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This has been the first Phoenix Wright game I played, but I can guarantee it wont be the last. Even though Justice For All is technically a sequel to the first Ace Attorney game, it still stands its ground perfectly by itself.
The basic essence of this game is that is more of a `visual novel` than your typical gameboy title. As with all Phoenix Wright games, Justice for All is no exception when it comes to being founded on a lot of text. However, dull as that may sound, the scripting is ingeniously done and woven in to often wacky, deep characters (something which has always been a rarity with games) and twisting, engrossing storylines.
In Justice For All, youll play as Phoenix Wright, a defence lawyer who has a knack of bumping into innocent clients whove had the blame for a murder stuck onto them. Through court and investigation around the scenes of the crimes, its your job to defend your client and save the day.
There are some nifty new features present in Justice For All, the main of which is the `Psyche-Lock`. This adds a new dimension to questionning lying individuals while investigating, and provides a handy means to recharge lost health in between the first and second parts of the trial.
As with all great things, Justice For All is not without its faults. Simple spelling mistakes like `were` being spelt `where` and `gleam` being put in the place of `glean`. Also, there are frustrating times when you have no earthly idea of what piece of evidence to submit (I recommend having a pad of paper and pen at the ready so you can remember which evidence didnt work).
Overall however, a truly unique and fantastic game. Fully recommended to all, even if you dont aspire to yell out `Objection!` in public! If you dont finish this game hungering for more, then I suggest you book an appointment with your local doctor as soon as possible to find out whats wrong with you!
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 16Aug2008 | | | A good game but its buried underneath sooo many screens of tedious dialogue you have to keep skipping through.
And the dialogue isnt very good sadly.
You have to spend a lot of time repeatedly pressing the `NEXT` button, watching the next screen of dialouge appear letter by letter until the `NEXT` button is available again. And then again and again and again and again resisting the urge to scream `JUST GET ON WITH IT` at the DS.
If you can tolerate that, theres a pretty good game underneath it.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 14May2008 | | | Not quite as brilliant as the first game to be honest, but still holds its charm. I actually bought this when i was near the end of the first one, as i wanted to be able to pick up Justice for All as soon as i had completed it. Upon first minutes of playing i was so glad that the game hadnt changed much from the first. Sometimes sequels can change so drastically from its pre-decessor that they turn out to be utterly disappointing. This game, thank god, stayed true. And even some characters from the first game made appearances which was a lovely addition. I know it is generally bad if a sequel is just like the original, but for this game, it is really so fans of the series can play more scenarios and carry on the story of our beloved main characters.
Some things are different of course, the music changed slightly and i found that i preferred the music from the first game (though thankfully it did still retain some music and ALL the same voices). Then theres the introduction of the psyche-locks, which enables Phoenix Wright to see through a persons facade and see how many secrets they are holding from you. This is out of the courtroom by the way, this is while you are investigating so theres more to do. It is notably hard to squeeze the truth out of such characters, you have to have the right evidence to break them, but unlike in court, you never know if you have sufficient evidence to use against them. Sometimes you have more than one character with a psyche-lock at the same time, and you never know which one you have to break first before you can proceed (one will give you the evidence you need to break the other). This new feature is more challenging, but a lot of the time, im just itching to get to the courtroom and sometimes the psyche-lock system takes some of the fun out of finding out new truths in the courtroom.
Though i did enjoy this game very much, the scenarios werent quite so gripping this time round. There are only four for starters, unlike the first that had five. The only one i found really gripping and dramatic was the last one, the three before that were rather dull (especially the first one). But this is just in comparison to the first, which i cant help doing, obviously because ive played it. As a game by itself though, if i hadnt have played the first beforehand, i reckon it is still a fantastic game and i would think better of it.
I guess what im most glad of is that not to much changed and it stayed true to the first game. Its addictive and fun, and well worth playing.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 31Jan2008 | | |
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