Author’s Note: In response to the COVID-19 stay-home order, I am replaying the entire Ace Attorney series, my all-time favorite story-driven games. (Highly recommend these games if you’re looking for investigative gameplay coupled with witty dialogue and charming character interactions!) I fondly recall playing the first Ace Attorney over 15 years ago, and how the game’s iconic character sprites inspired me to draw pages upon pages of fanart in an art-making frenzy. These silly games inspired me to chase my dreams of becoming an artist, and it’s been an absolute joy to revisit them.

Anyway. I hope you’re all staying healthy and safe indoors. I hope you’re all goofing off and having fun. I hope you’re sinking your teeth into your favorite media because it’s SO important to reminisce and revisit things that uplift your spirit during the coronavirus downtime!

(The setting is in the Wright Anything Agency’s “law office,” where Athena Cykes is pacing around while waving her half-eaten Italian sub at a stressed-out Apollo Justice.)

ATHENA: WELP, Polly, we’re back at the Wright Anything Agency again, you and I—

We have no money to speak of because Mr. Wright hasn’t paid us (it’s a common occurrence), so I guess it’s Eldoon’s Noodles for lunch again—

Man, this current court case is a REAL DRAG because our key witness keeps performing stand-up acts and magic tricks in the middle of her testimony and it’s distracting as all heck—

But that’s alright, it’s ALL GONNA BE JUST FINE, trust me, Polly

Cuz you’ve got that voodoo-magical bracelet that detects people’s nervous ticks whenever they’re lying, and I have this sassy Widget-ma-jig that I use to mindfuck, er, mentally heal our defendant with on-the-spot PTSD therapy right in front of the judge and jury ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So YEAH! It’s all gonna be JUST FINE, or at least it NEEDS to be JUST FINE, or Mr. Wright is going to personally murder us both for failing to defend his dear, sweet daughter (and he’d get away with it too because he’d be defending himself for christ’s sake)

So c’mon, no time to waste! Let’s DO THIS THING! ¡Vamonos!