66.7 hours played
Written 29 days ago
This is a visual novel with a detective mystery theme. It's another entry in a long series and it's OK, but I don't think you should play it if you've already played any of the previous games, unless you're excited about it to the point where you don't read reviews like this.
It covers very familiar ground. There's a lot of charm here, plenty of goofy characters, and the mysteries themselves aren't that bad. This is a bundle/remaster of two games, so you get a lot of cases for your buck. However, the game is very long and overexplained, which is bad in itself, since it might irritate you the way it irritated me. But also, when you see some inconsistency or a stretch in logic that characters ignore, it becomes all the more infuriating when they spend hours talking around weak plot points. I've played the first game and reached the second case of the second game before I felt that was enough - I'm tired of all the bits more than I wonder what's happening with the central plot.
Also, the series is inherently unrealistic and nonsensical, but here the mechanics of the court are so bizarre that even the characters themselves comment on it. It makes for a fun drama, but there's no internal logic to it at all, which wouldn't be an issue in your usual goofy cartoonish story, but here, logical deduction is the name of the game.
But again, if you haven't played any of the Ace Attorney games, the novelty of it all will likely outweigh the issues.