I can't believe it took me until my replay of this game to find out that this is the worse Ace Attorney game. It is just a mess, It ruins so many old characters it's actually kind of impressive, Apollo and Trucy are just done so dirty in this game. Athena is a character that I feel would of been perfectly fine as an extension to Blackquill's backstory , just have her appear in case 4 and 5, but not as a new "main character" the only thing I like about her is her mood matrix. The cases in this game (other than the DLC case) are so boring and just badly written, especially case 3. The killers are the most obvious things in the world considering it shows you the killer in the first 2 cases in the game and then in the third case Aristotle Means shows up and his entire character just hold the opposite beliefs of the victims. Also whose idea was it to make the cases not in chronological order it's just destroys any potential character growth and I feel it makes it more confusing for a first playthrough. Don't even get me started on the whole "Dark age of the law" plotline because it is not done well as it does a lot of Telling you about how it is the "Dark age of the law" but it never feels like it is, Apollo Justice Ace Attorney does a way better job at this .The only case I would actually recommend any one play from this game is the DLC case.

TL;DR: I do not like this game

Case Ranking:
DLC>2>5>4>1>3