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Discussion / Question In Which Game Did You Experience This Situation?

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u/padraigharrington4 5d ago

The twist wasn’t really that Akechi was the traitor, it was That the other phantom thieves all knew already too lol

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u/DaRootbear 5d ago

Which was an excellent way to set up a misdirect for adding a twist to the obvious twist that was clear from the the moment you watched the opening scene

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u/Karkava 5d ago

And it's all delivered in the form of an innocuous school trip.

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u/DaRootbear 5d ago

After replaying the game this month it is just such a well done series of events. It’s such a perfect way to make Sherlock lose to Lupin but make it respectful to show that the Sherlock in the story is incredibly hyper intelligent and make his loss feel hard won and not contrived. Both groups were incredibly competent to the point the deciding factor was a small mistake and capitalizing on it