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3 > 5 > 1 > 2 > 4

I could go either way on the top two, neither are top tier cases for me. McGilded is great but I have lingering issues with 3 - I don't really understand McGilded's plan in the beginning, why he's all sad sack about not having a lawyer and then asking Ryunosuke to defend him, like, if he was masterminding the whole thing from the very start and saw himself as never being in any danger of getting found guilty, then I don't understand how any of that fits into it and it just feels like it's meant to mislead us. Also while the feature characters in GAA are great, I sort of hate all the bit players - like, McGilded, Gina, and Van Zieks are all fantastic but I don't like any of the jury or minor witnesses and that kind of hurts things.

5, people have gone over it before. I don't mind the cat flap thing and I like most of the stuff this case does, and the Skulkins are better bit parts than the other ones in this game. It isn't as great as other 'epic' cases though and feels like it sets up more mysteries than it answers which is sort of annoying for what's supposed to be a climax. Still, most of what it does it executes well.

1 could have been a great intro case, one of the best, if not for the fact that it grinds to an absolute halt over the plate switching thing. It's painfully easy to call what happened, and I thought it was only going to take me a single present to explain it, but then there's like another hour of cross-examining witnesses over it! Painful. I guess they wanted to bring back the witnesses in this one at the end but it wasn't necessary. The whole trick with the poison and such would have been a far better way to end what was a great case up until then.

2 is just the Herlock Sholmes show. It's mostly pretty bad, but Herlock carries it on his shoulders. I don't hate the premise or the characters but it's a little weak and it feels like the game is still stuck in tutorial mode when it doesn't need to be.

4 is probably my least favorite case in the franchise! The characters are such awful and lame caricatures, like I'm playing a Layton game instead of an AA game, and the murder mystery's lame too, it all feels like a big asinine joke, like I'm playing Ace Attorney Junior instead of a real Ace Attorney game. I was feeling REALLY down about this game after this case, but fortunately it picks itself back up after this and never feels like this again.