How much dialogue each character has in the AA Trilogy (in graphs)
I made some graphs showing the total amount of dialogue per character for the AA Trilogy
Graphs broken out by game and additional details below the cut
AA1/PWAA (including RftA):
AA1 excluding RftA:
AA2/JfA:
AA3/T&T:
Details:
Data source: I’m using a dataset that I put together pulling from the episode transcripts on the Ace Attorney wiki (which I did almost entirely via Python, but with a bit of manual cleanup).
Word counts: The word counts are based on all dialogue attributed to that character in the episode transcripts EXCEPT for dialogue that appears as a pop-up gif rather than text in the dialogue box (“Objection!”/”Take that!”/”Hold it!”). This includes all optional/skippable dialogue. The counts are split based on who the dialogue line is attributed to in the transcript, which means that characters with aliases have separate word counts for each name associated with them.
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How much dialogue is in the AA Investigations Duology (in graphs)
I like graphs, so I made some graphs about the total amount of dialogue across the Ace Attorney Investigations duology (minor/oblique spoiler warning, although I put the graphs featuring AAI-2 below the cut to help prevent spoilers for anyone who's only played the first game)
AAI-1
(AAI-2 and combined graphs below the cut)
AAI-2
AAI Duology Overall
Overall total dialogue:
AAI-1: 256,002 words
AAI-2: 316,930 words
AAI duology total: 572,932 words
For reference, that makes AAI-1 pretty comparable to AA3 in terms of total dialogue while AAI-2 is substantially more dialogue-heavy than any of the trilogy games.
Data source: I’m using a dataset that I put together pulling from the episode transcripts on the Ace Attorney wiki (which I did almost entirely via Python, but with a bit of manual cleanup). There’s bound to be some error resulting from that process, but the numbers should be pretty close. I'm specifically using the English transcripts, so the AAI-2 counts are based on the fan translation, fwiw
Word counts: The word counts are based on all dialogue from the episode transcripts EXCEPT for the green typewriter text (for scene transitions and Court Record updates) and any dialogue that appears as a pop-up gif rather than text in the dialogue box (e.g., “Objection!”).
AA trilogy graphs: I made similar graphs for the AA trilogy here (for dialogue by character) and here (for the dialogue by episode)