A new task list highlights what you need to do to progress. It’s also easy to get directly where you need to go as opposed to the old convoluted travel system. This adds more interesting options to what the developers can do and makes the environments feel more a like real place instead of an interactive painting. Investigations get a boost via new 3D crime scenes in which you can rotate all around the room. He’s got his quirks and expected stern demeanor, though I don’t think he quite measures up to past rivals like the hard-nosed Miles Edgeworth, silly Klavier Gavin, or multi-faceted Godot. New prosecutor Simon Blackquill has a hawk pal he commands to attack people, and is somehow able to practice law even though he’s in prison for murder. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it and classics like the Psyche-Lock are sprinkled in enough to shake up the standard press-statement-and-present-evidence loop. Athena’s new mood matrix device senses subjects’ emotions during testimony, and it’s up to you to pick out what doesn’t match (like someone being happy when a bomb goes off). Phoenix Wright returns to his lawyering job, sharing the starring role with Apollo Justice and newcomer Athena Cykes. Most of the fun is meeting this rogues gallery of strange characters and villainous suspects while keeping your fingers crossed for cameos from your favorite Ace Attorney alumni. The classic, zany tone is spot-on, with a weirdo witness who refuses to leave a cardboard box and an astronaut who pretends to suffocate when his oxygen hose comes loose. Familiar locations like the courthouse and detention center have received a facelift (don’t worry, the guards haven’t moved a muscle) and the characters all still look hand drawn while performing more complicated motions than were remotely possible before. In Dual Destinies you can’t help but notice the new presentation. Just because Capcom is scared to lose money on physical copies doesn’t mean you should let Phoenix Wright’s return pass you by. It’s true the latest Ace Attorney is only available via download in the Nintendo eShop.
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