This review contains spoilers
Takes everything the first two games did and blows it out of the fuckin park. I think all three games have their own unique issues and eccentricities but T&T gets so much (w)right it's almost perfect.
The best music in the series, the best cases in the series, maybe even the best prosecutor in the series? It's all here.
It's hard to give reasons for why this game works other than "it's everything you've seen already, but way better" but I think the most telling part is in the final case: Bridge to the Turnabout
When replaying Farewell, My Turnabout in JFA, it's still a great case. But I'd be lying if I said the drama isn't a bit dampened when you know the true culprit. It's got a lot of great moments to it, but you know what it's all building up to.
It has a nice subversive ending, but it's a classic whodunnit at heart at the end of the day. I talked about why I loved this case (and still do) in my other review. When I played it again, it really felt like, well, a replay. This is definitely the second time playing this case.
In contrast, replaying Bridge to the Turnabout was like playing it again for the first time. I know the real culprit going in but the mechanics of this case are insane. You aren't concerned with the real killer half the time, but proving how this borderline nonsensical crime could even take place. This case isn't a whodunnit, it's a howdunnit!
For god's sake, you end up proving that the real crime scene was actually over on the other side of a massive ravine that was transported by wire in a pendulum-like motion. And it's executed so beautifully that it doesn't even feel like a massive leap of logic; I get to feel like I'm almost the one coming up with this absolutely crackpot conjecture.
Every single piece of evidence you present adds another piece to the jigsaw; a jigsaw that is in itself a piece of a larger jigsaw which is in another jigsaw etc. etc.
There's so many moving pieces in this final case alone that I find it impossible to retain the exact structure in my head. Normally that's bad, but it gives this case an insane amount of replayability. It's like the best dinner I've ever had, and I have unlimited leftovers in the fridge.
It's an amazing feeling when you are at the last testimony in the game and you suss out that final clue. When you point that finger and the remix of Cornered from AA1 kicks in, you've fuckin made it. You've made one of the best games ever. I can't help but gush about this game.
The best music in the series, the best cases in the series, maybe even the best prosecutor in the series? It's all here.
It's hard to give reasons for why this game works other than "it's everything you've seen already, but way better" but I think the most telling part is in the final case: Bridge to the Turnabout
When replaying Farewell, My Turnabout in JFA, it's still a great case. But I'd be lying if I said the drama isn't a bit dampened when you know the true culprit. It's got a lot of great moments to it, but you know what it's all building up to.
It has a nice subversive ending, but it's a classic whodunnit at heart at the end of the day. I talked about why I loved this case (and still do) in my other review. When I played it again, it really felt like, well, a replay. This is definitely the second time playing this case.
In contrast, replaying Bridge to the Turnabout was like playing it again for the first time. I know the real culprit going in but the mechanics of this case are insane. You aren't concerned with the real killer half the time, but proving how this borderline nonsensical crime could even take place. This case isn't a whodunnit, it's a howdunnit!
For god's sake, you end up proving that the real crime scene was actually over on the other side of a massive ravine that was transported by wire in a pendulum-like motion. And it's executed so beautifully that it doesn't even feel like a massive leap of logic; I get to feel like I'm almost the one coming up with this absolutely crackpot conjecture.
Every single piece of evidence you present adds another piece to the jigsaw; a jigsaw that is in itself a piece of a larger jigsaw which is in another jigsaw etc. etc.
There's so many moving pieces in this final case alone that I find it impossible to retain the exact structure in my head. Normally that's bad, but it gives this case an insane amount of replayability. It's like the best dinner I've ever had, and I have unlimited leftovers in the fridge.
It's an amazing feeling when you are at the last testimony in the game and you suss out that final clue. When you point that finger and the remix of Cornered from AA1 kicks in, you've fuckin made it. You've made one of the best games ever. I can't help but gush about this game.
averypaledog
3 years ago