Omniscientless posted...
I hate AJ the most because of the story and characters, but I1 is without a doubt the most boring game in the series (although 4-3 and the first day of 4-2 are up there too). Ultimately, I'm still more offended by AJ as a package deal than I am by I1, although I'd sooner replay AJ than AAI1. Even just thinking about I-3 and I-5 makes me feel dread within me. Still voted AJ because I hate it on an emotional level.
GAA1 is a ridiculous answer. I'm not a huge fan, but even just based on the rather amusing script and pace, it's infinitely better than either of those games. It does feel like an incomplete game, but I'd sooner play any of the GAA1 cases anything in either AAI or AJ. So many of the GAA1 witnesses are fucking hilarious.
Disagree. I1's relatively boring story is helped by the game being rather snappy unlike GAA1's slog. Outside of I-5, its cases are much better paced than G1 with its baffling 1 day structure. I'd actually sooner replay I-1, I-2 (which isn't that bad, mostly inoffensive, honestly a superior version all around of G1-2), and even I-5 over G1's equivalents even if G1's 1st case and maybe the 5th case (though I think Shih na's segment is the real highlight and on par with Gregson's reveal) are better. AJ's 4-4 and 4-1 as well.
GranzonEx posted...
The thing that drags both GAA games to me is that almost every trial could have been solved in one go but the game goes "nope you can't use that line of reasoning here you have to convince these 6 dumbasses to vote the other direction". You can see how the evidence connects but the game just drags on and on. AJ is just bad but you can reasonably finish a case in 2 hours if you can take how mind numbingly bad it was.
I think GAA2 from the third case onward has almost perfect pacing. All the pieces start falling together and you see the whole picture.
Indeed, I think this can chalked up to G1's 1 day structure which only gives a single (long) day of investigation and then a single day of court which doesn't give any room to discover new significant evidence on a second day which means nearly every evidence is already given to you the first time you enter court and you need to wait the long time for it to become relevant rather than piecing together multiple new clues as they come. GAA2 going back to the traditional 2 day structure completely fixes that. I'd say G2-2 was executed well in that regard too. Even G2-1 is a lot quicker than G1-1.
UshiromiyaEva posted...
Completely agree with all your points here.