The only way to notice discrepancies is Through the Eyes of Madness.
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- Perceiving in general. The creepy slower-than-usual music, the swirling background and the flickering eyeball at the bottom is usually enough to scare anyone off playing the game entirely. It's reminiscent of the final boss battle of EarthBound.
- Apparently, Apollo's eyes are bugging out completely as he stares down the witnesses with such intensity. Imagine how creepy that would be for anyone just watching him perceive something.
- Kristoph Gavin might be one of the scariest characters in the series. His reasons for destroying so many lives and getting Phoenix Wright disbarred was because he was fired from defending someone for losing a card game. Also, he is the only murderer in the series who actually could have gotten away with his crimes if it was not for the test of the jurist system, because there was not a single legal way to prove his guilt. He's just that intelligent and Crazy-Prepared.
- Perceiving him is scary enough, but when you see his nervous habit—namely, his hand tensing and a combination of his finger bones and the scar on his hand forming a demonic face, you may need to take a break from the game and move on or even think about doing the cross-examination again. Think you can't see his eyes during this? Too bad! Perceiving removes the shininess from his glasses, and his eyes are staring right at you.
- For that matter, his eyes themselves. It doesn't help that they're hidden behind Scary Shiny Glasses when he testifies... After he has his second Villainous Breakdown, his eyes begin to look twitchy and unhinged, and they're staring murderously right at you.
- His black Psyche-Locks. Assuming the player has played the previous Ace Attorney games, this is the first time you see anything like them, so they immediately stand out, a fact Phoenix himself notes. And what's more? Phoenix is right; you never unlock them, because you can't. He'll never tell the truth, and he'll do anything, anything to protect his secret, and will do it with infinite coldness. Poisoning adults, children, lying, murdering people in cold blood... he's actually done all of this. Just imagine what that sick bastard would have done to Trucy, Apollo and Phoenix had he got out free.
- With the release of Dual Destinies, we finally learn their true meaning: the desire to protect their secret is so deep, it goes beyond conscious desire and is hard etched into their psyche & unconscious mind. If brute force is used, they could potentially harm the person's heart/soul, but even so they are near impossible to break by conventional means. This means the answer to the question which brought them up, "Why did you kill Shadi Enigmar?", is so deeply ingrained in his self, it utterly consumed him and led to his extreme actions.
- His two Villainous Breakdowns when exposed: The first one has him angrily slamming his fist on the defendant/witness stand. But the second one, which is spectacular by Ace Attorney standards, happens after he learns that Phoenix Wright was responsible for creating the Jurist System - Kristoph is so angry that the very courtroom begins to shake, and he screams Phoenix's name as his hair blows upward. The next scene has him hunched over, his meticulously groomed hair an outright mess, with a snarling mouth and a seriously twitchy and unhinged Death Glare as the courts and his own brother give him his verdict.
- And finally, when Vera is found innocent by the jury, Kristoph breaks down into an extremely creepy psychotic laugh. Apollo's words on the situation really serve to drive home how creepy Kristoph's laugh truly is. Can someone give Kristoph the death penalty after what he has done?Apollo: The record will show... that when the verdict was announced, special witness Kristoph Gavin... laughed. A laugh louder than any ever heard before... or since. A laugh that echoed in the halls of justice, lingering for what seemed like hours.
- Coupled with both the Skyward Scream and his Laughing Mad moment above, as well as the revealed information about black Psyche-Locks in Dual Destinies, it's easy to interpret Kristoph's final breakdown as what happens when you aren't careful when removing said black Psyche-Locks. And you can't even blame Apollo or Klavier for their roles in it. Neither of them, not even Trucy to our knowledge, knows about Psyche-Locks in general.
- The moment when Magnifi's diary is presented. When it shows up, this is the moment when Phoenix Wright's career is destroyed, and players will discover that this was the only available option: present the obvious forgery, or lose.
- Trucy getting held at knifepoint by a mysterious assailant in "Turnabout Corner", who threatens to give her a Glasgow Grin. Thankfully it turns out that she staged the attack with her Mr Hat puppet, but the image of her in supposed danger is suddenly shown to the player.
- Neither of them are nice people but the image
of Pal Meraktis trying to strangle Alita Tiala with a lamp cord is pretty cold since it looks chillingly like domestic abuse.- Pal's demented facial expression in that picture does not help matters, nor does the fact that his face looks partly shadowed out. Sweet dreams!
- During the MASON System simulation in the fourth case, a conversation becomes unnerving and creepy when the discussing party mention feeling like they've been watched for some quite time.
- "Turnabout Succession"'s intro. The music abruptly shifts from Most Wonderful Sound to Race Against the Clock, you — the player — are all but warned to be careful about your decisions, and Kristoph Gavin's Sinister Silhouette stares you down with a sense of Near-Villain Victory.
