![]() And as amazing as those two are it didn't have the same payoff and sense of progress and development as you go with the full cast in AA1-3 that were there from the start to finish.Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (逆転裁判 5, Gyakuten Saiban 5 lit. You didn't get a solid supporting cast that stretched across all three games outside of Trucy and Emma. AA4-6 suffered a good deal because each game kind of jumped around way too much. Apollo's story for the most part was wrapped up in SoJ, save for his mom and sibling threads which aren't much, and Athena herself saw her major personal story get resolved in her very first game.īut beyond just the protagonists they need a fresh cast top to bottom that they can build off of and explore over a few games again. Phoenix saw his main arc resolve in the original trilogy and what little hope he had for an interesting future arc got nuked after AJ and them backtracking on Hobo Phoenix. They've exhausted the development for nearly all of them at this point. We need a whole new cast not just the same core group with some minor additions here and there. But I desperately hope they go in a new direction. She probably will still be around though. I want fresh blood with as little connection to PW and co as possible at this point, but definitely want a female attorney as the lead.Ĭlick to shrink.If anything we'll see it focused on Phoenix still since they can't seem to break away from him. They shot their wad with her character wise in 5-5. I have little desire to see her be used in the future, even solo. Had she not been shoehorned into an already crowded field of protagonists I might have liked her more, but AA games need a single protagonist/playable lead, not two and certainly not three. She was functionally pointless in SoJ and her case there was quite weak even if the banter and relationship with Blackquill was somewhat decent. This meant all three characters suffered in terms of development and focus within the story, but also in terms of gameplay as all three of their abilities saw only marginal use and never reached any real point of challenge or meaningful complexity. Overall she felt like a major distraction that undermined the overall flow of the games as we now were splitting our attention between three attorneys instead of one. It just felt super over the top in trying to create some shocking and emotional twist, but it just felt absurd to the extreme. Her entire backstory and resolution in 5-5 felt farcical even for AA. Having a female character with wildly shifting emotions is also ehhhh. Easily one of the worst Attorney abilities in the series. Her specific gimmick of emotions I found particularly silly and weak in terms of gameplay and execution. Her specific design and relative personality and interactions with the other characters were fine, but nothing great. Tolerated her for the most part, but think she was a major mistake overall. I am curious to know what pepole's thoughts and opinions on Athena are. So yeah overall i think she's a really fun and intresting charcter and has good banter and interaction with the rest of the cast in my opinion though i get why pepole were a bit frustrated with her taking a lot of the spotlight in Dual Destinies. While she is a lot more underutlised in SOJ she still have some great charcter defining moments though i admit it was kinda annoying that she kinda acted like a novice in Turnabout Storyteller and relied a little too much on Blackquill. ![]() I do admit though - Spirit of Justice could have used her a lot more, with her being the central protagionst of one case which was Turnabout Storyteller and assisting in The Magician's Turnabout and the first part of Turnabout Revoultion. I do admit i do think that Dual Destinies focused a bit too much on her compared to Apollo and Phoenix but i totally get why they decided to go this route. I think she is an extremely entertaining especially in Duel Destinies and she serves as a good counterbalance with her interactions with the more straight lanced Apollo (they have great chemistry and banter and honestly - i prefer Apollo and Athena as a team then Phoenix and Maya) and i love her interactions with Simon Blackquill (who is personal favourite prosecutor). Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but personally i don't really get the hate behind Athena Cykes from the Ace Attorney Series.
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