#also her being there kind of makes their whole separation at the end of aai really funny instead of meaningful?? you know how the og

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It's not that I don't love that she was there, but Kay really had no business being in AAI2

#how do i say this.. you know how the og trilogy is just as much maya's story as it is phoenix's (arguably more so hers because of #the impact of the fey clan?) and how dgs is also susato's story as much as it is ryuunosuke's because it's her family and dream who's #actually central to the plot? and how investigations 1 was also kay's story because it involved the truth of the yatagarasu? #yeah that's not the case in aai2. she's quite literally just along for the ride here and is actually used to further edgeworth's #character more than anything else. i feel like this is most obvious/egregious in the forgotten turnabout where they literally make her #a totally different person so she can be wholly reliant on him and it's just !! i like aai2 i genuinely do but i like the parts of it #better than it's whole. #made that whole long kay post and STILL didnt address the forgotten turnabout which is what i wanted to talk about to begin with #smh #also her being there kind of makes their whole separation at the end of aai really funny instead of meaningful?? you know how the og #trilogy had rfta to make you feel how long it's been since phoenix and maya have seen each other? yeah aai2 literally does not do that #both from meta and in game perspectives it's been like. 15 minutes since she's stepped out and it's so. #shkadgkadh #the problem with kay in aai2 is that the Yatagarasu thing is done. it's over. and her whole story revolves around that!! #so if you cant come up with something else to add to it it leaves her just hanging about #waiting to fuel other people's stories #i just. ive seen people marvel at how the same director who made aai and aai2 could go on to make the trainwrecks that were #dd and soj but if you compare kay's treatment to trucy's there you'll see some similarities