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Paratroopa1 posted...

I absolutely adore 5-6. I'm really partial to the whole aquarium theme and stuff, but what I really like about it is how it takes its position as a DLC case to play around with the player's expectations of how AA cases work, and it KNOWS it's doing this. Marlon Rimes is beautifully set up to be one of the case's harmless witnesses - he's the first minor character that shows up, and they give him a gimmick so that you don't think there's no reason for him to exist. And then Herman Crab is a great misdirect into making you think that he's going to be the bad guy - he first shows up on day 2 of the case, an AA classic, and he's kind of a jerk and seems like he has ulterior motives (he does but not at all in the way you think). I was legit taken aback when I realized that Crab wasn't the killer, and I wasn't thinking of Rimes at all - I don't normally vocally react to a game like this but when Rimes transformed I audibly laughed in surprise, and everything from that point on was just pure gold, especially when they had the one last swerve at the end where Rimes wasn't the killer at all. All of that stuff, for me, added up to being one of the most memorable cases in the series.

I'll admit that it's possible that I underrated it, and I may reexamine my opinions after beating AA6. But I knew Crab was a misdirect the second I saw him. I knew from the beginning that it was between Rimes and Sasha, though I didn't see the final twist or his transformation coming.

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Started: July 6, 2005