

Everything from music, to sound effects, to character poses and plot beats have been copy-pasted all the way from the first game. Spirit of Justice is still a legal tragi-comedy in visual novel form, intercut with crime scene investigations and sequences where you need to point out contradictions in witness testimony. Most of my experience with the series comes from the original trilogy, and it was actually somewhat distracting to see how much of the presentation has been directly translated from handheld to handheld, 2D to 3D, and 15 years’ worth of games. If you’ve played Ace Attorney game before - any Ace Attorney game - you’ll really know what to expect. In classic Ace Attorney fashion, our justice-minded hero is immediately pulled into a case of murder and a framed innocent, with the series’ signature over-the-top sense of humor that somehow, never feels at odds with the dark subject matter.

Spirit of Justice actually begins with Phoenix Wright - the anime attorney who kicked things off with loud objections and pointed fingers. Yet Spirit of Justice - the sixth main game in the franchise - is as much about the latter lawyer as any game to date. With the last game in the series, Capcom elected to put the name of its series’ lead back in the titles, after a lengthy dalliance with spin-offs and up-and-coming protagonist Apollo Justice. "There are better places to take a nap than on the ground, you know.Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice is strangely named.


1 According to the North American CD case listings.Ģ Despite the title, this is not based on the Secret Shop theme.ģ Despite the listing, this death theme actually originated in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, and it is based off of the Mystery of the Emblem/ Shadow Dragon/ New Mystery of the Emblem version, not the arrangement of this theme from Awakening.Ĥ Erroneously named "Journey through The" in the European track metadata, although the CD case uses the correct title.ĥ The European track metadata mistakenly claims that this track was "Composed by Shin-ichiro Nakamury Shin-ichiro Nakamura".
