Having Apollo stay in Khura'in might be their way to write Apollo out of the franchise to then focus on Nick and/or Athena... but that'd then bring up the question of why they did the Thalassa tease. Plus Apollo was the most popular one post-DD, so if they were going to cut one out, I think he'd be a weird choice.

In 6-1, you're introduced to Khura'in's judicial system. The gallery literally chants for your death, extermination and annihilation. In case 2, a media mogul runs a mass smear campaign against you, causing the audience to detest you from the word go. In 6-3, you are literally found guilty, increasing the pressure on you by tenfold the following day. And in 6-4, Athena has to face and overcome her insecurities and emotions in order to continue standing tall until the end and not falter under the pressure.

"accused thinks they killed someone by accident but is actually set up by the real culprit to make them look like even more of an asshole" thing being overdone but here they actually managed to make it work. Probably has to do with how many times the defense was so close to losing.

Why did Trucy need to switch swords in the first place? Why not just use a prop sword from the start?

In magic shows they tend to show the audience that the sword is a real one, like when she cut the apple in the testimony. It's just to impress.

A total prick, but dude had me cracking up the whole time. I loved it when he kept posting Apollo's and Athena's reactions on the internet, and when he shoved a camera in their faces and held up cue cards. "SAY SOMETHING DUMB!!"

His identity as Mr. Reus was obvious rather early on. Mistree seemed a bit young for him to have been kicked out of Troupe Gramarye thirteen years ago. Plus, there was the fact Trucy had no memory of meeting Reus, and that Roger held a grudge against the Gramaryes and for some reason could do magic. Oddly, I didn't catch the lack of scars on Mistree in the video until it came time to reveal the real Mr. Reus.

That was one weird breakdown. Almost Phantom worthy.

Well, I was partly right. Bonny/Mimi was definitely suspicious, just not the murderer. Wouldn't have guessed she had a twin. That part came out of nowhere, but it was funny seeing Betty try to hush Bonny up with her bullying and nudging.

These Khura'inese folk aren't so abundant in the self-awareness, now are they? The defense has had to deal with the likes of the von Karmas, a mug-throwing coffee addict, and a chained convict who tosses invisible blades and lets his bird loose, and I think even all of them combined have shown more respect to the defense than someone from Khura'in has. (I know, I know, it's supposed to be ridiculous.)

Nahyuta seems nice when he's not being a typical judgmental Khura'inese asshole. Looks like they're pulling a Wright/Edgeworth with him and Apollo now. Oh well, any additional backstory with Apollo is welcome; I just hope they don't throw a bunch of unnecessary stuff in there while pushing aside things that must be addressed (something GS5 was guilty of, even if some of it worked).

lol @ Nahyuta whacking himself with his beads

I'm glad she's more cheerful now after getting into Forensics, but I hope she isn't on her way to becoming the series' new punching bag, the way Gumshoe was. She's finally rid of her glimmerous boss, though maybe her new boss is part glimmerous and part simmerous. She's a bit too intimidated by him for my liking.

The new snackoo animation is hilarious. She's like a hamster. Or a Hoover vacuum. A hamster-hoover.

I am liking the additional backstory on the Gramaryes. And it's pretty cool to see Trucy really making a name for herself.

I found the conversations between him and Phoenix rather interesting. There was nothing odd about them, but they kind of played out like a message to the players. With Phoenix saying "Now I know I can trust you to hold down the fort anytime" and "You're a real, full-fledged lawyer now in my eyes!" and heaping on the praise, as if to tell the players "I'M TRYING TO PASS THE GODDAMN TORCH, LET ME DO IT ALREADY YOU INGRATES"

I could just be imagining it though.

The real theme is succession/inheriting the 'family/mentor' spirit.

Mr.Reus/Retinz made it unbelievably personal, to the point where I got personally invested (and lately, that's been difficult as my depression makes it hard for me to do that. Plus he was super annoying, and ebil.

First of all: There are two Bonnies. That's a cool twist, I guess. But how do we know there are two Bonnies? Bonnie (sp?) mentioned that Trucy had to move the stage lift under the stage and acted all smug about it. This is somehow something she couldn't have known without seeing it? The prosecutor even says "Maybe Trucy told her and then forgot" (but I forgot what Apollo then says as a counter argument. Probably something dumb.). Or how about this: What if Bonnie is able to use basic logic? Maybe Bonnie saw how the stage lifts were arranged at ANY TIME before the show and therefore could logically deduce that you would have to move the stage lift that was already up to use the other stage lift instead? How is this something she absolutely had to see exactly as it was happening?

Second of all: The whole "Retinz is Mistree" thing. So...we know that Retinz doesn't like Trucy. We can also assume he is a magician and that's their connection. Fair enough. But this grudge can somehow only be explained through "He hates Trucy. She's a Gramarye. He hates all Gramaryes. He is that green dude. Even though he died. Well, that just has to mean the green dude didn't die." Like, holy crap, Apollo! Way to explain something in the most ridiculous and most overcomplicated way. I know that there's also the scar thing, but Apollo only brings that up afterwards and it isn't what brought him to the conclusion in the first place.

Also, as some people have mentioned: Why stab the coffin in the first place? What was the original show supposed to be? If Mistree was supposed to emerge from the coffin, then why did the explicitly say that he was supposed to come out of the backstage coffin? But what did Trucy try to proudly present to the audience then? It must have been a person that we are impressed about not getting impaled from the sword, since that should have been the impressive part of the sword switcheroo, so who is really left to come out of the coffin? Betty? They did not explain this at all!

Maybe I'm just dumb.

By the way, what are the puns? I get that Mr. Reus = Mysterious and Manov Mistree = Man of Mystery. What is the pun behind prosecutor Suqmadiq's name and Roger Retinz? Or the Bunny names?

Nahyuta's name isn't a pun as far as I can tell. It's a direct translation from the Japanese name, Nayuta Sadmadhi. Roger Retinz flipped is Retinz Roger, which sounds like Ratings Rajah. As for the bunnies, Bonny is "bunny" and Betty is "batty".

Was Retinz' job as a producer real? Did he seriously went from magician to producer??

I didn't really understand how could they convict Retinz, I don't remember decisive evidence to show he planted the sword, nor how he activated it, also, shouldn't Betty be the culprit? I mean, she activated the winch, right?

Considering this, even case 4 fits into the game's overarching theme.

-At first I didn't like Retinz like at all, but when Apollo discovered that he was Mr. Reus and he turned into his magician persona he was sooooo enjoyable. His music theme was great and his breakdown was EPIC! I loved how he burnt all the Gramarye's masks and when he went to burn Trucy's he burnt instead his own. It gave me the chills.

-Bonny's twist was interesting. I felt like what they did with Olga Orly in Apollo Justice: they played with all the Ace Attorney fans. At first you think that Bonny is a character à la April May or Alita Tiala, she seems nice but in reality she is nasty... But then you discover that Bonny is a really good person and that the nasty one was her twin sister Betty. It reminded me a little of Iris and Dahlia's twist, but it felt different.

-Trucy was handled admirably in this case. I loved her. In DD she was annoying and repetitive, but here she got some really good development. I think that making her the focus in one case was a great idea. Now we can enjoy the rest of the characters and Trucy's fans will be satisfied.

-Nahyuta was... Okay, I guess. I don't like that his relationship with Apollo is so similar to Phoenix and Edgeworth's conflict in the first game. It's almost the same thing XD I hope that they develop the conflict towards a different direction.

-Something that I am noticing is that the puns in the names are very obvious and simple in this game. Manov Mistree is at the same level than Luke Atmey XD I liked how they hid puns in the names, not how they make names with puns. And I've seen some names from case 3 and they don't improve at all.

the part where you compare the two videos is great in concept. I was like "yes, here we go, I love stuff like this" and I noticed some differences the first time it was showed to the court and then I was disappointed to see that was all I had to point out :/

The fact that there were two of them and one is angry and the other twin is happy is great and I kinda love them, but there are also things I think fall flat about them. The "sweet" moment where Bonny admits she really looks up to Trucy and talks about not giving up... I can't help but feel this has happened before in the series at least a couple of times. It was one of those deja-vu moments. It just had no impact.

Now I can't remember when it was but I answered wrong at one point and in the fail-dialogue the Judge said something to the effect of Apollo possibly wearing a fake badge made of cartboard, and Apollo goes. "Why cartboard, specifically...?" and The Judge goes "Just a case I took once." or something.

Am I missing something in regards to the whole rope plot-point brought up near the end of the trial? It made zero sense to me. There was, like, a three second window between the coffin breaking open and the dragon falling in which someone could have attached it to Mistree's carabiner. It would have to have been either Bonny, covertly attaching a rope to a corpse in front of an audience and rolling cameras, or Mistree himself, breaking playing dead for a second... also in front of an audience and rolling cameras. He couldn't have had it on before the coffin collapsed - last I checked, rope can't phase through wood. Even if there was a window of time in which someone could have attached it to him...why would they have agreed? Mistree careening into the ceiling wasn't part of the prank! What would Retinz have told the person responsible? "pls attach a cord to mistree im not telling you why tho just trust me on this". I feel so lost regarding this. I feel I must have missed something here because I've seen nobody else bring it up. Did I accidentally skip a dialogue box, or...?

The rope/cable was attached to him during the show. It's how he was able to fly in the intro. How no one was able to see him with it is part of the show, I guess.

the de Famme twins' teleportation trick and Trucy's testimony.

the whole twin Bonny thing, even though looking back it was heavily foreshadowed, and the whole Retinez is actually Reus. His breakdown was also really elegant and the fact that he was still so cool even after losing was amazing.

with how weak Nahyuta seemed to be in the case. I mean, the whole 'he can seen the karmic threads of fate' didn't really come into play and overall it didn't seem like he added much to the case. I never felt like he made stretches though with his conclusions and I am excited to see what his connect with Apollo is.