A friend loaned me this game when I was laid up with tendinitis in my ankle, and I’ve been slowly working. my way through it.
Well, I was. The game play has finally pushed me too far, and I’ve lost all desire to return.
At first, I liked working my way through the conversations and the trial. But soon enough I was finding that a character would tell you exactly what you needed to know to break their testimony, but because they told you, there was no evidence to present and you actually had to figure out what piece of evidence sort of related to that testimony to get them to say it at the right moment. Except they didn’t seem to remember they had already told you that piece of information, and the judge would throw it out.
It got pretty frustrating after the first couple of times it happened in the first case. Add to that the repetitive nature of the movement and conversations (at one point, you have to have the same conversation with a character five times before you finally get the information you need to move forward in the case), and the game became fairly stale.
Phoenix and the Fey girls are fairly entertaining, but they aren’t enough to make you ignore the game play.
