The average ace attorney case goes something like this:

Wright hadn't seen a case much like this one. He had only a day to prepare for the defense of one Caul Pable, who was seen covered in the victims blood at the crime scene. The victim, Catt Phish, was brutalised in a fast food joint, all of his digits severed. A truly morbid sight.

Phoenix enters the courtroom with a baby dressed in traditional American kimono-spirit-medium garb, nothing in his court record but an (updated) autopsy report and three fish sticks.

Nick approaches the stand, with Edgeworth at the table opposite.

"You're not going to win this time, wright." Edgeworth grins. " Your pathetic attempts at defending this paltry man will only lead to your inevitable defeat."

His glare glides towards the accused, Caul Pable. Caul shivers.

Phoenix brushes off the prosecutors taunts, and the judge promptly orders the first witness to the stand.

The witness, bart tocks, grins from ear to ear.

"You see, all I did on Friday, the day of the murder, was fry some seafood sir, I'm not guilty by any me-"

"OBJECTION!!"

his shout is loud, reverberating throughout the courtroom.

"You see, Mr Bart... That's where you're wrong... You actually ARE guilty because, referring to this autopsy report, the murder didn't happen on Friday... IT HAPPENED ON THURSDAY!!!"

the crowd gasps, and the judge's mouth is agape.

The gavel strikes the table three times. "Wow this is looking really bad for you dude" the bearded man exclaims.

Bart breaks out in cold sweat, and starts break dancing nervously in the courtroom.

"B-but you don't have any evidence!! How could I have killed the man, I was frying fish!" Tocks stammers.

"OBJECTION!!"

"Wh-what?"

"You see Bart... You may have been deep frying... But you have also been... DEEP LYING!! May I present to the court... THESE FISH STICKS!!"

Phoenix tosses the fish in the air, and the day old golden brown snacks land on the table, its oily surface spreading grease on the autopsy report.

Miles grins, a dimple appearing on his cheek. With his palms to the sky, he shrugs and shakes his head. "Phoenix, my nemo-sis... you're making a mockery of this courtroom providing such fishy evidence. You better explain yourself- or you're fin-ished."

Phoenix chuckles.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the court, may I present to you the evidence of this man's guilt."

Phoenix peels open the fish sticks, revealing... the victims severed thumb.

"Looks like we found it. The fingers... Or should I say... Phish's fingers."

Edgeworth, taken aback, stumbles, reeling from shock. He grabs his chair to regain his bearings. As he sees phoenix grin at him, his grip tightens, turning his palms white.

"You see, the crumbs that led to me finding this out were all laid out by this witness... who was actually concealing evidence in these very same breadcrumbs... Panko breadcrumbs to be exact."

"GRRR.... I LEFT THOSE OILY THINGS OUTSIDE!!! I KNEW I SHOULDN'T HAVE WAITED FOR IT TO RAIN!!!" The defendant wails. His cries are met with furrowed brows and shaking heads.

Phoenix lifts his index finger and points it in the air triumphantly. "The only fingering you'll get... WILL BE IN PRISON!!"

Bart Tocks entire body convulses, his eyeballs repeatedly pop out of his head and snap back into their sockets, steam pouring out of his ears. Then his head explodes.

"Well looks like we've seen enough! I'm going to take a nap! Not guilty!" The judge jubilantly exclaims.

Gumshoe celebrates by throwing confetti in the air, and then is promptly escorted out of the premises. Maya is seen outside the courtroom eating a burger. Fatty.

Edgeworth slams his fists on the mahogany table with a thunderous BANG!.

"Im..impossible!!"

His head snaps toward phoenix, his eyes bloodshot, veins popping out of his temple. They lock eyes.

Then they take off their clothes and start making out in front of the judge.

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The closest thing to ace attorney I can think of off the top of my head would be the Sam Raimi Spiderman movies. Campy, but with alot of heart.

Technically speaking, there's nothing to laud about. Other than the brilliant soundtrack, the art is average, the puzzles vary in quality, and there are massive plotholes.

But what it lacks in quality of its individual elements, it makes up for in said heart.

It's hard to describe, but this game oozes passion and style from every orifice. The creators of this game, from the writers to the localisers clearly have put in so much care into this story, producing something so utterly charming. This game expertly whisks you away in it's ridiculous yet fleshed out world full of perjury and lovable characters.

It's so easy to become engrossed in each mystery, each puzzle ranging from bafflingly simple to a complex mental rube Goldberg machine of a million moving parts that somehow all click together and make sense in the end. But this range is what keeps you guessing, and what makes it so fun.

And that's not to mention, taking each individual element on it's own is doing this game a disservice. This game, this trilogy as a whole needs to be evaluated as one single continuous story. Despite the noticably weaker second entry, each game heavily references the events of previous entries. Elements from the first and second game become retroactively improved once the final game is completed, and yet the final game wouldn't feel as gratifying and memorable without having played the first two.

The soundtrack is probably the best part of the game. The fragrance of dark coffee in particular was my favourite.

In ace attorney, throughout each case, you're fed these passive tunes during the investigations, calming soft music that mirror the scenario that the characters are in. As the case speeds up in pace, so does the ost. You enter the courtroom, and you're assaulted with tense tunes that keep you on the edge of your seat. Then, at the very climax, the moment that hours of gameplay has led up to.

The pursuit theme plays.

And there's this release. Release of all the tension and excitement that's been building up the entire time, and your ears are blessed with the best fucking music in video games.

The greatest compliment I can give ace attorney is that if I played this ten years ago I would have become insufferable and would base my entire personality off of Edgeworth. And playing it now, it fills me with this sense of whimsy that reminds me of when I played Pokémon when I was a kid. A strange sense of nostalgia that I guess comes with games made during the early 2000s.

This trilogy goes on sale on steam pretty frequently together with TGAAC, so I highly reccomend buying it when theyre bundled.

i'm torn between 3 stars or 3.5 but i'll be generous this time since it's the first AAA wizarding world game

my experience with this game:

my thoughts the first few hours: omg my character sounds so bad, dialogue is horrible, graphics are very bad, the optimization is HORRIBLE (played 2 weeks after launch and it was barely playable on low settings with 20 fps when it was supposed to be 60 fps on ultra according to recommended settings game set for me), the NPC's are 1 iq and don't react to anything, the class system is disappointing (oh how i wish they made the classes / school friendships like persona... or bully...), there is a huge red screen and alert sound to return back to my quest area when i go and try to explore a bit... IN MY FIRST FEW MINUTES AT HOGWARTS... hmm well THAT IS SUCH A HORRIBLE CHOICE WHOSE IDEA WAS THAT

thoughts after the first few hours, between 7-15h:
woooooow EXPLORING IS FUNNN, hey this is a new puzzle!!! omg what is this? whoa they even thought of this detail! hey the game is getting better and better!! wait am i really gonna explore all of this castle? inch by inch? i can't waiit!!!

thoughts after 20h:
omg. stop it already. when is this gonna end. i don't care about this story. my choices mean nothing. oh it's the same puzzle again, the one that i already did 33 times. uuugh i must be close to the ending (i wasn't even barely close), just hold on...

and it was a love & hate relationship after that point. i wanted to turn off the game & go to sleep for a huge chunk of the game. i was totally invested and excited for another chunk of it. but the bads outweighed the goods in the end. i am glad it's finally over (at 52 hours) i did a fair amount of side quests because they were way better than the main story and gave me a reason to go and explore. i didn't 100% and i don't think i'll be going back to it again. i also couldn't be bothered to do the final quest "the house cup" because it requires level 34 and i'm only 31. maybe if they add a photo mode in the future (they probably will) i might have a reason to go back and graduate. that's all. still feels like a dream though, to be able to finish and write a review for this game after being so hyped for years. i have hope the 2nd game will be way better than this, so now i can start looking forward to that one!

When a game like this comes out I always get nervous to put my thoughts into words. Games like this are the reason I play video games. It was able to reignite my passion for gaming.

The presentation on Ragnarok is immediately gripping. With the controller in my hand I was ready to get answers to the questions that God of War 2018 left me with. I can't remember the last time I looked at the clock and new I needed to go to bed, but all I wanted to do was keep playing.

The combat picks up right where it left off in 2018. It doesn't do that bullshit to take your weapons away or make you relearn skills from the last game. It built on top of what they had. That goes for every aspect of this game. The narrative is stepped up. The gameplay is stepped up. The characters were stepped up.

This game is a living masterpiece. Between the amazing voice acting, the best camera work I've seen in a game, and all the improved gameplay that used the 2018 game as it's base, god of war ragnarok establishes a new height in quality of a videogame. I can't point flaws besides maybe repetitiveness if you are that type of person. But there's a lot to explore, and they finally started exploring and helping you understand everything about the 9 realms. The draw each character with so many detail and take them into account for every particle of the world. I'm amazed since I never thought 2018 as one of the best playstation 4 games. This one, actually is. Can't point my favourite parts because of spoilers.