The many faces of Apollo Justice
The 4th entry of the mainline Ace Attorney series, Apollo Justice, is the game I find the most interesting of the entire series. It represents an inflexion point, a look into what the series could have become if Phoenix never took back the spotlight from Apollo, a new era of Ace Attorney focused on the new generation of lawyers and prosecutors as they work to overcome the dark age of the law brought upon by Phoenix and his generation. For whatever reason however, Phoenix was reinstated as the main protagonist, and the series as a whole, while never truly becoming bad in my opinion, went in a direction that I don’t think was as interesting as what it could’ve been if Apollo remained the primary focus. And unfortunately, I think the biggest victim of this was Apollo himself, and the biggest indicator of this was his backstory. It’s a common joke in the Ace Attorney fandom that Apollo has 3 separate backstories, and as someone who's played through the modern trilogy, I do think thi...