8.6/10
It's really long-winded, but I love a lot of the main plot points about it.
- Courtney showing off her vulnerable side
- Will and Penny show up!
- Edgeworth's pep talk to Sebastian
- Sebastian's sprite of him sniffing away his last tears eyeing up his dad in court (would've worked better if he didn't go right back to crying, but eh)
- The twist villain
- Dare I say the greatest villain breakdown of all-time? And it's not even close???
That said, the whole side plot of intuiting that the kidnapping was actually a murder is soooooo fucking long and kills a lot of the momentum that the current-day murder has. This being the main reason I bumped this down to the 8's.