A fantastic deduction and social puzzle game that takes heavy inspirations from Ace Attorney (obviously). (like really obviously, it has a Maya and Mia, Edgeworth/Franziska, but these characters are just inspirations. Besides their similarities in their roles in the story, they are not copies of those characters) It's got a fun cast of believable and likeable characters, a banging OST, and some well-thought out and logical cases.

Attorney of the Arcane takes place in a fantasy world, which infinitely expands the scope of what's possible in an investigation game about murders, yet every single case in the game can be deduced and solved by following the logic that was established in the world. Admittedly, the ending is a bit messy, but it does nicely tie up every loose end.

Case 4 and 5 are definite highlights of the series, with 4 being my personal favorite. Case 1 as always the tutorial case. Case 2 and 3 are still good cases, but without spoiling any of the cases, I think Case 3 would be the worst one of out of all of them Relatively speaking of course, they are still all fantastic.

I have not played many Ace Attorney games. Just the first one to completion, and the second one up to Case 3, but it does play more seriously than Ace Attorney.

I am giving the game a 5/5, although there are some very small UI elements that are very slightly annoying, as well as no skip and fast-forward button to skip past already read dialogue common in VN. There's also some poor quality production, probably due to budget. These are very minor gripes and do not take away from it's excellent story and gameplay.

Minus 0.5 for not having any dialogue went presenting your attorney's badge.