Corpse Run 588: Justice for all
LIVESTREAM UPDATE:
The next livestream will be this Friday, January 28th at 7pm est! It was super awesome relaxing and doodling with you guys last week and I can’t wait for some more doodle action! Your suggestions are always silly fun.
Once the doodle is done, we’ll play more Aviary Attorney! The first case was very entertaining, and I’m excited for more of its “ba-dum-tissssssch” humor.
You can view the stream here or here.
See you then!
END LIVESTREAM UPDATE!
Next note, the community voted JHaller Top 25 Pony Videos of 2015 came out this week, and not only did How Applejack Won the War place on the list, but it came in at 4th overall! That’s absolutely insane! Thanks to anyone who voted, it’s really neat the the fandom got a kick out of that. Also, Sherclop Pones, you still rock my socks.
You can see the Top 25 compilation here:
So… Aviary Attorney. This game is legit. It captures the spirit of its Phoenix Wright muse while streamlining the lawyer sleuth-ery, and manages to walk the tightrope between humor and seriousness.
Even better, AA recognizes that the burden of proof in the courtroom is on the prosecution. Phoenix… take notes!
While yes you hit the nail on the head, somewhat interestingly Phoenix’s pushing someone into confessing has some basis in reality in Japan. Many asain nations, Japan included, have a culture of relying on confessions to secure quick and efficient trials.
As such they will often bully their suspects into confessing as oppossed to seeking evidence in a case. Japan has a striking conviction rate of 99% when gone to trial and the only way really to turn over a forced confession is to have hard evidence or a opposing confession. I think you can see then why a mythos in a turnabout confession from Pheonix Write can have popular cultural appeal in Japan.
And elsewhere if you look at most law and detective drama. It is fun right?
Yikes, that’s kind of… horrifying. Why in the world would they not reform a system that is skewed so heavily? That’s some scary stuff right there.
Learn something new every day!
Actually, the reason for the high conviction rate is less to do with a culture of confession, and more to do with a system whereby only those cases with the highest chance of a successful prosecution will go to trial.
This is why the concept of a trial by jury was such a massive plot point in one of the recent games.
PW’s whole schtick has always been that it’s a scathing critique of the Japanese system of law. That said, because early games were translated and localised into English, INCLUDING REFERENCES, as the series has critiqued further, more and more material has ceased to make sense to a western audience.
For example – the Japanese Village in Dual Destinies is localised as “A village of japanese immigrants” in the western releases, because they screwed the pooch on not admitting the early games were based in japan.