Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, known in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban, is the first game in the Ace Attorney franchise. It was originally released only in Japan for the Game Boy Advance, but later ported to the Nintendo DS and released worldwide.

Plot
A rookie lawyer named Phoenix Wright is hired by the Fey & Co. Law Offices, only to end up running the place after his boss, Mia Fey, is suddenly killed. With the help of Mia's younger sister Maya, Phoenix defends various clients, while trying to investigate his new rival and former childhood friend, Miles Edgeworth.

Why It Wins the Case

 * 1) A very strong overall storyline, beginning with a fairly innocuous case, then establishing more and more plot and character threads that all come together in the fourth case.
 * 2) Likeable and memorable characters, with Phoenix being a strong protagonist, Maya a likeable sidekick, and even your main adversary, Miles Edgeworth, a very interesting and layered character. The villains in each case are also generally pretty memorable.
 * 3) Good dialogue throughout, aided by a strong localization.
 * 4) The game is divided into "courtroom" and "investigation" phases, thus preventing the gameplay from getting too monotonous.
 * 5) Some very funny bits of dialogue for incorrect decisions, which takes the edge off if you screw up.
 * 6) Reasonable difficulty curve, with the contradictions in the witness statements being easy to spot early on, and gradually getting harder and requiring more thought as the game goes on.
 * 7) Great soundtrack, with most of the music being updated and re-used in some fashion in nearly all the previous games.
 * 8) The game can be saved at almost any point, which is not only convenient for a game that you can play on the move, but also very handy when it comes to the harder puzzles, as a game over won't set you back all that much.
 * 9) The Nintendo DS version of the game allowed you to fully examine pieces of evidence via its touchscreen capabilities.
 * 10) The remastered version on the eight-gen consoles and PC has many updates to the games visuals, audio quality, and gameplay.
 * 11) OBJECTION!

Objective Qualities

 * 1) The fifth case, "Rise from the Ashes," while a generally very solid case, feels tacked-on (which it is; the GBA original only had four cases, with the fifth being added in the DS release).
 * 2) Poor pacing in the third and fourth episodes, which switch back and forth between the trial and investigation phases a little too often.
 * 3) The mobile ports of the game suffer from a lower frame rate and have missing sprites and bugs.
 * 4) If you lose any cases through out the game, you're forced to restart where you last left off and thus if you didn't save the game, you will have to restart everything all over again.
 * 5) Mike Meekins, one of characters who uses a megaphone, gets incredibly annoying very fast as it's repetitive.
 * 6) The Wii version did not receive any improvements to the graphics.

Trivia

 * A manga, a live movie and anime adaptations were produced off the game later in the late 2010s.

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