a delightful little brazen ace attorney knockoff. the (actual) jokes hit 9/10 times and the story itself is actually really convincing. you play as a bird lawyer in 19th century france right before a revolution begins. the game starts like how you would expect ace attorney but with art from a political cartoonist from the 1800s would, but as soon as you finish the first case and learn the real truth, the games colors start to show, despite the black and white visuals. the second case does a decent job at showing the upcoming conflicts in the next 2 cases, while being a fun case at the same time. the third case isnt really a case, as much as it is an investigation with an optional trial at the end, with the entire 4th case's story riding off the results of the trial. if you choose not to partake, you get a horrible ending where your main character goes awol and you have to play as his assistant and prosecute (instead of defend) the leader of the rebellion. the second ending is a lot nicer, albeit a lot longer as well. in this ending, you are instead trying to put on a trial for the king, and due to his overwhelming incompetence, it goes poorly. he is sentenced to exile, but is implied to be killed. the third ending, which APPARENTLY WASNT EVEN IN THE FUCKING GAME AT LAUNCH, has you join forces with the rebels, though at gunpoint. you try to defend the innocent and have a bloodless revolution, which isnt allowed. the main villains want to be the top caste of society so bad, one of them is willing to kill himself in order to start a bloody revolution.
overall i think that when the writing got serious, the game truly shone, but i also believe the endings were sort of lackluster, given that they were all non-endings.
unlike ace attorney, i cant really rank these by case due to all of them being so completely different.
8/10