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Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations: Prosecutor's Path: Power Rankings

There are a lot of characters in this game, some new, some old. Let's rank them, because that's what Ace Attorney fans do.

35- The Victims
I'm cheating by including four characters in one entry, but a list of "35" sounds better than "34" in my opinion. One of this game's strengths is that all of the victims have relevance to the overall plot. Di-Jun Huang (the real one) is the President of an entire country, father to a suspect/defendant, and icon to Lang. Even as a victim, Dover is an antagonistic and mysterious figure in the game's most interesting case. Even the case one victim, Rooke, is apparently principled and dangerous enough to impress De Killer. We'll talk more about Knightley later, but I just wanted to start off by giving credit where credit's due. They're all pretty good by victim standards... but they're still just victims and as such don't contribute much (again, except for Knightley-boy).

34- Regina
I have no words. One of my least favorite AA characters, in this game and in her original case.

33- Penny Nichols
Gotta say, I was actually looking forward to the return of Penny Nichols. In 1-3, her relative "normality" really helped center the case when dealing with a bunch of crazy folk (at least until you brought up collectible cards). Here though she just comes across as bland; also surprisingly dumb, as she mistakes a covered camera crane for Gourdy. Maybe she realized she was boring so she decided to take a page from Lotta's book.

32- Ema
Look - Ema's great. We all love Ema. She's #9 best board 8 waifu. But she's barely a character in this game. She is literally here so we can borrow her luminol and fingerprint powder. The brief cameo of Ron DeLite in E2-3 has more character than she does.

31- Will Powers
I liked his interactions with Edgeworth, but does this guy even do anything in E2-5? I honestly can't remember and I just played this case a few days ago. He lets us investigate the trailer where we find John's rehearsal tape. Nice seeing him, but give the man more to do.

30 - Jay Elbird
This character - our first real AAI2 original character - just doesn't click with me. One, the series has already done a prisoner gimmick. His name was Terry Fawles, and he ends up being one of the more memorable characters in the series, (admittedly, only because he dies on the stand). You say "It's unfair to compare Elbird to Fawles" - ok fine. If that's the case then Elbird is still a pretty generic tough guy character.

Two, this game's weird "animal" obsession kind of bothers me because the animals themselves are too cartoony for the game's existing artstyle (this problem extends beyond how the animals are depicted to other human characters on this list, as we shall see). Elbird's Koala, Simon's animal tower... it's like a different world compared to Polly and even the whale from DD's DLC case (Orla?). I don't know if I'm explaining this well, but it just feels "off." Like the animals are here to be funny, but they're the laziest, most obvious visual gags they could think of.

Overall, I just don't find him very interesting. He's just a prisoner who was attempting to escape at the same time as the murder was happening. Good pun though.


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