last case is a banger but sadly mid overall... as stated in my review of the first game, I played the first 1-3 cases of all of the games in the original trilogy when I got the collection on my ipad when i was like 14 (since it let you jump between all of them for some reason?), but never finished any of them since i got stuck on investigation sections due to playing it so intermittently. i dropped this one at big top which is completely understandable

overall it's not bad but case 1 is the most forgettable thing ever, case 2 is neat but mostly just because you get to see maya's hometown, case 3 is just as miserable as everyone says it is lol, and case 4 is like clearly by a wide margin the best thing here...

my issues with these are still at their loudest in the investigation sections which involve a lot of wandering back and forth between locations and tripping flags, made most prominent by how clunky navigation is in these earlier titles. it's a nitpick but it's a pretty consistent one, and in this game psyche locks make the investigation sections take up much more of the time than they do in the first game, which is a bit of a bummer. still excited for trials and tribulations though! it's the one out of the original trilogy that i'm still the most blind on (only played the first case) and its status as a bit of a fan favorite does have me more hopeful than i was going into this (which has the status of "the one with franziska von karma" and "has big top in it")