Curate, connect, and discover
I know that these days in the Ace Attorney fandom the cool thing to do is to stan and defend Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and bash Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice (and don’t get wrong, those two DO have a lot of writing problems), but Imma be honest:
Disbarring Phoenix Wright was a seriously bad writing decision
“But…but…Phoenix isn’t ooc because look at the circumstances!” Yes, I agree, but you’re missing the point: the problem isn’t his characterization so much as the circumstances that created it. It cheapens the ending of Trials and Tribulations and tbh would have pissed me off if not for the fact I was playing it knowing his disbarment would be undone in the next game. I understand Shu Takumi was forced to put Phoenix in the game (it honestly would have been the best case scenario for us all and in the long run for the trilogy if he got his way and didn’t have to include him) but this wasn’t the way to go. I like the basic idea of his character of being a disillusioned lawyer who fell from grace, but not for an established character we spent a trilogy watch grow as I feel that’s an arc more suiting to an original character. I know criticizing Apollo Justice is taboo at this point but I needed to get this off my chest because all the “stop saying Phoenix was ooc in Apollo Justice that game is peak!” takes are dramatically missing the point.