may as well log this again now i've finished rise from the ashes

and wow. what a case. obviously plenty of notoriously ass gameplay moments (that fucking blue badger song will haunt my nightmares forever) but when the story it tells is that impactful, i can't help but love it. an emotional and psychological marathon, in the best way possible.

Played this on the trilogy rerelase on Steamdeck and made me realize I just do not have the patience for visual novels. 20+ hours for 5 cases and only two are good (the final one and the DLC), the redrawn sprites also look like ass.

Maya is very cute though.