The first game in the series is made as a form of criticism of Japanese law system

The series would be better without the silly magic stuff and instead just focus on the law.

Psyche-locks were dumb but the investigation portions prior to having those were also kinda lame.

alright but ace attorney investigations was pure kino, though

>>the first game in the series is made as a form of criticism of Japanese law system
Why do retards still believe this?

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Yeah I just don't care about your shit opinions. I've played every game in the series and enjoyed every one of them.

/qa/ won

Apollo Justice was literally ruined because Capcom execs wanted to shove in a more "hopeful" message that the Japanese legal system is still alright. So they shilled for a jury system reform introduced that same year in Japan, and cancelled shortly after.
Spirit of Justice was like "at least we're not as bad as authoritarian regimes where lawyers are killed on sight" with one of the weirdest out-there strawman of a legal system ever depicted in fiction.

The first game's critique of the Japanese legal system is still unparalleled. Von Karma is supposed to be a Japanese expat coming back from muh America (it is the case in the Japanese version) and they kiss the ground he walks on thinking he's a modern, innovative, genius thinker and a prosecutor who is reforming the legal system the most. Only to end up being one of the most crooked characters in the entire series even resorting to nepotism to further his personal interests. Japanese bureaucracy meets toxic western sociopath elite individualism.
Second game has Phoenix struggling with moral dilemma being knowingly a defense attorney for a known murderer and taking instructions from another murderer to frame an innocent person. Third game has a defendant who's so trapped the only way out for him is suicide on court. The rest (safe for GAA, which depicts a supposedly morally superior British legal system supposedly taken as a role model, forgoing basic decency when politics interfere) is incredibly sanitized in comparison.

>game sets up Jury System
>wonder what kind of crazy shenanigans AA5 and AA6 will have with this new system
>the system literally was implemented just to catch this one (1) guy and then went back to being unused

Cool.

It's weird, because AA4 is probably the most bleak game in terms of the state of the legal system.

>Phoenix disbarred
>the most successful lawyer at the time is a corrupt murderer
>yakuza just casually walking the streets
>interpol (?) guy was involved in smuggling

Its cause every fucking case sucks in that game apart from last one and even that has major ass pull at the end. Case 2 and 3 are both big top tier.

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>Jury system
Only exists because some Japanese officials decided to implement it and told Capcom to shill for it a little bit. So AA4 hypes it up as the ultimate hope for the legal system that will fix everything.

Then the nip government drops it.
Suddenly what was pro-government propaganda becomes an incredible embarrassment if it is ever mentioned again in the games, so they never use it again.
Games chasing current year virtue signaling and getting fucked and outdated in the short to middle term, many such cases.

>the first game in the series is made as a form of criticism of Japanese law system

Says who faggot? First case had spirit medium, Mia possessing Maya and Maya gaining large tits.

You people are faggots for agreeing with this worthless sack of shit

because the story is pants on head retarded
>time travelling poisoned nailpolish
the fuck were they thinking

I agree with everything, except your judgement on GAA. The way that game frames Japan's incompetence in its legal system is not more sanitized than the OG Trilogy. The game starts with the Japanese government choosing to frame the protagonist as a scapegoat to maintain international relations and avoid a war rather than pursuing justice. It also explores inherent biases in the legal system: 1) The fear of the new age of the law is represented by how Auchi scoffs at the new generation, represented by Kazuma and Ryunosuke (sidenote, I really like how they made a Payne family member a relevant contributor to the overall plot and not just some joke); 2) The rampant sexism, discrimination, and racism that cloud justice; 3) The complete absence of forensic techniques, which gives rise to a less evidence-based court system and instead makes the court system more "common sense" and "emotion"-based and thus inferior; 4) The Japanese media and government covering all this up. All these biases are a scathing critique of Japan's judicial system. The OG Trilogy does not go much further than "corruption lol" in its critique.

It's not present in the original GBA version.