Review: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy offers a wealth of prosecuting perfection
It’s been nearly eight years since the last main entry in the Ace Attorney series.
2016 was the last time gaming’s most famous lawyer Phoenix Wright gelled back his hair, put on his blue suit and yelled “objection” across the courtroom.
While fans have been eagerly awaiting a new entry (and new claims from Capcom that the series “will never end” will do little to assuage their impatience), for now the publisher is ensuring players who aren’t fully up to speed with the series can catch up.
In 2019 it brought Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy to PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. Consisting of the first three games, it offered HD remasters of the original GBA / DS games, cleaning up their artwork and sprites so they looked acceptable on TVs.
This time Capcom is back with the other three games in the main series, meaning players who’ve already enjoyed the original Phoenix Wright trilogy can now take on volumes 4-6.
Apollo Justice consists of the following three games:
The main difference here is that while Apollo Justice features similar sprite-based graphics to the first three games, the two 3DS titles introduced polygonal characters instead. This is the case here too, with the characters suitably upscaled to produce clean (if simplistic and otherwise untouched) 3D models.
Reviews of all three games are widespread online so retreading old ground in detail would only result in spoilers for newcomers and preaching to the converted for veterans. For those not in the know, however, all three games were critically acclaimed, with an average Metacritic score of 80 between them.
As with the previous Phoenix Wright Trilogy, the English localisation here is seemingly unchanged, right down to some of the more questionable lines which may not have aged so well.
Capcom explains this away with a disclaimer at the start, saying that it consciously chose to leave the games unchanged for authenticity’s sake, so when the judge tells a female witness she “would be much cuter if she dispensed with
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