Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney

[Ishin Ookami]

The game was not meant to portray the real American Legal System. It was developed in Japan, and based it off the legal system there.

You don't form arguments, you just find items as in any boring detective game and shout "Objection" in a court full of disgustingly bad testimony until you find the point where the game, almost arbitrarily, decides there's an actual problem. And then the witness completely changes his testimony though is somehow still considered completely credible and you're screwed again until you find the next arbitrary "mistake."

I doubt that's the legal system in Japan.

The game was meant to be fun and not taken seriously.

Anyway, the first two cases are extremely easy and cheesy. But it gets a bit harder in the later cases.

Harder as in some item might be stashed in a hard-to-see compartment or a key witness is in a secret room, or harder in that the moment you're supposed to "Object" is even more completely arbitrary and baseless? You don't even have to know why you're objecting. You just object and the game makes most of the argument for you.

The fun in the phoenix wright titles is picking apart the testimony of the witness, comparing it with the evidence and facts that you have, and busting up their lies with the facts. There is a logic to the proceedings, even if the judge himself is an idiot. You just need to do something called thinking in order to figure out the right moment, and the right evidence to present, or not present in some instances, in order to make the case go your way.

But yah, the games rock and I can't wait for the third.