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something abt how phoenix is the narrative foil to godot, maya becoming the leader of the fey clan (how mia was supposed to), and edgeworth fulfilling lana skye’s pursuit of truth as a prosecutor and how that all felt so finished by the end of trials and tribulations and then having it ripped away by aj:aa and just being left with a distant feeling towards the characters. trucy has her tricks and games but, try as she might, she doesn’t bear responsibility like maya, and kristoph never changes like edgeworth does and you dont know how phoenix is really feeling during all of the games events. because you are alienated from them as apollo, just a 3rd person perspective into their lives.
(also gumshoe being w the player through the pw trilogy and investigations and constantly providing us w evidence and information) and then we see ema skye again, one really connected to us during maya’s absence, and we hope she regards us as a familiar face, all to be reminded that we arent phoenix anymore—were apollo, some new lawyer yet to have any significance, not even connected to the name wright yet, and any familiarity we expect with ema isnt there. even after we confirm were with phoenix, shes still a lot colder than her younger self in rfta or investigations—and were slapped again w the reality that something is very very wrong)
AA:AJ shatters the original trilogy to pieces, and it’s an awful feeling and there’s lots of problems with the second trilogy, but there’s something weirdly compelling about it.
The second trilogy almost feels like a branch universe off a bad ending.
Like in the “mainline” universe, Edgeworth should have been there that day in court to prosecute Gramarye.
But he wasn’t.
And everything went to hell.
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