2-1 was horrible. the beginning was silly and the final twist about the cell phone was the only redeeming feature. maggey (ie?) is among the worst defendants in any of the three PW games. her existence and badness were pretty much indefensible. and the villain with a stupid amnesia sideplot just so we could go through a tutorial... no thanks.
2-2 is a solid case, but both it and 2-3 feel somewhat derivative and formulaic. they're not the first to do anything except introduce the magatama, which felt like it was really best used in 2-4. (i actually don't much like the mechanics of it, thinking back.) for comparison, 1-3 was the first three-day case and it featured DAT FACE TURN by edgeworth - i don't think anything as lasting from the case itself came out of 2-2 or 2-3. we got pearl and we got franziska, but it just doesn't really compare. morgan was a charisma vacuum as well, and she dominated the screen far more than say dee vazquez (another fairly colorless villain) did.
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