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1-3 was a better on a replay and jumped a fair amount in my eyes. You've already proven Powers is most likely innocent after day 2, but the case is self-aware and admits as such and I really like that it does. It's easy to overlook how much it means at first glance, but Gumshoe outright tells Phoenix that a good chunk of the Prosecutor's Office doesn't believe in the case against Powers anymore on day 3. This is a concession that, as far as I remember, is completely unique to 1-3. This also ends up being a case where, even with all the darkness lurking in the shadows, it actually was self defense. This case was willing to take chances basically every other case avoided and I learned to respect it for that.

2-3 tried to be a fun case. It's not awful, but it missed the mark quite a bit. I actually think being a little more grounded in reality would've helped it out quite a lot.

3-3 is one of the worst cases in the series. There's a littany of issues with it, moreso than almost any other. This has long been Blade's personal pick for worst case in the entire series, as 1-2 is for me.

4-3 is also one of the worst cases in the series. I can respect that they tried to be new and inventive with it... But none of it actually improves the case at all.

5-3 leaves me with mixed feelings. The case itself was fairly good, and unlike 5-2 has a respectable reason for the first day being stopped. My biggest issue, and I've said this before, is everything to do with Robin felt like a total copout.

6-3 would be better with less Rafya. I like the touch added to day 2 which is why it was virtually impossible to win on day 1, but she's just too present. I actually skipped through some text on day 2 just because I was so tired of listening to her.

E1-3 is bad for two reasons. The first it is has a pair of plot twists I saw coming less than 3 minutes into the case. The second is Lance and Lauren are both very weak characters for how much the case ends up focused on them.

E2-3 is a case I feel is very undersold. The progression between the timelines doesn't feel forced, and it really highlights just how completely broken the system was and still partially is. The villain, while having very little screentime, is very well done. He just isn't evil, he's jubilant about being evil, about what being evil has gained him, and about the fact that he's sure he's already gotten away with it because he can't be charged with the crime anymore. He feels no remorse and laughs off his crime as if it were nothing. He might be the best "underdeveloped" character in the series just because of how much they sell his utter lack of redeeming qualities in such a short timeframe.

G1-3 is good because McGilded carries it. This looks like possibly the most open and shut case in the entire series at first, and as you go down the rabbit hole, you begin to get this nagging feeling that it really was that open and shut to begin with and you've just been playing someone else's game all along. You end the case knowing you almost certainly got a guilty man off, but the game doesn't actually outright tell you until two cases later, and I really like it for that.

G2-3 As good as McGilded was, Drebber is better. Sithe gets completely shafted, but everything about Drebber shines. His look, and even his mannerisms show his outright partial dissociation from humanity because of everything that's been taken from him. The case itself is a ride of connecting a whole lot of little things loosely together, all leading to a massive can of worms opening up the one time Tusspells testifies. It does run "long" at it's tailend, but unlike other cases that do, it doesn't feel like it overstays it's welcome at all. If anything, this case needed more time, especially given to make Sithe more of an actual character. Even after that ride, you get taken for another one at the very end with the reveal. Much like E2-3, the other really good third case, they really didn't pull many punches with this case at all.

E2 and G2 run away with this pretty easily. G2 wins though, because Courtney and Sebastian are just as insufferable in E2-3 as they are in E2-2, and it drags it down a little bit. G2-3 doesn't have anything like that to drag it down.