Lurker > MrSmartGuy

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.

A decent bit longer? But not super long.

Monika

8.2/10

I dunno I really like this case.
\_()_/

G2-3 > G2-4 > G2-5 > G2-2 > G1-3 > G1-5 > G2-1 > G1-4 > G1-1 > G1-2 imo

Hat Kid

I'll go with RE4, while admitting that the argument presented for Pikmin 2 is compelling.

I've played through it and watched someone else play through it twice, and I still don't understand various key aspects of how the case played out and why certain things happened. Is this the most complicated murder in the series? I'd cast my vote for it.

Despite that, and the fact that it's like 14 hours long, I'm still gonna give it a really good score because all the world-building and character development and foreshadowing is incredible.

Let's say.... a 9.0/10

It's a shit resolution, but I still don't care because Dancing Sholmes is my favorite Sholmes moment and that's no small task.

Snowed

100%'d Trackmania Turbo

It lists how well you did compared to others in your country and state, and like 2/3 of the way to the end, I was the only one that had even completed the levels in the entire state of Kansas.

5.3

Most of AAI2 drags on, but this is the only case where you can really feel it.

Time

Sans
Kitsurugi

Having to vote against Jesse hurts my soul.

8.4/10

Best intro case in the series, by far. Everyone involved in this case is spectacular, especially Knightley, and having the silly Lotta Hart disciple be a twist conspirator is super cool.

Linkin

3.9/10

There's three standout moments to this case to me:

• Shih-na doing the Yew laugh
• Lang accusing Franziska of the murder to get back into the crime scene
• THE OTHER LANG MOMENT

This case single-handedly made me like Lang quite a bit. If not for him, this case would be nothing but fluff and last-minute saves from the bench warmers.

Also, a really fucking cool detail in this is that Sholmes never got funky with Mikotoba's dance of deduction like he does with Ryunosuke's. Because Mikotoba is his real partner and they just gel together that well as an investigative duo.

I watched a streamer play this game a few years ago, and her reaction to that moment was so good, I saved the clip in my bookmarks.

https://clips.twitch.tv/RepleteThirstySwordAliens-88lWO3j2_7Ob_q9s

Money

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain

My answer is both, I guess. I would absolutely use it at home, just to save time. They'd also be really nice for road trips or going to events. But at work, having a nice little bathroom break to calm down and have a little me time can redeem an entire day.

That said, I'd definitely not poop around people. Surely the stink would get out there, even if briefly, and that'd be fucking horrible.

We should probably be careful answering that question with a full (finale) case left to go in the playthrough.

1.8/10

I despise this case. Get Calisto Yew out of my life forever. I think I said Lamiroir was my least favorite character in the series a few days ago, but that was because my mind tried to erase all memory I had of Yew i fucking hate it here lemme out

Die

KamikazePotato posted...

Did you play the DLC?

Oh hey yeah, you should do this. Legitimately my favorite DLC of all-time.

Bloodborne > Elden Ring > Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls 1 > Dark Souls 2

Haven't played any of the others that are similar.

Case 1 is my second-favorite. I gave it a 4.1.

Leonhart4 posted...

Hot take time: This is the second best case in the game by a clear margin.

I'll go one further. This is the best case in the game. Not by a wide margin, but I like it the most.

5.2/10

Still doesn't mean I'm giving it a good score, though. AAI suuuuuuuuucks.

I got a good set of boots for DHIL. And then......
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/92fdf55f.jpg

Needless to say, I do believe it has lived up to the topic title.

GAA2 > AAI2 > T&T > SoJ > DD > AA1 > TC > JFA > GAA1 > AJ > AAI2

I'd need some time to let this sit, but this is where I think it'd go as of right now for me. Like I said, the cases themselves aren't that great, but I'm left with an even better impression of Tyrion and Celeste's story wrap-up than Phoenix and Maya's after 2-4, and Aria's is WAAAAAAY better than Franzy's.

FUCKIN LISTEN TO THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOHRsCvCw8

The music when you're doing the in-courtroom arguments turns my underwear into slightly whiter underwear.

I like Celeste even more than Maya there I said it.

Angel

Oh, that's one more thing I wasn't a huge fan of: naming Celeste as the "murderer".

I get what you're trying do, game, but making me select her name 5 times in a row to make sure I understand how hard it is for Tyrion to actually say it is not having the effect you're going for.

I was wondering about Alaric the entire time from going into demon world onward.

Was suspicious of the poor kid clear up until Aster flat out admitted everything.

Case 5 > 4 > 2 > 1 > 3

Case 5 would be, like, mid-tier in AA and case 3 would be bottom 10.

Overall, they're OK, not great.

That said, that only takes the cases themselves into account. The character-building, especially around specifically Tyrion and Celeste, was SUPER good, and that's not included in my rankings. Their overall plot was fantastic, and is the main reason I'm still happy I went through this experience.

AND THEY KISSED AHHHHHHHHHHH

In all seriousness, that does kinda sum up my true feelings about the game. It tries really hard to get you to think the stakes couldn't be higher and that the fate of the kingdom rests on you successfully getting through this ordeal, and yet.... the way it actually ends just kinda lands with a plop. In a vacuum, I like the idea of the leader of the military just casually slashing the king and being like "whoops my bad", but no one around seems to care all that much, so I didn't either. Whatever.

Sucks for Aria, cuz she was my second-favorite character in the game behind Celeste. After thinking back on the ending as a whole, I guess it makes sense for her character to act the way she was, but it undersold the shit out of the gravitas of it all, and only perpetuated the overarching feeling of "que sera sera" everyone had.

I dunno. This is one of those cases that loses a lot of points from me in that, because it's in a mystery game, it has to have all these wacky twists and turns for the player to figure out so it's exciting. Aster can't just kill some nobles on his own time some other time, gotta get his fiance that legitimately loves him to death involved for some reason???? Instead of the actual head of the noble familly????????

The Eris part was great (minus the infuriating nonsense I went through with the evidence presenting), and everything involving Celeste was super interesting and fun to tear down. Just really wish they could've stuck the landing, and I'd have nothing but praise to sing for this game.

I saw in the credits all the instruments were listed. That's awesome they got a legit orchestra to do the soundtrack; never would've expected that.

Anyway, yeah, guess everyone can dump whatever they've been waiting to contribute now.

TORMENT
+3 Empoleon
+2 Cyndaquil
+1 Krokorok
-1 Venomoth
-2 Torkoal
-3 Qwilfish

PSYCHO CUT
+3 Togekiss
+2 Sawk
+1 Golurk
-1 Palpitoad
-2 Meltan
-3 Feebas

I beat the game. I only have one thing to say.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a3e9c821.jpg

This is taking me a while because this game is too open-ended in its evidence. I've spent no fewer than 20 times trying to contradict Celeste's statements about her timeline with the fact that Aria's timeline doesn't match up because she went sicko mode before 1:45, and even got a game over in the Asmodeus/Horus battle because of it. Turned out they specifically wanted me to present von Sanctus's death because he was killed too early for it to be from Aria signing a contract after Celeste signing one.

This is extremely frustrating.

I'll go over more detailed thoughts when I'm done, but as I'm going through it currently, I only wanna give either some discrepancies or quirks I'm noticing.

And right after the owner of the Blood Contract is revealed and why they signed it, I think I already know something. I don't know how I'm gonna use it, but it's clear to me that while Eris used Beatrice, she cast Feign Death on Tyrion to make it look like he was dead. That's why Eris still had to revive him after he fucked up the Edict with Aster.

That said, the contract states that after Celeste kills Pierce, Tyrion's consciousness will be restored. I mean, she did that. I don't see a loophole here. I guess I'll find out where we're going with this soon enough.

Yeah, they pulled that one out at the exact right time, and it fit Eris' demeanor really well.

Eris! It's clear that your testimony is contradictory!

Sorry, that wasn't the correct answer.
Did you notice how the music didn't stop?

I.... What?

Fucking amazing.

OK hang on here.

Tyrion said he was just gonna go alphabetically, so he started with Aster.

But Alaric exists....

So either he's just excluding children from his list of suspects for whatever reason, the writers just forgot about him, or something fucky's going on here. The writers have been pretty on the ball about that kind of stuff so far, so surely it's either the first or the third option here.

If anything happens to Tyrion or Celeste in this trial, I'm pulling a Rosa from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

2.6/10

It sucks. Legitimately gets, like, a full point for the sequence of Zinc falling over a railing in slow motion while Edgeworth is lost in thought.

How great is it that the gesture to cast the House Steelwind ultimate spell is the "ROCK ON BROTHER" sign.