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Okay, soapbox time - this is easily the worst AA game. The game starts out with some real promise, it feels like it's taking risks in a way that DD never did, and the first case is fun. Even in that case, I noticed my first gripe which is this game feels slow and plodding in a way earlier games didn't. Basically every case in this game should be shorter (and case 4 should be dropped entirely, letting case 5 be split across 2 cases like in DD). But my frustration started when they introduced this game's prosecutor Nahyuta, an arrogant religious zealot. If I never hear about him again, it will be too soon. Nevertheless, finding out that he was Dhurke's son and joined the Ga'ran regime as an inside man opened an opportunity for AA to tell a really compelling story: even good-intentioned people working in a bad system can do a lot of evil. But that story would be too spicy for AA, so they do a very quick 'good all along' turn and we're just supposed to brush aside the fact that he definitely sent not just innocent people to their death, but the defence attorneys of innocent people. If the writers had been willing to deny a prosecutor a redemption arc, this could've been a top-2 AA story (behind T&T), but as is, it's just a massive disappointment.

Reviewed on Apr 24, 2024


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