This was a movie that I really looked forward to seeing since I love these anime-like movies. I know it's not based on an anime but rather a game series, which I haven't played so keep that in mind while reading my humble opinions. I'm looking at this purely as the movie presented. Anyways, I'm sad to say I didn't really enjoy this movie experience as much as I thought I would. First of, this movie is way to long. 2 hours and 15 minutes could have been cut down to about 90 minutes with this plot. As a result of that this movie has got a very bad pacing. The plot eventually turns out to be a crime solving mystery with very stupid motives. Again I don't know if this is true to the games, but I had expected more lawyer/court room stuff. There is some of that, and it is easily the best parts of the movie but they eventually fall really flat due to the writing which makes me these prosecutors look freaking horrible. They make such obvious lies and then when they get called out on it they claim "Well, yes I lied in court for the tenth time, that doesn't prove anything". This movie had some good parts though, and that was the costumes and the acting. Narimiya Hiroki was good as Naruhodo and Kiritani Mirei which is one of my favorite actresses was fine, even though her character felt completely useless (but yes I know she is in the games). This is also a very good looking movie from the sets and costumes to the visuals. Anyways I wouldn't recommend this movie at least if you hadn't seen the games. If I didn't watch this movie with some friends I wouldn't have been able to finish it in one sitting due to the insanely slow pace. Perhaps if you've played the games you would pick up on characters, references, in-jokes or other stuff from the games to keep you more interested. Unfortunetly, if this movie had such things they were lost on me. Some scenes were interesting, but it wasn't worth the 2h 15 minutes you could spend on something better.