Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (A Restrospective)

I played Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All (part 2 of the series) immediately after I was done with Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (part 1). A year has passed between those two games’ release. You can’t say that I was the type who was dying in anticipation to play the first game, because if I was, I would’ve bought it immediately either on the day of its release or on the day I got a DS (six months later).

After two games, after getting through 9 cases, after continuously watching courtroom antics that has no semblance to real life (the senate hearings of the Philippines come close though), I would’ve been worn out.

Yet, despite myself, I went to Ace Attorney (AA) fansites. It’s probably not the wisest decision I’ve made, since I was trying to lower my obsession, at least until my interests have waned enough that I would stop raving about AA to every person I meet. I thought, hey, I was just visiting for curiosity! Maybe if I overstuffed my brain with AA related info, I would tire of it!

So what did I find? A fan has translated the first case of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (AA3) into English. I still had this delusion of fortitude, and I defied myself to download and play through that case so as to affirm that I am, in fact, ready to take a break from the series.

The extent that I would punish myself to prove my point.

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