Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations
For me, 2013 was the year of the Visual Novel. I played an inordinate amount of the damn things, including the previously mentioned Katawa Shoujo, the brilliantly insane 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, and the rather dull but somehow endearing Hotel Dusk: Room 215. I also made my way through the entirety of the Ace Attorney series, with the exception of the recently released Dual Destinies.
A game about lawyers has no right to be as endearing, funny, and most importantly, entertaining, as the Ace Attorney series quickly becomes. Every game is full of emotional highs and lows, crazy plot-twists, and quirky characters. The way the gameplay is presented is something truly unique, this being the only series that has ever truly gotten the solve-a-crime feeling just right.
Now, every game in the series deserves being played, and some of them would outrank numbers 4 & 5 on this list if not for my internal "one game per franchise" rule. However, the greatest achievement of the series is, by far, this game: The third in the series and the final one in the "Classic Trilogy". Trials & Tribulations doesn't differ much from the first two games gameplay-wise, and both Apollo Justice and Investigations: Miles Edgeworth refine the gameplay further, but Trials and Tribulations is the end of what was originally going to be a standalone trilogy, and it shows. Loose ends from the previous two games are tied up beautifully, plot threads you never thought would have anything to do with each other collide into insane cases and create a fantastic assortment of mysteries to wade through and enjoy, unraveling plot threads in dramatic and hilarious court sessions alike.
Trials & Tribulations is not the mechanical best of the Ace Attorney series, but the story is heads and shoulders beyond any other game in the series, and in a Visual Novel, that elevates it far beyond the rest of the already fantastic saga.
For me, 2013 was the year of the Visual Novel. I played an inordinate amount of the damn things, including the previously mentioned Katawa Shoujo, the brilliantly insane 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, and the rather dull but somehow endearing Hotel Dusk: Room 215. I also made my way through the entirety of the Ace Attorney series, with the exception of the recently released Dual Destinies.
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| Characters this ridiculous-looking taken so seriously is great. |
Now, every game in the series deserves being played, and some of them would outrank numbers 4 & 5 on this list if not for my internal "one game per franchise" rule. However, the greatest achievement of the series is, by far, this game: The third in the series and the final one in the "Classic Trilogy". Trials & Tribulations doesn't differ much from the first two games gameplay-wise, and both Apollo Justice and Investigations: Miles Edgeworth refine the gameplay further, but Trials and Tribulations is the end of what was originally going to be a standalone trilogy, and it shows. Loose ends from the previous two games are tied up beautifully, plot threads you never thought would have anything to do with each other collide into insane cases and create a fantastic assortment of mysteries to wade through and enjoy, unraveling plot threads in dramatic and hilarious court sessions alike.
Trials & Tribulations is not the mechanical best of the Ace Attorney series, but the story is heads and shoulders beyond any other game in the series, and in a Visual Novel, that elevates it far beyond the rest of the already fantastic saga.
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