This and the sequel have to be the best looking Ace Attorney games to date, I simply adore the look and overall vibe of this game. I love the classic Ace Attorney games, but none of them have ever felt as alive and as rich in personality as these games have.

I love the music unique to this sub series, I love the difference in locations and some of the new game mechanics. But most of all, I simply fell in love with this cast of characters.

As usual, the thing that makes me keep coming back to the Ace Attorney games are these amazing, lovable and funny characters that make every piece of dialogue really entertaining to read, even without voice acting. At first I thought that Naruhodo and Susato were going to be Phoenix and Maya again but in the past or something...But I was pleasantly surprised to see how much I actually ended up liking them despite that not really being the case.

If there is one negative thing I have to point out, is the fact that the pacing in this game can be really bad at times...A lot....

I still remember how shocked I was to see how long the first case is. I was just wondering if this game was just as good an introduction as the first Ace Attorney game, but just when I thought the fucking tutorial case was about to end...It just kept going needlessly lmao.

I still think this and the sequel are great games, they are just significantly a lot more exposition heavy than the Phoenix Wright games at least. To me this was never that noticeably bad that it took me out of the experience or anything, but yeah, it's worth pointing out.

Still a really good Ace Attorney game and still maintains the same core experience from the original trilogy imo. If you already like Ace Attorney, chances are you will also really enjoy this one.

Many years ago, I was told by a friend who was a contributor (or at least was following) to the fan translation of the original version of this game, that it was kinda mediocre. That always stuck in the back of my head, until I was able to play it, as part of the collection on the Switch.

Well, unfortunately, they weren't wrong.

I like the setting and the characters and the whole premise, and so I did not by any means not enjoy my time with it, but man, this game is a great example of Nintendo style Baby Mode difficulty. The mysteries are sometimes almost comically simplified, and you will come to expect that if anything seems difficult to figure out, sure enough some Deus Ex Machina level piece of evidence with an obvious clue will get put into your lap. I know it's kind of silly to talk about the "difficulty" of a visual novel, but boy, what little difficulty you can bake into this kind of game seems like it was set with the intention for no one to ever get stuck.

This game has made me wonder whether Ace Attorney 7 has been in a state of mostly-unannounced-but-not-denied development for so long (7 years as of writing, I believe, since a new game has been released...!) because they are starting from the ground up with the gameplay. I think that would be nice.

My only other complaint is that they should have waited until 2023 to develop and release these games, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been in the public domain, and so they wouldn't have had to change their names. Herrlock Sholmes as a name sucks so bad.

The first entry of the Ace Attorney series for me to try out, I was instantly gripped by the mixture of evidence based deduction and reasoning in the form of a visual novel. The first episode had me fully invested as it felt the stakes were high and the culprit and antagonists were unlikable it really caught my attention early on and I really liked the way that each mystery began to unfold. However, the story really starts to drag and take its time in the fourth episode where episodes became twice as long with the investigation taking as long as each trial. The final trial was good, but took way too long. The characters grew on me and the twists were good, although I almost have fatigue after this first game in the series. I should hope it is a while before I make a return, but once I do return I suspect I'll enjoy the reintroduction.