Board 8 > Finally playing Edgeworth 2 (spoilers)

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E2-3 is my favorite non-finale case. I tend to agree with you that every other case except E2-1 is a relatively uneven experience, but it's still a really solid game overall.

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SeabassDebeste posted...

i totally disagree that e2-4 and e2-5 should have been switched fwiw. simon comes off as a true mastermind in part because he does succeed in iago'ing all 3 of his stated enemies. blaise always seemed like a chump. he had the trappings of a final boss, but he was worse at it. and it's actually mostly the bad luck with the body double shooting at him that he winds up becoming an actual murderer.

This is fair, and I do agree that Simon's success and the intricacy of his manipulation is impressive. I also agree that Blaise is meant to feel like a chump / all bark-no-bite kind of character. I just feel like Edgeworth lacks an emotional stake in the final confrontation with Simon. Afterwards, he admits that he wants to "save" people like Simon, and so I get that there's a sense that Edgeworth looks at him like "this is what I could have become," but I think this needed to be much more pronounced. And maybe this is me arguing against subtlety in a way, but I just don't think they did a good job with Simon's design/theme/gimmicks: he felt like a charisma black hole to me. But again: miss me with those clown characters.

LeonhartFour posted...

E2-3 is my favorite non-finale case. I tend to agree with you that every other case except E2-1 is a relatively uneven experience, but it's still a really solid game overall.

Solid is a good way to put it. I feel like this game was a bit overhyped. It's clearly better than the first Investigations, and E2-3 is amazing, but overall I can't say I like this game more than any of the main series entries except for AJ.

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