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The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve (Switch)

And that's the end of this duology for me! Beat the first game quite a long time ago already and I started this second game around a year ago I think, but very slowly progressed through it. Now I've been in the mood to actually finish games and since my partner started watching along around halfway through case 3, it gave me extra incentive to play this daily and finish the game.

Doing it together was quite fun and all in all, this was a solid Ace Attorney game. Better than the first, but they should be played as one whole anyway. The presentation was beautiful, the setting was really nicely done and the characters were really fun and had great animations. I liked Ryunosuke a lot as a defense lawyer, he's actually smart and grows quickly throughout the games. The other main characters were also pretty much all really cool or funny. They're definitely also getting weirder each game. Sometimes, that does take me out of the immersion a bit. But aside from the wordiness and repetition of quirks/catchphrases, it was all right in this game. Sholmes and all the other references to Sherlock Holmes made for a fun focal point.

The overarching plot was also cool, if a little predictable and loving some Deus Ex Machina here and there (always the case in these games though). I do feel that at this point and after so many AA games, there's only so much creativity that can still be put in some of these elements. But the historical setting and the great presentation give the game its own identity within the series nevertheless. The new gameplay features are cool and work well with the setting, but they don't amount to much in terms of changing how you play the game.

However, I was missing that oomph in the revelations and the twists a bit. So overall, while it's a very solid package, it never reaches the heights that some other games in the series do for me. As a balance, the games have almost no actually bad cases. That goes for both part 1 and part 2. Some solutions, murder methods and all that really ask you to suspend your disbelief, but again, this is Ace Attorney and it happens in older games as well. Part 2 is definitely longer and more involved, so I like that one more overall.