i feel weird about rating this 5 stars. ill start with the bad. i really do not like turnabout big top. i don't think its irredeemably bad and i quite like acro and moe as characters, but the Pedophilic Love Triangle really just. dampens the whole thing for me and makes me not want to think about it.
the good absolutely outweighs this for me though. farewell, my turnabout is one of the best things i've ever had the pleasure of playing through. its genuinely peak fiction, no game has ever made me feel the sense of urgency it made me feel. the entire case feels like one long moral dilemma that culminated in my favorite climax of any case so far and made for one of the most satisfying endings i've ever experienced in a game. the 5 stars is basically for 2-4 alone. i do like the rest of the game, especially 2-2 which i think is also fantastic, but 2-4 is just on another level of storytelling.
favorite osts: this game somehow tops the first games ost in my opinion, again just dropping banger after banger. my personal favorites this time around are pressing pursuit variation and investigation core 2002.
the good absolutely outweighs this for me though. farewell, my turnabout is one of the best things i've ever had the pleasure of playing through. its genuinely peak fiction, no game has ever made me feel the sense of urgency it made me feel. the entire case feels like one long moral dilemma that culminated in my favorite climax of any case so far and made for one of the most satisfying endings i've ever experienced in a game. the 5 stars is basically for 2-4 alone. i do like the rest of the game, especially 2-2 which i think is also fantastic, but 2-4 is just on another level of storytelling.
favorite osts: this game somehow tops the first games ost in my opinion, again just dropping banger after banger. my personal favorites this time around are pressing pursuit variation and investigation core 2002.