GAA1 beated. Man, this game (and especially the last case) felt super long!
LordoftheMorons posted...
Finally got to the trial in GAA1-5. Speculation:
I will be absolutely shocked if the person ultimately responsible for everything isnt Stronghart; despite being serious all the time he was giving off major Gant vibes from day one. Im also guessing that Susatos dad is not actually sick and he was just trying to get her out of the way. She probably knew about the Hound of the Baskervilles because she heard the story from Wilson, and surely his death is gonna tie into this case as well.
So none of this came to pass... at least in this game. Stronghart didn't end up doing much of anything the whole game, but I still think there's a decent chance he's the series' big bad if the unresolved mysteries from this game continue into the next. The list of names from the music box seems like it could be a hit list given that at least two of the four people are dead (even if Kazuma's death is currently understood to be an accident).
I mostly liked the main cast except for van Zieks, who I'm pretty meh on... his design is good, but he's an asshole the whole game and only kinda has a face turn. Better than Nahyuta, but I don't know if he beats anyone else just from this game. Sholmes is great. I wasn't a big fan of the jury system; purely as a gameplay element it was fine, but as a story mechanism it made it really hard to suspend disbelief when literally five of the six "randomly selected" jurors in the last case are people we know (and in G1-4 a juror is literally the culprit!). Overall the game is probably at about the level of AAI1.