Having played the rest of the games in the Ace Attorney franchise, I was excited to finally start the pair of Investigations games. After starting, I couldn't shake a feeling of deja vu and by the end I was convinced I must've actually played my original DS copy before and just forgotten.

That aside, the game was a lot of fun. It delivers on the appeal of Ace Attorney games where you can solve some interesting mysteries while meeting some zany characters, but with a nice enough twist that you're not doing it in a courtroom. It really offers the game something unique from the rest of the series and gives it its own pacing. My main complain would be the early cases are too easy and the final case is a slog. It literally is just too long, since the actual scene and circumstance of the crime are clever.