Episode 1: Turnabout Discoveries
Shortly after returning home from Labyrinthia, Professor Layton arranges a meeting with a past student of his. When said student dies before his eyes and the blame falls on himself, his good friend Phoenix Wright takes up his defence.

Episode 2: Turnabout Spotlight
Phoenix finally catches a break, and he spends it by watching a musical at the Queen's Theater. The show falls apart as soon as it begins when an actress is shot on stage in front of the entire audience. Phoenix and Maya suspect there's more to this case than meets the eye and decide to the defend the man held responsible, Director Kyle Cutter.

Episode 3: Turnabout Memoirs
Having solved the case at the theater, Phoenix spends the following night at his grandmother's house. During his stay, he reads through the files for a case that happened a long time ago. Four men gathered together on an isolated island for a game of cards, only for the owner of the house to pull out a gun and shoot one of his guests in the head!
This is the story of the final case ever taken by Ryunosuke Naruhodo.

Episode 4: The Medical Turnabout
Phoenix's grandmother suddenly falls very ill and is rushed to hospital. Help doesn't come immediately as her doctor has been arrested, accused of murdering one of her patients. It isn't long until a far more likely suspect emerges, but the prosecutor is hellbent on convicting Dr. Lockhart by means fair or foul.

Episode 5: Turnabout Resurrection
When Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Susato Mikotoba somehow awaken in the 21st century, Phoenix decides to befriend them both and offer his support. His visit is cut short when he learns there's been a murder back at his hotel, and a member of the staff's been accused! The baton passes from Phoenix to Ryunosuke as they're tasked with solving this case, or else they'll be forced to kneel before the King of the Crown Court.

Episode 6: Turnabout Express
Maya gets wrapped up in a murder case on board the Molentary Express while she's on the way back from the countryside. She avoids the accusation this time, but the kid standing trial needs a lawyer. Phoenix has been worked to the bone though, so he leaves this case for someone -- anyone else to take up instead.

Episode 7: The Fractured Turnabout
Ryunosuke searches his memories of his final days in the 20th century in an effort to figure out what exactly lead to him waking up in the current era.

Episode 8: The Miraculous Turnabout
The Miraculous Turnabout.

also of course this isnt an ace attorney fangame without maya as one of the suspects

There are some points where I felt like the defense was leaping to conclusions too quickly given the current facts of the case, causing things to get a bit jumbled. There is one point where it's not that bad, but it does set the stage for a pretty bad post-objection conclusion.

After testimony 1, you establish the contradiction with the Autopsy Report and the witness's account of the murder. This leads to a little too much speculation about when the victim actually died, which is a bit reaching in my opinion, but it's more-or-less saved by the fact that the witness adjusts the story to say that it's possible what he saw wasn't the moment the victim died.

At this point (functionally speaking), the following testimony is operating under the witness's claim that Carmine simply fell over after drinking the tea from some unrelated ailment, then died 30 minutes later which fits with the Autopsy. This is a really hard story to break because you now have to essentially prove that Carmine did actually die at that moment.

Having the conversation pivot to the newspaper story from here with the contradiction about the witness's knowledge introduces the side of the case where it's possible the victim and witness met at some point. What it doesn't do is actually resolve the topic that got us into that testimony in the first place. Having Phoenix assert later that it's possible the victim was poisoned 30 minutes earlier isn't substantiated because the changes the witness made to his original story already resolves the outstanding issue from the 1st testimony.

I understand the purpose of the 1st case was to function as a tutorial for what will be about 8 full cases so it was intentionally short, but this is definitely something to keep in mind for future cases because, in a longer case, it might've been better to actually explore that outstanding issue in more depth AFTER you established that the 2 could've met.

The last thing I was a bit put off by was the introduction of "3D" examinable evidence interfering with the flow of the case as it's essentially a deus-ex machina reveal that immediately puts an end to the witness's argument as he makes it when this mechanic is revealed. Again, I understand this is just a tutorial, but it does cheapen the case in a way when this type of thing comes up because I really wasn't responsible for finding the answer, it was just given to me for free.

This also causes a much larger issue with the tea cup. The tea cup having the victim's name on it doesn't actually tell us anything besides 1. the victim potentially being the actual owner of the tea cup and 2. the fact that the poison was in a cup with his name on it. It's a bit of a reach in the last stretch of the case when Phoenix makes a series of assumptions that this somehow connects the witness to the poisoning itself because of their supposed meeting 30 minutes prior (which is again not that well-established either).

Again, I understand that this is most likely going to be rectified later on as it was heavily implied that there were shenanigans going on in this first case that led to the witness being framed, but I do think these things will be relevant later in cases that don't have as many over-arching plot elements as this one.

Will we ever learn why he was in pajamas? Or was that just for rule of funny?

Connor Cantus (inspector), Sebastian Moran (elderly servant in case 3A), and I think that's all for the characters. The disease mentioned in case 3's called Arker's Disease now also.

Abandoned Hat Store crime scene,

• Gina Lestrade: name, info = “gina”
• Redd D. Fast: name = “redd”; info okay
• Harold’s Photograph: name, info = “haroldphoto”; no Check button or thumbnail
• Crime Scene Diagram: name, info = “diagram2”; no Check button or thumbnail
• Harold’s Autopsy Report: name, info = “autopsy”; no Check button
• Scarlet Ink: name, info = “ink”
• Store Key: name, info = “key”
• White Shard: name, info = “shard”

• Iris Wilson: 13 vs. 12
• Harold Hardy: 39 vs. 52

Sholmes’ Dance of Deduction!

Having read all the episode synopses, I figured Maya couldn’t channel Ryunosuke, Susato or Sholmes because somehow, they were still alive after over a century. But just like when Pearl failed to channel Dahlia, if she thought something was wrong with her powers, she could have simply tested them on Mia.

And I thought of cryogenic suspension as a possibility before discovering the pods. I wonder if Dr. Andrew Stiles is in the 4th pod?

I finished the trial day 1 and I'm trying to break Connor's psyche lock, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what evidence I'm supposed to present, I've presented pretty much everything I have including profiles.

Examine the name on the back of the manuscript you got from Lockhart before you present it.

See that's the issue... I can't seem to get to Lockhart. If you are referring to the manuscript as a different piece of evidence than the main script, since I can't examine the main script. I'm assuming that she's in the backstage room, but I do not have an option to get there (I only have the options for theater lobby and auditorium, as well as the remand center) Is there something else I have to do? Without this evidence idt I can progress

Oh the locks aren't breakable until the the end of the investigation. Aside from obviously talking to everyone you also need to present Cutter's profile to Arthur, present the crime photo to Cutter and, only after you finish talking to Arthur, present Lockhart's profile to him as well. Then Lockhart should become available.