This game is awesome, its art style is beautiful, it controls good, the music is awesome, each level feels different, you can tell this game was made with a lot of love and care.
HOWEVER the hundo for this game is completely miserable, you need to have max hp (this means you have to do every boss without getting hit) and you have to collect 20 red coins and 5 flowers in each level. If you mess one of these up you have to REPLAY THE LEVEL WHILE COLLECTING ALL OF THEM AGAIN. Like if you could just run through the level and get the ones you missed it would be fine but noooo. It is so fucking annoying to have to guess which way is bonus and which is the intended route cuz most of the time the normal way locks you out of going backwards in the level, at a certain point I just gave up and started using rewind. Its not even like hundo is just for cool points or whatever they literally lock levels behind hundoing worlds. If I were to play this game without going for hundo i'm confident it would be much much better. very disappointing tbh cuz I always hear people say this is one of the greatest 2d platformers ever made, and while it may be true if you don't go for hundo, you can't really ignore how horrible going for it is.

The best horror game ever made on everything.

The gameplay is so damn perfect, the way the game uses audio for every little movement makes it very satisfying and almost entirely skill based. One part however that is rng is nightmare on 4/20 mode, he can randomly kill you cuz there is not enough time to run up to the door, and its unfortunatly a little too common to be ignored. Other than that the game is fully skill based, so it really is unfortuate that that one part is kinda fucky, but the mode is only really for tryhards and is only unlockable through a cheat code so most people who play the game will never even encounter it.

I know I am going to get shit for this take but, I fucking hate this game so much. I have talked alot of shit on this game in the past and I really tried to give this game a chance this time, but jesus fucking christ this game is even more garbage then I originally thought. The controls are the worst fucking thing ever holy shit, I think it is the worst controlling gave I've ever played atleast platforming wise, I can't think of another that even comes close. And the camera fucking sucks so bad you can't see anything half the time and it goes fucking upside down, sideways, upways any fucking direction it wants and you can't move it pretty much at all. Those 2 things are already enough to consider this game bad, but there is more I need to bitch about. The levels are so linear, which I don't think is inherently a bad thing at all but it feels very brain dead in this game, like for a 3d game it feels very 2 dimensional (not even including the fact a good chunk is literally 2d, AND SOME OF THE FUCKING 2D PARTS STILL LET YOU GO FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS SO IF YOU'RE ON A SMALL PLATFORM YOU CAN JUST FUCKING FALL OFF BY TOUCHING EVEN SLIGHTLY DOWN OR UP) <- That's a bit of a nitpick but my god its so fucking annoying. Even the hub world sucks because of the fact its so vertical and the controls are so bad if you fall you have to climb all the fucking way back up. The purple coin stars are fucking awful, they take so fucking long and they make you collect ALL OF THEM (except one and its a small level where it would be easy to collect them all ??????????) and if you die at any point you have to collect them ALL AGAIN, they felt like they were designed to waste your time. And its not even just the purple coin stars that suck, they ALL do. I never once was even a little excited to play a new level, it was always just more bullshit I have to play. There is absolutely more I hate about this game, but I can't think of them right now.

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.)