Investigations have you exploring crime scenes and talking to witnesses, and the cursor highlighting hot spots and telling which you have and have not interacted with goes a long way towards keeping things moving. Of course, you’ll meet these characters during the investigations and trials, which make up the two halves of the game and each has been streamlined, making it easier to keep going through the meat of the story and reach the interesting puzzles. It wasn’t unusual for me to sit on a line of dialogue for a while, just to watch the character models cycle through their animations for that pose. This means a huge leap forward for the game’s animation quality, which is saying something for a series that’s always relied on the charm of its character designs and poses. On the side of the police are Simon Blackquill, a convicted murderer who serves as your rival prosecutor and Bobby Fulbright, a heroic detective who can easily be goaded into helping the defense.Īll these characters are rendered in 3D for the first time, with amazing cel shading that keeps the look and feel of their 2D incarnations. From pretty early on, along with returning characters like Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice, you have the agency’s newest lawyer, Athena Cykes, a prodigy who uses analytical psychology to help crack cases. ![]() It’s got almost literally nothing to do with any actual legal system, but it’s the perfect setup for legal drama with the game’s cast of lovable heroes and loathsome villains.Įach Phoenix Wright game lives on the quality of its cast, and Dual Destinies’ new characters stand up there with fan favorites. It’s a world where people are guilty until proven innocent, trials only last a few days before an automatic guilty verdict, and lawyers need to personally investigate crime scenes for evidence. A series of twists, refinements, and new additions keeps the game fresh even this late in the series.įor newcomers, you play as a number of attorneys from the Wright Anything Agency, a combined law firm and talent agency, defending clients against false charges of murder. The Ace Attorney series has been charming since its debut, helping to introduce visual novels to the US with its courtroom melodrama, and even by the fifth game in the series, the formula hasn’t managed to get stale. ![]() Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is mostly more of the same, but that’s only a bad thing for games that haven’t been uniformly excellent.
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