'd learned from saving and resetting constantly), even if this was one of the more significant choices you had to make. I still appreciated that it was a deep moment in the game, though. The whole case was, really.
I OBJECT.....in Spanish.
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2nd time:
, just to see Engarde go all 
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