Unlike some people, I don't think AJ is a terrible game. Flawed as it is, it's still better than the slag heap that is Ace Attorney Investigations.
See, now this is an opinion I will never understand. Personally, I think: 3 > AAI > 1 > 2 > AJ
As important as PW1 was to laying the ground-work for an amazing series, each individual case is fairly straightforward, the pacing is a little off, and nothing too terribly exciting happens nearly as often as the other games. AAI fixes all three of those shortcomings, imo (except E-3, I suppose, that one's pretty straightforward and not very exciting either, but I still enjoy it, for what it's worth)
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