Rant about Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice and some of the special episode so SPOILERS!!!!
Okay so, this rant inspired me to go on my own little rant about a character in the Apollo Justice trilogy because to this day, this character and how they were done still frustrates me!
I’m going to be talking about Maya Fey. Now let’s get one thing straight: I love Maya. She’s fun, funny, and silly; she gives off little sister vibes. Maya’s my girl…until Spirit of Justice.
“But Doro, what’s the problem? They didn’t make any drastic changes to her, she’s still same old Maya that we all know and love!”
That’s the problem: they didn’t make ANY changes to her. You’re telling me that Maya was gone for almost ten years for training and the only thing that changed was her robe length? SMH. You would think that training to become the next leader of the Fey Clan, Maya would be more mature, wise, while still being a little silly. And you would think that during that time she would change up her hair and clothes too, but nope. Every time I look at Maya in SOJ and interact with her, all I see is same old Maya, and I hate it. It’s like Capcom went:
“Okay! Phoenix, you get an outfit change and a daughter; Miles, you also get an outfit change and become Chief Prosecutor; and Maya, you just be Maya!”
Like NOOO!? And playing the special episode (haven’t finished it and probably never will) made me even more upset with Maya. The part where her and Phoenix go to a mansion and then Maya starts…running around? And Phoenix has to tell her to not run around?? And then she breaks a radio???? Grown ahh woman btw. Not saying that adults can’t accidentally break things, but come on. That whole thing felt like I was playing AA1 again. You can still have Maya be silly without having her act like a child, because she isn’t a child anymore she’s 28 YEARS OLD!! Let her go and let her grow!
There were some more things that bothered me:
1. Everyone (except Nahyuta) fades in and out but with Maya she just pops in and out of existence. It’s a minor issue but it still bothers me a little.
2. When Maya is accused of murder (of course) and Phoenix talks to her in the detention center, Maya tells him to not tell anyone about her being a spirit medium because “in Khura’inism, spirit channeling is a secret art that can only be performed by the queen”. So if anyone found out it would raise an issue and make it seem like Maya is trying to overthrow the queen. It would’ve been a cool storyline: it’s revealed that Maya can channel spirits, Queen Ga’ran gets paranoid and feels her position is being threatened (considering we find out later that she can’t channel spirits at all), and tries to kill Maya. I thought that was the route that the story was gonna go and I was so excited for it…and it doesn’t happen.
It doesn’t fucking happen!!
The way my smile dropped as I kept playing the game and seeing that it’s never brought up again. You had what would’ve been a very interesting story and just flushed that down the drain. Why?! Oh that’s right, so that Maya can get kidnapped AGAIN (of course!) and Apollo can get yet another backstory!!
Anyways, I’m done. :3
