Great finisher to this second trilogy. While not as amazing as the first trilogy, still worth the playthrough! Ace Attorney games are just great!
People are kinda harsh on the 3DS Ace Attorney games, but to be honest, I find them extremely enjoyable. Even more than the original trilogy in places.
There might be a slight tonal shift towards more fantasy and over-the-top themes, but the characters are still solid and the Ace Attorney formula is incredibly difficult to fuck up at this point (Also the new versions of classic themes from the soundtrack are amazing).
Spirit of Justice starts a bit slow (cases one and two are a bit whatever), but once it gets past that initial hump it's kinda great. Cases three four and five all feature really creative murders which are extremely fun to unravel (as long as you have tolerance for the series leaning very hard into the whole spirit channelling thing; which I don't mind, but I get why it bothers some people), and you get some really fun character dynamics like Athena and Blackquill or Phoenix and Edgeworth investigating cases together.
Overall very entertaining with a couple of genuinely emotional moments.
My only real complaint is that the new prosecutor kinda sucks, he feels more like a plot device than a fully realized character.
As much as I enjoy sympathetic prosecutors, I feel like if they make another Ace Attorney we need a return to a Manfred Von Karma-style prosecutor. Just a real bastard of a guy that it's fun to hate. I kinda miss that.
There might be a slight tonal shift towards more fantasy and over-the-top themes, but the characters are still solid and the Ace Attorney formula is incredibly difficult to fuck up at this point (Also the new versions of classic themes from the soundtrack are amazing).
Spirit of Justice starts a bit slow (cases one and two are a bit whatever), but once it gets past that initial hump it's kinda great. Cases three four and five all feature really creative murders which are extremely fun to unravel (as long as you have tolerance for the series leaning very hard into the whole spirit channelling thing; which I don't mind, but I get why it bothers some people), and you get some really fun character dynamics like Athena and Blackquill or Phoenix and Edgeworth investigating cases together.
Overall very entertaining with a couple of genuinely emotional moments.
My only real complaint is that the new prosecutor kinda sucks, he feels more like a plot device than a fully realized character.
As much as I enjoy sympathetic prosecutors, I feel like if they make another Ace Attorney we need a return to a Manfred Von Karma-style prosecutor. Just a real bastard of a guy that it's fun to hate. I kinda miss that.
So idk if I've ever cried to an Ace Attorney game before this but I cried to this one like multiple times.
I don't know if I like it as much as the OG trilogy, but I definitely liked it more than Dual Destinies and frankly I would play it again. The way people talked about it I was absolutely not expecting to like it but it's a good time with some really fun characters and a story I was not expecting to be as invested in as I ended up being.
I don't know if I like it as much as the OG trilogy, but I definitely liked it more than Dual Destinies and frankly I would play it again. The way people talked about it I was absolutely not expecting to like it but it's a good time with some really fun characters and a story I was not expecting to be as invested in as I ended up being.