Nah, you're just seething about how heckin chungus Wright should be a spastic tard. Even though his entire arc in the trilogy is about becoming the next Mia... which he did at the end of 3. Meaning he should no longer be depicted as a bumbling frazzled shitter. I don't know how anyone can call themselves a fan and miss the entire character development of the protagonist.
Evidently, Shu Takumi had a way better grasp of his own character than you did. Your Gumshoe complaint is just crying about how there wasn't wholesum chungus.
I also cannot believe how the guy that cross examines-parrots would do such a thing as accept evidence from a girl. AA was such a serious, methodical courtroom drama until now.
Funny you mention Phoenix’s character development applying to the way Phoenix acted in the flashback case of Apollo Justice, when his personality in the flashback case is an arrogant jackass who blatantly acts like a dick to everyone else. There’s being cocky, and then there’s this. Phoenix isn’t like a bastion of goodness, he is snarky, and is pretty rude mentally, but he openly looks down on Klavier no differently than Winston Payne would.
Phoenix cross examining a parrot had an actual plan behind it and was something he actually planned out in advance before the trial. In contrast, he just took evidence from a child he barely knows and this is the whole crux behind Phoenix’s downfall.
This is honest to god regression on Phoenix’s development in the trilogy, he had been tricked and manipulated by others, but by the end of Trials and Tribulations, he knew better.
This sort of idiotic behavior is what I’d expect out of Amnesiac Phoenix in Justice For All. This does not even account that Phoenix barely had any context to provide this evidence this is all he knows about it:
1. It was given to him by a child he barely knows, who he finds out is Trucy.
2. Trucy doesn’t know what it is and got it from a random guy.
Such a well developed character to take this evidence and present it blindly without any question on the source of where it comes from.
Phoenix usually bluffs his way out of problems, yes, but he usually does it with evidence or information he found on his own or received from trustworthy sources. This is a rookie mistake that makes Phoenix’s whole disbarment plot feel very forced.
Phoenix also just gives up right away rather than stand up for himself with any meaningful evidence especially since he knows Trucy got it from a third party, and Klavier knew about the forgery in advance.
Phoenix does stand up for himself but it is as though he was an inexperienced greenhorn, and blubbers his way out that makes him look guilty. He does say he had no time to prepare it, but then just cries about how this couldn’t be fake as he’s talking to the guy who forged the case.
Reminder this is the same guy who even when he was a naive new defense attorney put more of an effort to defend himself from bogus murder accusations, yet when he has evidence or facts that could save him from bogus forgery accusations, he spills his spaghetti in court.
I get that this is needed to move the plot along, but it could’ve at least been handled better.
This sentence is so stupid I cannot convey it in words. What do you think the figurative torch signifies when it is being passed and who is the person passing it, genius.
Crying about Phoenix's last hurrah overshadowing Apollo is also knuckledragger tier. Apollo is the protagonist and surrogate for the player, Phoenix is the central figure of the game's mystery. It is even acknowledged that Apollo, by virtue of being a complete newb, is in over his head and cannot meaningfully contribute to arguments about why the law should change and evolve.
Y'know, cause he's at the start of his own newbie character arc, mirroring Phoenix. But Apollo is still the one digging up the past and putting it to rest. That's his story in the game, he's the new generation without any baggage yet.
Apollo barely does anything in the last trial on his own. I get that he’s a noob, but it makes him underdeveloped and lack his own identity as a character by barely doing anything in the last case of his own game.
It’s fine to have Phoenix have one last hurrah, but it shouldn’t overshadow the new generation in a “passing the torch” story.
It doesn’t help in the trial, Kristoph is beaten with only one cross examination. If there was more of a fight put up on Kristoph’s behalf, it could at least remedy the issue since Apollo is doing a lot of legwork in the trial to bring him down, but it’s just one cross examination.
You know, I kind of get Wright acting all different, having hit rock bottom during the time skip, but the big evidence of "Edgy Wright" not being meant to originally have been Wright at all is how he goes right back to his old personality in the next game. He goes from being totally calm and unshakeable right back to doing the whole nervous grin thing when he gets something wrong.
Even if you mostly agree with me, unfortunately cBB is right here:
That's because the writer/director for the first 4 games, Shu Takumi, left after AJ and his replacement, Yamazaki, is completely bereft of talent.
While I do like Investigations 2 and some of the cases in Yamazaki’s mainline AA games, Yamazaki has an issue with not bothering to follow mainline continuity.
A good example is how he doesn’t really write Phoenix as a continuation from Trials and Tribulations and has him act like the rising newcomer from the first two games, even down to making some of the same mistakes, some of which are for the sake of making Apollo look good.
Speaking of which, it doesn’t help Yamazaki fumbled Apollo’s character too by giving him ridiculous backstories rather than following through on the plot twist from AJ. It’s to a point where it’s believable that if he is behind AA7, Apollo could have a new backstory where it turns out that Jove was a top secret agent who tried to stop some cartoony super villain.
