Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth/YMMV

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Take general series tropes to Ace Attorney, and take tropes specific to the Phoenix arc and Apollo Justice to those pages, please.

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• And the Fandom Rejoiced: Making Miles Edgeworth the star of Investigations rather than Ema Skye as originally planned was probably the best idea the developers ever had.
  • And recently the fandom's been going nuts over the appearance of a certain Mr. Shelly de Killer in the AAI-2 trailer.
  • Case 3 of AAI2: you play as Gregory Edgeworth. Your rival for the case? Manfred von Karma. You even get to cross-examine him.
• Base Breaker: Kay, particularly among those who like the first three games best.
• Complete Monster: Quercus Alba. The other characters even call him a Complete Monster for his complete lack of empathy towards others.
  • His dragon, Calisto Yew, is just as bad.
  • And in Investigations 2 Bansai Ichiyanagi.
• Disappointing Last Level: Compared to the other games in series, the final case is unusually long. It has far more chapters than any other case in the series. Just when you think it's finally over, it's not. Some fans have even criticized the finale for dragging out too long, and making the ending more tedious than satisfying, compared to the other games which arguably all had huge final boss takedowns.
• Ending Fatigue: While you have to give the Big Bad of Investigations credit for being so tenacious, two full gameplay segments devoted just to cross-examining Alba is too goddamn long.
  • The entire last case can be considered to fall into this (it is the game's ending, after all). As Edgeworth himself says halfway through the case,

Edgeworth: It's almost enough to make one completely mentally exhausted.

• Foe Yay: Shi-Long Lang and Edgeworth in Investigations.

Lang: (to Edgeworth) My ignorant little pretty boy.

• • There's also Edgeworth and Calisto Yew.

Ha ha! You're sending the biggest chill down my spine, Edgeworth..!

• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Any time in the fourth case where Edgeworth defends Manfred von Karma's actions.
  • And in the sequel, Tateyuki makes several jokes about Von Karma upon his introduction. Even Gumshoe considers them this.
    • Turns out he was Invoking this trope deliberately, as he still belives Edgeworth and von Karma are Not So Different.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Many people considered the reveal in the Apollo Justice game that Ema failed her exam and thus didn't achieve her dream quite harsh. With that knowledge, play case 3, where she appears as the same highly ambitious Genki Girl she was in the first game.
• Hell Is That Noise: Quercus Alba's villainous objections. Von Karma's in the sequel.
• Internet Backdraft: Fans are not taking the announcement that the sequel may not be released in the west very well.
• Memetic Badass: Detective Badd.
• Memetic Mutation: Quercus Alba is evolving!
• Most Annoying Sound: Quercus Alba and Calisto Yew's Objections are both particularly annoying, as Alba's is really low and demonic whilst Calisto's sounds just whiny and weak. Not to mention the sheer lack of any personality or interest in the latter's voice.
  • Personally, I think the slow 'OB-JECT-TION!' was really suitable for his character and sounded great. I also think Calisto Yew's objection also fit her. Can you honestly state that she was the kind of person to put much oomph into an objection?
• Nightmare Fuel
  • In the intro to case three, Edgeworth gets attacked by a person with a sword in a Proto Badger suit with empty eyes. And in case 5, there's Quercus Alba's breakdown where parts of his face fly off!
  • Also in Case 5, Shih-na laughing a second time.
  • The second case of the second game's introduction, which features Manosuke lying dead in a dank, eerily-lit prison, bleeding heavily (by the series' standards) from a neck wound inflicted by a hound with a bloodied snout...
  • It features an utterly terrifying-looking ex-assassin (who is the owner of said dog), several of the inmates threaten to kill you when questioned, said inmates are later dragged off screaming to the "Disiplinary Room" for refusing to co-operate, the very first contradiction you have to point out is that the victim couldn't have screamed because he was stabbed in the throat and the real culprit committed the murder out of panic due to having been driven insane from paranoia And it gets worse [warning, HEAVY SPOILERS]: The cheerful, upbeat ending becomes pure Fridge Horror after playing Case 5. That nice, innocent guy you get off the hook? He's the freaking Big Bad!! Tateyuki even lampshades it by saying something to the effect of "We're in a prison, what did you expect?"
• That One Boss: Dammit, Quercus! This guy has to be the most annoying boss-examination ever.