I just finished Apollo Justice last night. If you think it's messed up now, wait until you get to the last case. spoiler (click to show/hide)
The flashback trial with Phoenix Wright and the original GBA-style visuals, complete with PW1 soundtrack, was by far the best part of the case. It became a bit of an overkill, though, with the case starting normally, THEN going to a flashback, THEN the MASON system with the magatama, THEN normal again, THEN the Jurist system. I get that the whole game was really all about Phoenix Wright, just played from Apollo's viewpoint, but it felt like it was really building up to something and then had a lackluster ending. It would have been a lot cooler if they simply further broke down the game into five cases, with case #4 being a flashback case entirely from Phoenix's point of view, taking place both seven years ago and in the present, tying up the loose ends and then going into the final fifth case. Oh well.
The original Ace Attorney, no fuck that...PHOENIX WRIGHT game remains the best in the series. I think I'd have to rank PW3 next, just ahead of PW4, and then PW2. Really the only game in the series I just wanted to be over quickly was PW2. Don't know what it was about that game.
I hated the cases in Ace Attorney 2. PW1 also has the best music.
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The best case, though, was the one where you defend Maya in the doctor murder trial. Some crazy twist for that case.
wait, you play phoenix wright expecting sound game logic? i thought it was just a glorified launching pad for obscene boylove fanart. what's the hilarious 4chan meme i'm looking for? 'you're doing it incorrectly?'
I knew very well what I was getting into. I know that most "logical" games suffer from "game logic," where the protagonist instantly turns into a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow the second you lead him even slightly astray of his choreographed path. THAT DOES NOT MEAN I CANNOT COMMENT UPON IT
Oh, and I finished it last night. I still don't get what's up with Kristoph, his scar/wrinkle/devilface, how the fuck the mom was able to... well, you know.
I mean, he did it all because
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The Gramaryes were superstar clients that he really really really wanted to win a case for, and he didn't like Phoenix Wright? He paid $100,000 to forge evidence, planted the tools for two murders, successfully killing one, watched everyone from afar for seven years, and then killed his own ex-client, Zak, the second he re-appeared? Seven years worth of that, just because he didn't want to lose a big case? Nuh-uh. Not buying it. The dude has a mysterious devil-faced scar in his hand, and when you talk to him in prison there's six black Psycho-Locks. There's something else going on that the game didn't talk about.
And then there's the
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Mom. I can buy that getting shot in the head caused her to become an amnesiac and lose her sight. But how in the hell did she end up in another country, halfway around the world? That's some magic bullet! And who the hell did she leave Apollo to? Why did she just leave him? Who the FUCK was her first husband, who "died in a performing accident"? See, there's something not right here.
There's a bunch of things entirely that we aren't privy to. I was actually HOPING that the new game would answer those questions: that the defense attorney you faced would be Kristoph Gavin. It would help clear up a lot in the story. Oh well, crime scene stuff will still be cool.