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5.5

resident aai fan considering this the worst case in the series

i said that i had one significant problem with this game outside pacing and it is how damn boring the one off characters in this case are.

while the whole mystery is decent, the set up is weird. like why did lance think ernest wouldn't give him the money when later on, ernest literally impedes the investigation? game should have made their relationship more strained and make lance an unwitting conspirator to the smuggling ring or something. lauren is the best but there's so little weight to her being the victim's daughter i kind of wonder why.

this is a shame because as i said the mystery itself is fine outside of lance's motivations! lang and kay and shih-na have good introductions! most of the reoccurring characters also land because i am actually a psycho who loves oldbag and meekins!! the only one who was disappointing was ema. like she's not offensively bad because she shows up for just one scene, but its just weird that she ..... just exists? could have easily replaced her with a no name policeman.

the setting itself is kind of mixed. i applaud ask for doing something different and taking advantage of walk-arounds and 3D(ish) backgrounds to give us more outlandish locations, but the decision to make a blue badger theme park instead of like a steel samurai one is certainly a choice. i guess they had to save the samurai for aai1-5?