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I wish I liked the final case of this game more than I do. Like, I think it's really really good but I just don't *love* it for some reason. While G2-2, G2-3, and even G2-4 have all stuck in my brain pretty solidly since I played the game a couple years ago, I don't remember much about G2-5 after the tap dance sequence - it's all kind of a mushy blur for me, I dunno why. I remember liking it when I was playing it but very little about it actually stands out to me as memorable now for reasons I can't explain.

GAA2 is a great game, much better than GAA1, but I really feel like the lack of a trilogy here is felt in the fact that the game has barely any time to settle into any kind of status quo. Like, Ryunosuke and Susato have only barely settled into England before we're basically moving into the endgame! G1-5, G2-2, and G2-3 are basically it as far as our 'midgame' is concerned. G2-3 is our only case with Gina as a detective before Gregson bites it. The cases are nice and long and allow a lot of time for the characters to develop but I can't get over this since that it hits its conclusion too fast - I want to have more time to really settle in and enjoy all of these characters and the story they're taking us on and I really do wish we had that middle game, even if it felt more like GAA1 than GAA2.

I think my biggest problem are the missed opportunities though. Like, the fact that the game starts us with Susato as a lawyer but she just goes "oh ok I don't want to be a lawyer" and we never get further payoff to this is baffling to me. I really thought we would have the final case start with Ryunosuke in some kind of danger and Susato would have to step in to help him out, Edgeworth-style - even if she doesn't finish things off, it still feels like the Ryutaro arc should have come back at some point, but as it was it just felt like they were teasing us.

I also wanted more Mikotoba and Sholmes together. Or it would have been nice to have a dance of deduction with Sholmes and Iris together, kind of passing the torch and officially establishing Iris as Sholmes's new partner, since we've established that she's good at deduction!

It kinda stands out to me that out of all the characters, it feels like Susato and Iris, the two main female leads, have the least agency in this story. I know it'd be obvious to say "well, it was the 1800's or whatever, women didn't really hold a very high status" but frankly, they were more than happy to suspend this logic for the sake of Japanese nationals fully practicing law in Britain with little obstacle so I find the logic dubious (also this is like fucking Steampunk Britain, who cares).

There's other aspects of this just not having enough time to do all its stories that stand out to me - like, I really think Courtney Sithe should have been established in the first game to make her being the real killer in G2-3 a LOT more intriguing - as it is she just feels like a random bad guy that I don't care about. I really like Maria Gorey but she gets almost no screentime - she basically gets introduced to us just in time for the endgame. And like I said, Gina doesn't get a whole lot of time to be a detective which is disappointing. Also what the hell is with Rei Membani having such a prominent spot on the box art for one of the game's least important characters? Why is it always women getting shafted? Seriously what's the freaking deal

I dunno, sorry, I just had to get this stuff of my chest. GAA2 is still good but I feel like it's just barely missing the mark of being brilliant and I'm annoyed by it

I'm also annoyed that the game only has 4 cases and the 5 case thing was a lie. I really thought we were going to have the Gregson murder wrapped up and then have a whole new thing for case 5 to tie everything together! Everything still tied together but I dunno, kind of disappointing!