I really don't understand why people like this. The best I can say is that Maya's return was great, it had cool concepts with the spirit channeling and some cool twists, but the execution was very poorly done. Rayfa was also an interesting character but I wish she was done better and Nayhuta was both boring and frustrating.

The pun names are bad and felt lazy, and it does a very poor job with worldbuilding and developing a culture by leaning on puns and only going as far as the country's government and religion and failing to develop on anything further, and the way Phoenix acted as a tourist was awful to watch.

Like Dual Destinies, it also undid a lot of AA4 and that's very apparent with Trucy and Apollo, and it fails as a supposed ending to Apollo's character arc by introducing a backstory out of nowhere only during the final case. Athena is also treated as incompetent as both a lawyer and a psychologist and it was just frustrating. It had most of the same problems as DD and I don't quite get why DD is so hated but SoJ is so loved.

I will give it credit though for having a decent system character but it had a weird issue where the character themselves were fine, but everyone around them was just awful with calling them personalities and forcing them to switch. Which I guess is accurate to real life tbf but Athena as a psychologist I'd hope would know better.

I don't normally like to rag on games this much but I really can't understand why people like it.