Board 8 > Favorite Ace Attorney Non-Epic Fourth Case (or DLC Case)?

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I didn't want to include epic cases in this one because they'd dominate the other options, of course. I wanted to see how these would do without being SFF'd by the most popular cases. I put the two DLC cases in here because they don't really fit anywhere else.

Personal rankings: 3-4 > G2-4 > 5-6 > E2-4 > 5-4 > G1-4 > E1-4 > 6-6 > 6-4

Hmmm...This is a tough batch to judge. This kinda looks right...?

3-4, E1-4, 5-4, and 5-6 are all pretty great cases.

6-4, 6-6, and G2-4 are pretty weak.

Voted 3-4, but that might be the nostalgia talking. Playing it the first time was an incredible experience. So much unique stuff in that case.

Definitely 5-6, was ridiculous but it was the right kind of ridiculous and honestly was happy about how it ended

G1-4 is sneaky good too for underrated cases here, E 1-4 is probably the best case in E1?

3-4 is great, but 5-6 is just incredible

5-6 > 3-4 > 6-4 > G2-4 > 5-4 > E2-4 > E1-4 > 6-6 > G1-4

This batch includes my two least favorite cases in the series! (6-6 and G1-4)

Most of these are really low tier, but I actually love 6-4, it's fun

3-4 and 5-6 are both so good. Completely different kinds of cases, too.

i think 1-5 qualifies as a DLC case in spirit

Im not voting for it but 6-4 is a delightful case that I wish more AA cases were like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Hp0DzN6vA

3-4 feels like the intro to 3-5

Even if you included the epic cases in this batch, I think I'd still vote for 5-6. Legit my 2nd favorite case of all-time. It's absolutely perfect. Literally the only thing it has going against it is that it isn't plot relevant. That's it.

3-4 is a super interesting case. just constant tension with both mia and one of the great incarnations of edgeworth

i actually love e1-4 because it starts so seemingly harmless and builds so well.

e2-4 is almost the opposite; it promises epic stakes from the getgo and while it delivers, it never really excels at what it does other than some brief kay moments.

5-4 has a cool seeing and an amazing ending but it also feels weird and disjointed, and it's kind of fitting that it ends unresolved.

5-6 is up there with 1-3 and 3-2 as one of the best "filler" cases of the series

6-4 is hilarious. i think it largely does what it sets out to do - that's just not particularly what many people were looking for as a penultimate case!

6-6 is a little sad. i don't think it's terrible in theory but it kinda proves you can't "just" toss edgeworth into a non-epic as a prosecutor anymore. phoenix and maya reunited is still great though.

g1-4 is both really interesting and really frustrating. because of the gimmicky feel it's really hard to rank it higher than any of these other cases but GAA in general haa built its world out so well and g1-4 is kind of the heart of that!

g2-4 reminds me of a sloppier mix between e2-4 and 5-4. but to its credit, it has some cool music?

something like this:

5-6
e1-4
3-4
e2-4
G2-4
G1-4
5-4
6-4
6-6

5-6 > 2-4 > G2-4 > E2-4 > 1-4 > 3-4 > 5-4 >>>>>>>> G1-4 > 6-4 > 6-6 > 4-4 > E1-4

Hbthebattle posted...

i think 1-5 qualifies as a DLC case in spirit

Yeah, I guess I could've included it here, but it's generally regarded as an epic case.

Leonhart4 posted...

Yeah, I guess I could've included it here, but it's generally regarded as an epic case.

I think it's a weird situation (I want to say 'weird case' but I couldn't) because of the way western players basically all experienced AA1 with 1-5 as the final case of the game, and it was the first ace attorney game for the vast majority of us. It's so much longer and more challenging than the rest of the game that it feels absurdly epic to the point of being dragged out way too long, and it matches the epic cases in length as well, not the other DLC cases. It goes over so much stuff that it almost feels like an entire Ace Attorney game being played in fast forward and its final act kinda feels like the climax of an entire game, not just one case. I think shunting it into the epics is appropriate.

I feel like 5-6 is one of the most overrated cases in the fanbase. It's better than most of DD in comparison, but it's still a bit slow.

3-4 was my first thought but I think it might be G2-4, though personally I have difficulty separating everything after G2-3. It's an extremely good stretch.

unsolicited thought - e2-3 is arguably an epic or epic-adjacent case. so are 6-3 and e2-3, due to how significant they are to the primary story arcs of the game. (maybe 6-3 less so.)

SeabassDebeste posted...

unsolicited thought - e2-3 is arguably an epic or epic-adjacent case. so are 6-3 and e2-3, due to how significant they are to the primary story arcs of the game. (maybe 6-3 less so.)

Then 1-2 is an epic case too...!

Leonhart4 posted...

Then 1-2 is an epic case too...!

2-2 too, since it is very important to Bridge

6-4 is legitimately my favorite non-final case in the series and completely solidifies Blackquill as the best 3DS era character.

5-DLC is also great

nah, scope still matters. those cases are shortish. e2-3/g2-3/6-3 are monsters. and 2-2 in particular didn't even come back in the same game.

1-4 is a 5 hour case...!

yeah, but 1-2 is considerably shorter than 1-4, and 2-2 is considerably shorter than 2-4. the ones i named are up there with the finale cases of their games. (it's probably more sensible to compare 6-3 to 6-5's second day)

6-3 is probably proportionally shorter than 6-5 compared to how much shorter those two are to their epic cases unless you just choose to cheat and cut 6-5 in two.

Also I hate to break it to you but E2-2 is longer than E2-3 so length can't be a primary determinant anyway.

And GAA2 messes all of this up by actually splitting its own epic case in half because G2-3 and G2-4 are both longer than G2-5.

e2-2 is epic-presenting. the main reason i wouldn't consider it to be one is because it kind of lowers its stakes at the end.

I think an epic case has to be some sort of definitive conclusion to a story and those are all bridges to the conclusion.

5-6 has some of my favorite character designs in the series as well as a kick-ass setting. It's really fun.

Yeah, the aquarium is a top tier location. The Aqua Tunnel might be my favorite background in the series.

G2-3 is weird because I'm convinced it was supposed to be the epic case of the second game when Great Ace Attorney was a trilogy.

I think the G2-4 half is better than the G2-5 half by quite a bit personally but I find it hard to really separate the two, kinda like G1-3 and G1-5

3-4 and 5-6 are destroying everything (like they should).

Haste_2 posted...

3-4 and 5-6 are destroying everything (like they should).

Yeah, this is about what I expected. I wasn't sure how G2-4 would do relative to them, but I thought it would finish third regardless.