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It just seems odd how the bad guy always brings the witnesses in, tells them to keep quiet or whatever, and I wondered why you couldnt do that yourself.
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...actually, they're more like desperation moves. Like Phoenix calling Maya to the stand (I think, I know there's a point in T&T that he brings in a witness because of a stalemate).
Plus, the prosecution I suppose has more authority (with the police) to actually interrogate witnesses and such. Phoenix doesn't have any actual authority, so a witness would have to be brought in and questioned on good faith on his part.
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was on the stand too. (missed anyone?)
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Has anyone seen Phoenix and Apollo making out and/or fucking like rabbits. If no, then that's why you can't have witnesses to Phoenix/Apollo.
But in all seriousness, I remember Phoenix calling a parrot to the stand.
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I meant Phoenix OR Apollo :D
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Technically, no.
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The attourney's client can take the stand, of course, but only after the prosecution requests such.
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I'm not sure if they mentioned it in PW1, or if I read it somewhere, but I seem to remember something about have the prosecution call witnesses and only have the defense cross examine was part of the "3 day trial act" where they shortened the trial process to have time to deal with all the trials.
It's kind of sad Phoenix's world has that much crime.
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I never thought of that!
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And if the defense brings in witnesses of their own to cross-examine, the prosecution can always object to whatever they disagree with.
Oh well, since GS had a fictional court system I'd say they're free to make up their own rules.
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Prosecutors EXAMINE meaning they cant cross examine
Defense CROSS-EXAMINE
why do u think payne asks larry questions in the very first case? think people
On topic: Phoenix does call witnesses
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I consider the parrot as Phoenix's witness because he brought it up after Von Karma being sarcastic.
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I think he was asking why can't/haven't we been able to PLAY as the witness in Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice.... not why can't Phoenix or Apollo call witnesses....
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I think he was asking why can't/haven't we been able to PLAY as the witness in Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice.... not why can't Phoenix or Apollo call witnesses....
A thread of 15 people all misunderstanding the OPer would a) make the OP a bad post or b) be very unlikely. :o He did say something like, a number of statements to choose from, and if it's the wrong one - game over. But technically, that would force the authors to make the script twentyfold as big, because you could lie or make up stuff etc etc etc, which would.. be very hard to realise, seeing as though you need a personal reason to do so (such as covering up for somebody or you pinning the guilt on another person), ergo yadda yadda. To be interesting enough (and we mostly deal with murders in PW) you'd have to be a very decisive witness too, otherwise why is there need for you to be on the witness stand? -> not where this thread has gone -> I think he meant why Apollo and Phoenix can't call witnesses as the defense.
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I think he was asking why can't/haven't we been able to PLAY as the witness in Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice.... not why can't Phoenix or Apollo call witnesses....
A thread of 15 people all misunderstanding the OPer would a) make the OP a bad post or b) be very unlikely. :o He did say something like, a number of statements to choose from, and if it's the wrong one - game over. But technically, that would force the authors to make the script twentyfold as big, because you could lie or make up stuff etc etc etc, which would.. be very hard to realise, seeing as though you need a personal reason to do so (such as covering up for somebody or you pinning the guilt on another person), ergo yadda yadda. To be interesting enough (and we mostly deal with murders in PW) you'd have to be a very decisive witness too, otherwise why is there need for you to be on the witness stand? -> not where this thread has gone -> I think he meant why Apollo and Phoenix can't call witnesses as the defense.
I'm not saying that being the witness would be an easy thing to do, quite the contrary, the idea itself is interesting but the way they'd have to go about making it work simply wouldn't be worth the headaches and time it would take to coem up with something halfway decent.
As for what the topic creator said, the way I interpretted it before I read anyone's responses was he was asking why can't we play as the witness(es). But even after reading all the responses, I still think we misunderstood what he was asking. He wasn't particularly clear in what he said either.
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I think that in the game the prosecutors do not examine their witnesses very much at all...or cross-examine defense witnesses, simply to keep up the tension in the defenses side. Feeling like you have to prove something in every cross-examination is part of what keeps the game interesting. If it switched to the prosecutors side then it would be like getting a break, because it would be mostly just text reading...at which point people would probably be more willing to put the game down.
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Ooh, alrighty, my apologies then :o I gotta say though- viewing (post-trial) the witnesses' pov would be really interesting. When I played the cases for the first time, the testimonies weren't 100% transparent to me anymore. Mid-trial there'd be little point, I suppose.. often there are a lot of twists anyway and a testimony's importance isn't final from when it's first made.
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I lol'd.
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Ooh, alrighty, my apologies then :o I gotta say though- viewing (post-trial) the witnesses' pov would be really interesting. When I played the cases for the first time, the testimonies weren't 100% transparent to me anymore. Mid-trial there'd be little point, I suppose.. often there are a lot of twists anyway and a testimony's importance isn't final from when it's first made.
That would be really interesting, I mean pre trial we get the killer's POV, so when its post trial why can't we have the witnesses/defendants POV?
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not sure if it's true or not though, just my idea...
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