divination séances are a pretty neat addition imo and i was satisfied by the ending.

though i really love ace attorney and would always like more, i feel that this one was a little bit too long for the story it was telling. the amount of times that they have the exact same flashback/ remembering of stuff that happened in the case less than like 30 minutes ago is staggering. i get that if you don't play for long periods of time you might completely forget some important minute details, but a lot of the time it just feels silly and i feel like at times i was like "are you serious i literally just watched this." woulda been nice if they had like a professor layton-esque recap thing at the start of a play session or something to mediate things like this, but idk how successful something like that would be.

as the series grows in size and scale with the amount of characters it introduces, espeically playable characters, it gets harder and harder to give everybody a satisfying amount of time to be furthered as a character. they definitely did apollo right, and honestly this is basically his game and the end of his arc up until this point. athena gets a little bit of time to shine in turnabout storyteller, and she did just have dual destinies before this, but i felt she was just kinda missing from the overall story in a way that phoenix and apollo weren't. also i absolutely adore maya but she is not significantly in this game, lmao. shes a defendant, and gives testimony for a little bit, but theres not really interacting with her outside of that. she doesn't show up until the third case and then doesn't return in a significant capacity until the end of the fifth. i haven't played the dlc case, turnabout time traveler yet, though, so maybe maya gets some love there.

overall, I enjoyed the game, I just wasn't as actively excited to keep playing it as I was with other games in the series.