I get that this is needed to move the plot along, but it could’ve at least been handled better.
Nah, again, like nearly everybody bitching about AJ "characterization", it's just raging at throwaway dialogue being "too mean" and other autistic nonsense (usually the same people happily consoom character annihilating trash like DD&SoY, though that doesn't necessarily apply to you.)
And complaining about lapses in logic with evidence and procedural shit is retarded and disingenuous. There's shit like "evidence law" that applied to one case in the grand total of the series and never shows up again (though the case was made after the fact for the DS port). 2nd case of the series, someone's sister is accused of murdering them for no discernible reason and everybody is fine with that.
You can do the exact same thing to every one of the games and have the same results. 3-5 turns into a comedy of retardation and everybody involved comes across like the dumbest pieces of shit ever if you think about it for more than 2 seconds. Yet AJ is the only game that gets this scrutiny and ensuing autistic fucking meltdowns.
Edit: Like, take this hyper autistic faggotry about individual lines of dialogue. If people weren't disingenuous faggots they'd start whinging about 1-5 starting with an emo monologue by Phoenix and how he stopped taking cases and how that is oh so character ruiningly out of character *crying.mp4*. Nobody does that. Because it's fucking retarded and a possible way to diagnose asperger's.
And not, the parrot shit is fucking stupid and always has been stupid. It says 2 random bits of information and the judge goes "I'm convinced!" when Phoenix bullshits together an interpretation. Thing is, you (royal you I mean) understand that it's just a story and this is meant to show desperation on the part of the hero so you roll with it. It's a necessary part for the story the game wants to tell. The last, sad gambit of a rookie lawyer getting trounced by the best prosecutor there is. But wouldn't you know it, it works! Providence.
Whereas if you applied the same shrieking faggot routine to it, you (again, royal you) should have a nervous episode about how anybody in that courtroom allowing Phoenix to call the parrot to the stand should instead tell him to fuck off and end the trial right there, maybe even throw him out of the building on his ass. Claiming that this ruins all suspension of disbelief about the fictional court and the game allowing Phoenix to pull this shit is bad, contrived writing.
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.
I don't like the fact that the final cross-examination is so short either. I would've preferred it if there was a cross-examination involving Valant first to build up the Kristoph accusation and to wrap-up the Magnifi case in a more full-circle manner. (As in, it parallels the previous trial where Phoenix, Valant & Klavier were involved.)
But as far as Apollo's character and usage? It's completely fine. People really, and I do mean,
really do not seem to comprehend how much of the protagonists raison d'etre in Shu Takumi's AA games is to try to become and grow as lawyers. In AJ, this takes the form of Apollo having to revive the disgraced practice of Wright and having to put to bed the case that ended his career. Takumi very smartly tied this into the main theme of the game, that being the new generation taking over and moving into a new era. Apollo, still being a novice, does not have the licks to contribute to the discourse about the law changing and Kristoph, his former mentor being a relic of the past.
His big takeaway is that he needs to learn more... because he's a fucking noob. See you in a sequel that never gets made. In many ways this parallels Phoenix's development at the end of AA1.
unfortunately cBB is right here:
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘cBB is right here.’“
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.
Nobody has to worry about Yamazaki making an AA game ever again. He hasn't worked at Capcom for about 4 years. Neither is the producer (Motohide) for the last few games actually.
