Mainly played this to get prepped for the second game, which I heard from the fans that it is better. I'm hoping that's the case because this game had a ton of parts that dragged. I also can't help but feel that pretty much every character in this game is so dumb that they essentially need to be spoonfed information about something that is literally right in front of them.
I get that Gumshoe can be very absentminded but he does try his best to help in the previous games. Here, it's almost like he has permanent brain damage, all to make light of the fact that Edgeworth's "superpower" to solve cases is basically logic. No magic magatama or bracelet to guide the characters' process to peel through the layers of the other character's head, just basic propositional logic.
Case 3 is the point where the game drops the ball. Not only is the case uninteresting, but it drags on for far too long due to circumstances that felt like they were forced in to make the episode longer than it needed to be. The game does pick up in episode 4 and the first half of episode 5, but then it drags on again in the latter half of the last episode.
When presenting evidence, there will be times when you present evidence that can logically fit with your argument. However, it isn't the correct piece that continues the conversation. The game expects you to present things that are pretty far-fetched to a testimony, yet the game will try to shoehorn its reasoning by making it seem like you're tackling the argument from a different point of view that doesn't flow through the conversation well.
It's like "yeah, I know what happened here at the scene, but how does the game expect me to explain it if the evidence related to the line of reasoning penalizes me?" And then it's a process of saving your progress before presenting evidence and then throwing everything until the green penalty bar moves out of frame.
Basically, the game had some good ideas that put a new spin on the Ace Attorney formula, but the writing in this game is not up to par with the rest of the series. At times, it really tried my patience with the constant "Not so fast, you failed to mention this!" bits that almost seemingly didn't end. We'll see if this game was worthwhile playing before GK2.
The best thing I can say about this game is that this song absolutely slaps: https://youtu.be/pucxhTspFrQ
I get that Gumshoe can be very absentminded but he does try his best to help in the previous games. Here, it's almost like he has permanent brain damage, all to make light of the fact that Edgeworth's "superpower" to solve cases is basically logic. No magic magatama or bracelet to guide the characters' process to peel through the layers of the other character's head, just basic propositional logic.
Case 3 is the point where the game drops the ball. Not only is the case uninteresting, but it drags on for far too long due to circumstances that felt like they were forced in to make the episode longer than it needed to be. The game does pick up in episode 4 and the first half of episode 5, but then it drags on again in the latter half of the last episode.
When presenting evidence, there will be times when you present evidence that can logically fit with your argument. However, it isn't the correct piece that continues the conversation. The game expects you to present things that are pretty far-fetched to a testimony, yet the game will try to shoehorn its reasoning by making it seem like you're tackling the argument from a different point of view that doesn't flow through the conversation well.
It's like "yeah, I know what happened here at the scene, but how does the game expect me to explain it if the evidence related to the line of reasoning penalizes me?" And then it's a process of saving your progress before presenting evidence and then throwing everything until the green penalty bar moves out of frame.
Basically, the game had some good ideas that put a new spin on the Ace Attorney formula, but the writing in this game is not up to par with the rest of the series. At times, it really tried my patience with the constant "Not so fast, you failed to mention this!" bits that almost seemingly didn't end. We'll see if this game was worthwhile playing before GK2.
The best thing I can say about this game is that this song absolutely slaps: https://youtu.be/pucxhTspFrQ