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Marcus Estrada writes: "Nearly ten years ago I got my first taste of what could be considered a "visual novel" with Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on Nintendo DS. Ever since then, I've become a fan of the genre and moved onto many more titles. Still, that series has a special place in my heart. It's because of this that I've followed the progress of Aviary Attorney since it first popped onto my radar. When word went out that their Kickstarter would soon begin I was all aflutter. There must be more people like me out there so I totally expect this campaign to be fully funded for £7,000 (about $10,000)."

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The Ace Attorney series was one of the most unlikely series to do well in America. An investigation-based courtroom game, the series featuring loveable lawyer Phoenix Wright, his rival/frenemy Miles Edgeworth, goofy detective Dick Gumshoe, and a slew of other over-the-top characters have spawned several Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games, a spin-off featuring Edgeworth, and a new spin-off series featuring upstart Apollo Justice.

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GT: "I have a confession. This time last year, I reviewed Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Dual Destinies, the fifth installment in the Ace Attorney series. It was my first time playing an Ace Attorney game for longer than a few minutes, and I ended up giving it a positive review, which you can find here. I wrote my review of Dual Destinies after playing about half of the 30-hour experiencethe press usually only get a game about a week before launch, so its common for lengthy games to get reviewed before completion. My confession is that after I published my review of Dual Destinies I continued to play it, and about a week later I fell in love with the series. In fact, I bought the four Ace Attorney games (and Ace Attorney Investigations) that Id missed immediately upon completing Dual Destinies and played through them in the following month, almost without stopping. Ive often looked back at my review of Dual Destinies and felt bothered by the fact that I didnt give it a better...

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Hey Poor Player's Frank DiPersio writes- Hold it! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy brings order to the 3DS today.

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There was a time Phoenix Wright was the game to own for Nintendo's little dual-screen wonder. It was the kind of game no one was making on a system that was meant to do what no one else was doing. That made it special. Fast forward to 2014, four sequels and two spin-offs later, and now we have the first three games--

Meanwhile, the 3DS has seen its own exclusive Phoenix Wright sequel that finally brings all the innovation the fancy new hardware can afford to the table. It would've been a painstaking process, no doubt, but the first Phoenix Wright's final mission brings such welcome changes to the table, using the DS's audio and touchscreen functions, that the other two games, which still haven't gotten a similar treatment, are dimmed by comparison. Instead, the only other real enhancement to this new version is the ability to play the games in their original Japanese forms, which is neat if you understand Japanese, though Jeremy Blaustein's English localization is wonderful enough as it is.

There is, of course, the off-chance that the trilogy might be someone's first exposure to the life and times of Phoenix Wright, or at least their first exposure in a great many years, and it's as refined a jumping-off point for that as can be expected. For anyone for whom this is their third, four, or fifth time around, there's nothing new to discover, aside from the convenience of having all three games in one handy digital package. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but knowing what the 3DS and this series is capable of, the games' flaws have never been more glaring, and not nearly enough has been done to overrule the objections players have had for years.

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There was a time Phoenix Wright was the game to own for Nintendo's little dual-screen wonder. It was the kind of game no one was making on a system that was meant to do what no one else was doing. That made it special. Fast forward to 2014, four sequels and two spin-offs later, and now we have the first three games--

Meanwhile, the 3DS has seen its own exclusive Phoenix Wright sequel that finally brings all the innovation the fancy new hardware can afford to the table. It would've been a painstaking process, no doubt, but the first Phoenix Wright's final mission brings such welcome changes to the table, using the DS's audio and touchscreen functions, that the other two games, which still haven't gotten a similar treatment, are dimmed by comparison. Instead, the only other real enhancement to this new version is the ability to play the games in their original Japanese forms, which is neat if you understand Japanese, though Jeremy Blaustein's English localization is wonderful enough as it is.

There is, of course, the off-chance that the trilogy might be someone's first exposure to the life and times of Phoenix Wright, or at least their first exposure in a great many years, and it's as refined a jumping-off point for that as can be expected. For anyone for whom this is their third, four, or fifth time around, there's nothing new to discover, aside from the convenience of having all three games in one handy digital package. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but knowing what the 3DS and this series is capable of, the games' flaws have never been more glaring, and not nearly enough has been done to overrule the objections players have had for years.