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There was not a single one bad Ace Attorney game, all of them are great, but this one stands out with the plot, which ties everything together so elegant, that I can only say - it's just perfect.

Truthfully, I think this game would have received infinitely more praise had it not been for Turnabout Serenade. Playing that guitar part over and over just... does something to a person. With that being said, I adore this game and every case other than the third. The intro case is the strongest in the series, the emotional core is strong, and the staple characters are, in my opinion, the strongest yet in the series. I enjoy Apollo almost to the same extent I enjoy Phoenix, and Trucy far exceeds Maya (once again, in my opinion). The final case, while logically insane, was immensely enjoyable, and the time travel mechanic worked wonderfully. An underrated gem that I'm so glad more people get to play.

Gumshoe is not in the trilogy (btw great games)

The only way to make sense of this **** game is to consider Harumi slapped Ryuchi so hard he either had a bad dream or became **** and constantly made bad decisions leading to his downfall by a stupid defense attorney who had the stupidiest motives of the series. The first culprit is a complete **** who exposes himself on a phone call. The game boast about how much he's the coolest defense attorney, when all he does is losing the control of the trial against a braindead Naruhodo. Auchi never mentions the even the events of GS3-1 when speaking to Ryuchi and the Judge forgot GS1-2 and GS3-1 where he was the defendant and therefore retcons the trilogy. The second case is one of the reasons I despise this game. It's a pathetic rehash of GS2-2, GS3-1 and GS3-3 and a proof Shu Takumi ran out of ideas. Akane is turned into an idiot, never mentions her sister nor the events of GS1-5 and hate the prosecutor for no reason in opposition of Keisuke who had a reason to like Reiji. The culprit is a discount Chinami who tricked a yakuza .that needed an operation to survive, into loving her for the money. The first witness has a weird obsession with a certain outfit of the main character's friend. The case 3 introduces a **** gimmick that drags for too long another, accuse a children of killing a guard and doesn't bother to develop the prosecutor's character and the reason why he became a prosecutor. The fourth case confirms my claim about Harumi slapping Ryuchi. Because he's so **** he took 7 years to connect the dots at finding out about the **** scum who crippled his career for no other reason than losing in poker against an irrational defendant. If Ryuchi was still in character he wouldn't even waste his time presenting the forged evidence and would find out quickly about the corrupt lawyer even if his non-lawyer (GS3-1) and rookie lawyer selves (GS1-1) would expose this moron. I find hilarious how this hive known as the Gyakuten Saiban fandom praises GS4-1 and GS4-4 when it relied on dumbing down the main character, while whining at GS3-3 because the Judge and Auchi were tricked by a Phony Lawyer who unlike all GS4 culprits, had a sensical motive and was actually clever. Imagine having well written villains like Go Karuma, Yukio, Ganto, Himiko, Otoro and Chinami only to write a **** villain like Kirihito who is a discount Yukio and Go Karuma.

Apollo justice feels solid yet shaky on how it want to follow up the great original trilogy. It has cool ideas and cases with flawed execution especially towards the end. Apollo just is fine, and not as well established or as much character to pheonix, who gets thrown into a convoluted role that feels pretty divisive and odd. Apollo never fully gets his moment or fells like the sucessor. While having fun characters some of the cases felt like they broke logic too far like 2. The story didn't seem to have a decided way to handle its ideas and ends with a very odd case that kinda undermines the fun of series somewhat if that system was used. There is good to be had but yet it feels like the end falls hollow.Just such an odd entry.

Menos Apollo, más Phoenix y Trucy Wright plox, cómo extrañé a Maya y Pearl :c

What a game. What a experience. It changed people’s lifes, and the way I see the ace attorney franchise, it only proofed that Phoenix Wright is a living legend and the universe the game is set in will always carry his name. Not only the game explained the need of a new protagonist, but totally made sure he was the key to uncover what happened seven years ago. Brilliant writing and fun mechanics.

This was a strange one to me. The cases were ok in my opinion (final cases were a rollercoaster though) but the characters and music were really good. Overall if you enjoy AA or visual novels in general, you’ll enjoy yourself here

En comparación con la primera trilogía creo que sus personajes son algo menos carismáticos, pero como juego gracias a mecánicas únicas y nuevas en cada caso y una historia brutal, mejora mucho los anteriores. Me encanta.

As expected, another amazing entry in the series with amazing characters, cases, humor, dialogue, story. It wasn't as good as the main trilogy but definitely worth.

Lo mismo de siempre: Poco aprovechamiento de la pantalla táctil y el micrófono, historia muy buena pero lenta, ensayo y error, etc... Ademas también critico enormemente la actitud de Phoenix Wright en este juego. Parece la verdad un vago que no quiere hacer nada... Lo puedo recomendar? Claro. Pero no te esperes que sea una obra maestra como los anteriores, ya que la trama no cobra fuerza hasta el ultimo caso.

I like all the ace attorney games but this was one of my least favorite. I really didn't like pheonix's character during this game (and overall I just wasn't crazy about most of the characters in this game). This is a C+ tier Ace attorney game.

Le sentó muy bien el cambio de protagonismo a esta serie, considerando que ya no se podía exprimir mas a Phoenix Wright, aunque ahora se hizo mas aburrido la parte de investigación, en los juicios todavía tiene la misma esencia de la saga.

Best soundtrack out of the series, amazing characters and storyline, and it's awesome how they tie Phoenix into the story, along with his adopted daughter, Trucy, a magician. The Ace Attorney series is one of the best and I feel is one of the most memorable experiences in gaming history.

To anyone who says Apollo justice is a bad game i say this to you: OBJECTION! This is a fantastic game, it may not be as good as the main Phoenix Wright trilogy, but this game is far from being the worst of the Ace Attorney series (Looking at you Layton). STORY: In this game you take control of **** wait that's Wright! (Sorry for that pun) In this game Phoenix actually lost his attorney's badge after a trial 7 year ago after Trials and Tribulations, now he's known as Phoenix Wright: Ace Piano Player even though he **** at playing piano, but he's pretty good in poker tho...moving on! With Phoenix out of the picture as the main attorney what did Capcom do to have a new- Ok you know what just can just look at the name and cover of the game and you'll see what the did, now we're in control of Apollo Justice, Rookie attorney that is just beginning his career and he'll need to plough through 4 cases to make a name for himself. A lot of people feel the need to remind us how AWFUL! it is to play an Ace Attorney game without Phoenix, because clearly he's all that matters when it comes to quality and if he's not there then the game is not good. Personally i feel that's just stupid, Apollo may not be the bad*** that Phoenix is, but he still is a pretty likable character that does his job very well. Same goes for new character, Trucy Wright, she's a magician and a very cute and charming one at that. New rival prosecutor, Klavier, is also an awesome character and he remind me a lot of Edgeworth, since he just wants to discover the truth, plus he's a rockstar and that's always nice. And also, the villain of this game is gotta be one of the best and most creative in the series, people who have finished the game can attest to that. Finally from the main cast we have returning Ema Skye, who basically confirms that the fifth case of the first game is cannon which is a huge **** up because that means that Edgeworth didn't leave after Turnabout Memories, which means that the plotpoint in Justice for All was total bull****, but I digress, Ema is just as likable as before and now she's actually a detective, replacing Gumshoe. Some people don't really like the characters of each case, but aside from Spark Brushel and Wesley Stickler the rest are pretty fun to interact with, yes even Wocky Kitaki, i just don't see why people say he's such an annoying character, I really didn't see the problem. PRESENTATION: One of the first things you'll notice right of the bat is the graphics. The original trilogy was originally built for the GBA and then ported to the DS, but this game is built specifically for the DS from the ground up and it definitely shows, more fluid animations, more detailed characters and backgrounds and better sound quality. At first the color pallet for the courtroom wasn't eye catching for me, but eventually i grew to enjoy it. The character designs are on-spot like usual and the game is overall very pretty. But of course an Ace Attorney game is not an Ace Attorney game without AMAZING music and this is certainly no exception, the new pursuit theme, Overtaken, has become my second favorite pursuit theme of any Ace Attorney game (second to Cornered of course), the Objection theme does a great job of keeping the tension and both the instrument and style variety is through the roof. If there's one thing that everyone agrees on is that this game looks and sound fantastic. GAMEPLAY: If you want a detailed explanation of how the game works overall then go read my previus Ace Attorney reviews and get that knowledge there because I don't want to repeat ****, you did? perfect, now let's continue to see the new stuff. From Justice for All onward Phoenix always had his magatama item to know if someone is hiding a secret, and while you do use the magatama in a certain place in the game, this time around we get Apollo's bracelet, this thing is very weird, but awesome at the same time, you can only use it in the courtroom segments in very specific parts which does hinder its usefulness, but when you do use it the world becomes psychedelic and Apollo will perceive the witness testimony, focus and zoom in on the person who is testifying, what do you do next? To detect if someone is lying you have to search his "twitch", basically when someone is lying they have unconscious reactions and that reaction is what you ar looking for. You can try time and time again until you get it right so it's not annoying to do, but it's tricky to find. Aside from that every case has a specific gimmick to them, i won't explain them all since they're not a main part of the overall game, but they're pretty fun to mess around with. Overall Apollo Justice is a very underrated game in my eyes. Sure it has some plot holes here and there, but if that didn't destroy Justice for All of Trials and tribulations then why Apollo gets that treatment? I'll give an 8/10.

The best ace attorney **** soundtrack is probably the best alongside Trials and Tribulations,the plot of the cases is very good,and especially,you are not going to stay hours thinking like in the original trilogy(Yeah it's a bit easier,but it makes it better,except the first case that is hard as the impossible),and the characters are memorable,the only thing that isn't good are the mini games of one certain character

A sequel that absolutely did not need to exist. The series ended perfectly with trials and tribulations but Then this completely unnecessary, half assed sequel happened. the writing makes this game feel like a poorly made fanfic and is riddled with potholes. The protagonist Apollo has no personality and all the other characters are extremely unlikable. The only good thing about this game is the soundtrack which continues the AA tradition of being super catchy and the expressive sprite art.

Apollo **** hard to criticize properly. Let me say first off that it's still the same grandly successful type of story, characters, and gameplay that makes this series great. Its writing, thinking demand and general quality as a game is still very high up and it's still quite an enjoyable game in the series. Gameplay first: every AA game tries to have its own little gimmicky feature, like the Magatama for JFA onwards, Miles Edgeworth Investigations has the Logic feature, and so on. Apollo's gimmick is his bracelet that makes you zoom in on witnesses and see...something. I'll admit right ahead that I'm bad at noticing visual things, so maybe it's unfair criticism, but this gameplay style is just ****. The zoom is so awfully close to people that it's painful to see anything, you can only see a tiny part of them, so you have to recheck again and again and again and again until you've found the one detail...which I usually never found! I always had to ask the internet for it. And sometimes the details are just about ridiculous, for example you're supposed to find a guy having armpit sweat during one part of his statement! Yes, just during that one part, it disappears after, so you have to know to look at the armpit and only the armpit since the zoom is so close-up, find that one magical moment where the sweat appears and point to it... The gimmick is just awful and nowhere near as good as the Magatama or any other such gimmicks from the series. Rest of the gameplay is just not as fun as the rest too. Nothing hideous, but just not as fun. The thinking and critical skills required are still good too, though. As for the cases: Case 1: Boring. Never got my interest due to a very twisted logic which required a lot of thinking it over again and again to understand and accept it. I guess it's my bad for being stupid, but if I have to re-read the whole case twice to understand what was going on, considering that I never needed to re-read anything in any AA game ever before, it may not just be me. This case is confusing and fails to grab my interest. Case 2: the defendant may be a complete moron, but the majority of the case is ok. This is the first case where Trucy Wright is introduced in depth and I find her to be possibly the best sidekick the series has provided yet. AJ's prosecutor is also introduced here and he rocks, in every sense of the term. While no Godot or Edgeworth, he's not that far off from a Franziska von Karma, and he manages to be a suitable character besides his prosecutor role later on in the game. So I mainly like this case for being clear and introducing these two. Except for that, while it has nice elements, it's overall not very fun. Case 3: Eeeeeergh. Easily one of the worst cases ever. The very logic in it is so ridiculously convoluted and stupid(and obvious) that you just want to leave the game there. The defendant(s) ****, the villain ****, the logic ****, everything ****. I'm supposed to get emotionally attached to Lamiroir, well if this game wasn't technically limited by the DS maybe this could've happened, but it was limited and I'm not attached. In its entirety the case is sleep-inducing and the whole concert + death poetry gimmick feels like a design nightmare. At least finding out what really happened is fun, so the gameplay holds up very well, but while playing and the plot twists are fine, everything else fails in this case. Case 4: A joyous mess I suppose, but extremely little value in this case is given to the villain. It honestly falls short at every turn when it comes to building up the Big Bad Guy. When the final reveal feels like another paper has been completed and the credits roll with you sighing "finally, it's done with", well, I can't really call that in any way successful. While it has a very interesting concept with time travel and exploring past and present to put the clues together, and it gives a massive backstory on the characters, it feels anticlimactic and can't build up the villain at all. Its gameplay is good, that's the saving grace, but it falls very short when compared with Edgeworth/Von Karma, the Matt Engarde reveal, or the absolutely amazing Bridge to the Turnabout from the previous trilogy. With the cases done, I'll just quickly say this: except for Trucy having more potential than Maya and Ema Skye vs a very overdone Gumshoe, every character in this game feels inferior to its former equivalent. Apollo VS Phoenix(who keeps overshadowing him in this game), Gavin VS Godot, here defendants VS previous defendants, here villains VS previous villains, it's all less fun, less tragic, less crazy, less everything. With that said, the OST is particularly good, and that's saying a ton considering that every AA game has a good soundtrack(except maybe Investigations is a tiny bit less good). It won't save this game from being the worst Ace Attoreny, but it helps making it acceptable. I'd still highly recommend any AA over this one.

Now I can reasonably understand why people prefer the initial trilogy to this game and I am one of those people. However, this does not stop Apollo Justice from being a very good game. Sure the 2nd and 3rd case drag on a bit; however, the final case is one of my favourite cases in the entire series. I still recommend this game for any Ace Attorney fan, don't skip it.

After the fabulous Trials and Tribulations, this game feels really underwhelming. The new cast of characters is simply nowhere near the quality of the original ones, the cases are not very good (not even the final one), the music is also not as good as in AA or TT, the prosecutor is not bad as a character but is bad as a prosecutor, there are (once again) only 4 cases and while Phoenix is not actually missing from this game and the game actually uses the DS capabilities as it was made for DS and was not a port, unfortunately the overall mediocrity in almost all aspects makes this my least favorite Ace Attorney game. It is still worth playing once, but I highly doubt you'll find it to be as memorable as the original trilogy.

Wieder so ein Spiel , dass meinen Tag beeinflussen konnte ... Die neuen Charaktere waren mal wieder grandios , und ich freute mich auch , dass Ema Skye wieder dabei war ^-^ Damon Gant aber wird wohl nie wieder kommen *Seufz* Die Story konnte einen wie ich fand , noch mehr fesseln , als die der zwei Teile davor , da einfach viele neue Personen hinzukamen und alles wie neu vorkam ! Capcom hats halt drauf ! ;)

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I love this game! At first glance, I thought, "how can this possibly beat Pheonix Wright?", but it certainly is possible! Apollo Justice is one of the best games I've played in a long time. It has an amazing and clever plot with lots of twists and turns. And in the end, you decide how the game ends. I love how this was an open ending game. It leaves you with curiosity of what happens next. It's a shame there wasn't a second one, since a lot of questions were unanswered. From the unique characters, astonishingly good plot, and the clever game play, this game is one of the best games I've played. I hope people don't cross this off their list because it's too long (which is true). Please take the time and play this game. You will be swept off your feet, I promise :)

This game made me a bit mad at first, when Phoenix Wright wasn't the main character, but in the end, Apollo is just as good as good old Phoenix, and this game is definitely a great addition to the series. As a guy who has played every single bit of Ace Attorney available, this game isn't as strong as the other ones. I still recommend it, because it adds a bunch of new GREAT mechanics, funny dialogue, and adorable characters.

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It's a perfectly fine game. But it does not compare to the original trilogy, it has a good story, great graphics and music, and memorable characters like the original trilogy, but personaly the original trilogy just does it a lot better.

I have played through nearly every other Ace Attorney game, but Apollo Justice was special. It's true, you do not play as Phoenix Wright, but that does that not mean he isn't a factor in the game. The story is nothing short of masterfully crafted, and all of the characters are memorable and influential on your journey. My only problem with the game is the way saving works and the lack of text skipping. I hope to see a sequel to this great game some time in the future.

I've heard rumors that this is one of the most hated of the series, mostly because it obviously lack the main character: Phoenix Wright. However, as a fan of the series, I pressed forward and I was honestly surprise to see an actual good "sequel" of the main series, with still its good character roster and still good cases to play (I heard the last case is full of plotholes, but seemed ok for me and I personally liked it as much as the others), although they don't reach the quality of either T&T or AT. The graphics in this game have been slightly improved also, animations have been made anew and, surprinsingly, still feels timeless and I hardly noticed the changes (in a good way). The game adds instead of the psychic locks the innate ability to see their reactions through a zooming sight, in which you'll attempt to discover what's wrong with them after certain statements. Except that, nothing really goes wrong...well at a certain point. Even if I liked it, some points of the story aren't totally explained, like where are most of the old characters? What happened to them? Phoenix seems like he's been abandoned, and they were all good friends! Phoenix alone is a great character in the game (finally not a clumsy man like the previous games, although excusable in the first game), and both Apollo and Trucy are a great pair in this game, while I didn't really enjoy your new rival Klavier. It's not on par with other games of the series but it is still a good adventure game, although seemed a bit shorter because of only having 4 cases. Nothing really goes bad in here, but fans will ask questions that probably won't be answered until a "new" Apollo game will be released, and non-fans will surely like the game despite the small flaws and everything. It's worth a good buy in my opinion, so give it a good try: you might find it more enjoyable than you'd think.

At first, I missed playing with Phoenix. But I changed my mind, because the game is as enjoyable as the Phoenix Wright's ones. More memorable characters, the OST is perfect, the story is great too. I enjoyed this game a lot. Sometimes I play the entire saga again, and never get bored of it.