Building comparison
head to head
Apollo Justice: Ace AttorneyvsThe Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Adds a visual-tell scanning system on top of the classic evidence-contradiction loop.
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Evidence-gathering and deduction-board logic with no physical or adversarial layer.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Testament of Sherlock Holmes leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Apollo Justice: Ace AttorneyThe Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 0
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Menu-only courtroom with no timing demands
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Pointing and clicking through crime scenes
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Witnesses are fully scripted; no adaptive element
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Suspects are written, not adapting
Variance2 vs 3
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Perceive system hides tells until the player scans testimony
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Clues are hidden information until uncovered
Optimization7 vs 7
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Pinpointing forged evidence and witness tells is a logic puzzle with one solution
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
The deduction board is a solvable logic puzzle
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.