Phoenix can get his badge back after he was cleared of the forgery. As for whether if wants to or not, he says he might retake the bar exam but then laughs about it. So it's not known fully if he will become a lawyer again, but the answer appears to be no. He seems happy where he is.

Wesley Stickler is a junior from Ivy University. Does every Phoenix Wright character that went to college come from there or something XD! (E.g.: Dahlia, Iris (pretending to be Dahlia), Phoenix, Doug Swallow). The only other college we know of is Country U and only Lotta actually came from there.

I don't know, although I am enjoying it so far. I gigglesnorted at the Judge calling Phoenix "flaming"... oh I'm wicked. and Apollo saying it was his chance to take advantage of Olga, or however he worded it, haha. ORLY? YARLY!

REVENGE OF THE STEPLADDER!
No, seriously, check out the clinic parking lot and examine the ladder.

First, why was Zak so determined to ruin Phoenix when they played poker? He didn't seem angry and in fact repeatedly said he was grateful to him, besides ruining Phoenix's reputation was going to end up hurting Trucy as both she and Phoenix relied on the money he made there. I just don't get the why behind his actions.
Second, why doesn't Zak show Phoenix the real notebook page in the time before the trial that cost Phoenix his badge (he got it from his mentor the night of the murder so he clearly had it)? Wouldn't have showing it have helped the case (and not to mention protected Phoenix as he would have had two of the same page and realized something was very wrong). I assume that had Zak gotten off, he wouldn't have kept those tricks under wraps, so I have trouble understanding why bringing the fact that he inherited them out a bit early would have done anything but help the situation. It might not have been definitive proof that Zak didn't kill his mentor, but it would certainly show that the meeting had been on good terms (and could have been used to back up the story that he shot the toy which was what he was supposed to do and that is why he got the tricks) and therefore would make it less likely that Zak killed his mentor.

What was up with the "Mason System"? Was it just that Phoenix had recorded all those things and was showing them to the jurists? (That seemed to be what was implied at the end when you are controlling Thalassa). But if so, how could he have recorded the things in the past? And what was with using evidence from the future to break Psyche-Locks in the past? Something didn't quite seem to add up realistically there...

A step-ladder finally played an important role in a case!!!

Firstly;

The hobo hat button has a camera in it.

Secondly; I assume that the jurist's don't see the Locks - we just see them because we're seeing it from Feenie's POV, and the jurist's from the camera POV. So they see Phoenix destroying their lies.

Who knows? Not to be blindly optimistic, but the mere fact that he mentioned the Bar Exam does present the possibility that the Phoenix will be reborn.

Yeah, I don't get that either. MASON is in all caps, so it probably stands for something? It was the MASON system in the Japanese version too, I believe.

AA 400: Red Badger Guitar, Yay!!! the return of the Badger!

We got the constant step ladders/ladders lol and "poison coffee" and the typical girl use guy to get rich case and oh man...

I know the button on it is actually a spy camera, but when is it explained how he got it? His profile on Court Records says he had Ema make it for him, but I don't remember that being said. When exactly is it explained?

What -I- want to know is where the Hell Kristoph's scar came from and why was that so god damned epic?

I thought the MASON system was a time traveling thing. All I could think of was: Phoenix Wright: Time Traveling Hobo!

What happens when you press the 'Guilty' button at the end!?

Why, it's Apollo Justice's "bad ending" of course! Though it's more of a 1-5 bad ending than a 2-4 one, if you know what I mean. If you'd like more details, I'd be happy to tell you exactly what happens.

Okay, tell me. I want to know now.

The result is a hung jury, so a mistrial is declared and a new trial date is set. However, that night Vera Misham dies from the poison and the case is left unsolved forever. The end.

:beef: That's a really sad ending...

When Vera recovers from the poison, doesn't the narration (I forget if it's Apollo or Phoenix) say "Then a miracle happened." or something like that? XD!

Was I the only one tremendously disappointed by how anticlimactic case 4-4 was? In all the previous final cases, it was an uphill battle and when you managed to barely emerge victorious, it felt satisfactory. Here you barely even begin to chip away at Kristoph when suddenly it's "Well, you don't have to do anymore, it's in the hands of the jurors!" I really felt you didn't earn that freakout on Kristoph's part. And I felt it was lame they made the final question something as pathetically easy as guilty/not guilty. It makes me pine for something like 2-4, where even if it was easy to figure out what to do at the end (at least in my opinion), it didn't verge on being as easy as "what's one plus one?" and the traditional "freakout" (in this case, Engarde) felt like you really earned it.

1) I'm assuming that when he said this, this was when they met at the Borsch Bowl Club. I suppose it's a front for any customer that happened to hear them out as you really don't want to talk about stuff that isn't supposed to be talked. After all, why would you turn up to the Borsch Bowl Club and not get a meal? Defeat the infamous poker face, of course.

2) Remember what Zak said when he revealed to Phoenix? He said that he didn't want to reveal the page in protection of Valant. If he did reveal the page, then the suspicion on who murdered Magnifi would almost certainly fall on Valant as he had a legitimate motive for murder. Plus he did say that he couldn't reveal this page as it could also be used against another trial. But I've already blabbed enough.

During the MASON System sequence, if you present something to Zak outside the psyche-lock breaking (I think it was the locket), he says that enough is enough, and despite all Phoenix has done for him, he can't stand losing a game of poker (Or something along those lines). There is the possibility that he's just so petty that he'd stoop to that level. Wouldn't really be too shocking. After all, Kristoph came across as a fairly nice guy at first.

The ending for AA4 was actually one of my favorites in the series. Gavin is positive he has finally, and completely, beaten Phoenix, and Apollo is know 100% sure he has lost due to lack of evidence. When the jury system is announced again, it really feels great to see Gavin finally get what he deserves through means of Phoenix's attempt to fix the law system....the same system that took his badge away 7 years prior. Great ending IMO.

-Where the hell are all the past characters? Why aren't Maya and Pearl with Phoenix anymore? Where's Edgeworth? Did Franziska go back to Germany or reside in the US? What happened to Larry? I can understand that they may have all drifted away after 7 years, but they didn't explain any of it.

I guess Maya would've gone back to Kurain to become the new master and Pearl would've gone with her. I don't know about the others though.

I don't mind their absences, I just wish they'd add a few extra lines of dialog to explain where they are know. Or at least say something like "What happened to [x person]? It's a mystery." The fact that they didn't even acknowledge their existence was a bit disappointing. They aren't even seen/mentioned in the flashback trial, so their disappearances must have been soon after T&T.

Hopefully some of these characters are re-met/explained in GS5.

-Lana Skye. After Ema's return i was sure there'd be a dramatic reunion of some sort :V

-Also, this one's not that major, but this is the first PW game Mrs. Oldbag didn't appear in at all. :<

-One more, this was a graphical thing. They should've completely redone Klavier's sprites for the flashback case. He was huge :S Though I'm not at all surprised they didn't. It was a rather brief appearance and most people aren't that picky. >>;

And remember that old lady in front of the park during 4-2 who was swindling money from officers? She sure felt like Oldbag....lol. >>;

Does anybody else think the "Jury system" was a hasty decision (seeing that "they're in another room" and no graphics were made for them) to allow "not guilty" without decisive evidence?

Nick tells us that if we think that there is a possibility someone else did it, then we should vote not guilty.