It had incredible personality, interesting characters, and better yet, allowed the gamer to take on the role of a lawyer. This kind of approach to the adventure genre was unique. It was interesting. It allowed the series to thrive in an environment not deemed fit to command a localization of the game when it first appeared in Japan.
Now, two years after the US was first shown Phoenix Wright in all his glory, he's back to wrap up his trilogy, a trilogy which Japanese gamers got to experience in full on the GBA by And not only do we find ourselves glad that he came into our lives in the first place, we're glad Capcom gave fans the opportunity to see the series through to its conclusion.
Fans be warned; Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations is a must-own if you're a fan of the other two games. That much can be said from the outset. But this game, just like the other two titles in the series, isn't without its problems, either. If you're not familiar with the Phoenix Wright games, the premise itself is easy enough to understand.
You take the role of Phoenix Wright as well as, from time to time, other characters. Phoenix is an attorney practicing law under a unique system where defendants are tried not by a jury of his or her peers, but by an all-powerful judge.
As Phoenix, you are expected to talk to witnesses, gather evidence, and represent your client to the best of your ability in the court of law. The entire game, existing solely in the realm of adventure gaming, is point-and-click on the Nintendo DS, never actually requiring a single button stroke whatsoever to play. This makes the game incredibly comfortable to pick up and play, as all you must do is hold the stylus and press a large button on the touch screen to continue the endless streams of dialogue that come your way.
You also use your stylus to traverse between areas, view collected evidence and character profiles, and conduct all of your other business as an ace attorney. It's a great deal of fun to simply rest the DS unit on a table in front of you, or on your lap, and adjust your screen as you tap away with your pen. It's a relaxing game that you can spend your time with. You're never racing against the clock.
The series has always been, and continues to be, a refreshing change of pace, even for the many gamers populating the legions of fandom for more action-oriented genres. Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations features five cases to work through, just like the original the second title in the trilogy, Justice For All, features only four cases. This is immediately a positive, since lengthy, intensively engaging cases are at the heart of what makes Phoenix Wright such a successful series.
Game length is no issue here, as the game could easily take you ten or fifteen hours to get through, and perhaps even more if you're inclined to explore every crevasse of every case.
All of the cases are separated into two parts, investigation and trial. There could be one investigation chapter and one trial chapter per case, or multiples of each depending on the detail and intensity of the case. Sometimes, as with the first and fourth cases in the game, there're no investigation chapters whatsoever. What is a major issue, however, is the old Capcom MO.
The layout of the game and the way the game is played and presented hasn't changed in any of the games in the trilogy. Takashi Miike directed a big-screen adaptation. Phoenix even put up his dukes in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. And the original trilogy was ported twice more with great fanfare: to WiiWare in , and to phones in Fans were beginning to get antsy.
The Investigations games were enjoyable enough, but sooner or later Capcom would have to address the fact that the series was running in circles. And in , they finally did. Phoenix was the star again, with Edgeworth serving as the prosecutor in a dramatic final episode. Apollo was still there, but in a secondary role and now with most of his supporting cast mysteriously missing. Dual Destinies was well-received by fans and critics, at least at first.
And instead of tying up the loose threads from the last game, it re-focused on Phoenix and new assistant Athena Cykes. At the same time, Capcom announced an anime series adapting the first three games of the series. A few years later, at Tokyo Game Show , fans waited with bated breath to see what was coming next for the series.
But for narrative-heavy games like Ace Attorney , the story is the appeal, and the risk of stagnation is that much greater.
The great irony is that the backlash to Apollo Justice was never really about Apollo Justice. Phoenix himself drove too much of the plot, despite the fact that fans wanted to see Apollo and co. The player assumes the role of Mia Fey in her second court trial , set to defend Phoenix Wright , an art student in Ivy University , from the charge of murdering Doug Swallow. Dahlia Hawthorne debuts in this case, as well as the chronological debut of Wright.
Like all first cases in the series to date, there is no investigation stage, only a court trial. It takes place about four and a half years prior to the following episode, The Stolen Turnabout. Two young men were arguing about a woman, one warning the other that she was bad news.
A confrontation of some sort occurred, and later on, the latter was discovered standing over the former, who had been killed. This soon-accused man was Phoenix Wright. Mia Fey was quite nervous about this case. This was her second time in court, the first occurring a year before and resulting in a traumatic experience for her.
Originally, Marvin Grossberg was to handle this trial, but at Fey's insistence, he handed the case to her and would act as her co-counsel in court. Fey also met her client, Phoenix Wright, who had a cold that made him sneeze constantly, so he had to wear a mask. Fey decided to pull herself together for her client's sake; she was not the one facing a murder conviction.
The prosecuting attorney for this trial was Winston Payne , the "Rookie Killer" He was much more confident than he would become by the time Phoenix Wright became a lawyer, and he also had a full head of hair. He gave his opening statement: The victim in this trial, a student named Doug Swallow , had been electrocuted.
His body had been found facedown on the ground underneath a snapped power line with a broken umbrella next to him. The defendant, Wright, had been spotted fleeing the scene. His motive appeared to have been jealousy, as his girlfriend, Dahlia Hawthorne , was seeing Swallow up until eight months before the murder. Wright was called to take the stand. He testified that he hardly knew the "stuck-up British wannabe" and had only coincidentally stumbled upon the scene and found the body.
Grossberg reminded Fey about how to press statements and how to present evidence contradicting the witness's statement, and then Fey found a contradiction: Wright would not have called Swallow a "British wannabe" had he not seen the Union Jack on the back of Swallow's shirt, which was under his jacket.
At this, Wright admitted that he was lying, afraid of convicting himself if he told the truth. Payne went on to ask about any medication that Wright was taking for his cold, to which Wright replied that he had been taking a brand of cold medicine named "Coldkiller X", which he had misplaced somewhere.
Payne admitted a photo of Doug's lifeless hand clutching onto a bottle of the same medicine that had Wright's fingerprints all over it. The photo also showed Swallow's watch, which had stopped when Swallow was electrocuted. Wright admitted that the medication was most likely his, but he testified that it had gone missing earlier, around the time that he had lunch with his "Dollie", which referred to Hawthorne.
He also testified that he had indeed met the victim before the time of the murder to talk at Swallow's request. At this point, the judge asked what caused Swallow's death; Fey replied that he had been electrocuted by a severed high voltage electrical cable.
Payne then revealed that, in addition to the fingerprints found on the Coldkiller X bottle, Wright's palm print was also found on the chest area of Swallow's leather jacket; Payne concluded that Wright pushed Swallow into the cable, electrocuting him.
The Judge was now ready to declare a guilty verdict, but Fey could feel that Wright was hiding something and begged him to trust her enough to tell the truth. Wright was hesitant at first, but amazed at Fey's faith in him. He relented and finally told the court the truth: he had indeed pushed Doug but there had been no severed electrical cables in the area at that time.
He said that he had also heard a loud noise, from which Fey unearthed an important fact: Swallow had landed on top of the umbrella he had been carrying, breaking it and causing the noise. However, the crime scene photo showed the umbrella to the side of the body, instead of underneath. Fey used this fact to conclude that Swallow had survived the push and had presumably gotten up after the fall.
The judge called a recess. In the defendant lobby, Wright apologized for not stating the entire truth, but he was now convinced that he would be acquitted, as the next witness was Hawthorne, the "love of [his] life".
Fey inquired as to their relationship and Wright explained that they had met eight months ago in the District Court and he believed that fate had brought them together. Hawthorne had even given him a pendant with a bottle as a symbol of their love. Fey then asked if the exact date of their meeting was August 27th and Wright's reply was amazed and affirmative. He also commented that Hawthorne would ask Wright to return the pendant whenever they met.
Fey then produced a newspaper clipping about the events of a murder that had been committed in the courthouse on that very same day. Grossberg seemed to understand now why Fey was so insistent on taking up Wright's case, and in order to aid her further, he offered to see what else he could discover about the events of that murder. Court was then called back into session, with Hawthorne brought to the stand. Her innocent demeanor immediately seduced the judge and Payne.
She testified that she had seen the crime but that Swallow had simply collapsed; no one had pushed him.
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