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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
A remaster of the original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, released exclusively as part of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy bundle.
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- Released
- May 30, 2013
- Also known as
- Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten
- Developer
- Capcom
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Puzzle · Visual Novel
- Publisher
- Capcom
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Reviews
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Court is back in session! The ruling is Guilty...of Awesomeness.Who knew that playing a video game as a lawyer could be so deep, enthralling and hilarious? I [...]
Spirit of Justice is a loving, though slightly overstuffed, throwback to the original Ace Attorney Trilogy. Too many characters, too many plot threads, and too many locations mean that this game lacks the narrative focus of previous stories in the series. I worry that Ace Attorney is in danger of becoming stale if new entries keep sticking to the same formula, not unlike what happened to Mega Man on the NES. Perhaps Capcom will take the series in a more innovative direction in the future, rather than rely on the continuity and mechanics of several previous games. All of that said, it’s still…
Set eight years since his last appearance in the courts, the first case in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies sees the action start in a destroyed court room. It's down to Phoenix Wright and his team at the Wright Anything Agency to discover the cause of the destruction.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies offers around 25 hours of brand-new Ace Attorney content, and most of that content is in-line with the greatness of previous entries while offering a creative take never before seen. However, for all of the nice things I can say about the creative storytelling and the excellent presentation, the tremendously easier difficulty cripples the game by eliminating any gameplay-based tension the series has ever provided. It’s still better than Justice for All and Apollo Justice, but this difficulty adjustment (among other things) keeps Dual Destinies fr…
I hope the next Ace Attorney game has more structure in its overarching narrative and the developers actually have the cases flow naturally from one to the next. Even with its flaws, Spirit of Justice is good fun, through, and another quality example of a narrative from the ever-growing stable of visual novels we are now getting translated into English.