"I'm so sick of Khura'in!"
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With Trucy I felt like nobody knew what to do with her, and then they just used a bunch of placeholder dialogue for her (seriously, all she can talk about is magic panties and make silly comments) and given that Maya is most likely very involved this time I don't expect her to be treated as poorly but I am still afraid that she'll be completely toned down in her energetic or maybe worse, that she just becomes Kay or Athena-like.
Aside from that, I mostly liked how they treated Edgeworth... well, in terms of role that is. He was great in DD and AAI2 but not so much AAI and I thought his characterization was off in DD. To me they mostly treat returning characters fine. It's a different team, a different vision so it'll never be 1:1 Takumi. I'd like to see any story that was continued by another writer wihout losing some of its tone or spark; the upcoming Uncharted is in a similar situation and I am already expecting something different.
I thought Gumshoe was the most painfully handled returning character out of all of them and therefore I'm okay with him not being back again, but I think Franziska was very underdeveloped in JFA actually so she was easy to take on for the new team and I think they did her more than justice.
But as for Pearl, all the cameos in AAI or AAI2 (except Ema for some reason) and to some extent Klavier I think they all slightly lose something in the process but it's never offensively bad for either. They get their basics right but I wish they had the ability to go beyond that and make them feel like real people again.
Anyway, the B-Team; Yamazaki and Co. is on the main franchise... you know, the one Capcom wants to milk and I don't think there's any way they would let them make their own division of the franchise with solely unique characters while Takumi is also doing that. Yamazaki's team have been and will always be about the fanservice in the end, even if that could be more Eshiro making those decisions every time. They need their Phoenix Wright and Maya fey to sell $$$
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