Sorry Yamazaki, but this is a real modern Ace Attorney game.
As a long-time AA fan who took way too long to play this despite knowing of it even prior to its original release, TGAA: Adventures really just pulled me in from the very start. The stakes are immediately established, and that first case is probably the best in the series.
Ryunosuke is just so damn endearing. He has real growth over the course of this game in a way I feel no other Ace Attorney protagonist does - his journey across the world is just one you WANT to see unfold and go along with him.
Even gameplay-wise, it pushes the series so far forward - much more than just adding a new gimmick. They were so confident that Sholmes and his Dance of Deduction could carry an entire case that this game has a chapter with no trial. Literally unheard of. And you know what? They were right. It slaps.
Visually, this game is exactly what I expect the series to look like now. AA5 and 6 have always looked a little off. TGAA is very PLvPW:AA (which makes sense), and it's perfect. I fell in love with that style immediately, and I'm so glad to see more of it.
My only real gripes are incredibly minor. Mainly, I wish it had more voice acting and a few more anime cutscenes. PLvsPW:AA nailed the usage of these, potentially almost perfectly, using them to enhance the game's presentation. If we can't have fully voice-acted AA, then voice-acting important lines and breakdowns is a great compromise. Unfortunately that's not what we get here (though the few anime cutscenes we get are stellar). And no matter how much you love a visual novel, for one as long as this, eventually reading endless lines of text can grow a tad dreary. Nonetheless, the game is so damn good and so well-written that I still pushed through and played for... more hours at a time than I care to admit over winter break.
There's just something different about The Great Ace Attorney. Takumi and his team clearly learned a lot from working with Level-5 on PLvsPW:AA, and this game is the fruit of their ambition to allow Ace Attorney to be more than just Ace Attorney and break countless series conventions.
And I apologize, but it may also just be proof that Ace Attorney belongs in Shu Takumi's hands.
As a long-time AA fan who took way too long to play this despite knowing of it even prior to its original release, TGAA: Adventures really just pulled me in from the very start. The stakes are immediately established, and that first case is probably the best in the series.
Ryunosuke is just so damn endearing. He has real growth over the course of this game in a way I feel no other Ace Attorney protagonist does - his journey across the world is just one you WANT to see unfold and go along with him.
Even gameplay-wise, it pushes the series so far forward - much more than just adding a new gimmick. They were so confident that Sholmes and his Dance of Deduction could carry an entire case that this game has a chapter with no trial. Literally unheard of. And you know what? They were right. It slaps.
Visually, this game is exactly what I expect the series to look like now. AA5 and 6 have always looked a little off. TGAA is very PLvPW:AA (which makes sense), and it's perfect. I fell in love with that style immediately, and I'm so glad to see more of it.
My only real gripes are incredibly minor. Mainly, I wish it had more voice acting and a few more anime cutscenes. PLvsPW:AA nailed the usage of these, potentially almost perfectly, using them to enhance the game's presentation. If we can't have fully voice-acted AA, then voice-acting important lines and breakdowns is a great compromise. Unfortunately that's not what we get here (though the few anime cutscenes we get are stellar). And no matter how much you love a visual novel, for one as long as this, eventually reading endless lines of text can grow a tad dreary. Nonetheless, the game is so damn good and so well-written that I still pushed through and played for... more hours at a time than I care to admit over winter break.
There's just something different about The Great Ace Attorney. Takumi and his team clearly learned a lot from working with Level-5 on PLvsPW:AA, and this game is the fruit of their ambition to allow Ace Attorney to be more than just Ace Attorney and break countless series conventions.
And I apologize, but it may also just be proof that Ace Attorney belongs in Shu Takumi's hands.