Countdown post - Turnabout Memories
Feb. 13th, 2008 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
croikHm, haven't played this since T&T came out. I like this case a lot better when it's rushed.
Phoenix has some pretty bonehead lines in this case ("Dollie doesn't poop!" comes to mind) but you can skip a lot of that madness when you know what you're doing. I don't really like Phoenix much in this case because he's such a dork and a crybaby, but I guess it does excentuate some of his character traits: his undying trust in those he cares about, his sometimes childish reactions. I am glad he grew out of eating evidence, though.
This is also, supposedly, the point in which Phoenix becomes especially sensitive to betrayal. He's always seemed like the kind of person that had a few close friends, rather than a lot of friends, so losing his "first love" must have been devastating (even though he acts like it wasn't at the end). After getting Edgeworth as a friend and then losing him shortly afterwards in a similar manner, it's no surprise that he reacts with a great deal of bitterness in JFA. Guy's got some abandonment issues.
Except, that doesn't stop him from neglecting to contact people for months at a time. Sometimes I wonder if Edgeworth hadn't left a note at the end of 1-5, would Phoenix have even noticed he was gone XD;;; From the sound of it they don't speak for an entire year after 2-4. Phoenix treats his friends very casually for someone so used to losing them...
All interesting parts of his personality, really~
On the other hand, there's Mia. I don't like her as a know-it-all and I don't like her any better as a nervous newbie. When you do flashbacks like this, it really should be interesting to see how a person used to be, but...I don't really care if Mia was nervous when she was new. Everyone is. And since Mia didn't really expan on any of her feelings over finally getting Dahlia, even on replay it's not that powerful. This is why I don't like cases presented out of chronology: 3-1 is supposed to be a huge victory, the culmination of a year long wish for vengence, but since you're not supposed to know that yet you don't see Mia react very much at all.
I think it was a mistake for T&T to put so much of the focus on Godot and his relationship to Mia (and visa versa) when they clearly weren't prepared to deal with them fully.
And lastly, Dahlia's a great villain. It's good to see a female villain who can compete with the men in terms of being totally heartless, but also have a lot of character. Sometimes it's easy in video games for the female characters to be shallower than the men (because it's usually men writing) and PW suffers from that a little, I think, in certain areas (*cough*Feys*cough*) but there are some genuinely great female characters as well, like Adrian and Dahlia and Makoto.
3-2 is tomorrow. I love Ronnie <333 (despite his unfortunate localized name)
Phoenix has some pretty bonehead lines in this case ("Dollie doesn't poop!" comes to mind) but you can skip a lot of that madness when you know what you're doing. I don't really like Phoenix much in this case because he's such a dork and a crybaby, but I guess it does excentuate some of his character traits: his undying trust in those he cares about, his sometimes childish reactions. I am glad he grew out of eating evidence, though.
This is also, supposedly, the point in which Phoenix becomes especially sensitive to betrayal. He's always seemed like the kind of person that had a few close friends, rather than a lot of friends, so losing his "first love" must have been devastating (even though he acts like it wasn't at the end). After getting Edgeworth as a friend and then losing him shortly afterwards in a similar manner, it's no surprise that he reacts with a great deal of bitterness in JFA. Guy's got some abandonment issues.
Except, that doesn't stop him from neglecting to contact people for months at a time. Sometimes I wonder if Edgeworth hadn't left a note at the end of 1-5, would Phoenix have even noticed he was gone XD;;; From the sound of it they don't speak for an entire year after 2-4. Phoenix treats his friends very casually for someone so used to losing them...
All interesting parts of his personality, really~
On the other hand, there's Mia. I don't like her as a know-it-all and I don't like her any better as a nervous newbie. When you do flashbacks like this, it really should be interesting to see how a person used to be, but...I don't really care if Mia was nervous when she was new. Everyone is. And since Mia didn't really expan on any of her feelings over finally getting Dahlia, even on replay it's not that powerful. This is why I don't like cases presented out of chronology: 3-1 is supposed to be a huge victory, the culmination of a year long wish for vengence, but since you're not supposed to know that yet you don't see Mia react very much at all.
I think it was a mistake for T&T to put so much of the focus on Godot and his relationship to Mia (and visa versa) when they clearly weren't prepared to deal with them fully.
And lastly, Dahlia's a great villain. It's good to see a female villain who can compete with the men in terms of being totally heartless, but also have a lot of character. Sometimes it's easy in video games for the female characters to be shallower than the men (because it's usually men writing) and PW suffers from that a little, I think, in certain areas (*cough*Feys*cough*) but there are some genuinely great female characters as well, like Adrian and Dahlia and Makoto.
3-2 is tomorrow. I love Ronnie <333 (despite his unfortunate localized name)
