“It’s my job to protect your office, sir!” – “And you did such a good job protecting it that a murder occurred in it.”

I’ve only played up to the first official save point and there’s already two pages of the illegible scribbles I call notes, so I figured I could just as well type them all in before I stop being able to decypher them properly and present you with my squeeful babbling about the beginning of Ace Attorney Investigations. I’m sure you’re all very happy about the existence of cuts and will tolerate me going “eeeeeeeeee, Miles!” all over my journal. Just don’t expect anything resembling a coherent post. Mainly, I just go “kyaaaaa” a whole lot.

(Warning: Includes a few vague(ish) spoilers for the PW trilogy.)

“This tea set was very dear to my heart.”

- Kyaaaaa, the button you press to advance text is PINK! Or, well, whatever colour Miles’s jacket is. I could never tell.

- Upon entering his office: “What’s this smell? It’s very familiar… blood?” I know it’s because he sees crime scenes with startling regularity, but that wasn’t what I thought of first, let me tell you.

- Kyaaaaa, Miles’s sprite is ridiculously adorable! And he drops his fancy suitcase when he finds the body. (Details! I’m still getting used to to seeing my narrator’s sprite run around (as opposed to seeing out-of-courtroom investigations from the 1st person POV as in the other games), but it adds such nice details!)

- Oh damnit, he’s way too calm with a gun pointed at him. [when the UNSUB guy with the gun shoots the jacket/frame off the wall] “Is that a threat?” Guess who doesn’t even blink? [a sentence later] “No one gets away with committing murder in my office. No one.” He takes that personally, huh? That’s his principles the murderer’s aiming at, and that’s the one thing Miles wont compromise on. (What about his life?)

- Kyaaaaa, Gumshoe follows me around like a lost puppy RPG character. XD Kyaaaa, he wants to play chess with Miles even though he’s only good at checkers. And Miles agrees to set aside time for it anyway after the case is closed!

- Heh. So Gumshoe was working hard to keep the office spotless in Miles’s absence? (who notes somewhat irritatedly that he never asked him to do that) And he’s watering the plants. I wonder if he gave them any names. Like Charley. And he sets aside half of his Saturday for office cleaning? (“Does he have a life?” asks Miles. Uh, you’re not one to talk, you know.) Also, we have our first mention of earthquakes already when Gumshoe says that he packed the files in the shelves so tightly together that not even an earthquake could make them fall off. Of course that’s our first clue towards the flaw in the “they fell out during the struggle between victim and murderer” argument.

- Miles, about/to his desk: “Oh, how I’ve missed you.” (compare to Phoenix, who says he rarely ever sat behind his) And why is it so shiny? “It’s my job to protect your office, sir!” says Gumshoe. “And,” answers Miles, “you did such a good job protecting it that a murder occurred in it.”

- Be careful, there’s splinters from a tea set on the floor! “Nnnnngh…” – “You’re really mad about this, are you?” – “This tea set was very dear to my heart. It can only be bought in England and cost more than your monthly pay check.” – ” Grrr, now I feel like the murderer wasted one of my pay checks!” (*sighs* I would say that being such a tea snob is the only good thing he picked up from his mentor, but then again, his past does help him to do his job.)

- about his “King of Prosecutors” trophy: “I have no interest in the worth of other people. As for my own worth, that is something only I can determine for myself.” ♥

- Kyaaaaa, he has a Steel Samurai action figure in his office! Of course, when Gumshoe asks him, he says he “doesn’t know much about it” only to rattle off facts about the franchise. XD Gumshoe even wonders if Miles is not some kind of “rabid fanboy.” I love geeky!Miles. Pfffft, he even says Steel Samurai trivia is common knowledge for anyone in touch with society. XD (Also: With anyone else, I would complain about inconsistency, because Gumshoe was assigned to not one but two investigations in the past that had connections to the Steel Samurai universe, but then again, it’s Gumshoe. He forgets stuff like that.)

- Ahahahaha, flowers from Wendy Oldbag! “Isn’t that the lady with the strange voice who’s stalk…” – “Don’t remind me. *shudders*” Gumshoe remembers her, but not (one of) the case(s) she was connected to. XD

- Oooh, and now we find what might or might not be the murder weapon! “To think it’s that easy, to take a life with just the pull of a trigger.” You know a thing or two about guns and triggers, do you, Miles? :(

- Lampshade hanging! Gumshoe gives an “As You Know Bob” exposition about the “Logic” system (and the second one even!) (And you know what? With their different styles of investigations, our Ace Attorney protagonists could open up their very own profiling unit.). Miles’s answer? “Yes, which is why this exercise in explaining my own method to me was unnecessary.”

- Oooh, the prosecutor’s badge. It gives as a couple shiny quotes.
[Inventory] “Proof of my profession. However, I prefer to keep it in my pocket.” (compare, of course, to Nick, who shows his to everyone who stands still for two seconds)
[present to Gumshoe] “Your prosecutor’s badge is really tiny compared to my police badge. Oh, but, uhm… it’s really cool, sir! Much, much cooler than my badge could ever be!” – “You don’t need to suck up to me, Detective.”
[Inventory details, front] Miles waxes poetically about the meaning of his badge, just to say at the end that he doesn’t care much for identifying himself as a prosecutor.
[Inventory details, back] “Each prosecutor’s badge is engraved with the numbers of its owner on the back. Hmpf. As if we’re not human on the inside like everybody else.” Oh, Miles. You remember all too well that you were once called Demon Prosecutor, and you’re not proud of it. Come on. *pokes* I know it comes with a lot of baggage for you, but take pride in your profession again, will you? That’d be a nice bit of character development for this game.

- By the way. Now that we know how much of a clusterfuck his first case as a prosecutor was, it makes me wonder why he keeps the jacket he wore that day framed on his office’s wall. As we’ve seen, it’s not exactly something he’s proud of either.

- “Did I say ‘contradiction’? He must be rubbing off on me. I’m starting to sound like him…” (Yes. You did that in 3×5 too. XD) Good to hear that it’s not just the bad things that are a constant presence in his mind but Nick too. ♥

- … … … “Eureka!”? Seriously?!

- And now Gumshoe is worried about possible hidden cameras in the office. “Do I even want to know what he’s been doing in my room?”

- Kyaaaaa, Maggey! Socute! ♥

- Come to think of it, why did Miles go to his office anyway? It’s the middle of the night and he apparently just came back from a month-long trip elsewhere/overseas. Miles. Don’t you have a home to go back to?

- Also, I found most of this first part wondering why nobody was trying to pin the murder on Edgeworth himself, as he was the one who found the body. Usually, Ace Attorney Land is so quick to jump to the conclusion that “prime witness = murderer!”…