is this game good?

[hamsterofdeath]

i've read opinions randing from "very good" to "bad", but the steam reviews are 97% positive. i am confused.

[Vogel100]

Very good. But it's very story heavy so if you're a gameplay type of person, it won't be for you. It's still like a puzzle game with having to solve crimes and slowly discovering how everything fits together though, so it's not just reading. But reading's a very big part of it.

[NisseDood]

Its a really great series with likeable characters and mostly good cases.

[CloudSeeker]

Are these games good? Do you think there should be 6 main titles in the Ace Attorney series and 5 spin-off games if these games wasn't good?
Yes these games are good as all hell. If we can get gems like this today instead of all that microtransaction and live service garbage I shouldn't feel like I have taken up a new hobby of not buying videogames.

The only thing bad about these games is how they censored it. Like making Maya a burger obsessed freak as the localization team thought kids in the west do not understand what sushi is. Or how they make wine to become grape juice so the game does not contain alcohol for western age ratings or to get parents upset in a moral outrage.

[hamsterofdeath]

"Are these games good? Do you think there should be 6 main titles in the Ace Attorney series and 5 spin-off games if these games wasn't good?"

based on that argument alone, transformers should be good, but it's not

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by hamsterofdeath:

"Are these games good? Do you think there should be 6 main titles in the Ace Attorney series and 5 spin-off games if these games wasn't good?"

based on that argument alone, transformers should be good, but it's not

The Chinese audience say otherwise as it is there they made the money.
That argument also do not work here. If you make 11 games in a franchise you should know that the games did something right which allowed you to make more games. If the first games failed you will not continue to pump out more games. The latest main title game was released 2016 and the latest spin-off in 2017-2018. The franchise have made games since 2001. It is actually a very impressive feat. Assassin's Creed have for example only existed since 2007.

But to answer your question again. Yes the game is good, you should play it. I you think "papers please" can make it fun to be a border agent and checking paperwork all day, this game make it awesome to be in court working on a murder case.

[Svertok]

It is really more about personal preferences.

Do you like story- and text-driven games?
Do you like mysteries and detectivies?
You don't mind some Japanese craziness?

If all of your answers is YES, I suppose you should at least give it a try.

[Domo]

Weird question as that's pretty subjective.

As far as story heavy games go this is pretty much the best there is.

However your question is too vague to determine whether or not you'll like the game.

I've seen very few (if any) negative opinions of these games so 97% positive reviews is hardly surprising.

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Or how they make wine to become grape juice so the game does not contain alcohol for western age ratings or to get parents upset in a moral outrage.

If i remember right it's also grape juice in the japanese version, nothing to do with censorship.

[Vogel100]

Originally posted by Domo:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Or how they make wine to become grape juice so the game does not contain alcohol for western age ratings or to get parents upset in a moral outrage.

If i remember right it's also grape juice in the japanese version, nothing to do with censorship.

That is absolutely grape juice in the Japanese version. Is it really that hard to believe someone could enjoy a drink without alcohol? Not only that, but Maya loved ramen in the original, not sushi. At least do your research before complaining about censorship. Makes you sound pretty dumb if what you see as "uncensored" is further from the original than the official translation.

[Svertok]

The only censorship in AA involving alcohol I can think of is that moment in the development of the third game in the series when one of characters was going to drink whiskey and smoke cigarettes or something. But because of censors (of Japanese HQ, not localization team!) he drinks coffee instead. But in case of grape juice it was from the beginning.

[Panda o' Plenty]

Originally posted by Carnage Onred:

One of characters was going to drink whiskey and smoke cigarettes or something. But because of censors (of Japanese HQ, not localization team!) he drinks coffee instead.

I think that the writer himself said that he didn't want to infulence kids into smoking so he changed that. Good choice. Coffee wisdom gives him far greater personality. (I bet that it was really early in development or in pre-productions, when devs are still figuring out ideas and nothing is set in stone yet.)

[Svertok]

Originally posted by Foxysen:

Originally posted by Carnage Onred:

One of characters was going to drink whiskey and smoke cigarettes or something. But because of censors (of Japanese HQ, not localization team!) he drinks coffee instead.

I think that the writer himself said that he didn't want to infulence kids into smoking so he changed that. Good choice. Coffee wisdom gives him far greater personality. (I bet that it was really early in development or in pre-productions, when devs are still figuring out ideas and nothing is set in stone yet.)

Still, you can consider it as a censorship in some way. And my primary point in my argument that localization team has nothing to do with censoring is valid.

[Panda o' Plenty]

Eh. People see censorship everywhere nowadays.

[Svertok]

We live in a society...

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Carnage Onred:

We live in a society...

Come on, it's the current year...

[Svertok]

It doesn't change the fact that we live in a society....