This review contains spoilers
Gets three stars almost exclusively for the good moments but I was soo close to just giving it 2.5.
I started playing this game a while back but dropped it because the final case just was where the game reached a level of boring that I just decided I wanted to skip it. I've had a recent resurgence in my interest in Ace Attorney so I decided to pick back up with actually going back and beating this game. But really, This playthrough only further validated my feelings I had about the game already. It's just weak, and has probably the worst final case in the entire series that just stretches on and on and on and isn't even very interesting.
Best part of the game is definitely the flashback case, Turnabout Reminiscence... With no contest. It gives such a great glimpse of perspective into Edgeworth's time working under Manfred von Karma that it bumps this game's worth up singlehandedly. We see how other lawyers never really took him seriously, and how he hardly even recognizes the blatant verbal abuse he faces by the von Karmas. That combined with the relationship between Kay and Gumshoe which absolutely warms my heart and makes me giddy for him makes it probably just in general one of the most hype cases in the series. Unfortunately, however, that doesn't quite save the game itself from being overall quite mediocre and boring.
I started playing this game a while back but dropped it because the final case just was where the game reached a level of boring that I just decided I wanted to skip it. I've had a recent resurgence in my interest in Ace Attorney so I decided to pick back up with actually going back and beating this game. But really, This playthrough only further validated my feelings I had about the game already. It's just weak, and has probably the worst final case in the entire series that just stretches on and on and on and isn't even very interesting.
Best part of the game is definitely the flashback case, Turnabout Reminiscence... With no contest. It gives such a great glimpse of perspective into Edgeworth's time working under Manfred von Karma that it bumps this game's worth up singlehandedly. We see how other lawyers never really took him seriously, and how he hardly even recognizes the blatant verbal abuse he faces by the von Karmas. That combined with the relationship between Kay and Gumshoe which absolutely warms my heart and makes me giddy for him makes it probably just in general one of the most hype cases in the series. Unfortunately, however, that doesn't quite save the game itself from being overall quite mediocre and boring.