With Edgeworth currently out of the picture, it only stands to reason we have a new prosecutor in town. From what I can tell, she intends to whip the entire courtroom into shape.
Most of the prosecutors in the Ace Attorney games are solid characters all around, but Franziska is one of my favorites. She’s a strong adversary, constantly picking our logic and arguments with every tool at her disposal. The whip gimmick also serves as an apt metaphor for the way she commands the court room, like her father before her, but uniquely separate and independent of that.
Which becomes a through line for her character. She was raised and taught by Manfred Von Karma, but she is her own person separate from that, with moral judgement and a sense of justice that her father lacked. We won’t see that for some time, but the way her character grows and develops over the course the game will let that ultimately shine through.
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