#research and the amount of power the prosecutors have in the game seems. not exactly Close but very reminiscent of the actual corruption

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Is anyone willing to explain where the rumour that Ace Attorney is supposed to be a critique/parody of the actual Japanese legal system even originated from? I spent a few days reading and skimming through Shu Takumi interviews, and he and the other writers/developpers seem pretty adamant on insisting that the court system is based on nothing at all. Takumi himself even mentions that he avoids referencing anything that draws explicitly from real life in his games to make them more "universal" and less likely to feel outdated.

#Ace Attorney #send post #Granted he specified current events specifically for the last thing iirc. But every time the question of the law system comes up he always #says ''This is fictional this is FICTIONAL I am not and have not and will not base it on anything in real life'' #This is also not to say that certain elements in Ace Attorney don't ressemble the Japanese court system to some extent. did some quick #research and the amount of power the prosecutors have in the game seems. not exactly Close but very reminiscent of the actual corruption #that goes on within the judicial system in Japan in a way that I don't feel is very coincidental. #That being said Takumi insists that this is first and foremost a mystery game and I'm inclined to agree given that for the first trilogy an #political commentary is pretty surface-level and lukewarm #(I haven't played all of the games yet) #So yeah anyways who started saying this.