MAJOR APOLLO JUSTICE: ACE ATTORNEY SPOILERS

So, I didn’t like AJ:AA as much as I thought I would.

Keep in mind that my prior experience with Ace Attorney (AA) before this was the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trilogy (1-3) and The Great Ace Attorney (TGAA) Chronicles, so I had very high standards. I’m a PC guy, so I just play the games when they get ported over. Also, I haven’t seen much discourse about this game, so I have no idea if my thoughts are a brand new hot take or the same stuff people have been saying for years. That said, here are my very long and drawn-out thoughts about Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

Apollo Justice is (not) doing fine.

me when I finally finish collecting the ten chaos menorahs from the Evil Ass Skeletons so now I have to kill a fly

I know I shouldn’t be surprised by anything Darby does anymore. But did he just fucking explode

MCMG takes the tag titles off Cage & Cope in their first AEW match Ciampa-style. Young Bucks vs MCMG for the tag titles at All In. All of Wembley cries tears of happiness.

That Young Bucks vs Ospreay/Moxley match was so weird and uncomfortable and the exact kind of match that made me fall in love with pro wrestling. The kind of match that has me squirming in my seat, genuinely concerned for the wrestlers involved. I don’t think a match has put me on the edge of my seat with my hands over my mouth like that since Hangman vs MJF. And this wasn’t even a deathmatch.

It’s just so weird and innovative. Like how often do you see a wrestler working a concussion?? How often do you see BOTH teams getting into arguments with their partners over how far they’re willing to go? How much they’re willing to sacrifice? It just felt so painfully human, watching Ospreay stop the match for the ref to look at Nick and seeing Matt lay on top of his barely conscious brother while begging Ospreay for mercy. This is storytelling. I get why not everyone liked it but I genuinely loved it.

My only complaint is that Ospreay/Mox should have won. Still, seeing the Bucks walk away as winners (on top of what happened at the end of the show) might be what pushes Ospreay over the edge. This show fully sold me on the Ospreay/Death Riders dynamic and I can’t wait to see what AEW does with it moving forward.

That All In main event is gonna be an all-timer to rival Omega/Ospreay I and II. And one of them is getting the Danielson bag. Mark my words.