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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 139.7 hrs on record
Posted: 1 Aug, 2020 @ 8:08am
Updated: 26 Aug, 2020 @ 10:53am

It’s a crazy country the Japanifornia.
In the last weeks i ordered piles and piles of hamburgers, i had to eat them with chopsticks.
But you know it’s an experience you have to try. So get ready to be a poor attorney at law that has to daily fight against murderers, medium daughters, evil spirits, liars witnesses, whippersnappers, old crazy women, the mafia, some talking animals, “european” prosecutors and judges with alzheimer.

Played all the videogames of the franchise, bought this bundle to get the real HD remastered. Wasn’t disappointed, this is the best and most amazing version so far. It’s a collection of the first three best point and click, text adventure, visual anime interactive novel, adult games available on Steam.
Friendly reminder: don’t trust review under 100 hours, each game is around 40 hours long.

PROS
  • Incredible immersive story made by great plot writing, dialogue, characters development, and world building. You are going to love and ship each single human case that you'll encounter. You will most likely want to live in Japanifornia after the first case.

  • You talk with characters, you'll investigate the crime scenes and then you use/present the evidence in the courtroom or to the witnesses. Each sequel brings unique new features in the gameplay.

  • Huge longevity and replayability (counter over 100 hours for a single walkthrough). The replayability is related to how much you'll enjoy the story. The story writing is beautifully made and it's a pleasure to replay everything after some time to understand better the subplots.

  • Right balance between relaxing and engaging. Challenging but not frustrating.

  • Game made of high quality art images. Amazing backgrounds and characters, everything is colorful and unforgettable.

  • Soundtrack is one of the best ever made for a videogame (I put it in loop during work time). It’s so great that probably I will use some of the tracks for my wedding (cornered anyone?).

  • Sound, music, visual and graphic effects, pad vibrations all merge to give a successful illusion of total immersion in the story. You feel part of the story, inside it, the feeling is incredible.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2137420114

CONS
  • Some slow frame rate (I don’t understand why because the game is really light on hardware) and freeze.

  • Some part can be or feel a little repetitive. That’s because it plays like an episodic anime...so you’ll get a lot of recap about the plot between a chapters. Is a minor thing.

  • The soundtrack alone costs as much as the whole games bundle (thank God Youtube is free).

  • I feel really sorry that is impossible so far to enjoy the whole series. It’s a saga and it is needed to be played as a whole. We need a complete remastered of the whole franchise with a western localization. But know that nevertheless, this trilogy is the starting point. Play it.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2137759315


JUDGEMENT

It’s nigh well impossible to find a real weakness in each title of the trilogy. All the CONS are minor, nothing special, nothing to be aware of.

You’ll get three amazing games for a price ridiculously low. It’s totally worth to buy this bundle at full price as well.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2157712933

System Specifications

The game was played on a PC with the following components:
Intel Core i7-4790K
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
16GB DDR4 RAM


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TarZanello 2 Nov, 2020 @ 9:59am 
Yeah I know and that feels strange. Maybe is a problem with my HDD...but still is a really light game on hardware. It can be bad optimization...but it's not a real issue, nothing serious.
PershingE1 1 Nov, 2020 @ 5:00pm 
Funny you have a better pc than me but mine still runs smoothly with no frame drops whatsoever
TarZanello 26 Aug, 2020 @ 10:51am 
Hi!
The game plays like an interactive anime but the plot is straightforward. The replayability is related to how much you'll enjoy the story. The story writing is beautifully made and it's a pleasure to replay everything after some time to understand better the subplots.
About the gameplay as I said it's a "point and click, text adventure, visual anime interactive novel, mature game". You talk with characters, you'll investigate the crime scenes and then you use/present the evidence in the courtroom or to the witnesses.
Absnerdity 26 Aug, 2020 @ 7:51am 
What in particular makes the games replayable?
Does the game change with each different playthrough?
Your "Pros" don't actually include anything about the gameplay itself. What is it like? How does it play? Is it good?
TarZanello 4 Aug, 2020 @ 7:25am 
As i said each game is around 40 hours. But my gameplay time is relative because i enjoy to read and interact with everything. Nonetheless price/value is amazing.
FruitNDoggie 4 Aug, 2020 @ 7:06am 
Guess I shouldn't be surprised by the playtime, as it's 3 of these games in one.