Paper Perjury

Birds fly because they want to fly and for no other reason! A well designed ace attorney-like with fun characters and I appreciate the very varied references.

Your character is not a detective, but gets roped into doing detective-y things anyways, This game's equivalent of a courtroom is spread out into testimony given in the investigations and interrogations.

Pros: -It's cute -The sprites are nice -Music was nice as well -Toasty ! I think it's a decent game, though I personally would only really recommend picking this one up on sale. If you're not new to Phoenix Wright like games you will most likely find the cases very easy. I didn't find much challenging and got through them quickly. To that point, this felt pretty short which was one of my issues with this game. I felt like the pacing for this game moved way too fast. If it had slowed down more I would have maybe found myself more caring about the characters and their stories if they were fleshed out more. I think it would have helped the story beats as well. But it just felt too rushed for me. Which is a shame because you'd feel more of the impact in certain moments if it had slowed down some. At times I felt this game explained more than let you experience. We don't really experience the married couple much in real time, just more explanations. But I'm wondering what are they like together with issues or without? Seeing things like that I feel would help this game really come into its own. Or a character struggling with imposter syndrome, resolves it fast without much fuss after a pep talk- things like that need more fleshing out. It was just jarring to see the shift from self doubt to confidence that fast. Just polishing and expanding on the core of these characters since we spent so much time with everyone for this whole game would make a difference. It also sometimes suffers from modern writing at times- just constantly beating you to death with a theme so blatantly. I found it distracting at times. Overall, this game is even more optimistic than Phoenix Wright. If you like things on the more lighthearted and optimistic side, I guess you'd like it since it feels like things are easily forgiven and conflict never seems to last very long. If you're looking for short and cute experience in mystery adventure VN it's not bad.

I like the story and the characters

It's alright but not worth the price, get it on a discount. It's obviously inspired by Ace Attorney but i'd rate it as being very average, add in that the price is not worth the amount of gametime youg get out of it and you have me not recommending it - at least not at the current price. The cases are very predictable, the characters are alright but nothing special. The story itself doesn't have the wow factor and twists and turns that Ace Attorney had, and the cases are shorter. You also lack a strong 'rival' lawyer like some of the Ace Attorney games, they get along fairly well and it's just quite a plain relationship that's not very interesting.

This game feels both rushed and too long. The solutions are always underwhelming, while the investigations are full of unnecessary dialogues about mundane stuff. The art is nice but very incosistent, UI is a little messy, and it talks a lot about political stuff in your face. Ace Attorney had messages too like corrupt police and court biased towards the prosecutor, but it was much more subtle. The main focuses of Ace Attorney are the murder misteries and characters, both of which are very lacking. The game has 5 cases, but they are actually 3 since case 2 is actually the second part of case 1 and same for case 4 and 5. I couldn't bring myself to play case 5 because of the first 4 being so lackluster, Music bops tough!

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