I think my only exposure to Ace Attorney prior to this was from the Takashi Miike movie and the memes that have come out between Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth - but I think that if anything else does make this game every bit as fun as it is, it's the way in which the courtroom setting also fits too perfectly well with the anime silliness. There's never a moment where it's not funny, but it also mixes perfectly well with how dark some of these cases can be by nature.

If I ever did have any sort of complaint, it's a tad too slight - but I do know for sure this is a game series I'll be playing through a lot if I want to pass the time.

Was waiting until I finished all five of this game's endings before I could write down a review of sorts, but replaying through it with different perspectives of the same story coming into play also leaves behind what I think might just be one of the most rewarding video gaming experiences that I've had in a long while. But aside from being able to take out something new from each route that NieR:Automata presents, this is also just one of the most engrossing interactive narrative experiences that I've ever had: and I don't put that lightly either.

This game isn't only a perfect mix of fun combat and role-playing, but the world that Yoko Taro presents here also might just be one of the most beautifully designed I've ever seen in any video game too. No matter what part of the game you're in, it's so easy to get lost with how wonderfully realized this dystopia is, even if it offers you to transport yourself so easily between access points, but it always seems like there's a reason for you to just keep getting immersed within this world as long as you can keep going. But even though the bleak setting may catch you from the moment you start the game, it's never free of Yoko Taro's own sense of humour either - which helps make for a livelier experience.

But even then, it never feels like it's afraid to get anywhere near as heavy as it can go. Whether it be from the game's philosophy, regarding the relationships between man and machine, the reasons why we continue fighting pointless wars and where they will bring us so many millennia from now, NieR:Automata never holds back: and it only results in an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end, especially when you're finding yourselves so attached to these characters as you keep playing - and you come out loving them a great deal too.

Might just be one of the finest games of our generation, but also a defining work of art for our time too, I would argue.

Works beautifully as a nice experiment with being a part of the events that took place within the lives of the Finch family by making you a part of them, though I think What Remains of Edith Finch finds its strengths lying in the greater impact of where they all would lead into.

If there's any better way to describe what playing through this game feels like, it's almost like you're hoping to find a place where things can turn out for the more hopeful considering all the curses that befell the Finch family, but it's also a whole lot of fun seeing how their stories came about - and the unique art styles which they take upon too.

Definitely a worthwhile experience for as quick as it is, even if the content doesn't quite make it replayable.