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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Also known as Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten (JP)

Genres
Adventure
Developer
Capcom
Also on
Wii
North America November 15, 2005 Capcom
Europe March 16, 2006 Capcom
Japan September 15, 2005 Capcom
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney review

What would the world be like without lawyers? An inhospitable wasteland full of creeps? Or an amicable society free of backstabbing SOBs? Either way, everyone knows that you can't live them, nor can you live without them. Meet Phoenix Wright. He's a nobody who wants to become a…

arkrex · November 2, 2007

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney review

It is completely linear, it involves a lot of reading, it has an annoying bit here and there where you're wondering how to convince the story to move along, and once you've finished it, any replay will be precisely the same...and I'm still absolutely in love with it. Phoenix…

sashanan · September 10, 2007

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney review

Throw out every rule and procedure of the criminal justice system. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a clever DS graphic adventure that forgoes the tedium of writs, motions, and the chain of evidence in favor of timely investigations and more expedient trials. Proceedings here are…

woodhouse · October 16, 2006

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney review

The concept of Phoenix Wright is simple: you are a lawyer. Or, to be more specific, a defense attorney. Your job is to save your client from conviction--they're always innocent of the crime--and invariably find the real perpetrator, who is always caught during their own…

phediuk · August 17, 2006

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney review

Capcom wants to teach us about Japanese lawyers. According to the house that Captain Commando built, we can come to understand a few things about the lawyers we'd find milling about Akihabara district, and the legal system in which they operate: - Defense attorneys have spiky…

mrchupon · March 28, 2006

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney review

As a child, adults would commonly ask about a child’s aspirations in life. Certainly, nobody would answer that they aspire to be a garbage disposer or a manager at a local fast food chain. Most answers would consist of being lawyers, doctors, psychologists, etc. Unfortunately…

galactus21 · February 26, 2006

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