Kyo-Ani Arsonist Lawyer: ‘Should This Man Really Get the Death Penalty?’
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People always complain about how Japan has a 99% conviction rate.
But I don't see what else you could expect with Lionel Hutz grade public defenders.
Whether it's trapping suspects in the police station until they "confess" or ruling obvious murders as "suicides" if they don't have a slam-dunk case, Japan takes their conviction rate seriously to the detriment of everything else.
I will go to my grave believing that the Ace Attorney games were intended to be a satire of the Japanese judicial system.
Wasn't it set in America for an unknown reason?
Only in the US versions.
A rare example of acceptable changes in localization--even rarer for DRASTIC changes.
I know a lot of you will disagree with me here, and if I'm downvoted for this, I'll understand.
But the changes made when the first game was brought over in 2004--changes that would never be allowed today--were so entertaining that I let them slide. It's probably the last series I can accept this on.
Were the series to be brought over to the US for the first time TODAY, knowing what I know now, no, I wouldn't like it.
It just...let's just say I thought the resulting world the US writers created, it was really interesting to me, and I wanted to learn more about it. That's one of the things that separates a good series from a great one--you don't just want to play the games, you want to learn how its world works and how things got to this point.
I do agree, though, that it also resulted in taking a LOT longer for that prequel series, set in medieval Japan, to get released here because of it. But at least we have it now.