![]() I ploughed forward, though, and the case unwrapped fairly cleverly. The mysticism and fantasy, the overly hostile crowd (chanting “exterminate” no less), the forced drama of the raised stakes for our hero, none of it was landing for me. The deliberately over-the-top “foreign” Eastern stylings have less appeal to me than the everyday Japanese real-life setting, even when it was being half-heartedly disguised as America in the translation. Elsewhere, the game teases the return of Maya Fey but drags out her reveal, and revels in long-time prosecutor Winston Payne finally feeling he has one up on Phoenix. There are lots of winks and nods before the truth comes out. The slow realisation of what’s happening almost feels as though it relies on the player knowing more than the character. If the boy is found guilty he’ll be sentenced to death and so too will Phoenix Wright. Phoenix bumbles into a courtroom and soon finds himself defending a young boy accused of murder. The game wastes no time setting all of this up. This flawless system means defence attorneys are rare, and when they do defend a client they must accept the same fate as the accused. The victim’s spirit is consulted, and the perpetrator is fingered. Phoenix Wright visits a country where the spirit channelling technique, which had always existed at the fringes of the earlier games, is the mainstream way of asserting guilt in murder trials. Going into Dual Destinies, I’d heard of the original premise. Now, here I am, ready to play the game I was originally sent and start that review. Since then I’ve played through the original trilogy again and played Apollo Justice and Dual Destinies each for the first time. ACE ATTORNEY DUAL DESTINIES PHYSICAL COPY CODEI took the review code and decided to work my way through the whole series, analysing each case. One of my fellow writers here at gintendo was already planning a review, having purchased himself a physical copy of the game. Part of what inspired that was a kind offer from Capcom to supply us with a copy of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice for review. I started writing this series of reviews 732 Days ago. ![]()
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