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As far as I could tell, people thought extremely highly of E2-5, it was a consistent top case but I have no opinion or skin in this game because I havent played it! I have only finished the first case from that game. Maybe I will do a full playthrough soon as I doubt it will see a rerelease at least in the foreseeable future.

...Also, who says 5-5 isnt the best DD case? That seems like near-consensus to me, unless we are counting the DLC, and Id still say 5-5 has the edge.

Anyway, heres my galaxy brain 1-5 take:

1-5 isnt too long, or even that long at all. 1-4 is short, its about the same length as 3-2 and 3-3, and given the way the last day is paced, it feels like it could have been longer. By comparison 1-5 is the only case in the game that really justifies the 3 day format. 1-5 is about the same length as 3-5 and only slightly longer than 2-4. However, both of these cases, especially 3-5 (which introduces a whopping two new characters), largely depend on characters and plot threads we already know. However, 1-5 only has the core cast of Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Gumshoe return, even the companion is different. It has to introduce a whole new story in its own right in the space of one case, much more do than any other case in the series, so it justifies that length. It also had to A) justify the purchase of the DS rerelease for Japanese players and B) bring AA1 in line with the other games in terms of scope because it was originally only like 8 hours long, half the other two. So given that 1-5 was intended as effectively a new game in its own right, and is basically giving us a whole new story that needs to both work as a finale for new players, and as a standalone story for returning ones, it needed to be that long to work. Its not E1-5 level ending fatigue, it actually uses that length.

Tl;dr, 1-5s length is good actually.

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