it's very cute that edgeworth has just kind of accepted his role in playing along with kay's "great thief" shtick

annoying that i forget basically everything about every mystery in this game other than the ultimate villain of the overarching plot, but idk that i'm ever going to forget that one

at least in the fan translation (which i'm playing just because i can have it on my phone) it's very funny that

when you go into a "click what you want to investigate section", there's a different line from edgeworth depending on whether or not there's anything left to find

the one for "you already saw everything" is "I already checked this area earlier, but it never hurts to take another look."

so it says that and then edgeworth immediately leaves because i, the player, know there's nothing to find

man. i'm a prosecutor. why are all these people talking to me without their lawyer present

there's a scene i like from columbo where columbo figures out that the person he's talking to has secrets that are like, a little immoral, but not illegal and not worth having your life ruined over, and instructs him to get a lawyer and not talk to any of his coworkers without them present

wild thing to hear from a cop, very funny

iirc he's having an affair which is like, terrible, obviously, but it's less bad than doing murder

the aai2 fan translators really love the phrase "nook and cranny"

i remembered that there was a flashback case where you play as gregory edgeworth

i did not remember the chapter beginning with raymond saying "in the end, he was declared guilty in court". that's a downer

there's an interesting inversion of themes between this game's portrayal of miles playing defense and nick learning to be a defense attorney in the main series

nick has always fought for the helpless, it's why he became a lawyer in the first place. he needs encouragement sometimes but his values are such that he's in this to fight like hell for his client. the bluffing and everything comes fairly naturally to him because he will not let the trial end, not while there's any ounce of fight still in him. that's why it's such a huge deal in 2-4 where he has to decide what kind of attorney he is; what he does when the client he's fighting for is guilty. he has to decide that he's fighting on behalf of his client, but for the truth

miles, at least in this game, is kind of the opposite. at this point in the timeline he's already on board for fighting for the truth. no dirty tricks, no perfect record, his goal is to uncover the truth. and he kind of has to learn from raymond that he does have to play the game, he does have to fight until the bitter end for his client, because nobody else will. even before he knows for sure, he has to believe, because if nobody believes the truth will be lost. he has to decide to start bluffing, explicitly putting the truth aside for now because if he doesn't, it's all over. he can't just fight for the truth, he has to fight for simon

they end up in much the same place, "both sides have to fight tooth and nail because it's in the confrontation between whem that the truth is found", but they come at it from different directions

again, i'm playing the fan translation for DS, not the official localization

however

i really like the voice actor they got for gregory edgeworth. his is really good. it's like, powerful, but not showy. he's not shouting over you or putting you down. he's cutting in, respectfully, but forcefully enough that you can't shut him down

he doesn't have to shout you down. he stands with the force of the truth at his back