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6.5

now i know why i kept coming across ship art of knightley and keyes. finally, i can rest in peace knowing this great mystery has been solved.

joking aside (though i'm not joking that much, i really did see a remarkable amount of ship art of those two back in the day!) this was a pretty ok case, but it does do some heavy hitting reintroducing old characters and introducing new ones. still not done with the game, but i'm far enough along to know that ray, courtney, and sebastian return. and first impressions are ... not great. they aren't all bad - if sebastian's story goes the way i expect, ill love him, and courtney has a great theme and design that makes watching her kind of entertaining. and im far enough in the inherited turnabout that ive changed my mind about ray by now. pacing is just rough introducing all these characters and set pieces.

but, i think the bare bones of this case is good. the addition of animal characters is the right kind of bonkers. it offers more dimensions for solving a crime, but doesn't have a level of suspension disbelief as a supposed blind kid shooting a man fatally. i honestly loved the new characters and felt sorry for roland. probably the first time i really felt bad for a culprit since bridge to the turnabout! i even retroactively felt a little bad for knightley because of keyes. a top ten comedy moment in the series is seeing the gang all nervous about meeting a prisoner ... only for him to be frank fucking sawhit. god, so damn good. it was even nice seeing regina again. i hoped for some more maturity from her, but at least she doesn't think that knightley's a star in the sky .... which is improvement!

debated ranking this one higher, but i can't justify it with the knowledge that it slogs a bit and wouldn't be so fun on replay.