came in with guarded expectations but it still flew below them

really highlighted the value in ace attorney being about a defense lawyer. phoenix wright desperately trying to defend a client, scrambling through a case just trying to disrupt the evidence/testimony linking your client to the murder and hopping from theory to theory in the process before ultimately revealing the truth is an infinitely more enjoyable journey than having the amateur detective player characters bumble in and make clearly unsound assumptions and accusations in the course of moving the plot forward, to say nothing of the cop stuff. did find the ex-husband stuff surprisingly good amidst the otherwise serviceable-at-best writing though

puzzles are samey, with little sense of speculation during or joy upon completion (beyond most clues just being mundane rectangular objects, the pixel art style used for displaying finished puzzles means that the b&w pixels often barely suggest the finished product). but hey, it's picross so i still had trouble putting it down in spite of everything