Someone was wrongfully accused and as a lawyer it's your job to uncover the truth. At the core of this is a visual novel with a lot of gameplay elements. But be warned, It's not a passive experience far from it, you will be actively presenting evidence, focusing on topics, identifying inconsistencies in certain statements and more. You will have to put your thinking hat on and will have to be in the right mental energy when playing this.

The writing and story is very easy to get into. But don't expect too much character development, most of the time you spend time on the case at hand and rarely will you have interactions outside of them. I think this was by design in order to focus on the courtroom drama. The writing often takes an interesting and absurd turn of events unfolding as the investigation continues. The main characters are likable and sometimes we get bits of humor, it helps not to take things too seriously. Overall it is well written and keeps you guessing on what could happen next.

The music and artwork are simply excellent.

Some of the negatives are: a lot of coincidences in the plot, verbose writing like the story sometimes repeats itself with clues or deduction already established.

Now this is a big game, well actually you get the 2 games for a total of 75+ hours. There is a lot of reading with no voice over and that did put me off at first but I got used to it. Personally, I found it exciting and unpredictable. I never played the other Ace Attorney games and I’d definitely recommend this one for anybody wanting to read and play something interesting.

Recommended.