This is the second installment for the Ace Attorney Trilogy that Capcom brings to the steam store. While the first one revolves around Phoenix Wright, this Trilogy (as the name already suggests) follows Apollo Justice to some extent.

Since 2 out of 3 games are ports from the Nintendo 3DS this collection is a tiny bit more hardware hungry/needs better graphic cards as the first one.

Now lets come to the meat of it: The game itself. As typical for Ace Attorney games you have a WIDE range of characters and many are fleshed out to be deeper than "I am bad guy doing bad stuff". The background music always completment the situation and accentuate sudden shifts in tone, let it be funny or dramatic. The graphic is much more polished for the first game and nicely scaled for the 3DS ones.
The controls are well ported over, but since many of the forensic minigames were just DS/3DS gimmicks it obviously is not as engaging as they used to be. But they are still fun to do, dont get me wrong.

Apart from the normal stuff we got on the handheld there are also PC only additions like art books and music/sound sampling. As things that we take for granted but takes a bit of optimisation: The loading times.

I tested it and from hitting "start" on steam to my loaded game save it took only 7 seconds. SECONDS! I know, its not the hardware intense game there is, but some other games dont even have their start loading screen up after 7s.

I did not talk about the story? Come on, its a no brainer. The Ace Attorney games are always riddled with plot twists and nice character arcs.

But I also have some not so nice things to say (so I dont look like a total fanboy):
By god, I forgot how annoying most people are in the first game (Apollo Justice). Maya was already sometimes hard to get around but Trucy takes the cherry with lacking all common sense and sometimes being downright criminal (ofcourse without any repercussions). In addtion this "Phoenix Wright being transformed into a hobo" never was my favorite plotline as it does my boy really dirty. Gladly its not permanent, but we will never forget. Also it does not help that everything is VERY constructed. Some problems or even murder could be prevented with some normal human interaction.

Since I dont want to end on a bad note I sandwich my negative points with something nice at the end:
I absolutly love the variaty of new abilities. In the first Trilogy we had the magatama that helps us with the investigations.
In this one we have SO MANY MORE. From body language perception, over our old friend magatama to emotion analysis and others (I dont want to spoil too much), this game is packed with "minigames" like that.

As a final line I only hope we also get the Miles Edgeworth Investigation series to steam soon, but after that running low on Ace Attorney games to scratch our OBJECTION itch.

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