Top Ten Turnabouts - Part 7 (#97)

#4 - 4-2: Turnabout Corner

Yay, finally an entry for Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the game that everybody... hates apparently? Really? I don't know, I've heard on the internet that many fans hate or at least just dislike Apollo's game, mainly because you don't get to play as Phoenix and that Apollo is a forced new character. Many people also don't like that Phoenix lost his badge, especially after how strong his trilogy was and after the fact that his badge was a big part of his character and who he is. While all of these are fair points, I still think this is a good game, and there's even another entry for this game higher up on the list. Anyway, onto Turnabout Corner...

I just realised that 'Passing Down The Objection', the name of a recent post,
would suit this picture a lot, since it's like Phoenix has passed his skills
down to Apollo. Although Polly's mentor is actually Kristoph Gavin. Ah. 

The name is very, very unspecific, that is a fact. C'mon, there are a lot of corners in the world. Corners on shapes, furniture, places, metaphorical corners, even people... so yeah, the case name really doesn't say much about the case. Then again, the only names I can really think of that would describe the events of the case a lot are Turnabout Noodles, Turnabout Panties, Turnabout Mobsters and Turnabout Illegal Doctors are also pretty strange and somewhat questionable. Especially the second one.

Guy Eldoon, who has had his Elddon's Noodles
stand stolen to transport the victim's body. Ew, I wouldn't
eat any noodles out of his stand again.
...
Actually I've been eating lots of noodles lately.

In his second case, Apollo has been asked to defend, oh, no one big, just THE MOB. Okay, not literally the whole mob or something, haha, but specifically, Wocky Kitaki, the son of well-known crime boss Winfred 'Big Wins' Kitaki and his wife Plum. In this case, Polly is called to the the Wright and Co Law Offices which makes its return from Phoenix's saga, where it has been renamed to the Wright and Co Talent Agency by Phoenix's daughter, Trucy Wright. Yes, that's Wright, (hehehehe) Nick has a daughter! Well, okay, she's adopted, but still...

Off to a Wocky start... ;)

Trucy becomes Apollo's assistant while he goes to investigate and prepare for the trial, and she is basically his version of Maya. Actually, at first, they don't go to investigate for the trial as they are not requested to defend Wocky until a while into it, but instead go to look for a panty thief (no joke) who has stolen Trucy's magic panties. Innuendos, ahoy! Just to clear things up and before you start to question the kind of games I play, these 'magic panties' are used for Trucy's magic tricks, in which she pulls things out of them. Like rabbits from a hat, but more... modern? What can I say; it's an anime(ish) game.

If you swap the syllables in Trucy's name, it sounds like see-truth,
which is likely a pun on Apollo's bracelet that he uses to see nervous
twitches and habits.

In court, you find out that the panties were stolen by a man called Wesley Stickler, who is (apparently) not a pervert, but wanted to know the trick behind them and how she can somehow defy the laws of science with her panties.

.......

Welcome to innuendo city!

The victim (who, I didn't actually mention yet, was a man called Pal Meraktis, a doctor who usually performed operations for people who couldn't go to official doctors such as the Kitakis) was actually killed by Wocky's girlfriend, Alita Tiala, the one who requested your help in the first case. Pretty twisted. This case also introduced the new kind of 'main' prosecutor for the game and one of my personal favourites, the rock star German wannabe Klavier Gavin, brother of the killer from the first case, Kristoph, who was actually Apollo's mentor and killed Shadi Smith, who you find out in case 4 was actually Trucy's real father, Zak Gramarye, real name Shadi Enigmar. But, ahem, the whole plot of game aside, some people think Klavier is one of the weaker prosecutors because he isn't as set on a guilty verdict as others. and actually acts more like a rival and friend to Apollo. I actually really like this, because it's reassuring to see a prosecutor for once who isn't evil like Manfred von Karma or willing to get a guilty verdict at all costs such as Franziska or Godot, but instead actually really wants justice and only wants to secure a conviction if he believes that person really is guilty. I thought it was very cool to see him return in Dual Destinies, though his voice in that one cutscene at the end of Turnabout Academy isn't really what I think he should sound like.

Here's a pic to make the frauleins fangirl.

Oops, I went on a bit of a Klavier fanboy tangent then. It's just because he's so cool. Especially the part where you see him in his debut trial eight years ago, which, coincidentally (or is it?!), was the case where Phoenix lost his badge.

I liked seeing him return in DD. The same goes for Edgey.

I was unsure about Apollo Justice at first because I was afraid they might have changed a lot about the game, but after playing the first half of this case I saw that it was just like Phoenix's trilogy but with a different protagonist with a different story and great new characters and storyline.

Thomas

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