User Reviews (1 - 11 of 79)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Objection!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Before I start I'll say this: The ace attorney series is extremely slow and text heavy so if you're a not a person who doesn't have the patience to think thing through or likes to read then leave the room because this isn't the game for you.

Did they leave yet? Alright with that said if you're looking for a game to challenge your mind and like to read some great dialogue this is a must have for your DS.

Graphics: While The DS may never be the graphics powerhouse of the PSP but graphics aren't all that important but with that being said the graphics are great. There all very animated and cartoon like they are animated and over the top. It's good to see in the courtroom as you slowly drag the truth from people seeing them visible breaking down and overreacting to what's happening. All the characters are very crisp, well animated, and have great detail.

Game play: The game is divided into 2 parts. A first person point and click style where you gather clues and information about the case and the people involve and the courtroom where you look for contradictions and present evidence to destroy the prosecution's case and find the truth amongst all the lies being told. One of the great things about this game is all the characters like Police Detective Dick Gumshoe who's being inept lands him always into trouble to the cool and calm prosecutor Miles Edgeworth who is your main opponent in the game. My complaint about the game play is the games linear logic. Even when you do figure out the answer to what's happening you have to got through the steps: say you're a point A and you see evidence in the court that can prove someone guilty but is at point G you have to go through all the steps to reach G. Also sometimes you'll find there is more then one piece of evidence that proves that your point the game still only has 1 right answer. And in the point and click parts the game isn't always clear on where exactly you have to go or talk to next so expect a lot of backtracking.

Music: The music in the Ace Attorney series is top notch. They capture the shock of when you get a big revelation to the case, the tension of pressing the witness and getting them to break and the happiness of proving you client innocent. And this amazing considering the Midi sounds of the DS they can pack in memorable songs that capture the situation so well.

Overall: This was my first adventure into point and click gaming and I love it. If you are looking for an interactive mystery game that requires you intuition and brain skill pick up this game. It's heavy on reading but the dialogue is good, characters memorable and situations unique to draw you in.

A pleasant surprise!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well here's my story: I received this game as a birthday present from a friend, and when I first saw it, I was a bit skeptical. I thought, You've got to be kidding me. A game about LAW?? It sounded pretty boring, but since my friend said he had enjoyed it so much, I thought I'd give it a shot. And I'll tell you, after just a few minutes, I was loving this game! The characters you meet are charming and fun (well, most of them, anyway :P), and the story is quite interesting indeed. So after finishing this one, I decided I had to buy the sequel for myself, which I have beaten and have thought is even better than the one before it! Now just so you know where I'm coming from, I am not the hugest gamer in the world, but I have played and enjoyed games such as Kingdom Hearts, Harvest Moon, Final Fantasy, and others, and Phoenix Wright is definitely one of my favorites! Yes, it is a bit unrealistic, but it's really easy to get past that once you get into the game. I highly recommend this game to anyone!!

It's worth it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Okay maybe this game isn't for everyone but I liked it.

At first I didn't like all the reading, there is a lot of reading. Then it was confusing but once you got the hang of it, it's a lot of fun.

If you don't like spending time to think or if you don't like getting things wrong (i got a lot of things wrong and it was frusterating at times) then this might not be the game for you.

If you like reading, and doing hard puzzles and you like problem solving then this might be the game for you.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the first game I bought when I got my DS, great game, if you like investigating and crime solving games. I really don't mind reading and the characters are so funny sometimes that you really get into the story. Great game overall, recomend it!

Best DS game series to Get!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, I thought a lawyer game would be the most boring crap ever! WRONG! This game, even though it is pretty challenging (and has a bit of violence in it) it is funny and highly addicting. I really don't have to say whats good about this game (everything has been said!)

Are you an Ace Attorney?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

"Okay, an Ace Attorney? What's that?" Crossed my mind as my older (and much wiser) brother advised me to play it, boy was I in for it.
For being a 13 year-old and not knowing what an attorney is, was a pretty sad thing to admit, an even sadder thing to admit was the fact I never played or heard of Phoenix Wright. Let me tell you my friend, THAT is a mistake I will never make again!

This game will have you playing for hours on end, and make you want to move right along to the next game in the series. Solving your cases, listening to testimonies, providing evidence, investigating crime scenes, and the starter of the famed expression "OBJECTION!!" This game is simply amazing.

The music is very simple, yet moving, especially the objection theme.
Five cases, that's pretty hard to beat. Buy it NOW.

Not for everyone, but it may be for you.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

While playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, I got the impression that the company that made it didn't spend a lot of money on it because they didn't think it would be very popular. The graphics are very minimal, but not without their charms. There's very little animation, there are no slick movie interludes or smooth transitions. There is hardly any voice acting and only a few sound effects. The music, I should add, is incredibly catchy and expressive. I found myself getting caught up in the music so much that I got distracted from the game at times.

If you want this game to be a realistic depiction of what it is like to be a lawyer, don't get it. That is not the point of this game. It's basically a fun logic and whodunit murder mystery game featuring some very endearing characters. Alternately dramatic, funny, tearjerking, and shocking, this game puts you in the shoes of Phoenix Wright, a young rookie lawyer who is starting to take cases on his own. You ask questions and look for contradictions in the courtroom, and search for clues and talk to witnesses outside. In the final case, you even get to dust for fingerprints and look for bloodstains. The plotlines are very interesting and get more complex as you progress through the game.

Gameplay is limited to clicking on things with your stylus or flipping through your inventory with the arrow buttons. It's pretty intuitive and easy to learn how to do.

This game's main strength (besides the great soundtrack) is the well-written and endearing characters and dialogue. I loved seeing Phoenix get stressed out and sweat during a trial, seeing his friend/rival prosecutor Miles Edgeworth get aggravated, Detective Gumshoe's downtrodden puppy-dog look, Maya's charming naivete, and the entertaining variety of witnesses. While not as impressively rendered as most DS games, the artwork is very expressive and often hilarious. My only gripe is that there were a few misspellings and gramatical errors that should have been caught in the translation.

Overall, I thought this game was very charming and a refreshing change from games that rely on realistic graphics wow-factor instead of great storylines and well-written characters. It gets a "Teen" rating for some blood and a few off-color jokes, but I don't think younger kids would be able to put together the pieces of these rather complex mysteries enough to understand this game anyway.

A gaming masterpiece unlike any other; in a class of its own

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I must admit that like many others I was sceptical of the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series at first; some of it's characters looked ridiculous along with the stories that were portrayed in it and I didn't think much of it at all at first. When we think of a game which involves court, lawyers and the rules of law we would think such a game would be utterly boring and a disappointment... but Phoenix Wright is far from a disappointment. This game is very much in its own class; it is unlike any other game that you will play, believe me.

Phoenix Wright has something which many games lack; a gripping and engrossing storyline/cases and characters which anyone could adore and relate to. (from the boisterous investigator Gumshoe to the sullen prosecutor Edgeworth) This really is a crucial factor and something which makes Phoenix Wright such a wonderful game, because with the drastic turn of events that the case offers you really engage in the game and become desperate to find the truth to each case and find who truly is guilty in the end. And not to forget the intensity of each case! I found myself almost exhausted after one particularly case because of the sheer number of twists, turns and contradictions that arose in each witnesses testimony. This game seriously outperforms many good crime stories of today, even those which you may see in top programs such as CSI or Criminal Minds. Phoenix Wright's sheer creativity and originality for each case is unfounded.

In order to enjoy Phoenix Wright the most critical part to consider is what type of gamer you are. What's unique about Phoenix Wright is that it's one of those games which requires a deep amount of thought and concentration; not to mention creativity and the mind of a criminal when it comes to some cases. So, what you need to consider before you purchase Phoenix Wright is this:

If you're a fan of solving problems which require logic and thought, or enjoy playing games that offer challenges and puzzles needing to be completed (such as some of the challenges faced in Final Fantasy) then Phoenix Wright will most definitely be the game for you, because each case and testimony in court needs to examined with scrutiny in order to pick out those tiny but vital contradictions that your witnesses will make. Such has to be done in order to prove your defendant's innocence.

However, if you are particularly a first person shooter/action gamer and prefer plots which give you free rein in order to completely control what will happen, or if you dislike games which require looking at things in detail for a certain period of time then Phoenix Wright may not be for you. But a friend of mine was such a gamer and protested at first when I asked him to try Phoenix Wright, but since he tried completing the first case he has become hooked like so many others!

What's excellent about Phoenix Wright is that although the game isn't as a long as other games, (such as RPGs like Final Fantasy or some of the Pokemon gameboy games) it's cases are very engrossing and draw you into them, plus they are prolonged for certain periods of time and make the game last longer. The only reason that I gave this game 4 stars is because it's cases can at some (but rare) times drag on a bit and become a little bit too repetitive, especially when investigating evidence and pacing back and forth questioning people for advice. I found this to be a little tiring and usually had to take a break at times like this, but I was quick to resume play and get back into that buzz that you get when cross-examining witnesses in court. Nevertheless, I would strongly recommend anyone interested in playing Phoenix Wright to read the other reviews offered here and then possibly rent the game if possible (although as of now this game is quite difficult to get a hold of because Capcom greatly underestimated the amount of interest that it would receive at the time of its release) for a tester. But this is definitely a game I would recommend to anyone interested in experiencing what the DS and the fabulous Phoenix Wright series have to offer. :)

imma laywer!!!-at least in dah game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

yu get to b a lawyer in this game,and not only that,but also kinda a detective.there's bout five cases in dah game for yu to solve.it's rly fun.especially wen everythings's about to cum together,dah mystery opens up.yu also get to go to courts and find contradictions in testimonies.(things that doesn't make sense wen dah witness tells yu sumthing)rly fun!

The best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I reviewed this in the uk last year and felt i needed to do it here too. For me personally, this and the second PW are the best 2 games i've ever played! Trials and Tribulations isnt out in the uk yet, but i ordered it from e-bay and i cant wait to get it!!

The characters are fantastic, and it is soooo well written. you feel like you know them personally and you want to do your best for your client. it's soo much fun watching the real culprits squirm once you find them out. the faces they pull are hilarious and scary all at once!! I love everyone in this game, including the lovely miles edgeworth! i just adore this game and i think if you dont take it seriously, and realise beforehand that there is a lot of reading to do (it really isnt that bad, it's fun!) then i think you will do fine. people who dont love this game obviously dont have a sense of humour or realise a truly fantastic game at all.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 

Actions