So apparently the Japanese players don't really like DGS. Most of them give it one star.

I google translated some of the 1-star reviews and apparently they dislike the ending (cliffhanger, foreshadowing) and the DLCs. So maybe they're just your typical DLC hater, but how about the ending?
Is it like VLR'S ending (foreshadowing ZE 3, but technically fully closed)?

(revives self from C-R grave)

So keep in mind that this is just my own opinion on the whole thing, but I'm very disheartened to see people review DGS the way they did.

It's true that, they aren't WRONG, objectively, but...



I'm really really upset looking at those Amazon reviews...I just hope it doesn't dampen the hope for a sequel.

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I've been a lurker but I feel compelled to chime in after I completed the game last night.



Sorry for the rant.

Wow. The upper-most rating on the list that's 1 star is talking about the game feeling "incomplete", with it leaving a bad taste in their mouth, no satisfying defeat of the prosecution and light breakdown animations...
Wow I guess they had higher expectations... But 1 star is a little harsh.

That's really disappointing. I thought the game looks amazing from what I've seen.

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Keep in mind that Amazon reviews, numerically-wise, tend to overreact, or at least they're based less on game "quality" as much as "do I think it was a purchase that was worth it or do I think my money was wasted". Since they're also typically on-the-spot and reactionary, that's why you generally tend to see more five-star and one-star reviews than ones in between. More controversial games tend to have middling scores not because people actually thought it was middling, but because half the people thought it was amazing and the other half thought it was terrible.

What's more important is to look at the content of the reviews and why the overall score averages out to 2.5, which is indeed an alarmingly low score for a Gyakuten game. Most of the one-star reviews seem to have the same consistent complaint, and the complaint seems to persist even among the higher-rated ones, which generally indicates that it's a serious concern.

I feel like so much of this bitterness could have been averted if Takumi had simply added a "Part 1" or the like to the title.

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That's a sentiment a lot of reviewers share. However, Capcom might have thought (incorrectly, I'm sure) that it would turn off people more if they outright announced that it was going to be part of a series.

I think it's bullcrap how people are hating on a game intended to only be the first part of something.
Just because a game foreshadows some stuff and doesn't go into detail about it doesn't make it incomplete...

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The crossover left a ton of things unexplained and that game didn't get a 1 star rating because of it, so why is it any different this time?

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The PLvsAA crossover explained most things, what was left over was mostly plotholes.

Many central mysteries from DGS were not explained
and then were blatantly teased at the end to remind you there was more to the story.

I must do something about my habit of spoiling games for myself before getting the chance to play them. But anyways, I really don't care if it doesn't resolve everything. As long as it's an enjoyable experience and it is planned to be continued in the future.

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It is true that this would not be the first title to have unresolved things - I mean, within the main line Ace Attorney series we have things like



but the main thing was that every game to date had the mysteries that formed the main crux of their stories resolved by the end, and you understood what the main line of it was by the end of it.

The problem that I'm seeing with Dai Gyakuten here is that it fails even in this regard. Even if it were to be a first entry in a series, you typically expect that something that is advertised as a self-containing product to be a self-contained product - even with games that are part of a series, they generally get at least the main part of their story done. See the above-mentioned Virtue's Last Reward; by the time around that game it was clear to everyone Zero Escape would be a series and a third game would exist, but since VLR cleared out the main point of its plot before teasing the third game, people who played it could leave it feeling like it was a self-contained product.

And with a sequel to Dai Gyakuten only being theoretical, since you could very well be seeing something like the ending being in DLC (which just brings along an unpleasant feeling of "pay money for ending"), it only stands to reason that people who paid 6100+ yen for a game would feel distressed and cheated. The complaint is about the fact that the game feels "incomplete", so I'm sure they must have felt something along the lines of receiving a sloppy title that had a ton of ideas written down and nothing resolved. Had the title had a "part 1" written on it I'm sure people would be less bitter ("well, I can at least expect the other games to finish this"), but even then, it only would have prepared prospective players; there would still be a lot of people feeling unsatisfied with how it went.

I'm not saying that one shouldn't still be interested in the game or anticipate it, since there are other charm points of the game like fluid motion, good characters, a fairly solid soundtrack, etc., and it's sufficiently long in content volume, and ultimately whether you decide to play and enjoy the game after hearing about this is up to you. But as far as the Amazon reviews are concerned, I think it's pretty understandable for them to be as upset as they are.