So continued with the second game, not that hard when both are in the same application. Starts of back in Japan with Susato disguising herself as a boy in order to defend her friend who are accused of the murder of... the girl that murdered Dr Watson? All right! Turns out she was killed by a journalist who was a bit miffed that she was able to escape justice. Ok, it also tells us that the reason Susato was called back was a ruse by her father since he hadn't fallen ill, but apparently a report from the author guy was the cause for some reason. With that we get the retelling of the story that followed the not murder on Baily Street. That have to been cut from the first game since the colourful person appeared again and the not-murder victim turned in again. She still didn't die, although nearly took her own life. It ends with the loot from a burglar being found containing a jewel studded dog collar.
And the third one we have a mad scientist trying to create a teleporter, but the the financier is murdered. Turns out that the scientist is also an old classmate with lord van Ziek. There's bombs, a dead man arising from the grave, a tale of the Professor, the worst mass murderer in London, wax dolls and madam Tussauds and a man seeming to be half clockwork machine. And this is only the third chapter, it ends with Kuzuma returning from the dead and revealing that the Professor is actually Kazumas father. Gave me a bit of Professor Layton flashbacks with the exploding machine.
4th chapter and it's the death of inspector Gregson... wow, a prominent character in the games is killed and Barok van Ziek is the defendant? And this isn't even the last chapter? What will they do to top this? What we have is an international conspiracy with assassins, a cover up of a prison escape, falsified evidence in a ten year old case, the reaper of Baily exposed and so much more... and then the chapter ends midway and continues in chapter 5. Well that explains it. Too big for one chapter. What don't we learn here? Watson wasn't Iris father, but Klint van Zieks, the brother of Barok. Watson wasn't even Watson, but Susato's father was Holmes assistant. Klint was also responsible for the Professor, but coerced by Lord Chief Justice Stronghart, and the murderer of both Kazuma's father and inspector Gregson was the Japanese judge. The ending was a bit contrived though since it basically ends with Holmes, using a hologram to persuade Queen Victoria of Britain to sack Stronghart when he has the whole judiciary eating from his palm. The clearest form of Deus Ex Machina I've seen.
Together these two games are great, how they constantly spin back to the case of the professor, leaving more details as everything goes on, and letting it feel like Sherlock is pulling the strings behind the scenes to solve this 10 year old mystery. Individually... maybe the second one is better since it contains the heavy hitter cases that have the pay-off, but you need the establishing game. Also, strange that they did away with the jury in the last two chapters when it was a prominent feature for the game. Also, the music is a bit lacking. Not bad and I liked it, but there's something missing. In the other games one of the best tracks is the Edgeworth theme whenever it shows up (that become the theme for van Karma in the second game as well) and in the latest games the music with the thought thread was great in pumping you up, missed that kinda sequence here, maybe because the game was a lot easier so they didn't need to try getting people on the same page (meaning it was probably better telegraphed what to do). I frankly had only 2 problems and both was related to missing an item to investigate since it was obscured by things around it that also could be investigated.
Overall I liked them. The package also had some "Escapades" that are short stories taking place around the first game. Funny little moments like the discussion on different taxes... I'm a political scientist, of course I found the discussion of the absurd taxes to be interesting. Strangely non for the second game. Also, the game sets up the possibility for a 3rd game in the series with Sherlock and friends traveling to Japan it feels, but there is non after that and it originally came out in 2017, might we get a new game soon? It haven't even been a mainline Ace Attorney game either, or yet another Ace Investigation game.
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