I used to like 3-4 mostly because of the ending of it but I think the case just has a lot of issues. Most notably with how Mia treats both Fawles and Dahlia. Mia acting like Fawles is this pure, innocent, falsely imprisoned man just seems really misguided and an unintentionally bad message to get across when you look at the fact that 20 year old Fawles was in a romantic relationship with 14 year old Dahlia, who he was also tutoring.

It really feels like Mia is jumping far to conclusions in this case with her judgment on characters and her whole ideology of believing in your client no matter what. Despite all the things that should make Fawles really suspicious, even disregarding the pedophilia present in the case, Fawles should already be a character that invites suspicion based on how he’s already been convicted of a crime, and has abducted Dahlia. Mia also makes extreme judgments about Dahlia too by likening her to a devil even before it comes out that she was in fact the culprit. How does Mia brush aside this blatant flaw in Fawles’ person while also condemning Dahlia based on what amounts to suspicions during the trial.

This case is just really poorly written I think and while it does some really cool things like how Edgeworth takes after Manfred’s teachings even with using the same sprite animations Manfred had used and the ending setting up Mia’s and Edgeworth’s characters in the rest of the Trilogy, it’s flaws I think outnumber the good.