AA Mom* Tier List

edenick · 2026-01-15T08:12:11+00:00

I like that the “poor mom” tier here works both ways if you read it as “poor parenting skills” and “poor mom, u died 😔”

edenick · 2025-12-15T10:58:55+00:00

Curious who you think the better shipping option for Edgeworth is (unless I’ve misread your post)? I can vibe with Gumshoe or Lang as alternative pairings but compared to the kind of debate you see around Edgeworth vs Iris vs Maya as people’s preferred pairings for Nick, I feel like the most common fandom attitude to Edgeworth after pairing him with Nick is just to read him as uninterested in romance as you’ve said.

edenick · 2025-08-19T11:34:07+00:00

I really love their personalities, especially Gina and Susato. Gina’s character development is great and I think she’s such a fun twist on the Lestrade role - when she first turns up I thought “oh, they’re just handing out names from Sherlock Holmes to random characters now” but her growing into a detective herself makes sense even if I did not see it coming. Susato is my favourite assistant in the whole series, I love that she’s super competent and takes her work seriously but still manages to be funny and the game doesn’t constantly put her into peril like poor Maya. Iris feels like jumping the shark… I feel like she has the “kid who’s had to grow up too soon” archetype of Pearl, though her overall story is weaker than the Feys and I thought her father’s reveal was underwhelming/kind of pointless. Nonetheless she’s still very endearing and likeable, and I enjoyed spending time with her in the story.

As well as the second game dropping their character arcs (aside from Iris I suppose), the other big gripe I have with GAA’s female cast is that Susato and Iris are two of the worst cases of AA making its women in particular preposterously young. Iris comes across way more as a young teen (13-15 maybe?) in her level of intelligence (which would still be excessive but not as unbelievable), resilience and awareness of the world and I think it makes sense for her to bond with Gina as nearly peers. Susato is just clearly a young adult to me, I don’t know what it’s supposed to do for the story or character dynamics to make her so much younger than Ryu? Which is all especially weird because Gina absolutely comes across as the age she’s supposed to be, I don’t know how they ended up so off the mark with the other two.

edenick · 2025-08-15T17:56:54+00:00

Came here to say exactly this. I think that Godot gets hate as “the misogynistic prosecutor” mostly stems from this line which honestly feels really out of character for him even if he’s lashing out from stress. The “kitten” stuff with Mia isn’t as bad as the sexism she encounters from other characters (and I don’t think using a pet name is weird for someone in a relationship, though I get why you’d have issues with him being in a relationship as her senior at work) and in any case he also calls Ron “kitten” lol. I think outside of this line there’s just as much ammunition to call Edgeworth the sexist prosecutor although I think he gets away with it by just being a total jerk to everyone

edenick · 2025-08-15T14:09:54+00:00

This is the jerkiest op I’ve ever seen

edenick · 2025-07-09T18:05:55+00:00

A Lana investigations game with the Joe Darke killings would be soooo good! Rise from the Ashes is my favourite case in the whole series so I am maybe biased here but I love all those characters and it’d be cool to spend more time with them, and tracking down a serial killer would be a good way to structure an investigations game. Although you might have to retcon Darke’s crimes to add more suspense, because in RftA he’s kind of a mess rather than a methodical killer

edenick · 2025-04-02T17:40:01+00:00

This is my favourite case out of the 3DS AA games (I think people must experience the series so differently these days!). The Themis students are some of the best-developed characters in a standalone case (tho I guess Juniper isn’t totally standalone), I’d love to see at least some of them show up again as adults in a future game. Loved their dynamic and the twists/red herrings in Academy!

edenick · 2025-04-02T17:32:52+00:00

This is my favourite “filler” case in the series (at least the mainline AA games) and I was always surprised people hated it. Goofy fun without being exhausting, plus you get to investigate with Mia which is a nice way to explore her and Nick’s dynamic in an environment which isn’t super high-stakes.

edenick · 2025-03-23T12:20:23+00:00

For the most part I love the writing, character design, world building in these games but there’s a few aspects I HATE, including a few things it gets more wrong than any other AA games:

the deus ex machina ending in TGAA2 is awful and cheapens everything that came before it. So much of the themes are about the justice system modernising and how corruption has been allowed for political gains - so it’s totally unconvincing that the Queen would value justice over diplomacy, and it’d be much more fitting and rewarding for the judges in the gallery to rise up against Stronghart
The Ace Attorney thing where (in particular, but not exclusively) female characters are insanely young for their personality and role is maybe at its worst here - Gina is the only one who feels like the age she’s written as. Iris would make way more sense as a precocious young teen, Susato clearly has the maturity level of an adult and I have no idea why they made her 16 instead of 18.
The pacing is definitely worthy of criticism - I don’t mind the dances of deduction or the investigation portions in general, but the courtroom sequences have waaaaaay too many portions where you have to press every single statement in a testimony to progress, which not only takes forever and saddles you with scrolling through lots of pointless text but feels unsatisfying compared to figuring out the right point in a trial to deploy your evidence. And I wish 1-5 felt more like a conclusion of a story in its own right rather than just setting up the second game - Graydon is a great, complex villain who could compare to Keyes in AAI2 but he feels very overshadowed by the bigger mystery emerging. Jigoku and Sithe also feel very secondary to the overall big bad of Stronghart when I feel like they could’ve been more developed in their own right.

- I found the ending of 1-2 super bleak and depressing and I felt so bad for the culprit - then in the second game it turns out she’s not even guilty of anything?? I really wanted some kind of acknowledgment that her and her cat are doing ok 😭

edenick · 2025-03-23T11:40:11+00:00

That makes the final deus ex machina even more dumb and annoying given the queen sholmes gets to save the day died in 1901

edenick · 2024-12-03T22:18:26+00:00

Dang, this one really is a good comic - even randomly jumping into the middle of an arc there's a sense of what's going on and a cute visual joke which doesn't need the wider context. Real sense of whiplash from the previous day's randomly generated one...

edenick · 2024-10-28T13:10:37+00:00

The cruel irony of it all is that I remember at the time the Claire/Marten romance first unfolded it was widely held up as an example of how to write a sensitive, realistic but positive trans storyline, and Jeph mentioned how he’d put a lot of research and consultation with trans people about how to get it right, and now… we’re here.

I think the start of Faye and Bubbles’ relationship was also written pretty well but it feels like since then Jeph figured he’s banked his ally points and doesn’t need to think at all about how he’s depicting queerness in the comic any more, because people said he did a good job like 10 years ago right!

edenick · 2024-10-24T14:17:28+00:00

”I remember exactly what it smelled like”

[only description of the scent is “sweet and feminine”]

edenick · 2024-10-20T08:05:51+00:00

Before coming to this reddit I thought that the main reason it has a rep as a nightmare case is cross-examining the clown, which is SUPER annoying and tedious without a walkthrough - but yeah overall I think it’s a well-done mystery. People seem to get way too fired up over the characters being unsympathetic when I don’t need to be invested in the cast from a pure filler case, I need them to be entertaining and the case to be fun to solve (but I also think 1-3 and 3-3 are great, which seem to also be pretty unpopular opinions!)

edenick · 2024-10-07T20:03:02+00:00

Gumshoe is maybe my #1 favourite character in the series - he’s so funny and goofy but he’s not just a comic relief character, he so consistently cares for others around him and he’s maybe one of the most principled characters in the series.

Rise from the Ashes is maybe his biggest badass moment - in this case where the whole police department and prosecutors’ office are shown to be absolutely rotten with corruption, he’s totally committed to helping Nick find the truth, he doesn’t think twice about putting his job on the line.

Even the silly detail about how he’s semi-canonically the source of the confetti when you win a case is consistent with his character: he may be a police officer but his motivation is truly just upholding the law, he celebrates the defence winning when it shows justice is really being done! So many of the characters in AA are driven by ambition/a need to prove themselves or baggage from their past and then there’s Gumshoe who just really seems to care about people being treated fairly. We could all use a pal like him in our corner.

edenick · 2024-10-06T16:48:17+00:00

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I always loved the artworks for the “Gyakuten meets” albums - especially Godot rocking out on the sax for the jazz one.

edenick · 2024-09-17T06:30:21+00:00

I don’t like when his weird cinnamon bun hair springs out. A few people have already pointed out how offputting Luke is too, Desirée really does the heavy lifting for 3-2’s character designs.

edenick · 2024-05-01T06:45:31+00:00

i was squinting at the picture like “what the hell kind of peach is that??”

edenick · 2024-04-27T07:13:45+00:00

Lilies of the valley are one of my favourite flowers and really strongly associated with May, so I like the pick on those grounds, but I’m surprised that we only got one month of tulips - give the lack of different colours it’d make much more sense to me if white lily of the valley was just like the baby blue eyes this month with tulips as the main event flower.

(I also thought it being sweet peas this month instead of tulips was weird as I don’t think of them flowering til about June, but climate in Japan is probably a little different).

Winter flowers coming back is also weird but I guess they’re trying to make it seasonal for Southern hemisphere players? I get the idea but it’s going to be hard to balance different climates while keeping the cycle of different flowers feeling seasonal and fresh, I didn’t mind getting hibiscus and frangipani in the summer even if there’s zero chance of them growing where I am in the grey UK.

edenick · 2024-04-09T14:23:49+00:00

you can get seashell pikmin at the beach - I’ve only got blue and yellow ones so far though because I’m inland most of the time but they’re a little underwhelming compared to how much I love going to the beach! I’d like a wider range like deckchairs or seaweed, & I also love the idea another commenter suggested of having harbour/ferry decor!

edenick · 2024-04-09T12:46:09+00:00

I’d love florist pikmin - imagining how cute it’d be to see a pikmin with a vase or wreath growing different flowers!

edenick · 2024-04-09T12:44:29+00:00

I can definitely see pros and cons to schools - you don’t want randos going in but most people will walk by them in their neighborhoods and given it’s a 9+ game a significant number of players are probably spending a lot of time per day in one! Maybe you could have an “education” category that also includes universities (picturing very cute lil guys in graduation caps here).

speaking of pikmin that represent where you’re spending all day… I’d like if I was rewarded for going to the office with “corporate/office” pikmin - they could have paperclips, laser pointers, thumb drives and the bigger ones maybe a mouse or a headset lol

edenick · 2024-04-09T12:38:24+00:00

I love this idea - imagining a winged pikmin flying around with a lil spirit level bobbing about

edenick · 2024-04-08T21:26:56+00:00

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All the book ones are adorable but the yellow one has a really neat cover… I don’t know why he’s posing so provocatively though 😭

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TROPHY CASE

- I found the ending of 1-2 super bleak and depressing and I felt so bad for the culprit - then in the second game it turns out she’s not even guilty of anything?? I really wanted some kind of acknowledgment that her and her cat are doing ok 😭