The contradiction actually lies between the things Doe says and what you actually 'see'.

It happens when I present the Arrow in Ema's second testimony. Rudolf is about to explain the fingerprints explanation when it crashes.

EDIT 2: I think I found the source. In the script, the next line is for "mus 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors OST - Digital Root.mp3". When I removed this, it worked just fine. Maybe there's something wrong with the mp3 file? I know PyWright supports .ogg much better than .mp3, but I wouldn't think playing an mp3 would crash the whole thing.

Nice opening screen, especially when you click Begin.

Autosave only? Any particular reason why? It's not really a problem, it's just that I have to keep playing through to the next autosave before I can close PyWright.

Very nice intro, the music sounds appropriate and the falling chess pieces were pretty dramatic.

The talk session at the beginning went on a bit in my opinion, but I suppose it was necessary to fit in the crime and backstory.

I like your choice of music. It's often very fitting and sounds like it would fit in with an AA game.

Rudolf looks like a pretty good sprite, but his edges look a bit fuzzy sometimes.

Actual press and present buttons? I approve immensely.

Just a small typo: "*MUCH*" when Apollo eats the snackoo.

Hmmm this testimony's become quite tricky now. Already found out the "red-on-black" contradiction, but can't find anything

else/afraid to try anything else. And my penalty bar's halfway down. Erk.

Ahh the old "making us have to ask more than one question at the same statement" trick. To be fair though, I did the same thing in The Haunted Turnabout. xD

Oh. It crashed. ._. Just as Rudolf was about to disprove the "fingerprints on the arrow" theory. As I said before, I managed to fix it by moving the music line to just before the scene switches to the prosecution.

Wow, the piecing together of the memories was pretty cool, I have to say. The images represent a jumble of memories and piecing them together represents clearing Edgeworth's head and finding the right memory. A very nice little minigame.

The logic section is well done too, but I can't help but think that when you choose a piece of logic, it should appear on the top screen or something so you can see what you selected.

Hmm my guess at this point is that the fact that there was no blood on Edgeworth's coat despite the blood spurt was the direction the victim was facing. Now how do I prove that with evidence...?
...
Aha!

"John Doe", eh? Hmmm, this case just got a lot more interesting...

"Calm down, Justice. There was nothing we could do to save the coat argument". That line goes off the edge of the screen slightly.

Argh. Crashed again. Just as Rudolf was about to explain his investigation experiment. Fixed: I think it's to do with the positioning of the "mus 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors OST - Digital Root.mp3" line again. When moved to just BEFORE the scene change rather than AFTER, it seems to work.

I admit I had to cheat a bit here... To find out that I had to present Doe's profile at the statement about the time of the crime... and the contradiction involved not wearing a watch on his right wrist because he's left handed? I never would have guessed that. :S

A guess I have at the moment is that the coat with the hole WAS Edgeworth's. And the reason for his memory loss was that Doe shot a tranquiliser at him, causing the hole. And while he was temporarily unconscious, Doe pushed Holl into the river. Just a theory that hit me.

Wow, a... Logic Chess section? I'm intrigued to see how this plays out in PyWright.

Lol I actually thought I could freeze the timer by clicking something else on the desktop (seeing as PyWright freezes when you do). I won't try that again! xD

Argh this is quite a brutal game of Logic Chess I have to say. I thought it would autosave after every correct answer, but no
it's right back to the beginning if I muck up. I've been on it for about half an hour now. xD

A fourth person? Hmm, could it be Rudolf...?

Yay, a not guilty! The audiences aren't animated here like they were previously.

Hmmm, a mysterious person talking with Phoenix... And you're gonna leave me hanging? :O This person must move across into the other cases, I take it. Could it be the mysterious fourth person...?

I like the impact of the last line of that mysterious letter. A tense note to leave us hanging on.

+ Impressed with the overall interface design. It's as close to being AA-like as it gets, especially the animations such as the fade-ins and outs and the scrolling vs. screen.
+ The use of logic as an extra page of "evidence" was a great idea. It allows for presenting conceptual facts to expose contradictions, whereas usually this sort of thing is addressed in a list after physical evidence has been presented.
+ Rudolf becomes a more interesting character as the case goes on. And he's a pretty crafty prosecutor too. What I like the most about him is how casually he admits holding back information and evidence, and how cool he is in dealing with the consequences.
+ The minigames and sections, such as Logic Chess and "Clearing Edgeworth's Mind", were very well scripted and presented for PyWright.
+ The impactful ending. I'm more curious than ever now to find out who the mystery person is.

- My PyWright crashed here and there a few times. As stated before, the crashes all seem to stem from the placements of the "mus 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors OST - Digital Root.mp3" lines.
- The autosave-only feature. For the most part this wasn't a problem for me, but whenever PyWright would crash I had to go through the entire testimonies again. Also, I had to see an entire script through to the next autosave point before I could turn PyWright off.
- A small typo here and there, especially in some evidence, but nothing glaring. I've just always been observant with spelling and grammar. :P

SUMMARY
Congratulations on a very well done prologue case! What started as a seemingly simple case has developed into what I'm sure will be a dark and complex story, I'm geniunely hooked and I can't wait to see where it leads. Good luck with the rest of the series, can't wait! :)

Again, this is possibly the most common complaint I get. The problem is that PyWright, for some reason, after loading sends everything on the logic page on the evidence page if the save is manual. I had an idea to maybe try and play with the 'defaults' macro to fix it, but I'm still experimenting on this point.


I actually made him in like 30 mins. I'll improve him later on.


That little trick I actually learned after taking a look at 'Trials After Justice'. :D


Not a bad idea. Will try doing that.


I actually don't blame you. I intentionally gave no hints and the entire thing is pretty much on based on a single detail that can be easily overlooked.


Aha, not going to lie - that's not actually the same type of logic chess as the one in GK2. This is actually just a present session made to look like logic chess.


[Insert evil laugh here]


They actually aren't animated in the official games, either, I believe. I just couldn't find the confetti.

As I'm sure you found out, there are two pieces of evidence that need to be presented. The order doesn't matter.

One should be obvious. What did he use to kill her?
The second one is a bit out-of-the-box point. By what possible method could he have used 'that' to killer her?

1. If you're going to have Phoenix beep when he's talking, why not this "???" character?
2. Apollo seems to make the "do they know each other?" comment a little too late.
3. If I'm not mistaken, "trial" shouldn't be in capital letters (in the "talk" screen with Edgeworth).
4. You seem to alternate between using "..", "..." and "....".
5. Catherine Holl's profile doesn't fit in with the rest of the characters.
6. Catherine Holl's profile states some information that Apollo shouldn't know about yet.
7. The newspaper's text looks a little off.
8. The edges of the big "talk" button on the lower screen (the one with the moving arrow) has non-transparent edges.
9. Rudolf's court sprite looks off, and his normal sprite looks very unclean (stray pixels, his hair looks washed out and his chin doesn't move when he talks).
10. Apollo says he HAS had cases after the Gavin trial, but in the beginning he says "I wonder how long it's been since I last was here?", or something along those lines. Or were you referring to the first Gavin trial (Turnabout Trump)?
11. Rudolf doesn't look remotely like von Karma, so why is the Judge so surprised? You probably left this over from your last sprite.
12. That... shing when he pulls his hand back... it doesn't feel right, not like the finger point that von Karma did. This was also probably left over from your last sprite.
13. When Edgeworth says "no, it's nothing", I think he should change into a normal emotion, not that "panicked" one.
14. If you present the newspaper article before Ema says he was wearing a black jacket, and then present it again, you have to go through that dialogue again. I'd recommend using a flag.
15. The edges of most evidence boxes aren't transparent. I'd recommend GIMP for that unless you have anything better.
16. Ema seems awfully cheerful when Rudolf's acting all rude.
17. This really is minor, but isn't the penalty bar supposed to be orange, not red, when you're damaged?
18. The game crashed on me many times (at least over ten times). I had to go into the script to be able to continue.
19. Edgeworth says he was wearing a black coat, but in the minigame photo, he's wearing a blue one...
20. Apollo seems unusually... behind, so to put it. He's a very smart person in the canon games, and you make him seem not quite as intelligent... although I might be overthinking it. Perhaps it's because of this new prosecutor.
21. It feels like there's too many statements in Rudolf's logic, maybe you could mix some of them together? It gets a bit tedious.
22. I assume you have a reason for all this swearing? I did read it was going to be a darker case, so I'll assume that's the reason.
23. In the games, the date never has a "nd" after the numbers.
24. The text on the coat addev thing is... well, it's out.
25. Why does Edgeworth react when he hears the name "John Doe"? From what I've gathered, it's a very common name, and he never referred to de Killer in that way in the canon games.
26. "There was nothing you could do to save the coat argument." - "G YOU" are going out of the box.
27. I'd recommend using ".ogg" files instead of ".mp3" files, since they don't work properly in PyWright, and they seem to be a reason for why the game crashes - it seems to always happen when the 999 OST comes on.
28. "Change the fact that Doe"... the "saw" is out of the box.
29. Aren't you going to use the bracelet for something? Even de Killer must have a nervous twitch of some kind.
30. The timer isn't working. It's showing a bunch of error messages on the screen.
31. "That the killer did the same!" - the exclamation mark is out of the box.
32. If the damage bar blinks while you have less than what you will lose, the blink goes out of the bar.
33. The music during Apollo's explanation is WAY too loud.
34. "I assume the police have been informed" - the "d" is out of the box, and the "e" is just on the edge.

I must say, in terms of gameplay innovations, I have to say that this game takes the cake out of all I've played. Rebuttals and logic in court, logic chess, match four puzzles... I'll be looking forward to what you do next!

There are some spelling errors here and there, but the grammar is mostly fine.

The only really big problem is that it keeps crashing. Has to have happened at least 15 times now, and I have the latest version of PyWright. A lot of these times were due to ".mp3" files instead of ".ogg" files, so I suggest fixing that immediately.

1. If you're going to have Phoenix beep when he's talking, why not this "???" character?
Hides the gender. Simple as that.
2. Apollo seems to make the "do they know each other?" comment a little too late.
3. If I'm not mistaken, "trial" shouldn't be in capital letters (in the "talk" screen with Edgeworth).
4. You seem to alternate between using "..", "..." and "....".
5. Catherine Holl's profile doesn't fit in with the rest of the characters.
Of course it doesn't! It's literally Beatrice from Umineko... Just edited, a little bit. I just needed to make her face quickly and couldn't really bother myself with it at the time. Will fix it... eventually.
6. Catherine Holl's profile states some information that Apollo shouldn't know about yet.
I noticed that, too.... Albeit, a little too late. Will work on that.
7. The newspaper's text looks a little off.
Indeed. That's why I actually made it so that the player can read it on the second page. Again, something I'll fix with time.
8. The edges of the big "talk" button on the lower screen (the one with the moving arrow) has non-transparent edges.
It's intentional.
9. Rudolf's court sprite looks off, and his normal sprite looks very unclean (stray pixels, his hair looks washed out and his chin doesn't move when he talks).
Again, made him in like two seconds. Another thing that I'll fix. ...Funny that I'm so obsessed with presentation and yet I can't even get the basic crap done right.
10. Apollo says he HAS had cases after the Gavin trial, but in the beginning he says "I wonder how long it's been since I last was here?", or something along those lines. Or were you referring to the first Gavin trial (Turnabout Trump)?
This takes place six months after the end of Apollo Justice. Most of the 'cases' I'm referring to happened in the first 3 months after that trial.
11. Rudolf doesn't look remotely like von Karma, so why is the Judge so surprised? You probably left this over from your last sprite.
This was actually pointed out. Noted it, too. I'll probably have to rewrite that... (Or maybe I'll just make Rudolf look a little bit more like von Karma... We'll see...)
12. That... shing when he pulls his hand back... it doesn't feel right, not like the finger point that von Karma did. This was also probably left over from your last sprite.
Correct, yet again.
13. When Edgeworth says "no, it's nothing", I think he should change into a normal emotion, not that "panicked" one.
14. If you present the newspaper article before Ema says he was wearing a black jacket, and then present it again, you have to go through that dialogue again. I'd recommend using a flag.
Meh, I suppose... Doesn't seem like something people had issue with, though.
15. The edges of most evidence boxes aren't transparent. I'd recommend GIMP for that unless you have anything better.
I'm actually not sure what you're saying here....
16. Ema seems awfully cheerful when Rudolf's acting all rude.
17. This really is minor, but isn't the penalty bar supposed to be orange, not red, when you're damaged?
Not as far as I know. ...Though I think I made it a little 'too' red, I think it's just supposed to be dark red, if I remember right.
18. The game crashed on me many times (at least over ten times). I had to go into the script to be able to continue.
...Really? Ngh... Alright, .ogg conversion, here I come!
19. Edgeworth says he was wearing a black coat, but in the minigame photo, he's wearing a blue one...
...No blue, as far as I can see.
20. Apollo seems unusually... behind, so to put it. He's a very smart person in the canon games, and you make him seem not quite as intelligent... although I might be overthinking it. Perhaps it's because of this new prosecutor.
He's... changed a bit, so to speak. His personality will actually change during the course of Downfall and he'll get a lot more... Sherlock-y, so to say.
21. It feels like there's too many statements in Rudolf's logic, maybe you could mix some of them together? It gets a bit tedious.
NEVAH! 20 statements or nothing!
22. I assume you have a reason for all this swearing? I did read it was going to be a darker case, so I'll assume that's the reason.
I like to swear! ...And, it's now like I'm saying f*** or anything like that. This is... the easy, acceptable kind of swearing (at least in my book).
23. In the games, the date never has a "nd" after the numbers.
Huh... Never knew that, actually.
24. The text on the coat addev thing is... well, it's out.
Saw it. Fixed it nao.
25. Why does Edgeworth react when he hears the name "John Doe"? From what I've gathered, it's a very common name, and he never referred to de Killer in that way in the canon games.
Aha... about that... that would be going into some spoiler-ish territory of a certain game not yet released in America. ;)
26. "There was nothing you could do to save the coat argument." - "G YOU" are going out of the box.
I actually never tested that line, so I'm not surprised.
27. I'd recommend using ".ogg" files instead of ".mp3" files, since they don't work properly in PyWright, and they seem to be a reason for why the game crashes - it seems to always happen when the 999 OST comes on.
28. "Change the fact that Doe"... the "saw" is out of the box.
Saw it. Fixing it.
29. Aren't you going to use the bracelet for something? Even de Killer must have a nervous twitch of some kind.
He's Shelly De freakin' Killer. He's not gonna HAVE a twitch.
30. The timer isn't working. It's showing a bunch of error messages on the screen.
I saw it on fuandon's playthrough of it. While it was fun to watch him try to get to the evidence, I'm actually not sure what to think of this one. It works perfectly fine with me and none of my beta testers had a problem with it, so...
31. "That the killer did the same!" - the exclamation mark is out of the box.
32. If the damage bar blinks while you have less than what you will lose, the blink goes out of the bar.
33. The music during Apollo's explanation is WAY too loud.
You mean that one when he asks von Karma to answer him his side of the case or when he objects usually?
34. "I assume the police have been informed" - the "d" is out of the box, and the "e" is just on the edge.

I must say, in terms of gameplay innovations, I have to say that this game takes the cake out of all I've played. Rebuttals and logic in court, logic chess, match four puzzles... I'll be looking forward to what you do next!

There are some spelling errors here and there, but the grammar is mostly fine.

English isn't my native language, actually, so that's quite an accomplishment for me.

The only really big problem is that it keeps crashing. Has to have happened at least 15 times now, and I have the latest version of PyWright. A lot of these times were due to ".mp3" files instead of ".ogg" files, so I suggest fixing that immediately.

Will do.

8. The edges of the big "talk" button on the lower screen (the one with the moving arrow) has non-transparent edges.
It's intentional.
... Why?

14. If you present the newspaper article before Ema says he was wearing a black jacket, and then present it again, you have to go through that dialogue again. I'd recommend using a flag.
Meh, I suppose... Doesn't seem like something people had issue with, though.
No, but it's still a small issue that I believe should be fixed.

15. The edges of most evidence boxes aren't transparent. I'd recommend GIMP for that unless you have anything better.
I'm actually not sure what you're saying here....
Look at this image. See the red outside of the edges? They're supposed to be transparent, not red.

17. This really is minor, but isn't the penalty bar supposed to be orange, not red, when you're damaged?
Not as far as I know. ...Though I think I made it a little 'too' red, I think it's just supposed to be dark red, if I remember right.
Nope.

18. The game crashed on me many times (at least over ten times). I had to go into the script to be able to continue.
...Really? Ngh... Alright, .ogg conversion, here I come!
I really hope you know this, but the easiest way to change the .mp3 to .ogg in the text file is using CTRL + F. (If you have Windows, that is.)

19. Edgeworth says he was wearing a black coat, but in the minigame photo, he's wearing a blue one...
...No blue, as far as I can see.
Really? I guess I might have been mistaken... I don't remember now.

20. Apollo seems unusually... behind, so to put it. He's a very smart person in the canon games, and you make him seem not quite as intelligent... although I might be overthinking it. Perhaps it's because of this new prosecutor.
He's... changed a bit, so to speak. His personality will actually change during the course of Downfall and he'll get a lot more... Sherlock-y, so to say.
Well, that'll be interesting to see. I just hope you have a reason for this sudden personality change.

21. It feels like there's too many statements in Rudolf's logic, maybe you could mix some of them together? It gets a bit tedious.
NEVAH! 20 statements or nothing!
... It's still a bit annoying.

22. I assume you have a reason for all this swearing? I did read it was going to be a darker case, so I'll assume that's the reason.
I like to swear! ...And, it's now like I'm saying f*** or anything like that. This is... the easy, acceptable kind of swearing (at least in my book).
I like to swear, too. If the case is darker, I guess it's fine.

23. In the games, the date never has a "nd" after the numbers.
Huh... Never knew that, actually.
You lurn sumptin new 'err day.

25. Why does Edgeworth react when he hears the name "John Doe"? From what I've gathered, it's a very common name, and he never referred to de Killer in that way in the canon games.
Aha... about that... that would be going into some spoiler-ish territory of a certain game not yet released in America. ;)
Oh, I forgot about GK2! He's in the first case, correct? (I've already been spoiled of the main villain, so I don't really care.)

26. "There was nothing you could do to save the coat argument." - "G YOU" are going out of the box.
I actually never tested that line, so I'm not surprised.
It's not unusual for something like that to happen. I guess your beta testers just didn't take notice.

29. Aren't you going to use the bracelet for something? Even de Killer must have a nervous twitch of some kind.
He's Shelly De freakin' Killer. He's not gonna HAVE a twitch.
If anyone's not gonna have a twitch, it would be him - but if you have other custom characters, you're gonna have to come up with a reason as to their lack of a twitch.

30. The timer isn't working. It's showing a bunch of error messages on the screen.
I saw it on fuandon's playthrough of it. While it was fun to watch him try to get to the evidence, I'm actually not sure what to think of this one. It works perfectly fine with me and none of my beta testers had a problem with it, so...
It's propably a problem with PyWright.

33. The music during Apollo's explanation is WAY too loud.
You mean that one when he asks von Karma to answer him his side of the case or when he objects usually?
"Aka Ikutsu Nise".

There are some spelling errors here and there, but the grammar is mostly fine.
English isn't my native language, actually, so that's quite an accomplishment for me.
What is your native language?

If I'm correct...

This little image is the penalty flashing. Not it being damaged.


I'm talking about literally converting the .mp3 files .ogg. Has nothing to do with the actual code.


Hey, that entire sequence is based around the player figuring out the right statement from all that mess. (It'd be pretty obvious, otherwise).


That is correct.


I never said that they won't have a twitch. I just said that he doesn't have a twitch.


Actually, that line was changed after the Beta-Testing reports.


Hm... Are you running on 0.9861? I remember that the reason it was introduced in the first place because of a 'massive bug' in Turnabout Substitution. So... maybe that's it?


Ah, Aka Ikutsu Nise. Yeah, I'll probably lower it down a bit.

If I'm correct...

This little image is the penalty flashing. Not it being damaged.
-It's defenitely flashing. Maybe it IS red, I might be wrong. I can't find any pictures of it online, and I don't feel like checking.


I'm talking about literally converting the .mp3 files .ogg. Has nothing to do with the actual code.
-I know. I was talking about editing it into the script. For the converting, either use Audacity (excellent free program) or some sort of audio converter (try NCH Swift).


Hey, that entire sequence is based around the player figuring out the right statement from all that mess. (It'd be pretty obvious, otherwise).
-I guess it's not a big problem.


I never said that they won't have a twitch. I just said that he doesn't have a twitch.
-I never said that you said they won't have a twitch. I just said that the other custom characters should have a twitch or a reason not to.
... Or, rather, I assumed you wouldn't because it doesn't work well in PyWright.


Hm... Are you running on 0.9861? I remember that the reason it was introduced in the first place because of a 'massive bug' in Turnabout Substitution. So... maybe that's it?
-As I stated before, I have the latest version.


Off-topic, but are those games released in English? They seem pretty good.