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Originally Posted by Clarste
Anyway, the point is that an anime doesn't need to make the case solvable. It's simply a different medium. Now, traditionally murder mysteries have always had an obligation to "play fair" with the readers and give them the evidence they need, but the cases in this case are so simple that do so would remove the entire point of being a mystery? It was dumbed down so that the average player could solve it, but if the average viewer can solve it just as easily then it's simply a boring mystery. The solution to that is found in the drama and suspense of the Class Trial itself, which the anime obviously intends to emphasize. This was the same in Phoenix Wright: the investigations were really boring but the trials were funny and dramatic and awesome. People remember "Objection!" more than they do clicking on everything over and over again, don't they?
In short, this is not a game so I'm not expecting it to be exactly like the game. Because if it was it'd be bad.
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The trials in the Ace Attorney series are interesting not only because they are over the top, but because you also learn
how pieces of evidence
you in the audience find along with Phoenix Wright during the investigation fit together and
why they fit together in the trial (...or you get a game over)
That is not the case here - the investigation is cut short, so the viewers are not given all the cards needed to figure out the winning hand.
Again, I don't see how the lack of evidence presented during the investigation suddenly makes the other characters more competent - for all we know, they should have the same number of cards as Naegi does because we are never shown a reason why they would find more.
Yet here you are telling me that's exactly what happened, and that everything the other characters present during the trials were properly found during a part of the investigation the viewers never saw? Your argument does not follow.
Instead, what you want suggests that they should have still shown an extensive investigation - just one where the others do more work.
Also, keep in mind that a murder mystery is not simply limited to finding the culprit, but why the person did it as well as the rest of the circumstances surrounding the murder. Just because naming the culprit is easy does not meaning explaining to others how and why it happened is, and as such it does not justify leaving out clues.