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It’s no secret that I play the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games every night, and I have been doing so for the past six months. Those games are looong, and I only play a few minutes before bed every night.

I’m on the third case/chapter of the third game, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, and was making pretty good progress. Usually, as I start to nod off, I hit the start button and the game asks me to save, at which point I do so and then turn the DS off. It’s such a standard move for me every night that I swear I have muscle memory from it. So, imagine my surprise last night when I accidentally turned off the DS while it was still saving.

“Oh shit,” I quietly whispered to myself in panic as my wife gently snoozed next to me; I quickly turned it back on to see if my saved game was okay. It wasn’t. The whole damn thing is ruined, but at least it remembers that I made it to the third chapter. Still, it’s going to take a few hours of just prodding through the dialogue again just to get to where I was. I’m still deciding if it’s worth it or not.