So earlier this year I got summoned to jury service, but in the end couldn’t do it. The trial would be at least eight weeks long and that simply wasn’t going to work with my job. I’ll admit I was disappointed to be missing out on such a prominent case, and with all the media attention on the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial, I needed something to scratch my unfulfilled jury duty itch.

And that’s when I turned my attention to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. I can completely see the appeal of this game (and the rest of the series), but sadly it’s just not for me. Perhaps all visual novel style games aren’t my jam, or the backtracking to different locations annoyed me too much. I enjoyed the first two cases which served as a kind of tutorial, but the third case almost had me abandoning the game altogether. Definitely a return to form with cases four and five though. Tempted to give one of the later games in the series a go, but we’ll see.