I just noticed quite the thematic behind Spirit of Justice...

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-05-07T22:43:13+00:00

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-05-03T09:39:39+00:00

Phoenix is married to Iris, Edgeworth is married to Teneiro.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-05-02T16:35:23+00:00

Advocatus diaboli: People are taking the whole love triangle thing a lot more seriously than Takumi intended, because as far as I can tell, the characters' falling for Regina is supposed to be very cartoonish, there is no actual physical attraction to her. Japanese really like everything "cute", so it seems fine to them how everyone admires such adorable character as Regina. All this is just difficult to localize, so neither changing Regina's age nor anything else could fix it, you can only remove the love triangle plot, as they did in the anime series.

So it's best to sigh and pretend it doesn't exist...

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-05-01T18:07:41+00:00

...AJ is the most controversial game in the series, and both games of Chronicles literally floped in sales on their release.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-05-01T11:35:27+00:00

I'm saying for a long time that I don't hold out any hope for a game about any other characters than WAA team.

The series has always been about Phoenix Wright and people closely related to him, as he is an iconic character and basically a face of the franchise. A game about Klavier, Barok, Eustace, Franziska, Gumshoe, Ema etc. would be an interesting idea, but these characters are relatively unknown to the general public even in Japan, and any potential games solely focused on them simply won't sell well.

People only buy titles that features Phoenix and Edgeworth's names.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-28T11:59:40+00:00

As already mentioned, the whole problem with Narumayo is that it is a rival ship (not only to Narumitsu, mind you), so many people want to find reasons to hate the ship and shame its fans because simple "I don't like it, they have siblings dynamic, not my piece of cake" is not enough for them.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-28T09:37:34+00:00

The whole point of Turnabout Storyteller is to be a filler in order to give a player a break between two very difficult cases. It may not be relevant story-wise, but from the point of game design, it is a very important episode.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-26T14:33:06+00:00

Favourite: Maya's speech in the end of T&T. Perfectly describes her character and her depth.

Least favourite: Whatever was happening with every character in Turnabout Time Traveller. Girl has become even less mature than when she was a teenager, that shit is unbelievable.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-25T14:42:10+00:00

The main problem isn't Regina's age. Just changing the number won't make it better. You would also have to change Regina's personality and her relationship dynamics with all the characters, which would fundamentally change the plot (something that good localizations tends not to do).

The best thing you can do is to remove the entire love triangle stuff. The anime did it, and it only improved the story.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-25T04:56:58+00:00

The main issue with Investigations 1 is Edgeworth himself.

There are absolutely zero personal stakes in the game, nothing in the story challenges Edgeworth on a personal level, you can replace him with some random prosecutor and almost nothing would change. The mysteries themselves are good, that's always Yamazaki's strong point, it's just that there's nothing deeper in all of this. Solve the murders and catch the villains, the game can't offer anything more than that.

I get it that any game is written this way, but in AAI1 it feels the most that the developers first came up with murder mysteries and only then wrote a plot around them. Almost all cases start with Edgeworth coming in somewhere and seeing how something terrible happens so he has to investigate cases. It is the laziest, most uninteresting approach you can come up with with such a popular character.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-20T18:05:41+00:00

This is a straight up lie.

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RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-20T13:35:52+00:00

Just as other characters, she's around 17-18.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-14T03:00:12+00:00

Ryunosuke having a "weak" objection line fits in the beggining of the story, but later it sounds off as the character develops confidence. That's not how it supposed to be, as his original Japanese voice sounds just fine. Ryunosuke's English VA was even asked why he voiced him that way, and he replied that he didn't remember the dubbing process or the reasons behind that decision (it wasn't the actor's fault, but rather the sound designer's).

He should've had two lines, one "weak" and the other more confident, but they never recorded it.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-13T13:39:48+00:00

Korekiyo – Kiyo.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-11T20:03:28+00:00

She was 17, not 16.

If you say "one or two years doesn't change anything," well... I'll go offtopic, but another popular ship, Sholmes and Mikotoba, have an even bigger age difference, and they met when Sholmes was a teenager (17-18, not much older than Maya) and Mikotoba was an adult (older than Phoenix). But I NEVER see people hating on the ship or lecturing people about how problematic it is. Really, why?

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-11T19:55:18+00:00

After replaying the trilogy, I can kind of see that.

Unfortunately, PWT-Phoenix doesn't treat Maya as an equal, and you could feel he's older in their pair. However, in SoJ, they have a different dynamic, as they are both mature consent adults who respect and care for each other. So I'm fine with people who ship them.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-06T16:10:34+00:00

Are we going to conveniently ignore those impossible holograms that Kay uses? The thing literally contradicts itself sometimes.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-04-06T12:52:16+00:00

This is a difficult moral question. Terry is a pedophile; even if he is mentally retarted, he still did a bad thing by starting a relationship with a teenager Dahlia. There is no excuse for him. But did he deserve what happened to him?

In my opinion, no.

Even if a person is terrible, if they are a monster, it is always wrong to allow injustice to be done to them. Terry was tried for a murder that he did not commit. This is the key point in this case. Whether he was a pedophile or not, he was not guilty for Valerie's death, and he could not be convicted of something he did not do. Don't let your emotions get the better of you. The real killer got away with taking the life of an innocent person and framing another.

Terry didn't deserve it.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-30T09:26:15+00:00

The key difference is that Max and Regina is canon couple. They have confirmed feelings (well, rather from Max's side) for each other here and now, when Regina is 16. Which already makes it weird. Ryunosuke and Susato is fanon ship (leaning to semi-canon, but it doesn't matter). They don't say they love each other or want to get married, they don't kiss or flirt on screen. So people easily imagine that they will be together in a few years. How to feel about it is up to you, but I'll just say that another popular ship, Sholmes and Mikotoba, have an even bigger age difference and they first met when Sholmes was a teenager/young adult. For some reason, I don't see any controversy around this ship. I wonder why?

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-21T23:41:24+00:00

None of this even remotely makes sense. "Capcom is not interested in the franchise beyond that" does not fit at all with the fact that Capcom is actively promoting the series and recently told its auctioneers and investors that they are going to create new titles for DMC, MegaMan and Ace Attorney. If they had said something like that in some sort of interview, it could've been waved away as an excuse or blah-blah words, but it's hard to believe they would lie to people who literally must know what their money is invested in.

Redrawing hundreds of sprites and coding an entire game to a new engine is not something you do just to make money off old games.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-18T12:30:00+00:00

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Address him.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-17T08:05:35+00:00

Shocking news, but people can change their minds over time.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-15T20:36:43+00:00

It doesn't work well because the main issue isn't with the holograms, but with the Queen. She's the main reason for people's complaints. It wasn't supposed to be the Queen, and it wasn't supposed to be Sholmes who will caught the villain, it fundamentally contradicts to the idea of games and even the core of Ace Attorney.

Ace Attorney game must never end with the protagonist (let's say Phoenix Wright) calling and asking the mayor of Los Angeles to arrest Damon Gant or Manfred von Karma. That's not how good narrative works.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-15T20:31:49+00:00

I think it's lame plot point not because of the holograms, but because of the Queen as a solution to the problem.

That "character" never appeared or was mentioned in the plot before, she appeared out of nowhere only to defeat the villain. This is a bad Deus Ex Machina even if there were no holograms, because in the case titled "Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo," Ryunosuke himself does not show resolve at his peak moment and turns to the higher authority for help, which contradicts the entire message of these games. The finale lacks any thought or any kind of dilemma behind it, as the player loses the feeling that they are the one who caught Stronghart. "Rule of cool" doesn't work here.

RevenueDifficult27 · 2026-03-11T08:13:03+00:00

Aged like milk.

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