onsdag 8 februari 2017

Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice

Enemies of the law beware

So I finished the latest Ace Attorney game and it was an enjoyable ride from start to finish. No Nine-tails village episode that completely put me to sleep, no I enjoyed pretty much most of the episodes. Worst being the Athena one, but that one at least had Simon Blackquill in it alleviating it to a rather fun episode... that or the constant references to one of the main witnesses "balloons". Interestingly the stakes is immedialty higher since with Phoenix in Kurah'in a guilty verdict is a death sentence for the defendant AND those who would defend a guilty person. And to annoy me more they have Divination Seances which shows the last moments of the victim and the summoner then interprets them and I have to blast holes in them. It's like the movies from the earlier games and I hate those. And don't get me started on the new prosecutor who I really detested for most of the game. It might be that his snobby spiritual side really rubs me the wrong way with all "let it go" and "you will join the defendant in the fourth level of hell". I had a good mind to throw back how his soul would feel in hell for almost sentencing an innocent (or more) people to death. The good thing about that is that the only time I felt I really need to beat the prosecutor.

Everything is forgiven Simon

There are five cases presented as the main story and a special episode and two smaller "what if"-stories that has nothing with the games cannon to do at all. And I gotta say they hit pretty hard with call backs to earlier games. Galvin is mentioned and appear in one of the one-offs. Simon joins the defence side in one. Gumshoe is mentioned, Ema Skye is back as the main investigator. The Troupe Grammereye has a whole case to themselves and Larry Butz is back in the special episode as Edgeworth take the stand as the main prosecutor. Yes, it feels like Ace Attorney all right. Oh yeah, and Maya and Pearl Fey are back as well.

Now back to the serious stuff

So the main story is that Phoenix is in Khura'in to visit Maya Fey who are about to finish her training as a spirit medium. While there he gets caught up in several murder trails and as the literal only lawyer in Khura'in he must protect the innocent and try to stop the laws that perverse the judicial system in the land and restore the spirit of justice. Most of it can be traced to the Defendant Culpability Act which is explained above and was enacted 23 years prior after the assassination of the former queen by the leader of the current insurgent leader and former lawyer Dhurke Shaman (... or however you spell the name) which is the foster father of Apollo Justice who he took in when his father died in the assassination 23 years ago and he's also the father of the main prosecutor of this game, who's mother was the former queen. It's a real mess.So it's more of an Apollo story actually although there's a a total of 3 episodes with Phoenix and 2 with Apollo (but Apollo have case nr 5 which feels like 2-in-1 case). Athena only got 1. She actually hardly got any time at all, not even in the extra cases either. In the special episode she mostly run away from Trucy to avoid getting in her magician act.

As stated overall a good game, maybe case 4 is the weakest (and it happens to be Athena's case), but Simon and Taka is there to make up for it. Did I cheat anytime in the game? Yes, chapter 3 with the divination seance which made me rage since I never really had a clear gasp at where I was going and the twist of the story took me by surprise. Also the end of case 5 was a bit anti-climatic. Nothing really wrong and it works completely fine, but I expected we would have forced the main culprit to admit a culpability in a murder and force said person to either take the punishment or rewrite the law. The games solution worked as well, but still.

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