Apollo Justice Ace Attorney review DS
Apollo Justice Ace Attorney review for Nintendo DS
There's a new face for the Ace Attorney series: new attorney Apollo Justice takes over the legal briefs of the hugely popular Phoenix Wright. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney doesn't stray too far from the formula and mechanics of the previous games in the series, but there are new elements which definitely enhance the gameplay and more than make up for the change of lead character. We've played Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and we have a full review for you in this issue of HGZine.
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Apollo Justice Ace Attorney review for Nintendo DS
It was a brave decision for Capcom
to say ‘sayonara' to Phoenix Wright
and introduce a fresh-faced new
lawyer into the fold for the fourth game
in the Ace Attorney series. It's a move
that's paid off handsomely, as Apollo
Justice somehow manages to live up to
the brilliance of the previous games,
despite its unfamiliar hero.
Apollo himself struggles at times to
emerge from the shadow of Phoenix,
but that's partly down to the fondness
people have for the earlier Ace Attorney
himself, not to mention Capcom's
refusal to completely abandon all ties
with the earlier games here. One story
arc will definitely have a greater
significance to series fans, and there's a
drip feed of info tidbits throughout the
four cases until several big revelations
in the concluding turnabout.
The mechanics haven't changed
too much either – it's still a case of
investigating crime scenes,
interviewing witnesses and significant
others, before your day in court where
you need to press testimonies or
present evidence to sort out the various contradictions. The admittedly
slightly silly Psyche-Lock idea from
earlier games has been abandoned
for a new system where Apollo can
‘perceive' when a witness is lying.
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