As I played through the first case of Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice, I couldn’t help but notice something funny. Not that this is a spoiler, but the first case involves Phoenix Wright on trial for murder, with the victim having been struck fatally on the head with a wine bottle. Except they can’t refer to it as a wine bottle, since Capcom USA wants to make the game as youth-friendly as possible. So instead, it’s a grape juice bottle. They did something similar in one of the previous games, where a bottle of wine became a bottle of tomato juice when the game was translated for America.

This tickles me immensely since this is a game series where each installment involves at least five cases of murder, often brutal ones and some committed in the presence of a minor. So depicting people getting shot, bludgeoned in the head, and corpses stuffed into trunks shouldn’t offend our delicate American sensibilities, but heaven forbid you show booze.

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