Review of Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2 -Naruhodou Ryuunosuke no Kakugo-
Subject | Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2 -Naruhodou Ryuunosuke no Kakugo- |
By | Helpfulness: 1 Vote: 8.6flvbycjctnheheh on 2021-08-05 |
Review | I'd say that this is a really enjoyable game with the potential to be a masterpiece, but, in the end, it lacks something essential. Definitely superior to its direct prequel, GAA2 continues its overarching plot and ends in a truly epic fashion. Unfortunately, I've suspected the true mastermind's identity even while playing the prequel and then their identity became apparent at the third trial. Don't get me wrong, this game does have some "aha!" moments and nice plot twists, but there are too many "misses" when a supposed mystery isn't a mystery at all. On the bright side, it has some of the most emotional moments in the series and the overarching plot gives you the real sense of story progression, but murder mysteries themselves aren't "mysterious" enough and some minor inconsistencies that you can't really call actual plot holes make it harder to suspend your disbelief. Here are some things that bothered me. First of all, the big baddy Strongheart could have prevented his "fall" just by not allowing Naruhodo to come back as a lawyer. I understand why he allowed biased Kazuma to get the case (though it wasn't that smart, either), but he definitely had a way to prevent the best and most impartial attorney out there to get the cases that could lead to him. Strongheart also had the complete right to do this legitimately (then again, it was kind of stupid that an attorney got reprimanded for helping his client, even if he was then proved to be guilty, he wasn't aware of the false evidence, after all). In the end, the main antagonist dug a hole for himself by helping those two Japanese throughout the story. Another thing that bothered me was the fact that it was never properly explained why Barok stopped taking cases 5 years ago, I assumed that it was related to some kind of big case, but nah, no details were given, though, considering the influence of the Reaper rumor it should have had a big impact on the society. The last big thing that disturbed me was the way the last case ended - with Deus-ex science fiction plot device that didn't make much sense. I mean, wasn't it supposed to be a story in the past of the original AA world? Why instead of paranormal elements of the original trilogy we get some science inventions that didn't even exist in AA? Though I personally would prefer nothing of sorts like in Kenji (as far as I remember it didn't have anything that didn't exist IRL). Maybe I would have liked it more if I started the series from this duology, but I didn't. Still, it still had taken third place in my personal ranking of the whole series - Kenji 2 > Ace Attorney 3 > GAA 2. |
1 point |