on the upside edgeworth was in fine asshole form

[fuyu]

I... I kind of want to unplay that case.

There were... a lot of metatextual things in the beginning that really bothered me; I've talked about it all I care to for now, but it made me squirm in unpleasant and uncomfortable ways and I felt really exposed. That's not a feeling I seek out in my video games. x_o

Also, HOLY SHIT DAHLIA.

Case ending was... seriously, just sjkghjkszhfl. I'd spoiled myself on WHAT Terry did in the end, but not HOW he did it, and knowing that it happens is not the same as WATCHING IT HAPPEN. The slow horror, watching him die on the stand - it might've been WORSE for my having known, because I could see the symptoms when they started and KNEW what was happening, and it took Mia and Edgeworth so long to catch on... No WONDER Mia was so badly traumatized. Poor baby...!

Poor Edgeworth too, holy shit. But that was... kind of a great little character moment. He's working to get this guy put away again, that's his JOB, this WILL end in execution for the man, and he's been such an asshole about it... but when he realizes what's happening, you can see that glimmer of who he really is.

STILL VERY TRAUMATIC THOUGH

Only one more after this, I promise.

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[flidgetjerome.livejournal.com]

I didn't find Mia's and Edgeworth's reactions that wrenching but this is because I know them and so my 'Oh Shit' moment came a bit later, when Armando very quietly snapped. Mia and Edgeworth I already know are thoroughly good people but that was, really, the first sign that anything ever gets to Armando/Godot.

It took a little while after that for it to sink in that an innocent man with the mind of a child was, more or less, murdered in court in front of them. It's a slow-grow trauma.

. . .

I'm finding it funny by the way, that in a franchise that has so far featured a bushel of mobsters, an arch-blackmailer and a master assassin the series supervillain turns out to be Phoenix's ex-girlfriend.

The Developers are all crazy rabid slash fangirls, I am telling you.

There is, by the way, some really bizarre symbolism about how Daliah kept going around murdering people with those little bottle necklaces and in the end Phoenix eats one and then helps defeat her.

And I still loved playing under the spectre of pre-ordained doom but you know that aleady. I think it may have helped, for me, that you play the later trial first and know, going into the first one, that Mia does defeat Daliah a year later.

[flidgetjerome.livejournal.com]

I'll say this, though - while I don't think it affected me as much as it affected you it has left me really tense when facing case 5. I'm just a few minutes in and already I'm tightly wound.

[fuyu]

Yeah, Armando's breaking point was done really well. Shattering the coffee mug in his hand, without the smile ever leaving his face...

And oh god, yes. I started going "Oh no..." when he mentioned the bottle. For some reason it hadn't occurred to me that it could be something THAT DAHLIA GAVE HIM for this precise purpose.

... XDDDD AND SHE IS A TERRIFYING EX-GIRLFRIEND AT THAT.

Yes, I hadn't thought of that at the time, but that does help. It's not such a feeling of crushing defeat when you know Dahlia gets her guilty verdict.

Oh dear, now I need to catch up don't I? I've got class today, but I think I may need to take a nap when I get home, so don't get too far ahead... XD