This review contains spoilers
Well this is a weird one. Really disappointing and I'm not sure how much of this is me and how much of this is the game.
Let's start, I really did like the first one, I thought it was fantastic. The original great ace trilogy just kept getting better as it went, and I loved how everything in the third game circled back to the first to make it an outstanding game and my favorite in the franchise.
This one however? Man I'm not sure. Some of the story decisions are very questionable here, and it has some of my least favorite tropes in media. Bringing back people from the dead, that have a lasting emotional impact always bothers me, and when that happened in this game, it left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
The final moments of the trial I just realized that I really wasn't too interested in the climax of this game, and I'm not sure if I was just bitter over the twists itself, or if I have just burnt myself out on VN's this year (cause lord have I played a lot).
In reality the game is probably at least half a star to a star higher then I'm rating here. I was just flat out bored by the end though and finding it to be a slog, and I had almost no interest in the final mystery (with it also being very obvious what it was and not a great twist)
Huge disappointment and shock for me, especially with how well received this game was. Not for me unfortunately.
Let's start, I really did like the first one, I thought it was fantastic. The original great ace trilogy just kept getting better as it went, and I loved how everything in the third game circled back to the first to make it an outstanding game and my favorite in the franchise.
This one however? Man I'm not sure. Some of the story decisions are very questionable here, and it has some of my least favorite tropes in media. Bringing back people from the dead, that have a lasting emotional impact always bothers me, and when that happened in this game, it left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
The final moments of the trial I just realized that I really wasn't too interested in the climax of this game, and I'm not sure if I was just bitter over the twists itself, or if I have just burnt myself out on VN's this year (cause lord have I played a lot).
In reality the game is probably at least half a star to a star higher then I'm rating here. I was just flat out bored by the end though and finding it to be a slog, and I had almost no interest in the final mystery (with it also being very obvious what it was and not a great twist)
Huge disappointment and shock for me, especially with how well received this game was. Not for me unfortunately.