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Let's see. So far the reason why I don't like Kay is the blatant favoritism. It feels like one of those characters that's been put into a story revolving around them in order to put a certain main character in the middle of it. I couldn't take her seriously either. Looking back, Maya holds the spot for Best Teen Girl Sidekick because she's childish(but just actually kind of insane) but mostly mature, and smart too. I didn't take to Ema at first but I liked her at the end because of the grief that overtook her near the ending of the case. Trucy not so much. Kay...too bad. I ended up sighing a lot when Kay jumped the "we can do it!" train in case 5 and everyone's moods did a 180, and on top of that, she didn't DO much up till that point!
Bottom line: Having a hyper teenage girl like Kay with Edgeworth doesn't work. It just doesn't. The people who were suggesting the idea of Kay and Shih-na switching places as assistants appealed to me more than the canon version. Edgeworth's mature, more mature than our Nicky Boy. And he deserves a woman, not a loli. </my two cents>
Bottom line: Having a hyper teenage girl like Kay with Edgeworth doesn't work. It just doesn't. The people who were suggesting the idea of Kay and Shih-na switching places as assistants appealed to me more than the canon version. Edgeworth's mature, more mature than our Nicky Boy. And he deserves a woman, not a loli. </my two cents>
Honestly, I think Edgeworth did just fine with Franziska and Gumshoe. Gumshoe's kind of an adult male Maya as far as personality goes, and Franziska is actually pretty smart as a partner, just not as imaginative as Edgeworth. Gumshoe-Edgeworth reminded me of Nick-Maya and was great for comedic relief, but Franziska-Edgeworth was more of a mismatched buddy cop thing, where Franziska was the by-the-books investigator who was perfectly competent but didn't have much of an imagination and Edgeworth was really slipping into Phoenix's shoes and being the intuitive guy with crazy leaps of logic that turn out to be true more often than not. There were a few times where I felt that Franziska was being dumbed-down by the writers so she wouldn't get to the truth before Edgeworth did (because Edgeworth always has to wait for player input before he says something, but there were some things obvious enough that it seemed odd that Franny didn't notice), but most of those were when Franziska had the excuse of being 13.
As for Kay, she didn't work with Edgeworth as well as Franziska or Gumshoe, but she wasn't exactly game-breaking. I didn't mind her, but I wasn't a fan either. AAI2 should be all Edgey-Franny all the time. Not necessarily as a romantic couple or anything (I personally don't see it), they just have some amazing lines when they're together.
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Kay is, like, the best female sidekick supporting character just because she is more - and more consistently - helpful and competent than Maya, Trucy, or Pearl; Mary Sues be damned.
That pretty well sums up how I feel, I didn't think there was anything wrong with Kay. She's not my favorite assistant, for sure, but she was just fine.
I still like Trucy better though.
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Give me back my Edgey-Gumshoe love, dammit!
It was also mentioned before that teen girl sidekicks are kind of overused, and I have to agree. :( But what I really didn't like was most likely, her unceasing hyperness. I would've accepted it quietly if she was 14 or 15 like Trucy. But girls at her age are usually a lot more serious and less....I don't know.....naive and zesty. She doesn't have to be as serious as Franny, but just as level-headed. On that note, I felt Franny's presence as a bold woman dissipating as the game progressed. Kay was also stubborn and refuses to see the truthfully contradicting idea of a vigilante being anything but a trustworthy person. Vigilantes have been rulebreakers ever since the beginning of time, and they're mostly self-justified and use underhanded means to get their way. Even Badd and Edgeworth know that much. In other words, she was like a total kid. x.x And nothing will change her mind. Who knows what Kay will be like in her 30's? Unchanged? My god.
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Now that I think about it again, Kay isn't that bad of a character. I still don't like her. I prefer Maya over her. I mean I tried to look past the fact her and Maya will never be the same and I should never compare them together but Kay is overall useless. Sure, she's got the Little Thief but what else has she got?
Um, a lot more than Maya. She doesn't do anything very useful except channel her older and more experienced sister; if anyone should receive credit, it's Mia because she's the one being directly involved in Phoenix's most dire situations and helping him out of jam, not a teenage girl who's been kidnapped and framed a lot more than a thief who can recreate crime scenes and is almost always on the same train of thought as the lead protagonist.
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Icarus wrote:
Arti_Rei wrote:
Let's see. So far the reason why I don't like Kay is the blatant favoritism. It feels like one of those characters that's been put into a story revolving around them in order to put a certain main character in the middle of it. I couldn't take her seriously either. Looking back, Maya holds the spot for Best Teen Girl Sidekick because she's childish(but just actually kind of insane) but mostly mature, and smart too. I didn't take to Ema at first but I liked her at the end because of the grief that overtook her near the ending of the case. Trucy not so much. Kay...too bad. I ended up sighing a lot when Kay jumped the "we can do it!" train in case 5 and everyone's moods did a 180, and on top of that, she didn't DO much up till that point!
Bottom line: Having a hyper teenage girl like Kay with Edgeworth doesn't work. It just doesn't. The people who were suggesting the idea of Kay and Shih-na switching places as assistants appealed to me more than the canon version. Edgeworth's mature, more mature than our Nicky Boy. And he deserves a woman, not a loli. </my two cents>
Bottom line: Having a hyper teenage girl like Kay with Edgeworth doesn't work. It just doesn't. The people who were suggesting the idea of Kay and Shih-na switching places as assistants appealed to me more than the canon version. Edgeworth's mature, more mature than our Nicky Boy. And he deserves a woman, not a loli. </my two cents>
Honestly, I think Edgeworth did just fine with Franziska and Gumshoe. Gumshoe's kind of an adult male Maya as far as personality goes, and Franziska is actually pretty smart as a partner, just not as imaginative as Edgeworth. Gumshoe-Edgeworth reminded me of Nick-Maya and was great for comedic relief, but Franziska-Edgeworth was more of a mismatched buddy cop thing, where Franziska was the by-the-books investigator who was perfectly competent but didn't have much of an imagination and Edgeworth was really slipping into Phoenix's shoes and being the intuitive guy with crazy leaps of logic that turn out to be true more often than not. There were a few times where I felt that Franziska was being dumbed-down by the writers so she wouldn't get to the truth before Edgeworth did (because Edgeworth always has to wait for player input before he says something, but there were some things obvious enough that it seemed odd that Franny didn't notice), but most of those were when Franziska had the excuse of being 13.
As for Kay, she didn't work with Edgeworth as well as Franziska or Gumshoe, but she wasn't exactly game-breaking. I didn't mind her, but I wasn't a fan either. AAI2 should be all Edgey-Franny all the time. Not necessarily as a romantic couple or anything (I personally don't see it), they just have some amazing lines when they're together.
Seconded, every word. One thing I did notice is that Kay's a lot smarter than other sidekicks without pushing it too far, but still Franzy and Gumshoe as sidekicks all the way.
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Sure, she's more useful than her, but she's still a clone. I can see why some people think she's a Mary Sue, though that's not the main thing I dislike about her. It's her damn personality. Get over this archetype already, Capcom.
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I limited myself from seeing too much from before the game was released, but I did see previews here and there, so I knew she was going to be in the game before playing it. And instantly I spotted her to be the Maya clone. And she seemed pretty annoying just based on those first impressions, and it just seemed like she'd have no place next to Edgeworth at all, so I predicted myself finding a lot of angst against her.
As it turned out, I thought the explanation as to how she was able to tag along in case 3 was at least acceptable (Edgeworth wasn't ever in "control" of the investigation, so he had no power to stop Kay. As far as Lang was concerned, he probably thought leaving Kay with Edgeworth would've been fine). Then, because of her connection to Edgeworth in case 4, it made sense that Edgeworth would allow her to tag along at the embassy. Although, I never thought that there was a good reason for her to EVER replace Gumshoe, so, I felt Edgeworth was a little too accepting of her being as involved in case 5 as she was.
And Capcom, Little Thief is just dumb. Aside from the semantics of the techonology, all the "simulation" does is help someone with an exessively poor imagination, something which Edgeworth shouldn't have, and something that I would think Edgeworth would look at himself as "above" using. I could see Little Thief being useful for the purposes that it was intended for, i.e. to help a thief simulate a heist, because it's then a predictive tool. Practice makes perfect, as they say. However, Little Thief serves absolutely no purpose as a tool of hindsight, unless you're just dumb.
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And Capcom, Little Thief is just dumb. Aside from the semantics of the techonology, all the "simulation" does is help someone with an exessively poor imagination, something which Edgeworth shouldn't have, and something that I would think Edgeworth would look at himself as "above" using. I could see Little Thief being useful for the purposes that it was intended for, i.e. to help a thief simulate a heist, because it's then a predictive tool. Practice makes perfect, as they say. However, Little Thief serves absolutely no purpose as a tool of hindsight, unless you're just dumb.
So, I'm dumb for using a tool that was designed with the player in mind? Little Thief helps the player re-envision the crime scene as it was at a particular point in time and it's often used when more than one person is around. Remember, Little Thief is a hologram projection tool so anyone within it's area of projection can see the crime scene as well. It's a much more helpful tool for convincing people who can jump inside a person's head and experience their thoughts first-hand - which is impossible anyway - or for inspecting crime scenes that are inaccessible, like the Haunted House in Episode 3.
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So, I'm dumb for using a tool that was designed with the player in mind? Little Thief helps the player re-envision the crime scene as it was at a particular point in time and it's often used when more than one person is around. Remember, Little Thief is a hologram projection tool so anyone within it's area of projection can see the crime scene as well. It's a much more helpful tool for convincing people who can jump inside a person's head and experience their thoughts first-hand - which is impossible anyway - or for inspecting crime scenes that are inaccessible, like the Haunted House in Episode 3.
I'm saying Edgeworth wouldn't need a "tool" like that -- it would just be a waste of time for him; he could figure the crime scene out faster just by examining it. I think Agent Lang makes this point as well. The only reason why Lang was "wrong" was because Little Theif did the impossible with that Haunted House...
What I mean is that the only exception would be where LT would be useful would be where you can't actually examine that scence, as in the haunted house... however, unless you were already there beforehand uploading the schematics, the device is useless... How can a such a simulator recreate the inside of that haunted house with any accuracy? I'm sorry, but blueprints don't tell you what the walls look like, or where mirrors are going to be, etc. What was hilarious about it is that they uploaded the building schmatics based on blueprints, yet this didn't include the secret mirror wall, even though through all the other details that mirror wall would have obviously been in the blueprints.
Like I said, for the purposes something the Little Theif would be designed for, it's an ok gadget. For helping out Edgeworth on crime scenes, it's stupid.
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How can a such a simulator recreate the inside of that haunted house with any accuracy? I'm sorry, but blueprints don't tell you what the walls look like, or where mirrors are going to be, etc.
I think the MST3K mantra needs to be recited here; it's only a game.
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What was hilarious about it is that they uploaded the building schematics based on blueprints, yet this didn't include the secret mirror wall, even though through all the other details that mirror wall would have obviously been in the blueprints.
Looking back, I do find that a bit suspect. Unless, of course, it was a fairly recent addition to the haunted house, and thus the original blueprints did not contain it...or something. Eh, nothing to get too fussy over.
She was alright, Kay. At times I was suspect (gaining such friendship with Gumshoe for example), but when I just thought about the run of the series so far, I figured she wasn't doing anything too OP; (for example, Gumshoe really likes kids, so it's expected that he'll gain friendship with Kay).
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hannedog wrote:
Mr. Bear Jew wrote:
So, I'm dumb for using a tool that was designed with the player in mind? Little Thief helps the player re-envision the crime scene as it was at a particular point in time and it's often used when more than one person is around. Remember, Little Thief is a hologram projection tool so anyone within it's area of projection can see the crime scene as well. It's a much more helpful tool for convincing people who can jump inside a person's head and experience their thoughts first-hand - which is impossible anyway - or for inspecting crime scenes that are inaccessible, like the Haunted House in Episode 3.
I'm saying Edgeworth wouldn't need a "tool" like that -- it would just be a waste of time for him; he could figure the crime scene out faster just by examining it. I think Agent Lang makes this point as well. The only reason why Lang was "wrong" was because Little Theif did the impossible with that Haunted House...
What I mean is that the only exception would be where LT would be useful would be where you can't actually examine that scence, as in the haunted house... however, unless you were already there beforehand uploading the schematics, the device is useless... How can a such a simulator recreate the inside of that haunted house with any accuracy? I'm sorry, but blueprints don't tell you what the walls look like, or where mirrors are going to be, etc. What was hilarious about it is that they uploaded the building schmatics based on blueprints, yet this didn't include the secret mirror wall, even though through all the other details that mirror wall would have obviously been in the blueprints.
Like I said, for the purposes something the Little Theif would be designed for, it's an ok gadget. For helping out Edgeworth on crime scenes, it's stupid.
And, as I also said, it's a helpful tool for convincing people about the events that transpired at the crime scene at a designated point in time. Why would Edgeworth deny the use of a legal tool that could help him move closer to the truth while simultaneously convincing the people who doubt his hypotheses? It makes little sense that he wouldn't use the tool whenever he saw fit.
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Mr. Bear Jew wrote:
And, as I also said, it's a helpful tool for convincing people about the events that transpired at the crime scene at a designated point in time. Why would Edgeworth deny the use of a legal tool that could help him move closer to the truth while simultaneously convincing the people who doubt his hypotheses? It makes little sense that he wouldn't use the tool whenever he saw fit.
Why would Edgeworth deny the use of a legal tool? I told you why. It's slower and more cumbersome. It's quicker for Edgeworth to just use his imagination and then explain it out in words. In other words, it's a waste of time. Sure, it's "cool." So what? Investigators are about speed and accuracy, of which Little Theif assists them with neither. Speed is definitely not assisted, and accuracy can only be reduced. Again, Agent Lang has the same thoughts on the matter, so clearly the writers knew that LT was a bit of a suspect game device. But they had those bits in there anyway because they were "cool." I didn't buy it.
The only time things ever really got confusing in terms of visualization was with the "which side of the head did Edgeworth get hit on, and what dominant hand does that make the attacker?" I suspect this line of logic was the inspiration behind LT in the first place. Well, anyway, that line of logic already been pointed out to be contradictory. In short, LT is a waste of time; I'd be happy if it never showed up again.
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But why does it make a difference if the device makes no damn sense? The segments were pretty fun, and it's an anime lawyer game, so I can suspend disbelief a bit.
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But why does it make a difference if the device makes no damn sense? The segments were pretty fun, and it's an anime lawyer game, so I can suspend disbelief a bit.
I agree if the device doesn't make much sense to not worry about it -- I am not really trying to consider the semantics of the technology. But, I just think it's a tad out of character for Edgeworth to really use the device. I think, like Agent Lang, he'd find it a waste of time.
Secondly, I didn't find the segments very "fun" insofar as they were essentially the same thing as a real crime scene, except with some digitized manniquans standing about. Meanwhile the whole time you've got this thought in the back of your head that this is all just ridiculous.
The only time I felt this was somewhat useful was with visualizing what side of the head Edgeworth got hit on, but, if the semantics of such a line of argument are going to be so convoluted as that that they require the help of a visualizer like LT (they couldn't really pull it off convincingly, due to the contradiction pointed out on these forums), perhaps they shouldn't go for such lines of arguments that require visualizers at all in the first place.
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I agree if the device doesn't make much sense to not worry about it -- I am not really trying to consider the semantics of the technology. But, I just think it's a tad out of character for Edgeworth to really use the device. I think, like Agent Lang, he'd find it a waste of time.
Secondly, I didn't find the segments very "fun" insofar as they were essentially the same thing as a real crime scene, except with some digitized manniquans standing about. Meanwhile the whole time you've got this thought in the back of your head that this is all just ridiculous.
The only time I felt this was somewhat useful was with visualizing what side of the head Edgeworth got hit on, but, if the semantics of such a line of argument are going to be so convoluted as that that they require the help of a visualizer like LT (they couldn't really pull it off convincingly, due to the contradiction pointed out on these forums), perhaps they shouldn't go for such lines of arguments that require visualizers at all in the first place.
Secondly, I didn't find the segments very "fun" insofar as they were essentially the same thing as a real crime scene, except with some digitized manniquans standing about. Meanwhile the whole time you've got this thought in the back of your head that this is all just ridiculous.
The only time I felt this was somewhat useful was with visualizing what side of the head Edgeworth got hit on, but, if the semantics of such a line of argument are going to be so convoluted as that that they require the help of a visualizer like LT (they couldn't really pull it off convincingly, due to the contradiction pointed out on these forums), perhaps they shouldn't go for such lines of arguments that require visualizers at all in the first place.
Since the biggest defining feature of AAI:ME was that you could walk around and examine things personally, having a visualizer like LT so you can walk around and examine things makes a lot of sense from a gameplay perspective. It wouldn't be necessary in a game like Apollo Justice, where the recreations in the first two cases didn't need to be holographic projections you could walk around, but in a game like Miles Edgeworth, something you can walk around is a bit more in tune with the core gameplay.
I suppose that doesn't mean you have to like it, and it's too bad you didn't, but I enjoyed it, and we're probably not going to be able to convince each other.
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Icarus wrote:
Since the biggest defining feature of AAI:ME was that you could walk around and examine things personally, having a visualizer like LT so you can walk around and examine things makes a lot of sense from a gameplay perspective. It wouldn't be necessary in a game like Apollo Justice, where the recreations in the first two cases didn't need to be holographic projections you could walk around, but in a game like Miles Edgeworth, something you can walk around is a bit more in tune with the core gameplay.
I suppose that doesn't mean you have to like it, and it's too bad you didn't, but I enjoyed it, and we're probably not going to be able to convince each other.
I suppose that doesn't mean you have to like it, and it's too bad you didn't, but I enjoyed it, and we're probably not going to be able to convince each other.
I'm not trying to sway people from changing whether or not they liked LT. I'm just saying that, given it's a little far fetched in the first place, LT doesn't serve much of a purpose. Yes, it makes sense that you can "walk around and examine things." However, LT doesn't serve to enhance this very much compared to just observing it "in reality" (or "in situ" if you want to bust out some Latin... note that in situ does NOT mean "in reality"....). Thus, I viewed LT as nothing more than just a gimmick... whether you like that or not, that's up to you.
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This is getting off topic, but I don't see how Edgeworth making use of Little Thief while it's around is out of character or otherwise not worth his time. He's not a crime solving computer; even in the first case when they didn't have it he still "recreated" the crime scene by putting files back and replacing bodies to better visualize the scene, and to a lesser extent in case 2. Especially for a prosecutor who is used to having to present his case to a court anyway, I'm sure he was wishing he'd had his hands on something that useful earlier (even if it meant having to put up with its owner, hahaha).
I think the case 1 example kind of proves my point. How would have Little Theif really enhanced the investigation with the bookshelf in case 1? I mean, it's not like LT just reads your mind and automatically switches the scene accordingly. You have to move the books in real life. You have to move them in LT. What's the point? Either way, Edgeworth's partner is doing the labor
Plus, there's the additional setup time of getting the scene into LT. To me, as it was presented in the game, LT seemed gimmicky and, for the situations presented, didn't seem like something Edgeworth would take the time to bother with... I see him reacting like Agent Lang did to it. That's just me I guess.
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Regarding realism, while LT's capabilities are certainly exaggerated (you can input a complex building plan into a Pocket PC with just three button presses and no portable scanner or anything, Kay? Really?), it certainly makes more sense than a bracelet that fits so tightly it can "detect" the most subtle involuntary muscle twitches yet manages to not interfere with normal hand movement. At least the Magatama had the decency to tell us up front "It's magic!"
As for swapping Kay and Shih-na, I can't say I see that working. Shih-na's cold efficiency overlaps with Edgeworth's too much, and can any of you seriously imagine Kay smoothly sliding in to hand Agent Lang a scroll for when he forgets a certain bit of Lang Zi's wisdom, or performing their double finger point/reverse David Caruso Maneuver?
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She doesn't whip women, I noticed.
She does whip Ini Miney in 2-2 IIRC, though that's because Ini Miney is so aggravating to everyone.
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I could discuss why I feel this way, but its nothing that hasn't already been discussed ad-nauseum over the years. All I will say is that many fans give the original game way too much credit as far as character design. Larry, Sal, Oldbag, Lotta etc... were really all terrible characters but the original game was so unique and charming that people fell (arguably too much) in love with them.
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I could discuss why I feel this way, but its nothing that hasn't already been discussed ad-nauseum over the years. All I will say is that many fans give the original game way too much credit as far as character design. Larry, Sal, Oldbag, Lotta etc... were really all terrible characters but the original game was so unique and charming that people fell (arguably too much) in love with them.
I could discuss why I feel this way, but its nothing that hasn't already been discussed ad-nauseum over the years. All I will say is that many fans give the original game way too much credit as far as character design. Larry, Sal, Oldbag, Lotta etc... were really all terrible characters but the original game was so unique and charming that people fell (arguably too much) in love with them.
I'll give you Sal and Lotta, but Larry is awesome and Oldbag has her moments (although not enough moments to justify how much she's used IMO).
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I could discuss why I feel this way, but its nothing that hasn't already been discussed ad-nauseum over the years. All I will say is that many fans give the original game way too much credit as far as character design. Larry, Sal, Oldbag, Lotta etc... were really all terrible characters but the original game was so unique and charming that people fell (arguably too much) in love with them.
I could discuss why I feel this way, but its nothing that hasn't already been discussed ad-nauseum over the years. All I will say is that many fans give the original game way too much credit as far as character design. Larry, Sal, Oldbag, Lotta etc... were really all terrible characters but the original game was so unique and charming that people fell (arguably too much) in love with them.
I'll give you Sal and Lotta, but Larry is awesome and Oldbag has her moments (although not enough moments to justify how much she's used IMO).
Thats fair enough. Kinda goes with my point though that these characters are used so much because fans want all of the cameos from the original series/game over and over.
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Interactions would have been far more interesting, right, Edgey-poo? *grins*
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Concerning Little Thief. Whatever happened to sketchpads? And if a recreation of the crime scene by Little Thief is needed just to get the cogs turning, Polly must have a stronger imagination(proof of it in his first case). I won't denounce the usefulness of LT but it really is much like the
It's quite a plothole, and I wish Kay would get down from her thief's high long enough to have explained how she inputs the data and produces a floating holographic simulation, without having to hold up LT the whole time. Such strange and suspicious technology. And here I was hoping that the "real owner" of LT would show up as the final boss, claiming that Old Boy Byrne stole his gadget to become a hero and that the final boss is actually Kay's grandpa and that he was the idiot that put crazy ideas into his idealistic son's mind, which made him want to become a "Hero of Justice" that wants to put bad guys away, making Byrne some kind of insane puritan that would in the end condemn him as the scapegoat of a political killing--*STOPS*
Okay, I just veered off-topic! XD; Sorry.
Anyway, I really hoped to give Kay a chance from the start because I thought that even though she gave a first impression of the perky and not-so-serious assistant, in the end she'd learn a few hard truths and be a lot more serious, and also, look meaningful about her change of heart. It always turned out that way for me with Ema and Maya. But I was met with disappointment in the end. Don't ask me. I just really didn't get that deep vibe from her. She was actually kind of shallow, incapable of portraying true pain the way Ema and Maya did. Well Maya didn't do too well but she definitely did better than Kay. Trucy's crying sprite doesn't count either btw, nope. :X
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I believe that the main issue is her age. She's 17 but yet she's so selfish, she doesn't listen to others.
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Of the perky female side characters list, she's probably the only perky sidekick that shamelessly drags others into her own mess without care. I believe that the other sidekick will be more remorseful when they got someone taking bullets for them due to their own stupidity. Maya has bad luck after bad luck, but at least she knows how much of a trouble she is.
In short, Kay is just so self centered, Mary Sue or not. I hate cleaning her mess after mess when trouble maker doesn't even care.
Just a personal opinion.
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Opposite of what most people say (that if we know more about Kay, we will be able to accept her better), I actually thought Kay was okay in case 3, 4, and 5 start... until the mid to end part of case 5, where I found her seriously grating, enough to feel like strangling her whenever she had a line. I just hated her passionately, something that I very rarely feel from fictional characters.
I believe that the main issue is her age. She's 17 but yet she's so selfish, she doesn't listen to others.
Of the perky female side characters list, she's probably the only perky sidekick that shamelessly drags others into her own mess without care. I believe that the other sidekick will be more remorseful when they got someone taking bullets for them due to their own stupidity. Maya has bad luck after bad luck, but at least she knows how much of a trouble she is.
In short, Kay is just so self centered, Mary Sue or not. I hate cleaning her mess after mess when trouble maker doesn't even care.
Just a personal opinion.
I believe that the main issue is her age. She's 17 but yet she's so selfish, she doesn't listen to others.
Spoiler:
Of the perky female side characters list, she's probably the only perky sidekick that shamelessly drags others into her own mess without care. I believe that the other sidekick will be more remorseful when they got someone taking bullets for them due to their own stupidity. Maya has bad luck after bad luck, but at least she knows how much of a trouble she is.
In short, Kay is just so self centered, Mary Sue or not. I hate cleaning her mess after mess when trouble maker doesn't even care.
Just a personal opinion.
Now this is a valid gripe about the character. Her recklessness and selfishness are characteristics typical of teenagers, though. If anything, it just shows how adult Maya was.
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Spoiler: AAI-5
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Yeah, she's hopelessly immature, but is anyone going to claim that 1-3 Maya (in particular) was any different?
Spoiler: AAI-3, 1-2
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Kartoon Kween wrote:
Now this is a valid gripe about the character. Her recklessness and selfishness are characteristics typical of teenagers, though. If anything, it just shows how adult Maya was.
Based on personal experience, Kay's selfishness is not typical of 17 year olds. I'll give it if she's 14 or below. I think Maya is more like a typical 17 year old.
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Spoiler: AAI-5
Spoiler: 3-5
Yeah, she's hopelessly immature, but is anyone going to claim that 1-3 Maya (in particular) was any different?
Spoiler: AAI-3, 1-2
I fully realize that she has semi-justified reasons for most of her digging her own mess, but doing it multiple times in the span of a few hours is testing the limit of my patience.
Your comparison to Maya does not apply, at least to me. As I said, it's very rare for me to hate a fictional character. Maya being pushy and spoiled is not enough to make me snap. I'm replaying the first game, and just the fact that Maya tried to protect you from getting tasered by Von Karma in 1-4 (even though she failed) puts her miles above Kay.
As for Phoenix, the comparison does not apply well. Nick did that for Maya, not for himself (maybe we can say that people help others for their own sake, but I like to believe in human decency). I can sympathize with his recklessness much better than Kay.
I think what the game needs is some time for Kay to show more remorse and gratitude towards others (especially to Lang), just a couple of empty lines won't do IMHO. I guess the in-game time span for case 5 simply doesn't allocate much time for her character development. As I said before, I don't hate the fact that I have to cover for her mess (Maya has made bigger mess). It's the fact that Kay is so unrepentant and so ungrateful about it that pissed me off.
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p-kun wrote:
Kartoon Kween wrote:
Now this is a valid gripe about the character. Her recklessness and selfishness are characteristics typical of teenagers, though. If anything, it just shows how adult Maya was.
Based on personal experience, Kay's selfishness is not typical of 17 year olds. I'll give it if she's 14 or below. I think Maya is more like a typical 17 year old.
You mean based on your personal experience. From what I remember of high school, 17 year olds are pretty darn self-centered. I mean, I don't mean to generalize, but...
...actually, I do mean to generalize. Teenagers suck, lol.
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Kartoon Kween wrote:
p-kun wrote:
Kartoon Kween wrote:
Now this is a valid gripe about the character. Her recklessness and selfishness are characteristics typical of teenagers, though. If anything, it just shows how adult Maya was.
Based on personal experience, Kay's selfishness is not typical of 17 year olds. I'll give it if she's 14 or below. I think Maya is more like a typical 17 year old.
You mean based on your personal experience. From what I remember of high school, 17 year olds are pretty darn self-centered. I mean, I don't mean to generalize, but...
...actually, I do mean to generalize. Teenagers suck, lol.
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Word to those above me who say Maya>Kay.
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^If by "brave AND smart", you mean "reckless AND deus ex machina material", then yes. Edgeworth seems to have lost his pair in cases 3 and 5. (and half at 4)
She was a bit reckless, but then again, she was going after
Spoiler: c4
Spoiler: c5
As for Deus Ex Machina, not really. Everything she did was established previously.
Spoiler: c4+5
So I'm going to have to disagree with you about her being a DEM.
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Arti_Rei wrote:
^If by "brave AND smart", you mean "reckless AND deus ex machina material", then yes. Edgeworth seems to have lost his pair in cases 3 and 5. (and half at 4)
She was a bit reckless, but then again, she was going after
Spoiler: c4
Spoiler: c5
As for Deus Ex Machina, not really. Everything she did was established previously.
Spoiler: c4+5
So I'm going to have to disagree with you about her being a DEM.
The "reckless" is where she charges into a burning building(and miraculously not getting hurt, but who knows?), and charging at Shih-na's provocations about her father. Well, I understand the latter being done even though she should have listened to Edgeworth's warning...I think the problem here was none of the sprites moved to restrain her, lol.
And to think Franny's whip could have been used to wrap around her leg and trip her over before trying anything.The "DEM" bit is pointed right at the presence of Little Thief in her hands, recalling Case 3. I feel like Edgeworth could have been able to prove Lance's guilt w/o Little Thief. He just HAD to, idk. And I can't believe that someone as clever and as calculating as Alba gets tricked by a teenage girl with a bluff. He just fell for the lie without challenging her. And you know, I find anything she says hard to believe. Preserving fingerprints? Oooooh, how does that work?
..................................................No really, how does it work? Don't tell me you're not going to explain how? On the other hand *googles the stuff*, the most basic methods of preserving fingerprints is by either the use of fingerprint powder and special tape(heck, just clear tape would do it). Did we see any indication of either method used? No. Any iodine fuming and laser technology references made? No! So how the hell did she do it? Stuff the bottle into a plastic bag and refrigerate it for seven years? I'm not going to buy the excuse of, "the picture just didn't show it", because we could clearly examine the bottle.
And when the hell did she just realize that she could preserve the fingerprints? Must have been AFTER she put her own fingerprints all over the bottle.It's not even just this. I could go on but this isn't a full-blown argument over anything big so I won't. It's been mentioned in the Case 5 discussion, and I've mentioned it myself already: "Don't give up guys, we can do it!" doesn't count as pep talk, UNLESS she starts pulling her own weight around instead of just tagging along with Edgey and being asked on the situation, and then making a few more "thieving" remarks along the way.
And fake Yatagarasu or no, a girl who doesn't know martial arts or doesn't carry a taser(or a whip) chasing a fake, is no better off than that fake themselves, especially when said fake is most likely armed, dangerous, and laughing in your ear after getting suckered.
Well, she didn't laugh but you know what I mean.
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