SO I GUESS I’M TALKING ABOUT EDGEWORTH.As a note:  I’m currently playing the Ace At

SO I GUESS I’M TALKING ABOUT EDGEWORTH.As a note:  I’m currently playing the Ace Attorney games for the first time properly, but I’ve got a fair amount of fannish osmosis going on, but still NO SPOILERS, I want to discover things for myself!  I’m reasonably sure I’ll end up liking Edgeworth eventually, but I’m in a weird position of being pre-biased in favor of him and then… this moment happens.Friends assure me that you can (eventually) see how he gets to this point, but I worry that knowing that ahead of time makes me assume there’ll be something major happening and it won’t be enough for me to turn around on him, that I’ll expect more and get something that should have been an organic process instead being, “…that’s it?” for me.So let me talk through what’s annoying the shit out of me here/what I’ve seen so far of Edgeworth!  (I’m in the middle of the Steel Samurai case, so I haven’t finished the first game yet.)“There’s no way to tell who’s guilty and who is innocent!”THAT’S YOUR JOB.  THAT’S LITERALLY YOUR JOB.  Even allowing for the totally borked world that is Ace Attorney (and I can accept that we’re not using real world logic here, but even going within the universe of AA itself), that is literally what they’re doing with a trial–telling lies from truths, sussing out who’s lying and proving it.  That’s literally the job.For awhile I was thinking, well, he’s just really, really tough on crime–but when it became obvious that Redd White (in case 1-2) was lying and had murdered Mia, Edgeworth gave him an out by saying, well, he was there for the wiretapping.  Like, do you have principles or not?  If he’s just really, really zealous about crime, why the hell would he give a murder an out?  Or does he only care about what the court sets down as guilty/innocent and then he’ll do everything he can to see that through to the end, even when it’s obvious that he’s helping a guilty person?(REMEMBER:  NO SPOILERS.)Maybe the game will have an answer for me on this, but right now it feels like it’d be pretty hard to pull something like this off well enough to get me to buy it, when that allowed Redd White to almost walk really stuck in my craw a lot.When “well, I can’t tell who’s innocent and who’s guilty (even when it’s pretty obvious), so I’m just going to put EVERYONE in jail” seems like a really dick move.Maybe this is bumping up against how very obvious things are to me, the player, but I should accept that within the world itself they’re not that obvious. Maybe Edgeworth really believed that White was innocent of Mia’s murder, maybe something else.  But I’m still in that cognitive dissonance place where I’m like, “….really?  Nobody saw that coming?  Nobody at all?  And I thought you guys were supposed to be smart.  orz”(I want to be clear that I’m definitely enjoying the game!  And I’m curious to see where this goes!  But I’m definitely having a little trouble wrapping my mind around some of the internal consistency of the mechanics of this world.) -- source link

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