Case 1 is by far the best opening case in the series to this point, and it was interesting to piece together what was going on between the characters now and the events that took place after the previous game. While the last case had a lot of great moments and ideas, I found myself not caring about the stakes at place quite as much as I did for the last case in the previous games, so it didn't feel like it had as strong of an impact even though it was still a solid case overall.