Wine About It!

Dear Capcom,

I was playing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth today, when I noticed that the passengers in Episode 2 were drinking grape juice out of wine glasses and wine bottles. Now, your game is rated T by the ESRB here in the States. Really now? Your games are chock full of murders, assaults, and kidnappings, yet you localized "wine" as "grape juice"?

Really now. Gamers are smarter than that. We're much more mature about such things than you think. Just because we see "wine" involved in a video game does not mean that we're going to want to go out and drink it (though I could go for some sparkling red grape juice about now...) after playing it. Teens are perfectly capable on making intelligent choices as well as separating fiction from reality. Give them a little credit.

Unless it's all just a jab at 4Kids, in which case, please disregard.

Lulz @ 1:30

Could the DL-6 Incident Have Been Avoided?

SPOILER WARNING: This post contains several major spoilers about Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Throughout Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the game refers to an old case called "The DL-6 Incident." In chapter 4, "Turnabout Goodbyes," the mystery behind what happened in that incident comes to light. Miles Edgeworth, his father, and a bailiff were trapped in an elevator for five hours. They started to run out of air which made them all go a little crazy. The bailiff had a gun that Miles picked up and threw at him to get him to stop arguing with his dad. The gun accidentally went off and left a hole in the glass, seen here:

In the image, it appears that the bullet pierced glass. That makes me wonder: If they were running out of oxygen, and the bailiff had his gun, why didn't he shoot a hole in the glass in the first place? Would that have prevented the events that unfolded?

Ah, but we may never know....