What an insane drop off in quality from the first game. The only improvement from the first game imo is being able to present profiles to people/as evidence (I really like that one) The spirit channeling thing just doesn't do it for me. I thought it was pretty tastefully used in the first game, although I still wasn't a big fan of it, but this game just abuses it. The whole psych-locks thing removes the mystery from the game when you can immediately tell if someone is lying or not, I don't think the concept of presenting evidence to someone to try and pry information out of them is bad, I just wish they left it at that instead of telling you when someone is lying.

I really don't like Pearls character, she is not written like an 8 year old at all but they will occasionally have her say stuff like "whats an con-puter" and have her cry and stuff like she wasn't just having a nuanced conversation about case details. And I do not like how she gets to be on the defense stand like why do they let her up there? Maya being up there makes sense cause she is Nick's partner but like, Pearls is 8 and obviously not employed by Nick so why tf is she up there? I know that for the most part she is in "Mia's form" or whatever but that's also stupid cuz Mia is back from the dead and no one gaf. And at one point Pearls is on the defense stand and THEN TURNS INTO MIA like wtf lololol this shit is so dumb to me, no one in the court room even said anything like a 3ft tall 8 year old didn't just turn into a 27 year old in the middle of the courtroom like WHAT.
Some of the cases really just suck ass, case 1 is pretty much just a tutorial so who cares. Case 2 is just too unbelievable for me that that actually happened I know that the first game really pushes your suspension of disbelief to its limits but this one just goes too far i'm sorry, it also pisses me off because it doesn't even get fully resolved (It may in the next game). Case 3...... is just kinda bad like I wasn't invested at all, the characters are all terrible or uninteresting imo. Case 4 is actually pretty good, but my issues with Pearls and the spirit stuff apply here so I can't say this case is truly great.

Very disappointed with this game and I really (really) hope the next one is better. (I've heard that it is.)
Some of the cases really just suck ass, case 1 is pretty much just a tutorial so who cares. Case 2 is just too unbelievable for me that that actually happened I know that the first game really pushes your suspension of disbelief to its limits but this one just goes too far i'm sorry, it also pisses me off because it doesn't even get fully resolved (It may in the next game). Case 3...... is just kinda bad like I wasn't invested at all, the characters are all terrible or uninteresting imo. Case 4 is actually pretty good, but my issues with Pearls and the spirit stuff apply here so I can't say this case is truly great.

Very disappointed with this game and I really (really) hope the next one is better. (I've heard that it is.)

The gameplay can be super annoying at times, if you don't object with the exact evidence (sometimes multiple evidences could fit but don't work) on the exact text box (again some text boxes could fit but don't work) the devs chose you will be penalized, and if you lose all of your "hp" or whatever you wanna call it you have to restart from your last save, which basically just means you have to mash through text just to get back where you were. I would've preferred just no punishment at all, all it does is waste your time and they knew this, for situations where evidence is more of a stretch you wont get penalized so why not just make it that way always? I know that would get rid of the "risk" but I don't think that's a bad thing when that "risk" is just having to mash through text for a while, they should've just kept it at dialogue calling you an idiot or something with no penalization imo.

The game should have a map system, you can only go to certain locations from certain places sometimes they make sense other times they don't, so I feel the game would benefit greatly from one, and with the game being on the ds (The game originally came out on gba in japan only but they still could've had this or just added it when they ported it to the ds) it would feel right at home. Also sometimes a place will "update" e.g someone new will be there, new dialogue ect. It would be nice for there to be indicators for when this happens as sometimes its unclear, you could argue that this would get rid of the investigative feel and that would be valid although I disagree.

As for what I like about the game, I think the plot is good, interesting characters, interesting cases, in particular I find ||the Edgeworth case and his character|| to be the most interesting . The investigation sections are cool, and uhhhhh I don't really know how else to explain why I like things without just saying "I like it" or "It's cool", but as you can tell by my rating I do like this game quite a bit.