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.
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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.
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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.