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Nov. 15th, 2007 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusIt's been quiet lately -- I've mostly just been just working on poetry, though I sketched out a short story during an English placement test yesterday.
Other than that, I've mostly been shirking all duties to play Phoenix Wright 2 (though I haven't played the first). I beat it yesterday.
The game's jarring at first, at least because -- for anyone at least moderately well-versed in law -- Wright's job seems to be hell. A real defence attorney would not have to prove his client's innocence, finger the real guilty party, or have to conduct his own investigations. Nor would every sentence be automatic death with no chance of appeal.
Once you get past the complete lack of realism, though, it's a lot of fun. Very Sherlock Holmes -- or Law & Order written by the people . And quite educational, too. For example, we learn:
So it does not look like we're animating tonight. Just in case, though, I'll be at home.
Other than that, I've mostly been shirking all duties to play Phoenix Wright 2 (though I haven't played the first). I beat it yesterday.
The game's jarring at first, at least because -- for anyone at least moderately well-versed in law -- Wright's job seems to be hell. A real defence attorney would not have to prove his client's innocence, finger the real guilty party, or have to conduct his own investigations. Nor would every sentence be automatic death with no chance of appeal.
Once you get past the complete lack of realism, though, it's a lot of fun. Very Sherlock Holmes -- or Law & Order written by the people . And quite educational, too. For example, we learn:
- that the American judicial system can try a suspect the day after the murder, and have the verdict within three hours.
- that a lawyer declaring his client guilty does NOT result in mistrial.
- that the force of the guilty party's being caught in a lie will cause a puppet's head to explode, a radio to burst a gasket, or glasses to shatter -- and that managers to TV stars (who lie frequently under oath) carry several extra pairs of glasses in their pocket just in case.
- that prosecutors all wear cravats, sometimes cumberbunds or jodhpurs. Except the first lawyer, which just shows he isn't very good.
- that whipping a judge during a trial is not contempt of court, or assault.
- that defence attorneys cannot morally defend a person they know to be guilty -- and that an attempt to do so would soil their career and could risk them their job.
- that murder trials don't have juries, just audiences who can should, "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", like they're on Jerry Springer.
- that upon being exposed as a murderous psychopath, a criminal mastermind can conjure a giant snifter of brandy even inside a holding cell, to make them look especially diabolical.
So it does not look like we're animating tonight. Just in case, though, I'll be at home.