The Ace Attorney's Magical Daughter
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ouboros wrote:
Wooh! They didnt cut out the investigation bit on the live-stream today.
But the animation part was still cut from the stream :_;
They did say that there was gonna be LOTS of animated sections by Bones in the game. I get the feeling that GS5 is gonna have a higher budget than all the other GS games put together.
Oh, and they said that Kidzuki Kokone's name was a pun on 'kidzuku', meaning 'to realize (something)'
希月=>気づく
Opinion of game: Rising.
Also, I am surprised they managed to find such a good name-pun. "Ki dzuku" is a phrase used a LOT in the Ace Attorney games, especially by the assistants (if I counted how many times Trucy used it in Apollo Justice, I'd be here tomorrow) A fitting name for an assistant, really.
I find it interesting that her last name is a nominalized verb. Same was true for Trucy's first name in the Japanese Version, "Minuki". The verb "minuku" means to "see through"... Maya, Ema and Kay notably lack such verb-to-name puns.
However, Kokone STILL shares something with them: With exception of Trucy, all assistants have references to Sky-related things in the Kanji of their name: "Mayoi"(Maya) is written with Kanji that can also be taken to mean "Dead of Night" or "Midnight", "Akane Houzuki" (Ema Skye) means "Scarlet Jewel Moon", "Mikumo"(Kay) means "Beautiful Cloud" and now "Kizuki" is written with Kanji that mean "Rare Moon"...
I love symbolism, so I would go further and propose they are all meant to symbolize different Skyscapes. Maya is a Midnight Sky, Ema is a Sundown with an early moonrise (which results in the "Scarlet Moon"), Kay is a Cloudy Sky and Kokone is a Clouded Night with the Moon ocassionally peeking through.
It makes sense that Trucy had no such pun in her name, because she's Nick's daughter. Her last name is occupied and her first name needed to reference her Gramayre heritage some way. They probably really couldn't find any "Sky"-related Kanji for "Minuki", so they let it be.
...Man, I am reading way too much into this all. X'D
Anyway, something I realized when I thought about the "Heartscope" for a while... I was thinking about it and the "Perceive-System", comparing them, but instead, I noticed something much more important: They
complement each other heavily. Let me explain:
When I played Apollo Justice, my problem with the Perceive-System was that I always had this thinking feeling that this System had one crucial flaw that could make it very impractical to use in court: If Apollo failed to correctly interprete the tell (Which could be horribly hard, given how subtle those twitches are), it was absolutely useless. Apollo was horribly lucky, in fact. He always just so happened to have enough informations about his witnesses to correctly interprete every single of their tells. Logically, though, I am sure that Apollo should have picked up much more tells but been unable to interprete 2/3 of them. Only reason why this didn't happen was that it would have made for an unecessarily frustrating game mechanic.
That's where the Heartscope comes in. We have seen how it works: Kokone analyzes the witness, compares "Expectated Reaction" to "Actual Reaction" and then Psychoanalyzes the hell out of them. Only problem I can imagine with that system is finding the right times to actually apply it, to get the most relevant results.
And now, imagine what would happen if her and Apollo worked together. Apollo perceives something. He pinpoints the moment, searches the tell, but lacks the information to interprete what it means...
...So he tells Kokone
"Hey, analyze him exactly when he says X, taking into account that he displays tell Y"I can't imagine the Heartcope could fail with such sensitive information if Kokone's psychoanalytic skills are really as great as the Devs claim.
In other words: It would be boarderline impossible for the crossexamined witnesses to lie at the Defense any longer.
Heartscope+Perceive System =
Examination OverkillIn fact, assuming that the Gramayre siblings are still with the Wright&Co's, their legal team is pretty much invincible now. They have Nick's Magatama for out-of-court questioning, and in court, the Heartscope-Perceive Combination makes all attempts at perjury futile. Their slogan should pretty much be
"Wright&Co Law Offices: If you try to lie at us, you're a freaking idiot" now.
I kinda hope they really use that in one case. An Apollo-Kokone team-up. It should be a really hard one, maybe even the last. It just has to be for one crossexamination, maybe the penultimate one. A testimony that seems so solid, you can't do a thing about it... And then, when all hope is lost, Heartscope-Perceive for Critical Damage. That would make for an amazing moment.
Though, this also makes me expect that Apollo might really not be present at the office for the majority of the plot. I mean, permanently having access to such a deadly combination would be like starting out a J-RPG with the Infinity+1 weapon...
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