dam this wholeheartedly is not great at all
Gameplay/Mechanics l 7/10
The gameplay actually is improved from the first one by adding presenting profiles,but the gameplay loop is getting tiresome ,i hope that they improved this on next games because its going to get bad.so i think gameplay on this one is worse than the other one,only because im getting tired of the gameplay loop though because the gameplay is a straight upgrade.
What i said for the first game still apllies:
"Pointing out contradictions and objecting to the witness bullshit is really fun,the game is not that interesting mechanicaly or that hard but the whole tension that is in the courtroom make even more satisfying catch witnesses lying
"Exploration can be a bit tiring sometimes but is generally fine."
Story:Characters/Writing/Lore l 6,5-7/10
Even though the game still has the charm in the writing of the first game,it has worse characters,i like new ones like pearls but there are another ones like franzeska that just dissapointing me or other ones like regina that just annoy me,but even the new ones dont get a lot of depth,also there isnt anything resembling a plot connecting the cases in this game and its just less interesting that the first game,again maybe this is because this is the second game with the same formula,and maybe im getting tired,but i genunly think its worse.
Part of what i said for the first game still aplies,so what i said for the first game:
"Really good,i like the characters,it has fun writing,each case has its own depth and lore,the main cast consistently get depth added along the game not making them stale,and its just entertaining"
Sound l 8,5/10
The sound is basically the same as last game except that the music is a little worse
What i said for the for the first game:
"Its not the music that makes sound in this game so special,it is its usage of the music and sound effects."
"The game knows when to stop the music and when to resume it,it does this on perfect timings to make things more intense"
"It also does this with the use of sound effects,they make every move feel more powerfull,for example the sound effect of the attorney's throwing their hands to their desk,or another example is von karma finger snap."
"It all sounds crisp and makes thing more intense"
Graphics/Aesthetics l 7,5/10
Graphics are the same from the first game
What i said for the first game:
"The graphics/aesthetics are decent but what i want to talk about is the camera use in the courtroom,since it moves not instantly (most of the time) it either manually moves to the person talking or quickly switchs between the people in the courtroom,and it all adds to the charm of the game."
Lenght of the game/Content:Cases l 4,5-5/10
Now the important part of these reviews,the case breakdown,this is the most important part of the ace attorney reviews
In question of lenght there is the tutorial case,two normal sized cases and a long case,so you are getting less bang for you buck off the back,not even starting to mention the quality of the cases that is way inferior the first game
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS IF YOU DIDNT PLAYED THE GAME OR YOU WANT TO PLAY IT DO NOT READ FURTHER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
Case rank and review:
4:Turnabout Big Top
I could talk all day about how bad is this case but im going to sum it up for you,there isnt a single good thing i can say about it apart from the usual likeable characters and there is plenty of bad points:
1:Disgusting pedo love triangle that nobody in the game says a thing against.
2:Bad and annoying new characters,seriously i couldnt care less about any of the fucks at the circus,except the poor owner guy that got killed for such a selfish reason,fuck everyone else,Max,Trilo,Regina,Moe,moe fuck moe man the game gives him so much screen time for purposfully awful and annoying jokes is not funny nor interesting,fuck Acro too,fuck ben too,i hate the whole circus so unlikeable.
3:The giant logic leap,the cape incident,it doesnt make sense and isnt satisfying at all.
4:Acro should not get sympathy for anyone and the game trying to potray him as sympathetic is just plain wrong,he killed the person he himself said owe his life too and tried to kill his daughter,and even though he said that he killed the man he owe his life too,he doesnt like fucking sad at all or even apologizes to regina for killing his dad,he doesnt seem like he gived a fuck.
5:The exploration is awful,constantly having to go and backtrack for every tiny little thing
6:The two first trials are literally useless,they boiled down two,the guy in the suit was not max and that the criminal went floating in the air,you waste hours on those two little things and is just annoying and frustrating,the rest is proven in the final trial
7:It doesnt add anything to the overall plot of the game,not any characters,not plot points not nothing,1-3 also did this but it was good,this is trash.
3:The Lost Turnabout
I dont have much to talk about here,is just a bad tutorial case with an annoying vilain,some dumb plotholes most importantly the broken neck contradiction that you cant point out,an also annoying defendant,look there isnt anything great on this case but it at least its short and has an interesting concept with the lost of memories
2:Reunion,And Turnabout
Not bad,but not great,i say its slightly worse than 1-2 and 1-3.Main good and bad points
1:You get introduced to Pearls and Franzeska,the two main new characters in this game,i like pearls she is innocent and has cute dialogue,franzeska is just kind of dissapointing,i was expecting the manfred aura,he was an amazing villain,but franzeska is just kind of annoying,even though the concept of a von karma succesor is interesting,i hope they do something more with her.Both of them dont get a lot of depth if any,especially franzeska,she basically has the same stick of beating wright the whole game and they dont add depth to her even though she has a lot of screentime,edgeworth in comparision was a much better more in depth character and prosecutor,i will get in more depth into this in 2-4 though.
2:The main antagonist,Mimi or whatever her name was interesting but i wish they wouldve explored more how she feels about her sister and that kind of thing,but i still think she is an interesting antagonist that had a twist that suprised me.
3:The other antagonist,pearls mother just kinda passed and was never talked about again,she says she is planning revenge or sum but atleast in this game she didnt do nothing
4:Its just a good case,nothing that i can i say about it is awful,good trials,decent investigation,satisfying ending,is just good
1:Farewell,My Turnabout
Amazing case,easily the best in the game and is top 3 so far (i played this one and the first game) but i still think it has its flaws.
1:Off the bat the tension is great,a lot of things happen and quickly letting you not time to think whats going on,it reminds me of ghost trick a little
2:One of my main problems with the case is franzeska,she as i said throught the game doesnt get a lot of depth and she just kind of wants revenge nothing more,and this was supposed to be the case that added depth to her,but apart from the ending,franziska is just as plain as before and edgeworth outshines her as a character and gets more depth and develoment,in the ending franziska does get an interesting scene but its too late.
3:So the first half is amazing,but the second half falls short on some parts for me,matt engarde apart from the reveal is a one dimensional villain,de killer also doesnt get a lot of depth apart from well being an assasin,also atleast for me the weight of the decision of guilty or not guilty just was not existent since i always choosed not guilty and it didnt have the emotional impact i think the game wanted to on me.
4:Andrew is a good character and she has depth,even though she doesnt have personality (at least a memorable one) she is interesting enough with the suicide incident and his relationship with the defendant,the victim and her mentor
5:Edgeworth is amazing on this chapter like always.
6:One problem that i have is more personal and maybe just a me thing but,i dont agree with the way the game potrays the court and its roles and im not really talking about phoenix because at least in my playthrough he granted matt the not guilty but he didnt want it.but im clearly seeing that the game is putting a message i dont personally agree on,i think that everyone should have a fair trial with its defense that should seek his benefit should it be full acquittal or a lower penalty,the prosecution its job its to found the defendant fully guilty and when negotiating a deal with the defense for a lower penalty for the defendant to always get the biggest sentence,the truth is to come out in the clash of these two parties,its not their job to find the truth nor should i think they should go out of their way for,because then it stops being a fair trial for one or both parties invovled (most of the time the defense),i know that is a game and they think that this way it wouldve be more interesting,but even then i dont agree,it would be really interesting be defending someone you truly dont know if it he is guilty or not.
Overall even though the last case is amazing and the second one is decent,it doesnt save it from the other two for being trash
Playability l 3/3
game works as intended
OVERALL
If this was your first ace attorney game,i see how you could give this a 7,but i know better,and this is not ideal,it does everything worse than the game before and is just not a enjoyable experience,i hope the next game really improves upon this one
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Gameplay/Mechanics l 7/10
The gameplay actually is improved from the first one by adding presenting profiles,but the gameplay loop is getting tiresome ,i hope that they improved this on next games because its going to get bad.so i think gameplay on this one is worse than the other one,only because im getting tired of the gameplay loop though because the gameplay is a straight upgrade.
What i said for the first game still apllies:
"Pointing out contradictions and objecting to the witness bullshit is really fun,the game is not that interesting mechanicaly or that hard but the whole tension that is in the courtroom make even more satisfying catch witnesses lying
"Exploration can be a bit tiring sometimes but is generally fine."
Story:Characters/Writing/Lore l 6,5-7/10
Even though the game still has the charm in the writing of the first game,it has worse characters,i like new ones like pearls but there are another ones like franzeska that just dissapointing me or other ones like regina that just annoy me,but even the new ones dont get a lot of depth,also there isnt anything resembling a plot connecting the cases in this game and its just less interesting that the first game,again maybe this is because this is the second game with the same formula,and maybe im getting tired,but i genunly think its worse.
Part of what i said for the first game still aplies,so what i said for the first game:
"Really good,i like the characters,it has fun writing,each case has its own depth and lore,the main cast consistently get depth added along the game not making them stale,and its just entertaining"
Sound l 8,5/10
The sound is basically the same as last game except that the music is a little worse
What i said for the for the first game:
"Its not the music that makes sound in this game so special,it is its usage of the music and sound effects."
"The game knows when to stop the music and when to resume it,it does this on perfect timings to make things more intense"
"It also does this with the use of sound effects,they make every move feel more powerfull,for example the sound effect of the attorney's throwing their hands to their desk,or another example is von karma finger snap."
"It all sounds crisp and makes thing more intense"
Graphics/Aesthetics l 7,5/10
Graphics are the same from the first game
What i said for the first game:
"The graphics/aesthetics are decent but what i want to talk about is the camera use in the courtroom,since it moves not instantly (most of the time) it either manually moves to the person talking or quickly switchs between the people in the courtroom,and it all adds to the charm of the game."
Lenght of the game/Content:Cases l 4,5-5/10
Now the important part of these reviews,the case breakdown,this is the most important part of the ace attorney reviews
In question of lenght there is the tutorial case,two normal sized cases and a long case,so you are getting less bang for you buck off the back,not even starting to mention the quality of the cases that is way inferior the first game
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS IF YOU DIDNT PLAYED THE GAME OR YOU WANT TO PLAY IT DO NOT READ FURTHER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
Case rank and review:
4:Turnabout Big Top
I could talk all day about how bad is this case but im going to sum it up for you,there isnt a single good thing i can say about it apart from the usual likeable characters and there is plenty of bad points:
1:Disgusting pedo love triangle that nobody in the game says a thing against.
2:Bad and annoying new characters,seriously i couldnt care less about any of the fucks at the circus,except the poor owner guy that got killed for such a selfish reason,fuck everyone else,Max,Trilo,Regina,Moe,moe fuck moe man the game gives him so much screen time for purposfully awful and annoying jokes is not funny nor interesting,fuck Acro too,fuck ben too,i hate the whole circus so unlikeable.
3:The giant logic leap,the cape incident,it doesnt make sense and isnt satisfying at all.
4:Acro should not get sympathy for anyone and the game trying to potray him as sympathetic is just plain wrong,he killed the person he himself said owe his life too and tried to kill his daughter,and even though he said that he killed the man he owe his life too,he doesnt like fucking sad at all or even apologizes to regina for killing his dad,he doesnt seem like he gived a fuck.
5:The exploration is awful,constantly having to go and backtrack for every tiny little thing
6:The two first trials are literally useless,they boiled down two,the guy in the suit was not max and that the criminal went floating in the air,you waste hours on those two little things and is just annoying and frustrating,the rest is proven in the final trial
7:It doesnt add anything to the overall plot of the game,not any characters,not plot points not nothing,1-3 also did this but it was good,this is trash.
3:The Lost Turnabout
I dont have much to talk about here,is just a bad tutorial case with an annoying vilain,some dumb plotholes most importantly the broken neck contradiction that you cant point out,an also annoying defendant,look there isnt anything great on this case but it at least its short and has an interesting concept with the lost of memories
2:Reunion,And Turnabout
Not bad,but not great,i say its slightly worse than 1-2 and 1-3.Main good and bad points
1:You get introduced to Pearls and Franzeska,the two main new characters in this game,i like pearls she is innocent and has cute dialogue,franzeska is just kind of dissapointing,i was expecting the manfred aura,he was an amazing villain,but franzeska is just kind of annoying,even though the concept of a von karma succesor is interesting,i hope they do something more with her.Both of them dont get a lot of depth if any,especially franzeska,she basically has the same stick of beating wright the whole game and they dont add depth to her even though she has a lot of screentime,edgeworth in comparision was a much better more in depth character and prosecutor,i will get in more depth into this in 2-4 though.
2:The main antagonist,Mimi or whatever her name was interesting but i wish they wouldve explored more how she feels about her sister and that kind of thing,but i still think she is an interesting antagonist that had a twist that suprised me.
3:The other antagonist,pearls mother just kinda passed and was never talked about again,she says she is planning revenge or sum but atleast in this game she didnt do nothing
4:Its just a good case,nothing that i can i say about it is awful,good trials,decent investigation,satisfying ending,is just good
1:Farewell,My Turnabout
Amazing case,easily the best in the game and is top 3 so far (i played this one and the first game) but i still think it has its flaws.
1:Off the bat the tension is great,a lot of things happen and quickly letting you not time to think whats going on,it reminds me of ghost trick a little
2:One of my main problems with the case is franzeska,she as i said throught the game doesnt get a lot of depth and she just kind of wants revenge nothing more,and this was supposed to be the case that added depth to her,but apart from the ending,franziska is just as plain as before and edgeworth outshines her as a character and gets more depth and develoment,in the ending franziska does get an interesting scene but its too late.
3:So the first half is amazing,but the second half falls short on some parts for me,matt engarde apart from the reveal is a one dimensional villain,de killer also doesnt get a lot of depth apart from well being an assasin,also atleast for me the weight of the decision of guilty or not guilty just was not existent since i always choosed not guilty and it didnt have the emotional impact i think the game wanted to on me.
4:Andrew is a good character and she has depth,even though she doesnt have personality (at least a memorable one) she is interesting enough with the suicide incident and his relationship with the defendant,the victim and her mentor
5:Edgeworth is amazing on this chapter like always.
6:One problem that i have is more personal and maybe just a me thing but,i dont agree with the way the game potrays the court and its roles and im not really talking about phoenix because at least in my playthrough he granted matt the not guilty but he didnt want it.but im clearly seeing that the game is putting a message i dont personally agree on,i think that everyone should have a fair trial with its defense that should seek his benefit should it be full acquittal or a lower penalty,the prosecution its job its to found the defendant fully guilty and when negotiating a deal with the defense for a lower penalty for the defendant to always get the biggest sentence,the truth is to come out in the clash of these two parties,its not their job to find the truth nor should i think they should go out of their way for,because then it stops being a fair trial for one or both parties invovled (most of the time the defense),i know that is a game and they think that this way it wouldve be more interesting,but even then i dont agree,it would be really interesting be defending someone you truly dont know if it he is guilty or not.
Overall even though the last case is amazing and the second one is decent,it doesnt save it from the other two for being trash
Playability l 3/3
game works as intended
OVERALL
If this was your first ace attorney game,i see how you could give this a 7,but i know better,and this is not ideal,it does everything worse than the game before and is just not a enjoyable experience,i hope the next game really improves upon this one
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