Does that make me stupid or Yamazaki a genius? I'd lean towards the former but I guess it can be both.)Īll this is to say that Horace Knightley is a funny guy. (Also, despite this in all four of the games he directed the first case culprit has ended up having quite a lot of relevance to the overall plot of the game, and each time I am surprised when it happens. Starting with AAI I guess Yamazaki realized that since this case was a tutorial that wouldn't matter and didn't need to be super serious he could really just do whatever the fuck he wanted, and thus these first case villains became fucking memes as much as some of the later ones were. Dahlia and Kristoph are both obviously unique so I can't say any more with them about how Takumi handles this, but if we pretend they didn't get their post-case-1 relevance they'd be in a similar boat with how serious their personalities are. There was a sort of trend early on to make first case killers kind of toned down in the wackiness? Frank Sahwit and Richard Wellington are both a little quirky, but still seem like real people and aren't what I'd call among the 'crazy filler villains'. Horace Knightley shows up and immediately goes ' This case is OVER' like he's Quercus Alba or something. Then someone comes out of the plane and you finally learn a bit more about what has happened. Then it's like WHOA he isn't even the culprit and it seems like it actually is Notta Hart? You start the game, watch the opening cutscene to find out this first case is about a fucking presidential assassination, cross examine discount Lotta Hart as the game tries to trick you for a bit into thinking this will be an ordinary first case, and then the final villain of AA2 just shows up and you spend some time arguing with him. But it's a little less of a big deal since the part where Shelly matters and the part where Horace matters are pretty neatly separated. Similar to Patricia Roland, Knightley ends up not being the most notable thing in his case, given Shelly The Fucking Killer is there. The first case of aai2 is really cool yeah has elements that feel like final case really cool shelly de killer yeah awesome This has been said a billion times before and will be said a billion times after it but for the sake of being thorough I will say it again: Yet somehow, in this online ranking of Ace Attorney characters, he's still alive, and we are certainly beyond our case 2 days. He's a witness in case 1 who turns out to be the killer in case 1. Horace Knightley is a character in Ace Attorney Investigations 2. I guess I'm being manipulated like the mastermind manipulated Horace's actions? Or something? Whatever. But then it became clear Horace would survive to me so the guy went 'no wait do Horace' which is much more in line with my opinions but prevents me from having as clear a gimmick to do in this cut. However, the nature of the character allowed me to do some funny parallels about the fact that I was also now killing someone on the orders of another.

They chose Shelly de Killer and I was miffed because Shelly is one of the dwindling remaining characters that I would respect a top 10 placement for.

So I started this round by giving someone else the right to choose my cut in exchange for a favor.

Horae knightely