I love almost everything about this game, I honestly do. The mystery is enticing, the graphics (little tho there may be) are perfect for a game like this, the radio-like presentation feels nice and unique, and the voice acting is the best I've heard in a game in a long time. It's just that the actual gameplay is so frustrating. It's that classic terrible part that's in every Ace Attorney game where you have the right piece of evidence but no witness statement seems to be the right one... But only here it's right from the beginning and you have even less of a clear idea of where a recording is supposed to go. It's not as if I had no clue at all, it's not complete moon logic, but it's annoying enough to make me drop the game very early on. It doesn't help that, being a radio-ish game in a timeloop, you have to sit there and listen to front to back/fast forward through the same bits over and over again trying your luck again and again and again. You can't easily go back and forth like in AA, you can't just sit there and think statements over, and there being multiple channels broadcasting at the same time doesn't make the process more convenient either. At least in most AA games, there's only one witness at a time. If the logic was clearer (which isn't always clear in AA either, but there it takes time and it's only a few moments) this wouldn't be so bad, but it's such a confusing mess for me. And a slog too, to work my way front to back every time for every channel. Maybe this is just a me thing, and maybe I'm just dumb, but I couldn't put up with it. And again, there is so much to like, but I just couldn't. Would probably have played a lot further beyond the (for me) embarrassingly early chapter 2 and maybe I'd get better (meaning less frustration, leaving me to enjoy all the good stuff), but with a huge backlog, why play something that's frustrating this early on? I don't have to get used to this game's ideosyncrasies and get good at its logic, as sad and unambitious as that sounds, but I also don't want to. While the rest is amazing, I have no strong enough drive. I didn't have that early enough anyway. There is no satisfying combat encounters to finally beat, no characters I've latched onto, etc. And so I quite playing very early on. I'm sorry.