Dahlia Hawthorne Mind Brand Edit

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

they talk about "the darkness" across aa4 and aa5 with the same weight as "ends justify the means" in turnabout academy

It’s always kind of obvious to me that Ace Attorney really wants to critique power on a systemic level but due to the story surrounding Ace attorney it never seems able to go the full distance, due to an underlying fear of potentially realizing they might be the bad guy. Or upholding the powers that be. Therefore they can’t really make any grand sweeping, direct claims about how it might fail. So instead it points at individual actors and say “they’re abusing these good system” rather than interrogate how this actually happened and how they were enabled or how these systems benefit from the harm that causes other.