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Beated the game and now on the DLC.

So my hunch was right. I'll leave a few thoughts on the game as a whole and probably why I feel like I figured out the final antagonist so quickly.

I don't remember every detail of the previous games but one thing I do remember was the games were very well paced, even the "bad" cases like Big Top. Even my personal least favorite case, Farewell My Turnabout, didn't drag at the end.

So my biggest problem with this game is the pacing and dialogue. I don't mind the new characters, or the game focusing on them. It felt like in this game the perps in every case has 20 testimonies. Every time I rip them apart in cross examination, they would come back with a lie and then we get a minigame with either Apollo or Athena and then we spend another 30 minutes ripping apart more testimony. The game really wore me down.

Now as for how I figured out the final bad guy. Fortunately I did not get spoiled. But unfortunately the game did an incredibly bad job with the lighter. I wish that wasn't something that was focused on at the end of the fourth case. Because of how the game handled Athena's past, we knew nothing about her up until that point, and then her sleeping in the space museum didn't amount to anything, so her prints on the lighter felt very unnatural. Usually when someone gets framed there's foreshadowing, and motive. One of the protagonists getting framed isn't new but the way she was randomly framed seemed out of nowhere. And because of how far we were into the game, all the characters had their motives explained, except the one guy handling the evidence.