I like the idea of the Thought Route, but I felt the fact that there's only two (occasionally three) options and no penalties for wrong answers severely weakened it.

Ugh... Seeing all the comments I can't help but to feel people are overly critical when it comes to canon games and slightly too lenient and incredibly easy to satisfy when it comes to fan projects

Seriously? No reprecussions? So the defense attorneys don't lose trail of thought, but Edgeworth, an attorney with the most trials in his history, can and lose the case? Wow.

Anyway, that's no reason to dislike the Thought Route.

Even then, that's not a place to set increased difficulty. The sequences may appear close to the end of the case, but there was never a rule that the end of a case has to have the most difficult questions. Besides, if the Routes happen inside the attorneys' own heads, how and - more specifically - why would they penalize themselves? The penalty bar is applied by the judge and/or prosecutor. (As for the Psyche-lock sequences, since there are so few of them in this game, it wouldn't have mattered in the long run.)

If this game could have been more difficult, it should have expanded on the investigation segments. I felt that they were too simple and straightforward. I literally had to put the actual investigation on hold to examine random things on the screen, as opposed to accidentally clicking on things because I thought they'd have at least some importance.

The same way Logic in GK gave you penalties :P

Couldn't both Thought Routes AND investigations have been more difficult?
(But I agree, GS5 investigations are waaaay too straightforward. I miss the old style, where it was open and I felt like I was actually investigating.)

Must be tough to be the developers.

Make the investigations open-ended, and people complain because of it.

Make the investigations closed and linear, and people complain because of it.


Maybe the solution would be to go back to the old open-ended system, but put in a system where you can get the investigation notes from your assistant in Wright Anything Agency so that people don't get stuck on some random event flag like before. Basically, you'd be able to choose if you played it open-ended or closed.

That's exactly what the MEMO is for! I love that memo for all it's worth, but at the same time, the investigations in this game aren't so open in the first place. At certain times, I did have to refer to it because I lost track of what I was supposed to do (spamming the examine button where I could, for example); otherwise, it's usually left all alone. I'm one of those fans who prefer the openness of the previous games. I take my time with cases as much as I please, thank you.

To prevent this post from being almost all rant, I will say that the memo is the second best addition to the game in terms of game play. The best would be two save slots.