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.

  • 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.
    • Averted with the 2nd game's final case. It is paced much better than "Turnabout Ablaze", only having one real road bump near the beginning only because it was tying up the loose ends from Case 4 rather then dealing with the current murder at hand.
  • 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.

  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Colias Palaeno is rather well liked due to being genuinely helpful and cooperative to Edgeworth's investigation, as well just being a Nice Guy.
  • Escapist Character: Kay Faraday is what many Edgeworth fan girls dream of being. She's a cute 'modern-day Robin Hood' and gets to play assistant to Edgey, who feels a deep connection to her because of the parallels between her father's death and his. She's also Gumshoe's very best friend.
  • Even Better Sequel: Gyakuten Kenji 2 aimed to be bigger and more dramatic than the original, evident by the "final case" feel that the first case of the game was shooting for (and achieved).
  • 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.
    • To a lesser extent, that ice cream salesman. He waits just long enough to convince you his is just a cameo appearance...
  • 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: The sequel not being released in the West due to the first Ace Attorney Investigations selling poorly. Fans are still clamoring for it to come stateside. At least a Fan Translation came over.
  • 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?
  • That One Boss: Dammit, Quercus! This guy has to be the most annoying boss-examination ever.
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