it’s really interesting how Justice for All was supposed to be the game that made Phoenix realize that he, as a lawyer, will also have to deal with clients that are guilty and has to defend them bc that’s his job, only for then narratively find a convoluted way of confronting his client, get a guilty verdict and paint it as a good thing. In my opinion he should have been disbarred then instead of in State vs Gramayre, because he breached one of the ethical/moral principles of his job. But whatever, Phoenix alongside Edgeworth are the company’s and fandom’s darlings, and they can do as they please.🤷
The Ace Attorney games really lean heavily on “protagonist centric morality” and refuse to grapple with the moral ambiguity of the actions of its designated heroes, and the way those actions stack up to and mirror the actions of the games’ antagonists. Very similar to another capcom property– Resident Evil.
Sadly the game itself will never grapple with how Phoenix Wright’s actions play into the so called ‘dark age of the law’, or how there never really was a time *before* such a thing.
Its dark age all the way down.
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