The following year series Ace Attorney will celebrate the twentieth anniversary, but folk love for it does not weaken. The saga continues to quote in new games and anime, they make parody videos and memes, from which has already become a classic scene about boots in the head until recent hot disputes about what can be called pancakes, soup and salad.
Designers and animators Capcom Indeed, it is worth praising for the creation of colorful and expressive characters that are ideal for the role of "pictures for important negotiations". But the cycle of games about the lawyer of Phoenix Wright and his many friends, colleagues and rivals are not only a storehouse. This is a damn witty and dramatic story about friendship, honor and justice, which delays worse than popular court series.
Justify me if you can!
ACE Attorney is often called a visual novel, but not only is it incorrect, but also scares away many interested players: the label of the “dull Japanese with an endless chatter of my eyes” glued to the genre too tightly. In fact, they are only similar outwardly: both there and there the painted heroes are conducting conversations against the background of a static picture. But the visual novel is essentially an interactive illustrated book where you gradually open a story and occasionally choose replicas or actions. But Ace Attorney is a real detective quest where you need to solve riddles and constantly move your brains (and starting from the fourth part, also connect your hands).
There is a lot of talk in ACE Attorney. But this is not just a three, but a clarification of the facts important for investigation!
We act as a lawyer who needs to justify his client at all costs. And for this you need to at least figure out what happened – that is, conduct your own investigation with the inspection of the crime scene, the interrogation of witnesses and other interested parties. It would seem that this is the work of the police, and the readings of the report should be enough to make a picture of what happened. But the cops work through the sleeves, and the prosecutors hide the facts that are unprofitable to the suspect to the suspect to the bars, so that everything has to be redeveloped personally.
The very fun begins directly at bronze casino the meeting. The prosecutor reads the accusation and calls witnesses to testify, and during the cross interrogation, we need to find contradictions between their words and evidence. Moreover, in ACE Attorney, both the lawyer and the prosecutor can present new evidence and witnesses right during the trial, which is why the hearing develops in the most unexpected way. Our main task is to defeat the arguments of the prosecutor and convince the judge to justify the client. Well, or at least postpone the sentencing until new circumstances of the case pop up ..
Well, everything, got caught! Now you have to tell the truth … or come up with a lie more instructive
Yes, I see you through!
Questo mechanics are original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Light pixel Hunting, the choice of replicas and objects) is brilliant in its simplicity. Yes, and in Justice for All And Trials and tribulations It practically does not change: there was only the opportunity to pure the secrets from witnesses, conducting a sort of mini-document. But such minimalism is quite understandable: all three parts were originally reached Game Boy Advance , Whose small display and button management greatly limited the imagination of developers.
But on Nintendo DS The touch screen has already appeared, and with it the gameplay has become much more diverse. IN Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (and in the new episode from the DS of the first part) you can consider the evidence closer and turn them in your hands, and also feel like a real forensicist who can remove fingerprints or find traces of blood using a special spray. In addition, the Apollo Justice protagonist is an unusually attentive guy: he notes the facial expressions and gestures of the interrogated and so catches them on lies.
A good lawyer even the mood of witnesses should notice
With the exit Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies on Nintendo 3DS The series moved to a three -dimensional graphics. And she received another playable character, whose specialization is to track the emotions of witnesses and notice when they do not coincide with their testimony. And in Spirit of Justice This diverse gifted company also learned to conduct spiritualistic sessions to see the last moments of the life of the murdered. The latter, however, did not have all the fans in the classical parts of mysticism in the classical parts of mysticism. But the CAPCOM cannot be reproached for a stamping of monotonous projects according to the template: each of the games following the original trilogy has its own unique chips.
Scandals, intrigues, investigations
However, ACE Attorney loves not only and not so much for gameplay – in this regard, the series has enough worthy competitors, from modest Indie-quests about Sherlock Holmes to blockbusters like Murdered: Soul Suspect. However, the Japanese saga about lawyers has a trump card that few can beat: the plot. Yes, these detective stories are almost linear, and only occasionally it is possible to influence the ending. But they are written in such detail, emotionally and multifaceted, and even with so many dashing turns that you do not regret a lack of interactive.
The creator of the series of Xu Takumi had a rare creative freedom: after a successful Dino Crisis 2 Capcom suggested that the young game designer assemble a small team and make any game to their taste. By that time, he had long had the idea of a detective project – and happily undertook to realize it. Moreover, Takumi not only headed the development, but also wrote the script himself. To make his stories with life and intriguing, he was inspired by the work of the classic of Japanese detective Edogava Rampo and attended real court hearings.
The plot of any of the parts of ACE Attorney is made of several cases that need to be unraveled, and at first glance they are not connected in any way. But behind the current events, the shadows of the past heroes, the story of the lost relatives and destroyed friendship, betrayals, or, conversely, small exploits that have changed someone’s life for the better,.
Since the release of Dual Destinies, the series pleases the eye with modern three -dimensional graphics and animated inserts. By the way, there is also an anime based on the original trilogy, and not bad
In addition, with all its visual simplicity, Ace Attorney is amazingly cinematic. There are no long tedious clarifications or rollers that are drawn to squeeze without listening. Even the tearful stories from childhood of characters are successful to the word and, as it were, reveal the characters of the heroes in between, without slowing down the pace of history. And when in the final all the storylines converge, and the guns hung along the walls shoot, I want to slam into your hands and exclaim “So it is that it is that it is that it is!" – so overwhelms pride for successfully dissolved deeds.
Play of words and no fraud
Humor is the third whale on which the popularity of Ace Attorney is rested, but it is enclosed not only in grotesque pathos and funny faces that the heroes make up every now and then. In the series masterfully, well-known types are used: from a police officer or grandmother with a shift syndrome to a loser friend who always gets into alterations. Many of them also have speaking names, which adds to images of irony.
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Interrogate the parrot? Yes, please, in this court they did not see that
There is a healthy fraction of the absurd in this humor. In the course of the investigation, you have to interview the strangest witnesses: clowns, demons, robots, dogs, parrots or, for example, wanders. And even dialogues with less eccentric characters are full of all kinds of puns, quotes and references to a variety of sources: from Shakespeare's tragedies to "Monty Pyton" And "Star Wars". But, despite the judicial subject and regular investigations of the murders, there is no chernukha, and frivolous humor surprisingly successfully fits into completely serious stories. He does not at all detract from the tragedy of unfolding events, but rather shakes them, making heroes alive and charming.
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Do not know which side to approach the series with a twenty -year story and a dozen games? Ace Attorney is the case when it is worth starting, in fact, from the beginning. The original trilogy migrated with Game Boy Advance on Nintendo DS and WII , And then I went out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch , PC and even mobile platforms. So you can now play it at least on a smartphone, at least on the screen in the entire wall.
You can, of course, immediately take up the last game and evaluate the fresh graphics and diversity of the mechanic. But then you will not see, for example, how Maya from a naive village girl grows into a brave beauty-medium
Yes, the gameplay in the first three parts was deprived of a heap of a mechanic, which the series acquired later, but it does not mean “worse” in this case in this case. In addition, it is here that we get acquainted with the lawyer Phoenix Wright, his assistant medium Maya Fei, the eternal rival of the prosecutor Ezhvort and other constant heroes of the series. Together with them, we go from green newcomers to impatiently defenders of justice – and simultaneously we cross the skeletons in the cabinets of every friend. For three games to all this company, you are hiding in your soul, and therefore it is already much more interesting to play in the following parts to see how the heroes have patted life.
If you are interested in Ace Attorney only because of the hype, then the lion's share of the memes is collected precisely on the material of the first trilogy-start from it, you will not be mistaken.
Well, this is already a uniform circus!
But then you should focus on taste or sympathy for the characters. You can continue the career of a lawyer in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice. There it will be necessary to help the young talents of Apollo Justis and Athena Sixix get comfortable in the profession – and at the same time reveal the secrets of their disappeared relatives. The local drama, however, already gives some Indian cinema, but still captures in earnest. There are no problems with access to these games either: they can be found on Nintendo 3DS, iOS And Android.
Fans from fans
But retraining from a lawyer to a real detective is no longer so easy. Spin-off Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth Talks about the adventures of the prosecutor of Ezhvort, who took the gang of smuggles to take a gang into clean water. He does not need to defend anyone in court, his work is to restore the picture of events, look for a criminal, interrogate witnesses and dispute the arguments of other detectives.
This game gave fans a great chance to look at a familiar system from a different angle and get to know one of the brightest characters of the franchise … But the Western audience did not appreciate it. Sales of a cartridge for DS were so low that Capcom refused to localize the sequel. Fortunately, at Ace Attorney Investigations 2 There is a fan translation, so you can go through it to evaluate the new story about the intrigues of hired killers. And at the same time try out the fresh mechanics of interrogations, where you need to not only choose the right remark, but also do it on time.
Fans of puzzles and fantasy surroundings were more fortunate: Crossover Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for Nintendo 3DS, nevertheless was transferred to English. And here is a subserry DAI Gyakuten Saiban The publisher did not at all bring to the international market. Apparently, the story of the adventures of a Japanese student in Victorian London seemed to the Capcom bosses too alien to the overseas public.
But here a fan patch comes to the rescue. Enthusiasts translated the first game entirely and are already working on the second. So, if you like steampunk and samurai pathos, you can give DAI gyakuten saiban chance. True, for this you have to get the originals on 3DS, iOS or Android and tinker with settings.
Looking at Ace Attorney, you understand that good quests, like good jokes, do not age: a sense of humor, logic and attentiveness will always be in price, regardless of fashion and technology development. As well as original stories, whose heroes are attached for a long time and seriously.
It is a pity, not all experiments of developers are close to the Western audience, but this is the price of the author's creative. Without it, Ace Attorney would be just a solid detective, and not that enchanting epic, the development of which we follow nearly twenty years – either with popcorn, then with handkerchiefs.
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