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Alright IDK how people finished the game so fast. I think I'm pretty good at puzzles and some of the puzzles in here were hard. There are very few clues for solving so it is a rough ride tryin got solve some of the puzzles.

There are a lot of hidden sequences as well, slight alternative endings depending on you clearing certain hurdles in the game.

The worst part of this game has got to be the damage/poison, new players won't know how to deal with it and you can get camped basically so you die over an over.

I enjoyed Vambrace and wanted to give this a shot, it's no Vambrace and not nearly as interesting.

Alright so I recommend this game but...

It honestly plays very console-like. And that's expected because it was a console exclusive for the longest time. I found the game overall to be kind of boring, the platforming and cover shooting wasn't very challenging or creative. Stealth sequences often ended up forcing you to shoot people anyways.

The environments and music were great, but the story and the jokes were pretty cringy.

I've never played the previous ones so Uncharted 4 was my first exposure to the series. Nathan Drake and his brother are kind of insufferable, the jokes and quips the writers insert in between often kill the mood of the game, and just screams "guy ditches family to go on his own adventure". The racing sequences were also awful, just lasting way too long with little to do except drive straight and run over people.

Final ratings:

Gameplay: 2/5
Music: 4/5
Plot: 1/5
Graphics: 4/5

Total score: 11/20.

Kind of a mindless on rails game good for playing while streaming or YouTubing. Plot is weak and you won't really miss much.

Uncharted Lost Legacy's banter was a little better but the gameplay and everything else was similar to Uncharted 4.

Unskippable dialog, use dgVoodoo to fix launch/screen size issues.

Very forced slow-play.

Well I finished this game.

It kind of meanders back and forth, didn't really understand what I was doing until maybe hour 6 and it's only a 10 hour game if you play slow.

The game is an interactive interviewer-adventure game, there are some point and click elements but the bulk of the game is in question and answer sessions for interviews kind of like LA Noire.

It's pretty open ended, you can choose who you want to talk to, how you want to approach the main case. Walkthrough isn't really necessary minus some of the weird puzzles. Ultimately it comes down to you interviewing people in the city, gathering clues, and solving the case.

The sex stuff is a bit heavy handed. I played the uncut version so I'm not sure what's cut out, but without subtitles I think sections would be difficult because the voice acting is C grade.

I played this game in a window with Borderless-Gaming, the controls are awful (mouse only). There is jump-to navigation system however many maps you are required to walk (or hobble) to the end zone to move to the next scene. There's a lot of waiting.

I give this a 3/5. It's really just "OK", you are an investigative interviewer, and that's what you'll be doing in this game. It's not really a classic point & click.

This game is/was fun for a while but lots of balance issues were left unaddressed by the devs for half a year which led to the game dying very quickly. Multiple characters had infinites, some characters had no weaknesses, and half the cast could kill you in 2 touches (meaning 2 combos) that weren't hard to learn. The game became more about who missed a block, or who got guard broken first.

The art, music, and gameplay overall are "pretty good", but because of the balance issues the game population died very quickly.

Keep in mind while the engine developer is ArcSystemWorks, the people working on this are more likely NEOPLE staff (maybe even just a single developer).

I'm not very good at fighting games, only made it to gold/diamond in DNF however there's not really anyone you can play online with except Legend/Deities since month 4 ish. As of today there are probably more legends/deities than any other bracket because the only people still playing it are the extremely high skilled ones who grind it every day.

Music 5/5
Plot 4/5 (ending is meh)
Combat 4/5 (Rounding up, it's very grindy and honestly the skills are kinda useless).
Gameplay 3/5, the adventuring design is very tedious, monsters are very grindy, and there is a lot of traversal after fast traveling.

Overall 16/20.

I recommend it, it's about 35-40% cutscene though so get ready to watch a very long movie with short bursts of interactions. There's a lot of reading, the translation is mediocre (I played it in Chinese).

I recommend going through this game with a trainer tbh, it makes a lot of the grind a bit better and palatable. The move speed is quite slow, and you have a stamina bar which when depleted means you can't dash/run so you move like a snail.

The plot is unrelated to GuJian 1 or 2, so you can play this independently. I'd compare this game to Witcher 3 with the emphasis on real time sword fighting/combat, lots of card games (and card collectibles), but overall the dialogue and plot are on rails.

Game doesn't run in 2022, Win 11 5900x RTX3090, 64 GB ram.

Was fun in the beginning but quickly got tedious.

Combat is roguelite esque so if you die you roll back to a checkpoint, sometimes this checkpoint is well before a miniboss fight so you have to grind through small mobs on your way there.

You can't use unlocked chars/spells until a new game. You can re-equip wand/weapon, hat (style). You can choose spells per tier a la Diablo.

You need pretty good thumb control to play this game, I get hand pain while playing thumb control heavy games (primarily use keyboard/mouse and all button controllers for most games). Playing this on a XB One m|s controller eventually started giving me some mild hand pain.

After 6 hours the gameplay loop started to bore me and lost my interest. I'm sure this would be more fun with coop players however for solo gameplay it was not my cup of tea.

Honestly, this game wasn't for me. Slice of life magical girl depression game.

This game was pretty painful to play, I loved the original Phoenix Wright and was expecting more which is why I ended up buying this.

The problem is this game is very, very, wordy/verbose/dialogue-heavy. There is so much reading/clicking-through versus actual discovery and solving. I dunno what the word count is but it wouldn't surprise me if it were 10x the first one.

I was starting to get cramps from clicking so much.

Alright that aside, in AA1 the defendants were mostly likable people so it was much easier to identify as someone who wanted to help them. In GAAC most of the defendants are god awful. The MC himself is kind of a pushover, Van Zieks and Susato are great and I wish we could play in their roles versus Ryunosuke's.

There are a few mechanics which are pretty awfully done, Sholmes's great deduction is either way too easy or way too confusing, sometimes requiring pixel hunting to find what you're looking for. The jury attack is also really obtuse because in some of the cases the 2 statements you pit against each other "don't seem to have anything in common".

I want to add I actually fell asleep during part of this game, also many days of just AFK'ing because I forgot to go back in and finish a case. The game didn't really hold my interest so I just had it in the background while running something else.