I will start by saying that I enjoyed this one a bit more OVERALL than the previous game in the series, Dual Destinies. Spirit of Justice successfully provided a more complete Ace Attorney package than Dual Destinies had. Despite this, it still comes nowhere near the quality and intrigue of the first four games in the series.
The story in Kurain is a lot more intriguing than the strange story that was all over the place in Dual Destinies. However, a lot of Spirit of Justice, especially as it pertains to Apollo, seems like it was just shoehorned in to move the plot along. The final case is fine, but in my opinion the weakest of any of the mainline games. Perhaps playing this series for six games now has made me numb to the twists and turns that the team loves to employ, but every final case so far has without fail made me gasp audibly at some of the twists, until this one. Spirit of Justice is solid in execution, but fails to bring any phenomenal ideas to the mix. Even the Divination Seance, which I loved, failed to make the game any more interesting than a four-star rating.
The story in Kurain is a lot more intriguing than the strange story that was all over the place in Dual Destinies. However, a lot of Spirit of Justice, especially as it pertains to Apollo, seems like it was just shoehorned in to move the plot along. The final case is fine, but in my opinion the weakest of any of the mainline games. Perhaps playing this series for six games now has made me numb to the twists and turns that the team loves to employ, but every final case so far has without fail made me gasp audibly at some of the twists, until this one. Spirit of Justice is solid in execution, but fails to bring any phenomenal ideas to the mix. Even the Divination Seance, which I loved, failed to make the game any more interesting than a four-star rating.