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Ok sooo, ace attorney!! been meaning to play this one for a while and finally got around to it
At first I will say that I, dare I say, liked this game quite a lot actually. But that was partly because I thought it was a different kind of game. let me explain myself.
The courtroom felt like a really novel concept. You had this series of proofs, you have to pierce the story yourself and use the right pieces of evidence to get through the case. Great! I even thought for a sec there my choices mattered!
Turns out I was just lucky enough to pick up the right evidences for my first 10 times or so
What did this meant? Well, for starters, I didn't even know I had 5 chances of failing, so it was actually really really tense, and exciting. I was EXCITED, I felt so smart and clever...!!! I was getting through it, it was difficult but with my observation skills I was winging it! It was, so fun!
And then it came. My first mistake.
"Oh, I can actually fail. 5 times, even. Wait, does that mean that this trial isn't developing itself organically based on my choices? (A silly hope to have, in retrospective)"
Turns out that was exactly it. The bs started shortly afterwards, sadly. There were lots of moments where I wanted to present something that was clearly related to the suspect, but the game just didn't let me. It was either cause I wasn't selecting the exact part of the testimony they wanted me to, or because it was too soon. Also, as stated before, you can lose the trial if you fuck up 5 times, so failing is heavily punished. Realizing key details of the case before the characters do only serves to throws you off, because proofs just won't work if not at the right place and time. If you don't save scum, you will also start from the beginning of the trial. I will now mention that I played this on an actual ds, so no fast forward for me, which sucks especially here because you cannot make text go faster if it's your first time reading it :/
I get why it's like that, but I'm a fast reader so it got a little bit cumbersome at times, especially after some unfortunate crashes by my R4

Because of all of these things, I actually took 4 months to finish the last trial. That's right. I completed the rest of the game in just two months, but that one was the one that broke me.
I also needed to use a guide at points for, again, knowing which exact phrase they wanted me to object, which made me felt miserably stupid for something that was out of my control. Hell, even without help, trying all evidences out of desperation made me feel unclever. It was mean :(
I get why people love this game. The music is very soothing, the "gotcha!" moments feel like an explosion of passion and I love more than half of the cast of characters and how well they are represented

But the gameplay makes me feel kinda sad, because I thought it was something way cooler than it actually is, and now that I know how the peak courtroom experience feels it's just kind of depressing ngl

Anyways, if someone read allat, thanks a lot! Wish ye a good one, reader :D/


A really fun concept of a courtroom, plus there's so much Edgeworth. I'm rating this without RFTA included though, it ruins the pacing.

Three days is too long for a trial, and some of the witnesses/NPCs don't have the spark they ought to, but supreme storytelling and fun courtroom segments make up for it

- Great plot, Great writing, Great music.
- VN style game where you play as a detective defending people, and then it gets crazy from there.

I think this game is going to take a replay to give proper thoughts on, as while I did see the credits roll at the end of Turnabout Goodbyes a couple of years ago, I found Rise from the Ashes to be such a slog, that I didn't get around to finishing it off until now (in other words, I wasn't sure how or when to quantify this game as 'complete' because I was hearing conflicting reports on if Rise from the Ashes was actually canon?). And from what I recall (because my memory from then is rather hazy), that's not independent of this games... let's call it 'structure' for now. Damn shame, too, because the first two cases of this game were so strong as an introduction to the series... and then 1-3 was ultimately filler, and 1-4... look, I'm not out here about to write some dissertation on why 'Von Karma did nothing wrong' (I'm no longer a Smogon player, after all... I seem to have fallen out with all their asses), but something about how the Defence 'wins' via an only vaguely related case just didn't sit "wright" with me (pun only slightly intended).

I think the big thing that made PWAA1 such molasses to get through is that it's not really a game... it's an interactive novel, in a generation where transcripts and LPs aren't hard to come by. So it's more like you're playing alongside these resources rather than in spite of them, unlike... I dunno, the rest of the medium? And I can't count how many times the game turns around and asserts 'absolute, singular pieces of evidence', when 2/3/4 other objects of the case are just as damming, meaning that this game doesn't feel as nuanced as it should do (even if the humour is pretty respectable).

Looks like I'll be doing my own investigating for a bit, I guess.

Пройдено в рамках прохождения Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, тут оценка именно первых 5-ти дел, которые образуют первую часть.

Довольно душные, затянутые и очень часто высосанные из пальца Дела. Игра слишком скриптовая, причём максимально плохим образом.

Но в общем, это так-то приятно читать, хоть и тупость происходящего вкупе с излишней скриптованностью дают о себе знать

When the autopsy report is outdated

Amazing, wonderful game. Truly special. Epilogue kinda lost me for a bit since it wasn’t the gang I was used to in the beginning but still well done! Excited to play the next game!

Very good story. As a child I thought the relationship between Phoenix and Edgeworth was very unique and cool to watch. Now I realize they're hella repressed and there's no hetero explanation for them. I hope the best for them

What an amazing game! I just can't describe how I loved it! Some of the puzzles are kinda weird and sometimes, you can hesitate and make fatal mistakes (don't forget to save before making critical choices)

All the stories are really cool! I just loved it!

ive only tutorial so ive basically beaten the game

A very good adventure game with an extra, very big fifth case made for the DS version.

miles is established as someone who will do anything to get a guilty verdict, possibly even sending innocent people to jail. yet throughout the series, we never experience this vicious implication and it basically goes away after this game. you might call this poor writing or poor foresight from the writers, but personally, miles is my meow meow and i absolve him of his past sins so he can take on the new role of being phoenix’s pillow princess. amen.

I played a few of the games on the Switch as they came as a package. It was cool but it's simply just a ton of dialogue and point and click but there is nothing wrong with it. The characters and the cases are unique and fun. But I got bored and I didn't finish like the 3rd game I think.

I had always been curious about the Ace Attorney series, ever since I first watched all those ranchy parody animations on YouTube when I was a kid. I never expected to like these games as much as I did...But here we are.

Playing Ace Attorney is like playing a book. Everything is heavily scripted and your choices only serve to progress the story in the one and only path the game wants you to follow. But where it lacks in freedom, I believe it compensates in writing and presentation.

This world and characters they have created are so absolutely absurd, but I could not help but to fall in love with them. I can heavily relate with Phoenix, I love Mia like a mentor, I love Maya like my sister, I love Edgeworth like a gay lover, and I love Gumshoe like a good friend who just can't catch a break.

Whenever a new case starts, I don't really mind the repeating formula of Investigation > Trial and viceversa, since the game usually does manage to hook me soon enough, that all I want to do is to keep finding clues to find out how the story unfolds.

The trial system may be absolutely stupid and far removed from reality, but MAN is it the best part of the game. It is just so satisfying to point out contradictions and seeing the true culprit slowly crumble down, until they break out of desperation.

But by far, what makes everything work as well as it does, has to be the presentation. Seeing Phoenix slam the table and yell "OBJECTION!" feels too over the top but it never gets old. And the music....Hoooly shit THIS MUSIC! THE CORNERED THEME SLAPS SO HARD! I GET INCREDIBLY EXCITED EVERY TIME I HEAR IT! ....Even if all I am seeing is people standing in a courtroom and talking.

The only downsides to this game are the fact that the bonus case is maybe a bit...Way too long (Good, but too long). And I actually don't like how often Phoenix needs to be saved at the last minute by Mia (The way you win the second case is pretty...dumb), it kinda makes Phoenix look more incompetent than he actually is.

In conclusion. This game is fun, it's funny, it's compelling, it's endearing, I love these characters and the original last case is incredibly good. Uhh...I dunno what else to say...It's a step ladder.

tykkäsin siit kohdast ku edgeworth ja wright pani 2h ilman keskeytyst

Fun, silly and a little homosexual at times. This game was literally one of the main reasons why I decided to become an attorney, although in real life you can't use a parrot's testimony in court as evidence, which you can do in this game. Amazing.

Every character is memorable and well-written, had a great time with this game.
Can't say the same about the fifth case, that was a struggle.

I finished this game after 40 hours, I might have slept more than once while playing Ace Attorney, but that might be because of my short attention span thanks to the brainrot I consume daily

Edgeworth my beloved.
The 4th and extra case are peak storytelling.

É muito bom, mas ainda acho que o Shu Takumi tava meio inexperiente escrevendo esse jogo, experimentando muita coisa nova.
Mas pra um começo, é ótimo.

Banger👏freakin👏soundtrack👏

The soundtrack has blasted this game past the moon into the eternal void of space where it will be discovered, studied, and envied by aliens that wish they could make consistently good banger soundtracks.

Sendo o primeiro jogo da trilogia, tive ótimos momentos e impressões sobre Ace Attorney.

Todo humor que a série transmite me cativou em cada minuto de gameplay, pude me divertir muito em cada caso que foi me dado. Na minha opinião, gostei como o jogo faz com que fiquemos hypados com os casos, tanto que me causou grande interesse nas histórias que estavam sendo contadas.

Cada caso é único, e todos eles me deu aprendizado e, com certeza, muita emoção.

O jogo é rico em seu design, seja dos personagens, como dos backgrounds. A arte é tão linda e expressiva que foi apaixonante a primeira vista. Não posso deixar de citar a trilha sonora, que consegue transmitir a tensão e a excitação nos momentos de reviravolta nos casos.

Os personagens são únicos e memoráveis, amei poder passar um tempo ao lado deles<3 (se bem que tem uns que eu ache meio meeeh).

Eu lembro de um "problema" que vi em discussão um tempo atrás, da tradução que os fãs fizeram não ser 100% correta e ter MUITA piadinha brasileira envolvida. Mas, sinceramente não me importei tanto, pude aproveitar o jogo mesmo assim, e me diverti bem mais dessa forma.

É compreensivo o por que desse jogo ser tão influente pras Visual novels de investigação, é um jogo muito bom e marcante. (btw o jogo deveria ter acabado no capítulo 4 tmj).


phoenix wright and elle woods are bffs btw

Really solid game, I especially love all the excitement of finding what that one specific evidence is the clue to debunk a witness's claims

I have my issues with Takumi's writing, but honestly, the thing where you find a contradiction, and call an objection and then the hypest music possible starts playing, will never get old. That's peak video game. I love these silly games.

Also, there's something about the serialized nature of these games that reminds me why pre "golden age of television", TV shows were great. Like, you actually have time to become attached to the characters and care about them y'know? Like season 12 of Supernatural is absolute garbage, but still deeply enjoyable cause I spent hundreds of weekly episodes with my bois and I still care about them and want to see what happens to them, even though they're fighting Trump-metaphore british people. Ace Attorney is kinda like that. I hope Edgeworth doesn't end up in Gay Super Hell tho.

Today is my birthday! And for such an occasion, me and my bestie are playing through the Ace Attorney trilogy, in what is the first revisit I've had to the original games since I was a child

Anyone who knows me knows the importance the AA trilogy had in my early years. As an adult, I'm somewhat forced to view the game in a different manner, but I can also now look back to see the purpose this held to me, in the past. To be a child in the western world is to be ignored, I think. Especially a child like me who could understand these things more than most. Adults play little lords who can offer no refuge from the agony they bring, purposeful or not. It always seemed to me that everyone was making base mistakes that I could never fathom, that reflected off them and burned into me because children have no say in anything that goes on around them. And I could never understand their actions- I could never understand the screaming, I could never understand the deeply ingrained violence, I never understood why no one listened or could even parse things that were immediately obvious to me. Or why no one felt spurred to change. For years, I just ghosted the world feeling like one big tear all the time, very alone, but I would rather be alone than be with people like that. But I never forgot it, the extreme frustration of being that child. The child who is forced into situations with no voice and no autonomy, getting punished when I myself could not say anything back, lashing out and being unable to convey my desperation. Its pure bile and anger to be there.

I had so many feelings and thoughts about this growing up, the above can only be a tame simplification of many years of displacement. But one day, I caught a glimpse of a weird lawyer game on my shitty little ipod's app store in 2013, and things kind of changed. As I played, suddenly, I could see what it was like to have a voice. I could see what it was like to have friends, to find a family. I was introduced to a manner of things through Ace Attorney, a new manner of thought even, which at the time felt very cathartic to me. It reinforced a conviction that I've held since I could remember and I could see myself a little in it, sometimes. It was a comforting space. As an adult who knows more about the world than I did then, the writing isnt so mind-blowingly fantastic. But boy, as a child was it sure fucking incredible. To shout your objections and have pure, undeniable proof of what you meant at terrible people who otherwise would never see it. It was the spark of that more than the actual meat of it.

As for this game itself, it's more about what it did for me rather than what it is. To encourage thinking for ones self, to encourage that faith in an informed conviction. And that which fueled my fire for creative work, that I am still drawimg today. I talked about this a lot in my aai2 review, and I will talk about it again, but the introduction of Miles Edgeworth resonated with me so much back then. Who doesnt want to watch their shitty father bash their head into a wall- but that meant so much to me then. Actually, I forgot that this character largely introduced the concept of homosexuality to me. I would have figured myself out sooner or later, as I would with all these things, but at the very least I finished this game back then with an appreciation for a masculine demeanor and a strong need for a fitted suit.

I'm kind of rambling, and not well, but its my birthday so I'm allowed to. In present times, I'm noticing many spelling errors and sometimes a lacking of tone. And sometimes I feel like it relies too much on a joke so that the whole thing comes off as clowny, but I also feel like it might just be the english translation that made things this way. This was the first of its kind after all, and I've seen how the series has grown, so I can cut it some slack. Turnabout Goodbyes and Rise from the Ashes are still fantastic cases, and what's been even more fun than running down memory lane is watching my best friend experiencing it with me for the first time. I cant explain how much I absolutely love every piece of these games, though. They feel like a part of me, and I'm fairly proud of that. Its been a blast, and I cant wait to rediscover the rest of the series again.


Dont forget DL-6!