The Wiiware ports were actually OK but with the Wii internet service shut down DS is the best option. Most of the games are playable on the DS, and I think are the best versions. A comparison of the judge in each version. Look for yourself as the first case is free. I'm more than willing to admit this is a nit pick, but it's important to me. Your eyes are glued to the text as it is written out on the screen but with a lower framerate it comes out very jerky and isn't pleasing at all. Is framerate important in a visual novel with limited animation? I think so, yes. Rather than opting to upscale the pixel art it looks like they hired someone from deviantart to redraw everything. PortsÄo not buy the iPad port of the game. Interested? With so many options, you can play the games in several places. Luckily fans have released an English translation, which I am happy to say is astounding. BOOOO! Not only that, but Ace Attorney Investigations 2 has not been officially localised for the west. Unfortunately Capcom have only released the game digitally on the 3DS eshop due to poor sales of the previous entries. The next 3 games also appeared on the DS, and each added touch screen controls and other DS features my favourite being blowing in to the microphone to dust for prints! The series latest entry, Dual Destinies, is the first fully polygonal game and the first in the series on 3DS. Starting life on the GBA in Japan (as well as Japan exclusive PC ports), the entire trilogy came to the west on the Nintendo DS as enhanced editions, DS ports to Wiiware and the most recent 'HD' iPad ports. This does not include the Professor Layton X Phoenix Wright game released in the west this year. The Phoenix Wright trilogy, Apollo Justice, two spin off Investigation games and the new Dual Destinies. The game is split in to 4 - 5 cases per game and each is written as a murder mystery where Phoenix not only proves his client innocent, but manages to catch the killer. There are many more characters in each case that I could talk about but a large part of the fun is meeting the crazy characters. I'll get in to that later), Detective Gumshoe the dumb but loveable homicide detective and Edgeworth, the ruthless, scheming prosecutor who'll do anything to get a guilty verdict. You have Maya, your enthusiastic, naive sidekick spirit channeller (uh. The characters are interesting, charming and quite often funny. The appeal of the game is in the writing. Phoenix bluffing that he knows what's going on is, like, 90% of the game. This takes the form of 'logic puzzles' where you have to point out contradictions, disprove testimony and bluff. The second phase takes place in the courtroom, where you do battle against the prosecution to prove your client innocent. Phase one is the investigation, which takes the form of a visual novel/adventure game where you pixel hunt backgrounds for evidence and talk to witnesses. The games combines several genres mainly visual novel, adventure and puzzle, split in to two phases. A nervous, rookie lawyer just getting started in the legal world. Hopefully this will introduce some people to the visual novel genre and get you to try it out. If you enjoy this show your interest so that I know whether to continue it or if I'm just wasting my time. This entry will serve as an introduction and overview, before I start tackling each game individually. It has a niche audience outside of Japan and I would like to see more people enjoy these games so I decided to write a series exploring the various games, with as few spoilers as possible in the hopes that you, Giant Bomb reader, will give these games a shot. I had never 'played' a visual novel before, and the quirky characters, pixel graphics and murder mysteries really drew me in. The Ace Attorney series is my favourite portable series, one that I have played every day for the past 6 years before I go to sleep.
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