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I played AA3 in 2008 and then didn't touch the series for 6 years. Nothing in a later game detracts from the earlier games for me. While I certainly do head-canon stuff sometimes, it's always easier to do when dealing with something that was already self-contained before something "extra" was added.

Between AA3 and the release of 1-5, Edgeworth disappearing after 1-4 was canon. Retconning splits continuity pretty much by definition, and AA4 continues off of 1-5's stuff.

Angel Season 4 (vague spoilers) introduces a retcon that everything that's happened to a certain point has been some master plan or whatever, but it's inconsequential and easily scrubbed from memory.

Oh, and definitely agreed about E2-2 (and the final stretch of E1-5, for that matter) going on too long. But they go on too long in a very different way than cases like 6-1 or 6-2 for me. E2-2 in particular just has way too much plot for its own good, and it's not able to bring it to a climax that pays off. 6-1 and 6-2 aren't overloaded with plot; they just get cumbersome with their own weight.
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