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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.)
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.)