Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 2001

Is it still worth playing?

Capcom's 2001 visual novel and adventure game, first on the Game Boy Advance, in which you defend clients as the rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright across several cases. Each case has investigation sections and courtroom trials. In investigations you talk to characters, examine the environment, move between locations and present evidence to get new information. In trials you cross examine witnesses, press them for details and present evidence that contradicts their testimony. Each wrong piece of evidence removes one exclamation mark, and losing all of them means a guilty verdict and a restart. The game is credited with helping popularize visual novels in the Western world. Each trial is a puzzle of attention: you spot the one statement in a testimony that your evidence contradicts, and the cases are fun to solve today.