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Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Dessy returns, and we discuss one of the most influential games of all time, but has never come out in English officially! The Portopia Serial Murder Case is an early adventure game made by Yuji Horii, which combines adventure game mechanics with text adventures and hard-boiled detective stories! The result? A surpr...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Unfortunately Dessy is still out, but will be back next time! We dive back into the world of 1929 New York with Inspector Queen and his son Ellery, and end up with even more racism than before to deal with! It even factors into the motive of the killer! We deal with that as best we can, discuss the witnesses and our...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Unfortunately Dessy is out this time around, because they got roped into helping to plan a wedding! The rest of the crew solemnly carries on... We've met Alice Arisugawa, but now it's time to meet the work that inspired HIM! Ellery Queen, one of the most famous American detectives, has finally entered the podcast. T...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! After being so well-behaved last time, this episode the crew gets particularly unruly, and even attempts to usurp Ben as host. Bombs, chemicals, and well-endowed actors are the name of the game here! Columbo always gives us a nice place to blow off some steam, and if the silly string isn't enough, we also consider t...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Today we've got a special guest, an expert in shin honkaku mysteries: MinovskyArticle! He graciously agreed to help break down this influential novel by Alice Arisugawa that helped inspired many other modern mystery writers, including our favorite Ace Attorney directors Shu Takumi and Takeshi Yamazaki. We chat about...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! This episode we're taking one last detour, this time in Lupin the 3rd, which is maybe not a direct inspiration on Ace Attorney in the traditional sense, but certainly is in the cultural mix (remember Mask☆DeMasque?). We talk about several episodes from season 1 of the original anime and debate which one of us is whi...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! We're wrapping up our Maurice Leblanc section with the end of "The Blonde Lady" saga and "The Jewish Lamp" tale. Once again, Wilson/Watson gets the Gumshoe treatment, we chat about other Ace Attorney parallels, and also get into how some of the female characters are handled. Plus, we side-step into Transformers, wha...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! We're back with more Lupin, as Leblanc takes us even further into the world of copyright dodging with several tales of the thief's encounter with the great detective... Herlock Sholmes! We chat a bit more about the name change, the somewhat mean take on Watson/Wilson, and how much this collection of stories influenc...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! We wrap up our first venture into the world of Arsène Lupin with four pretty good stories that cross the gamut from grim to goofy, and even drop the world's greatest detective into the mix! We cover black pearls, submarines, and secret underground passages. Plus, do you have a hot, intelligent friend who's super coo...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Time to get a little mischievous, a little rascally, while also still quite gentlemanly - it's Arsène Lupin! Today we cover the first half of the original collection of stories that make up the origins of the famous thief, which includes some fun romps through France, mysterious necklaces being stolen, and perhaps e...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! After already having some Columbo, we're going back to the fridge at 2:12am for more Columbo. This time around we've watched "Suitable for Framing," an excellent episode with twists, turns, and plenty of pestering the criminal. Hell, Columbo falls asleep right in the villain's apartment! What do we think of the culp...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Today we have a very special episode for you: it's Tiago's birthday when we recorded this, and you'll hear about it no less than seven times during the runtime (possibly more)! Oh, and we also watched Murder on the Orient Express, the 1974 adaptation of the iconic Agatha Christie novel of the same name. We forget ac...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! We wrap up our coverage of The Innocence of Father Brown with some wild ups and downs, between atheist cobblers, hammers plummeting from the skies, journeying to fairyland, and worshiping the sun the sun the sun! We also deal with some old-timey racism, wonder whether women can wield hammers, and all the fun Catholi...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! This episode tackles another iconic and influential detective: Father Brown! We chat about this scrungly little priest who has heard all the deepest darkest secrets from criminals, and now puts that knowledge to use to catch them. And sometimes befriend them! (We all become huge fans of Flambeau basically right away...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Today we're watching the first episode of the original Columbo TV movies, "Murder by the Book!" This excellent introduction to the character is a favorite of ours already, so we're thrilled to rewatch it and talk about it here! We talk about Peter Falk, Jack Cassidy, and how this episode was directed by Steven Spiel...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! This episode we're covering two short stories by Edogawa Ranpo: "The Murder on D. Hill" and "The Psychological Test." One is the first ever story featuring Ranpo's detective Kogoro Akechi solving a salacious killing, and the other is a howcatchem featuring a scheming university student who thinks he's done the perfe...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose cover the inspirations behind Ace Attorney! Today we're starting with one of the classics: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet! We figured our curriculum needed a solid base first, so why not start with the most famous detective of all time? We tackle the character of Holmes, the odd second half of the book, and Watson's i...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose complete their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! We've done it! Every Ace Attorney game is now completed, so we take an episode to debrief, catch up, and answer some listener questions, too! The crew debates Kazuma's story arc, our favorite tunes from the game, and which culprit we'd most like to defend. We also get into the very light topic of art and...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose wrap up their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! It's finally over, we've completed them all! Every single Ace Attorney game has been played (well, until someone finds a way to port those pachinko and VR games to PC)! Rose and Tiago discuss with Ben and Dessy their thoughts on the final case, the villain, Van Zieks' character arc, and our final big dedu...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose continue on their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! There's several revelations to talk about today, one being about Yujin Mikotoba, and then several cascading questions as a result of that! We also have two wacky witnesses again, but honestly we put them away pretty quickly to get into the real meat of things: Sholmes is an asshole! We also visit Rose...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose continue on their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! There's turmoil in London as one of Scotland Yard's top detectives is murdered! And Van Zieks is the suspect! Between visiting patriarchs, prison wardens, and the Red-Headed League, things are topsy-turvy as we figure out what's going on in this case. Plus, you know, we're still recovering from sickne...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose continue on their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! Unfortunately, Rose is sick this week, so we asking Iro to join us and do the impossible: rank every character from the original Ace Attorney Trilogy! We do our best to figure out where each character should go, and maybe do a bit of bargaining along the way. This is ALL business folks, no fun or joke...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose continue on their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! We've got a chunky podcast for you today folks, with tons of sexy witnesses, big revelations about van Zieks' past, and the complete reveal of the mysterious masked assistant... there's a ton to discuss, and we still find find for a trademark side tangent or two. How do Rose and Tiago react to the rev...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose continue on their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! Well, the Great Exhibition is here! So many wonders and sights to see! Surely we will have time to take in the ambience, and won't get whisked away on another wild case involving explosions, hot air balloons, screwdrivers named "Andrew," or inventions that can supposedly teleport people! We also get R...

Join us as Ben, Dessy, Tiago, and Rose continue on their journey to play every Ace Attorney game! A place where we support Women's Wrongs, and also take 20 minutes to let Tiago rant about van Zieks. That's it, that's pretty much the whole podcast this time. Well, we also discuss Shamspeare's hateability, some new weird theories that will definitely come to pass, and all the ways you can obtain str...