For starters, the new seance vision system might be my favorite mystery solving contrivance that any Ace Attorney game has added. The game’s puzzle designers weren’t afraid to loosen the leash and get reasonably obtuse, and I wish the rest of its writing reflected that.Īll of that isn’t to say there aren’t a lot of areas where Spirit of Justice excels. At one moment doubting the reader’s attention span to recall key story moments and in the next expecting the player – who is that same reader – to solve some convoluted courtroom case. The writers don’t seem to trust players to understand character arcs in the same way they trust them to unravel complex and convoluted murder mysteries, and it makes for a weird disconnect. In one case, I saw the exact same flashback three times in the span of about 40 minutes. The writing bloat is by far at its worst in the first case and is mostly annoying in later episodes with the constant recycling of short flashback sequences that mostly serve to remind you of things that happened only an hour ago. This kind of redundant fluff seriously bogs down the pace of what would be, with a lot of editing, a strong first case. I understood that Khura’inese people hate defense attorneys the first five times we got a slow panning shot of the courtroom with the gallery heckling and booing Phoenix – you don’t have to keep doing that every few minutes. The first case is where the game’s clumsy in-your-face writing is at its worst. This entry’s overarching theme is ‘courtroom revolution’, and so it starts with Phoenix Wright visiting Maya Fey in the kingdom of Khura’in, a small Himalayan country, where he inevitably gets caught up at trial in the foreign court. Setting aside the nitpicking of small inconsistencies and strange character motivations littered throughout Spirit of Justice, my biggest issue with it is the sheer inefficiency of its script. ![]() Spirit of Justice is the sixth entry in the main series, and considering that the original trilogy of (mostly) fantastic games are so easily accessible on 3DS, you’d be doing yourself a disservice by skipping them. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.If you’ve never played an Ace Attorney game, don’t start here. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. ![]() If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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