Forget the whole "dark side of the law" shtick that's repeated ad nauseam, nothing is more grating in this game than the constant flash backs (often to dialogue that just happened 5 minutes ago) and the overuse of fade to whites whenever someone new interrupts a trial (and queue everyone's reaction for next couple of seconds).
The writing is already a step back from the OG trilogy but the actual storytelling is even more of a drop-off. Case 4 is relatively short but fuck if it wasn't torture, leading me to fall asleep, twice. The mostly solid cases 3 and 5 honestly save this game back from being straight up bad, but it's definitely worse than Apollo Justice, whose main crime is just being ho-hum.
Also Wow, what are the odds that just as Phoenix returns to being a lawyer to help save an innocent prosecutor, he just so happens to hire a rookie defense that he met in Europe, who also happens to have personal ties to said prosecutor and who is also trying to save him. And then because the writers didn't want to leave Apollo out of the coincidence of the millenia, they shoehorn him and his definitely BFF having a history with where the initial drama originates. I know this series is melodramatic, but this is straight up taken out of some garbage soap opera
P.S. Where the fuck is Mr. Hat? Like I get his intro wouldn't be as jaw droppingly beautiful in 3d than it would be in pixel art, but still you can't just leave him out. That's like half the soul of Trucy.
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Note: Unlike reviews, comments are considered temporary and may be deleted/purged without notice.The writing is already a step back from the OG trilogy but the actual storytelling is even more of a drop-off. Case 4 is relatively short but fuck if it wasn't torture, leading me to fall asleep, twice. The mostly solid cases 3 and 5 honestly save this game back from being straight up bad, but it's definitely worse than Apollo Justice, whose main crime is just being ho-hum.
Also Wow, what are the odds that just as Phoenix returns to being a lawyer to help save an innocent prosecutor, he just so happens to hire a rookie defense that he met in Europe, who also happens to have personal ties to said prosecutor and who is also trying to save him. And then because the writers didn't want to leave Apollo out of the coincidence of the millenia, they shoehorn him and his definitely BFF having a history with where the initial drama originates. I know this series is melodramatic, but this is straight up taken out of some garbage soap opera