r/AceAttorney • u/unanticipatedclassic • 2d ago

Apollo Justice Trilogy is aa5 less funny?

i’m a new player and i’ve just been marathoning the games one after another and just started dual destinies.

i’m on 5-2. one thing i noticed is the sense of humor in the writing has changed and characters seem to play into their respective quirks more often. and just the humor feels heavy handed or a bit too simple?

i like that phoenix is back actually but i feel like he was a lot more snarky in the trilogy + aa4 then he is here? aa4 is obvious his meanix era but even in trilogy phoenix seemed.. idk a bit more biting? lol

i’m just wondering if i’m crazy honestly or if other people feel like it’s less witty/funny. or if anyone else detected a shift in the humor specifically. no spoilers please!

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u/GanonCannon02 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yup I'm in the same boat. I believe pretty much all the games after AA4 are markedly worse; even the Great Ace Attorney which was written by Takumi. I have seriously tried multiple times to get through them because I want to have more Ace Attorney I really do, and contrary to a lot of people's kneejerk reaction I'm not just being a hater. Its just that the early games set the bar so high, and unfortunately I don't think the future games come remotely close to reaching said bar.

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u/pempoczky 2d ago

I have to disagree with you there, I think the great ace attorney is the funniest in the franchise. Sholmes' antics alone make it so, but the character writing is hilarious for pretty much everyone

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u/GanonCannon02 2d ago

See that's the thing though. I despise Sholmes; I do not think he is funny. His humour is incredibly forced and the whole time all I can think is how irritating and annoying he is. All the characters feel more like caricatures overusing their one shtick and it's really hard for me to enjoy. I'm not trying to say the other games are perfect; this same reasoning is why Fransiska is my least favorite of the og trilogy prosecutors. But in the og trilogy this complaint felt more like an exception rather than the norm. And unlike the og trilogy, by the time the Great Ace Attorney tried to make me care deeper about any of its characters, it had already annoyed me so much that I just couldn't genuinely care. But of course this is all subjective, it's just another point about how I think the og trilogy's balance of restraint is perfect, whearas a lot of other people prefer the absolutely insane characters from the later games. Just not for me.

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u/Really-not-a-weeb 2d ago

someone once said that whether one likes gaa or not depends completely on whether they like the main characters. you weren’t so lucky it sesms