3
This would have also gotten a 1 from me if there were not a few individual moments or concepts that I enjoyed or was intrigued by respectively. Apollo feeling so irrelevant in his own game, especially in this final case, and being effectively used as a pawn throughout sucks. Thank goodness DD and SOJ existed to give him something. People have already mentioned the issues with the writing for certain characters so I won't regurgitate it, and the MASON system feels like a chore to play through. I don't hate Spark Brushel as much as I used to, but I hated his Perceive tell. There are a lot of characters that could have been (or WERE) cool heading into this case, yet Zak, Kristoph and even Klavier might have become some of my least favorite characters in the series that weren't bit characters for one case. Oh, and Hobonix rigging the trial to get his desired result. There's a reason this franchise almost died and that some people never played past this point in the series, and this game is one of two big reasons for it.
I will admit that the jurist system reveal to Kristoph and his breakdown on its own is awesome and his breakdown is one of my favorites in the entire series.
PaulG235 | Finished in the Top 2 of GotD2010's Second Chance Bracket
Sadly, there are no second chances in the Guru, azuarc doesn't need one.