![]() ![]() Nahyuta starts as a caricature of a monk who has reached nirvana, but there’s always a small bit of sorrow in his speech he goes through an incredible arc in the last case, as you learn why he’s so devoted to a regime that persecutes the law. Throughout the five long cases, both go through significant development as characters, becoming one of the most endearing side casts yet. Prosecutor Nahyuta Sadhmadi and the young priestess Rayfa Padma Khura’in are the supporting stars, and play excellent foils to the hopeful, energetic members of the Wright Anything Agency. Many other characters make cameos as well, though they mostly take a backseat to the new cast. ![]() If Dual Destinies was Athena’s time to shine, Spirit of Justice is the Apollo Justice show – most of the major story beats that connect the cases together focus on Apollo’s growth as a lawyer, becoming an attorney that could someday rival Phoenix. Spirit of Justice is still a Phoenix Wright story though, centered on the eponymous Ace Attorney and his two protégés, Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes. Most of the grandeur serves to build a sense of purpose to the proceedings you’re not just finding a murderer, but shaping the destiny of a nation. It’s a broader narrative than any previous Phoenix Wright has tackled, but the game rarely suffers for it. Bubbling beneath the peaceful, serene surface is a revolution, ready to boil over at any moment – and logically, you end up in the thick of it all. It takes little time for the writers to plunge you into the cultural conflicts that drive the story. All three command the people with an iron fist, and the country rarely sees a real legal conflict thanks to the Defense Culpability Act – a law passed by the queen’s regime that condemns any attorney to the same fate as their client. At the top is a theocratic monarch, her cigar-chomping minister of justice and the young priestess who will one day rule. The monastic, devout citizens are a mix of Hindu, Buddhist and Tao principles. The main arc takes place in Khura’in, a foreign land rich in culture and tradition surrounding the Khura’inese religion. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice is the sixth mainline entry and tenth overall, yet the concepts and settings it captures are some of the best the series has offered yet. Instead of magical vampires or harem romances, you followed Wright’s trials and tribulations as an up-and-coming defense attorney in a world of colorful characters and gruesome murders.įifteen years later, the series is no less groundbreaking. Probably a marketing decision, but oh well.During a time when most knew Visual Novels as either anime graphic novels you could play on your computer, or didn’t know them at all, the original Ace Attorney slid onto the Nintendo DS. Also, despite being titled a ‘Phoenix Wright’ game, you play most of the game as Apollo. Spirit of Justice has the twisted legal system of Khura’in, which Phoenix and Apollo eventually try to fix– essentially the same plot as Dual Destinies. The game in the series just before it, Dual Destinies, featured the supposed ‘Dark Age of the Law,’ including false charges and forged evidence, with the ‘Dark Age’ coming to an end in the game’s last case. Whilst Spirit of Justice is a solid entry to the series, it retreads old ground. It’s a nation of spirit mediums with a strange legal system that forces defence attorneys to share the sentences their clients receive should they lose a case– in other words, a defence attorney must win their case if they don’t want to die or be imprisoned. In Spirit of Justice, the usual setting of Japanifornia (called as such by the fanbase due to the English localization changing the setting from Japan to US in the script whilst changing absolutely nothing visually) is replaced with the fictional kingdom of Khura’in, as Phoenix visits it to see his former assistant Maya Fey. In the first three games you play as Phoenix Wright, in the fourth as a new protagonist, Apollo Justice, and in the fifth and sixth games you play as multiple characters throughout, including Phoenix and Apollo but also a new attorney named Athena Cykes. The Ace Attorney series has always been known for its incredibly wacky plotlines, and similarly wacky casts, with series leads Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice being some of the most hilarious I’ve known in my entire gaming life.Ī bit of context: in the Ace Attorney series, you (usually) play as a defence attorney in a caricature of Japan’s legal system.
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