User:Strabo412

The Ace Attorney series and me
It all began god-knows-how-many-years-ago (not exactly sure when... 2006 maybe? *shrugs*), I was mucking about on Newgrounds and stumbled across the Phoenix Wrong series. Thought the game looked interesting, so I figured I may as well give it a go.

So I bought the first game. Played it. Adored it. Eagerly awaited the release of Justice For All. Played it. Loved it too. Patiently waited for the 3rd game. Found out the 4th one was coming out first. Confused. Waited for the 3rd game first. Played it. Loved it. Developed the odd habit of playing smooth jazz in my head while drinking coffee. I then bought Apollo Justice. Liked it too, but I did miss good old Nick in the days of being constantly confused, instead of being an all-seeing chess master. The game did cause a curious hunger for snackaroos though.

I was slightly concerned when I thought one of my favourite characters in the games (a certain trench coat-wearing bumbling detective) wasn't in AJ: AA. But he did make an appearance. So all was well. His appearance in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth helped too of course. I was of course disappointed by the whole Gyakuten Kenji 2 nonsense. I eventually gave up on ever seeing it localized and just watched a translated play-though on YouTube. However, seeing how much better it was than its predecessor made it all it sadder that it would never see an official English version.

When Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies was announced I was, of course, thrilled. And when I got to play the game? Loved it. I was even pleasantly surprised by the DLC case. Singing orcas and three animated cutscene songs? What's not to love? :)

As for Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney? Magnificent. But it was written by Shu Takumi, so what did you expect?

The wiki
Stumbled upon this wiki the same way I stumble upon any wiki. I wanted some AA facts, details, news and so on, and I didn't know about court-records.net or anything like that at the time. However, at that point, this site was a little on the sparse side. Disappointed, I decided to leave it be. I mean, there are certainly plenty of wikis out there that are basically deserted. I came back a while later when I was replaying PW: AA and had spotted the Trés Bien flyer in Rise from the Ashes. Saw that this wasn't in the wiki, so I stuck it in. Then I made everyone's favourite potted plant his own page. Then the chief detective's page. Then, well, the wiki became a perfect time-waster for me. It of course helps that it's on one of my favourite video game series, but I think it can be said that I've wasted perhaps far too much time here (as my ridiculous/impressive/depressing edit count shows). Though, in my defence (no pun intended), most of that has been minor edits. Honestly!

I have been known to ramble...

Current whereabouts
Having now caught up on all the games, I'm now jumping back into editing this wiki again! Yay!

A couple of things I'm still going to try to work on are replacing some of the character art I'm unhappy with the quality of, and creating transcripts for each episode. One will definitely be easier than the other. The First Turnabout is done (minus some aesthetic problems). Turnabout Sisters and Turnabout Samurai are written up, but I haven't gotten around to converting them into a wiki-friendly version. I was writing up Turnabout Goodbyes, but that's on hold for now.

Future
There's so much to do on this wiki and so few experienced editors. Mainly, I'm going to try to get the GK2, DD, and PL vs. PW: AA pages up to snuff. But it's a bit of an uphill struggle...

My AA wiki projects/to do list

 * Full case summaries (on hold)
 * Better infobox character images (in progress)
 * Episode transcripts (on hold)
 * Evidence lists (on hold)
 * Court record profile lists (on hold)
 * Figure out how to make coloured text do what I want it to do inside collapsible tables
 * Watch the AA film adaptation and write a plot synopsis
 * Listen to the drama CDs and write plot synopses.
 * Minna to Capcom All-Stars? (probably not worthy of its own page)
 * More music on pages, albeit in a standardised way
 * Re-jig the character template
 * Make some sort of "not canon?" template for pages about musicals and the like
 * TLC for GK2, DD, and PL vs. PW: AA pages (in progress)
 * TLC for other media pages (musicals and so on)
 * Standardise music track titles across the wiki
 * Try and work out the English VAs for PL vs PW:AA
 * Update Ace Attorney Wiki:Things to do
 * Look into implementing family trees and into family pages.