History VideoGame / ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Compared to the main series ''Ace Attorney'' games. Not counting the special episodes, the whole game takes place within less than five days, whereas in a main series game, several weeks or even months usually pass in between cases. The duration of the cases themselves is also this to an extent; barring tutorial cases and very few other exceptions, a main series case generally lasts two days, except in the first game, where the third through fifth cases lasted three days each. In this game, all cases happen within a single day each, even the finale, which merely lasts from dusk until dawn despite being a three chapter long MarathonLevel.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Compared to the main series ''Ace Attorney'' games. Not counting the special episodes, the whole game takes place within less than five days, whereas in a main series game, several weeks or even months usually pass in between cases. The duration of the cases themselves is also this to an extent; barring tutorial cases and very few other exceptions, a main series case generally lasts two days, except in the first game, where the third through fifth cases lasted three days each. In this game, all cases happen within a single day each, even the finale, which 'merely' lasts from dusk until dawn despite being a three chapter long MarathonLevel.

* RearrangeTheSong: Several bits of music from ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'' are re-used and updated in this game, which is quite thematically appropriate seeing as [[spoiler:both games deal with towns where the occupants are under the influence of hypnotic chemicals]].

* RewatchBonus: Replaying the first witch trial and getting to the part where one of the witnesses claims to have heard a "sploosh" sound; at the time the characters think this refers to [[spoiler: the lantern falling into the mud]] and it's never brought up again, but knowing how the case ends you realize [[spoiler: it was the sound of the culprit's glasses falling into the bucket of milk]]. Maya references this matter in Special Episode 5.

** In Special Episode 8, Barnham tells the story of how he met Constantine. Then he gets to tje part about him identifying [[spoiler:the dead dog [[PleaseWakeUp Constantine was trying to feed]]]]. Players who paid attention during a previous special episode will immediately know where things are headed:

* FightingYourFriend: The main story's final case pits you as Phoenix against [[spoiler:Professor Layton as the prosecutor against Espella. But it's not because Layton actually believes such; the case would've ended against Espella's favor if there was no inquisitor, so Layton filled that role in addition to using the case to uncover Labyrinthia's masquerade.]]
** In the third case, [[spoiler: Luke]] takes the stand as one of the Inquisition's witnesses [[spoiler: against Maya because he is so upset about Layton's apparent death.]]

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: In chapter 5, Barnham feels responsible for [[spoiler:Maya being accidentally sent to the flames]] and presents his sword to [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], giving permission to cut him down. He's not taken up on it.

* PlausibleDeniability: In the finale, [[spoiler:Maya puts on Barnham's helmet as a disguise because she's supposed to be dead]]. When Darklaw recognizes it and asks where it came from, the helmet-wearer replies that it was found lying in the woods and went "finders keepers", despite the fact [[spoiler:Barnham seems to never even wear the thing]].

* PlausibleDeniability: In the finale, [[spoiler:Maya puts on Barnham's helmet as a disguise because she's supposed to be dead]]. When Darklaw recognizes it and asks how they got it, they reply that they found it lying in the woods and went "finders keepers", which she apparently believes, despite the fact [[spoiler:Barnham seems to never even wear the thing]].
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: In chapter 5, Barnham feels responsible for [[spoiler:Maya being accidentally sent to the flames]] and presents his sword to [[spoiler:Phoenix Wright]], giving them the choice to cut him down. They don't take him up on it, albeit the offer makes them feel even worse.

** A few of the Vigilantes' animations were made with the witness's stand in front of them in mind. They weren't changed when they reappeared during a special episode - Shakey apparently leans on nothing when he gets up and Foxy's animations still depict her in a sitting pose. The latter's {{Handwaved}} to her sitting on Treddon when [[LampshadeHanging Professor Layton points it out]].

* PlotHole: {{Discussed|Trope}} in Special Episode 2, where the characters question how the magic during the prologue was pulled off if the machines and other elements present in Labyrinthia aren't in place in London. Inspector Chelmey proceeds to HandWave the statue at the park flinging the car into the tree by saying it was a robot set up by Labrelum all along, but everything else remains unaccounted for.

* DenserAndWackier: The special episodes. They're loaded with NoFourthWall humor and self-aware jokes, and between that and the fact that there's no real conflict left, it quickly gets much sillier than the main story. The exception is Special Episode 8, which has no fourth wall breaks and deals with Constantine's backstory, [[spoiler:which can be quite sad given the circumstances in which Barnham met him]].

* AnachronisticClue: As you explore the storyteller's tower, you find a photo. Up to this point, everything has been medieval in technology level.

* DenserAndWackier: The special episodes. They're loaded with NoFourthWall humor and self-aware jokes, and between that and the fact that there's no real conflict left, it quickly gets much sillier than the main story.

* NonIndicativeName: The "epilogue" chapter is not the denouement, but the climax of the game.

* ThatOneCase: There is a case that the inquisition has been struggling with for three months: during a thunderstorm, a bell tower suddenly appeared in flames at the town square; a few days later, the alchemist Sir Newton Belduke, who had shown extreme concern at the tower's appearance, was found dead in his own room. These two events were notorious for being the only major incidents in Labyrinthia not to have been foretold by the Storyteller. [[spoiler:The former is solved in the second witch trial, where Phoenix discovers that Sir Belduke died by his own hand due to despair, while the latter is solved in the final trial, where Phoenix and Layton figure out that Labyrinthia's magic isn't real, but an elaborately crafted illusion; the bell tower was always there, just concealed by a giant cloth made of invisible material, and when the tower was struck by lightning, the cloth burned away revealing it; Belduke was in on the ruse, whose purpose was to help Espella recover from repressed trauma, and the tower being uncovered made him despair by realizing that they couldn't shield Espella forever and that Project Labyrinthia had taken things way too far]].

* PlausibleDeniability: In the finale, [[spoiler:Maya puts on Barnham's helmet as a disguise because she's supposed to be dead]]. When Darklaw recognizes it and asks how they got it, they reply that they found it lying in the woods and went "finders keepers", which she apparently believes, despite the fact Barnham seems to never even wear the thing.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: The first person to say [[CharacterCatchphrase Layton's catchphrase]], "that reminds me of a puzzle", is actually Phoenix, who ironically hasn't solved any puzzles at that point.[[note]]Unless you happened to find one optional puzzle for him by that point.[[/note]]

%%* PhraseCatcher: A lot of people pick up on Layton's "that's what a gentleman does" and start using it themselves with their profession of choice in place of 'gentleman'.