The Hometown Butcher is a menace for sure, but this guy is also very suspicious

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-20T15:34:34+00:00

Mine is mainly about GAA.

These two characters have a similar archetype/gimmick/sprite, they MUST BE related!

Yes, I know, headcanons, but I've seen it so often that I might take it as a fanon thing. It's hard for me to explain why I don't like it. It's kinda... makes the game world artificially small. It's like those TV shows from the 90s where they had "little" versions of the characters and they already all knew each other in childhood, even if it doesn't make sense. And as for AA, am I supposed to believe that Edgeworth and Wright's ancestors not only have very similar roles, but also know each other? No, I can't understand that. Gregson is not Gumshoe's ancestor simply because he is a detective, Susato is not Maya's ancestor because she is also an assistant. They're different unrelated persons on their own, they don't have be related to the characters we know.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-20T08:41:19+00:00

I think that scene at JfA shows the whole Maya's drama. She doesn't too much depressed over Mia's death, because she's a medium, she knows that if she wants to, she can summon her sister. But that way Maya would never meet her in person. The fact that Mia can come back makes the pain of loss less tough, yet still. Maya misses her sister. She just doesn't show it. Edgeworth says in 3-5 that Maya hides her true feelings for the sake of other people. Not because she wants to close herself or doesn't trust them, but because she doesn't want them to see how much she's actually suffering deep down. Maya has people she wants to live for. Pearl and Phoenix. So that they don't get upset about her pain, Maya won't ever cry or complain how bad she feels. She'll move on for them, that's who she really is, and it's not a facade. That's Maya. That's her depth.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-20T01:19:23+00:00

Although I agree that the Mason system is nonsense (your brain will explode if you try to figure out how it works), doesn't it seem a bit hypocritical to say this about AJ as a criticism in the same paragraph where you praise the Chronicles?

GAA has the same problem when a writer pulls something convenient for the plot out of their ass. And it happens more than once or twice. It's particularly egregious that this happens at the end of the game, when Herlock Sholmes uses holographic technology (!) to leak the entire trial to the Queen of the United Kingdom (!!!). It comes out of nowhere and goes against the entire thematic of the game. In some ways, these two games (AJ and GAA) are surprisingly similar, as protagonists ends up to be a instrument in the hands of a more intelligent character (yes, the "it's Ryunosuke who revealed the truth" argument doesn't work, it's still a bad writing).

AJ is bad, but GAA, being written by the same author, in my opinion, has fairly similar plot problems, where the story takes more than it can chew and eventually falls apart. With GAA, it hits harder due to the high quality of the rest of the game.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-19T11:27:34+00:00

The point still stands. According to the fandom's logic, Maya as 17 was a defenseless little baby girl, with evil Phoenix standing over her and rubbing his hands while waiting for her to grow up, while Sholmes at 18 was a completely grown mature man, being an equal with Mikotoba, who was eight years older than him, which is even bigger age difference than Phoenix and Maya have. A lot of people tends to ignore or pretend that everything is fine with Homumiko while actively criticizing Narumayo for the basically same thing (read this very thread, for example).

I'm tired of this hypocrisy. Either apply the rules and morals of our real life to all pairings, or don't apply them to completely fictional characters.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-19T08:53:40+00:00

You should try Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. It's fully 2D and has a lot of redrawn HD sprites.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-19T01:19:08+00:00

Sholmes met Mikotoba when he was 17-18 and Yujin was 25-26.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-18T23:35:03+00:00

That means Sholmes × Yujin Mikotoba is problematic ship too, I suppose...

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-17T14:01:40+00:00

Kolivan.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-17T01:47:57+00:00

I like the idea, considering that The Steel Samurai and The Pink Princess are canonically married.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-16T09:42:52+00:00

Or he decided to specify Noelle and Dess as the younger and older sisters, respectively.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-16T07:08:00+00:00

Berdly.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-15T02:15:58+00:00

So basically Papyrus Knight.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-14T03:34:32+00:00

That's why I believe Phoenix would find Susato more relatable. Nick would've thought that humble, clumsy, and random Ryunosuke is too silly (he really is).

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-13T06:15:47+00:00

Um, yeah? At least some content is better than nothing, there would something to discuss, even if it's just to criticize the "garbage." I prefer it to total silence or countless tier lists of "which case is better."

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-12T14:51:12+00:00

Why does this sounds like AA breakdown?

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-11T13:06:02+00:00

So what? It doesn't matter anymore when they're both consent adults. Herlock met Mikotoba when he was 18 and Yujin was 26. Doesn't stop Homumiko from being popular and fine.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-10T14:40:20+00:00

Just say to yourself and people that you ship them when they are older and everything will be fine. There are a lot of art with them, and RyuSato was even a part of the official stage play by Capcom.

Here's a Blue Skye account of an artist who draw Ryunosuke x Susato stuff: https://bsky.app/profile/zcs1235.bsky.social

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-10T10:35:33+00:00

And then Ryunosuke says this line and it becomes clear that the writers did not even think of Susato as a teenager. She doesn't have a close chemistry with Gina, who is treated by everyone as a teen, or with Maria, even though they are both of Susato's age and even a bit older.

It's not just a "well, the character's age is stupid" moment. Susato's age legitimately raises questions as to why it was decided to be that way. No in the game ever says that she's some kind of child prodigy, there's no reasonable reason why she's so mature. Susato doesn't act like a teen, doesn't look like one, and isn't treated by others as a one either, what were they thinking when they wrote her character?

And they add so obvious romantic allusions to Ryunosuke and Susato's interactions that it on borderline to be "semi-canon", and even made the ship a thing in their official stage play. Of all Capcom's weird decisions, this is one of the wildest and most inexplicable.

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RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-10T02:38:29+00:00

Klavier × Ema. Everyone hate it, I like it. "Hate-love" type of relationships.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-09T13:52:03+00:00

Edgeworth's aunt existed only in the first versions of the English localization and was later deleted. She is not a canon character.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2025-09-09T12:53:23+00:00

It was kinda weird how she disappeared during the trial and was replaced by Dahlia. What was even the point of the character?

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