Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27185873-20170514030817/@comment-107.130.170.163-20170514195422

Pacific Bay - I think PS really hit their stride with this one. All of the districts had distinct and interesting SLs that all culminated in really intense and incredible finales. Yes, some districts were duds and some characters were awful (looking at Frank and every other Knight here), but it was still overall the game at its best. The graphics had taken the right step up from Grimsborough and the plot was amazing. Plus it gave me an incredible death in Frank's, so I have to be appreciative for that. It also gave such amazing characters as Hannah, Amy, Russell, and Roxie, as well as great recurring characters like Heather and Bobby. I know I have the least to say about my favorite, but I genuinely feel like adding more would just be gushing about individual cases and SLs and I think that'd be a waste of time considering I'm talking about the season overall. I just genuinely found it to be the highlight of the game. Between voodoo mixed with prostitutes to the Slenderman-based killer to the technologically advanced nature of the endgame, I found it all to be incredibly enthralling.

Grimsborough - The first season will always have some nostalgia to kick it up for me and it really did have great SLs throughout, but it had really awful recurring characters in Tess and Alden that I just couldn't get behind. Easily two of the worst characters in the game's entire history. Jones is still easily one of my favorite characters this game has ever given, so I have to give that credit. The endgame of Grimsborough was absolutely fun and I think the University District is easily one of my favorites ever, especially since Madison was introduced there and she's one of the best suspects/recurring characters ever in my opinion. The graphics were a little shoddy at first and they grew to be better in the later cases, but never truly good enough. Other than Jones and maybe Grace, the characters just weren't as strong as other seasons. And the suspects weren't truly likable with the exception of Madison and Tony. It's a good middle season, but not much better.

World Edition - This was a total stinkbomb of a season, honestly. It had the greatest in potentials, but it just really really fell through. They were more focused on trying to make the cases feel authentic to where they were set than to actually give us a compelling storyline to appreciate. SOMBRA grew more and more tedious as time went on until it was just completely annoying. I really genuinely didn't care about the plot at all once we hit the end of South America and all of North America. I was just hoping that characters I liked reappeared so I could enjoy them despite hating the plot. It felt like SOMBRA was just a blanket cheap plot to tie together a bunch of cases set in places we were supposed to be excited by, but I just wasn't. It felt like it lacked real focus. It was just a mess of wanting to hit as many different places as possible so people could go "My country! Wow!" and everything suffered due to that. The fact that I found Europe to be the best district in the entire season just shows how horrible their plot really became. The graphics were incredible, but wasted on a bunch of lackluster crime scenes. The main characters were truly either amazing or terrible. Jack, Lars, Marina, Jonah, and Elliott were incredible. Every single other main character was awful. Carmen and Dupont especially were truly boring and tedious and annoying. Bringing Grace back and making her incredibly boring does not help my opinion of this season. They gain some good will from killing off Michelle and Dupont, but then lose that good will by making the entirety of the plot for the following season about another horrible Dupont. As for recurring characters, Asal and Chockas were amazing and there were a few other standouts like Ronin and a few others I'm forgetting off the top of my head, but there were honestly very few rootable recurring suspects and even by the end, they'd drilled Asal into the ground and made her quite unlikable. Overall, just a major disappointment and I'm glad MOTP seems to be a huge turnaround in quality.

I'd currently put MOTP above Grimsborough, but with the way it's going (with the exception of the most boring case in the longest time at the start of Coyote Gorge and the promise that it's only going to get worse in this district), it may be able to beat out even Pacific Bay for me.