I was very disappointed when Dual Destinies completely ignored the interesting revelations about Apollo’s parentage in his titular game, but Spirit of Justice makes up for it by delving deeply into Apollo’s backstory and, surprisingly, building much of the game around his past.
Where Dual Destinies felt in some ways like a soft reboot, Sprit of Justice fully embraces the previous games. He’s the player character for the final case for example. The best character of the game is Apollo Justice, who you could make a strong case for being the real protagonist of this game. This is the funniest, strangest, most complex and epic of the Ace Attorney stories in a long while, all culminating towards an intense final case. It turns out the change of scenery was just the shot in the arm this series needed as I was pretty much enraptured in Spirit of Justice. I enjoyed the last Ace Attorney game, Dual Destinies, but neither it nor Apollo Justice came anywhere near grabbing me to the extent the original trilogy did. It is not too long before he sees an innocent party charged with murder and so, predictably, he heads to the Khura’inese courts to do what he does best, but now with his own life on the line.
Into this mess arrives Phoenix Wright, who has travelled to Khura’in for a holiday and to meet up with his former assistant Maya Fey, who has spent her time since her last appearance training to master her spirit channelling powers. Opposing the ruling Queen of Khura’in are the rebel group known as The Defiant Dragons. This has led to there being no working defense attorneys in Khura’in, with all trials being shams. Khura’in is not as idyllic as it first seems, with an oppressive government enforcing the ‘Defense Culpability Act’, which sees the defense attorney sentenced to the same punishment as the accused if found guilty, often death. Spirit of Justice shakes up the formula by moving most of the actions to Khura’in, a small and beautiful country in Asia which is the original home of spirit channelling, an element of the series missed in the last couple of games. What I didn’t expect was to play one of my favourite games of the year and one of the best in the series. I was quite excited to download a new Phoenix Wright game it’s a series I’m rather fond of and have been for a long time. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice for Nintendo 3DS
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