This was my experience. There’s a certain motivation missing in a lot of mystery games where the result is going to be something highly inconsequential.

In Ace Attorney, you reveal a mystery’s real killer, and get to crumple their ego. To me, that’s a hard high to beat. I got the early, “bad” ending in Obrah Dinn and didn’t even care to keep going for the rest. I was getting no satisfaction in filling in forms from deaths we already know every interesting detail about.