The Perry Mason Method: Difference between revisions

* The title character of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' ends up doing this in every single case ever, apropos to his role as a Perry Mason stand-in. He misses the mark in case 2-4: {{spoiler|the person he badgers is really innocent, and his client was actually a [[Magnificent Bastard]]/Sociopath who hired an assassin and was planning to blackmail him.}} The Perry Mason Method is the ''only'' way to clear your defendant in the [[Ace Attorney]] universe. This may be an unintended side-effect of the pass/fail nature of the cases (it is still a video game, after all), but the fact remains that even if the 'witness' was in the room, holding the gun, shot the gun twice, with a witness, and a clear motive proven already, flubbing the pronunciation of the witness's name can and will lead to the judge ignoring the entire testimony, and the real murderer refusing to confess. Never mind that the defendant was in another room in another country with fifty million people giving them an alibi, [[False Dichotomy|the witness DIDN'T do it, so the defendant MUST have!]] [[Sarcasm Mode|Infallible logic!]] The cases do work out in the end as the story intended, but it's a case of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|gameplay mechanics getting in the way of story.]] In fact this is directly called out by Godot in the final case of the third game. Even after Phoenix proves that his client is innocent through a very convoluted set of explanations, Godot insists that the trial must continue because they haven't found out who the culprit is yet. And everyone just goes with it.