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This game has been on backlog for quite some time. I really enjoy detective and legal stories, so Ace Attorney has been known to me for a while, but I only managed to play it recently, now let me give you a quick rundown if you should play it.

In short: Yes.

In long: This is a collection of multiple older titles ( the first three) of the franchise which received considerable visual tune up compared to their original counterparts.

As a game, Ace Attorney is relatively simple. You have 3 stories made up of several loosely connected episodic storylines, each of them a new case and it's own little self-contained storyline. The episodes follow the same basic setup, someone dies, someone is claimed to be a murderer with overwhelming evidence, then Phoenix flexes on the prosecution and says "Nope".

There are 2 "modes" in every chapter, which alternate themselves, if you have played the Danganronpa franchise, you will be instantly familiar with everything in the game. First there is investigation, which is like an oldschool adventure game. You walk around the avaible locations, talk to whoever you find, and use the items in your inventory to progress further. Your job is to find the necessary evidence for the court trial, so you can prove your clients innocence.
Then the actual trial, which is the core game. You will read the testimonies by the various witnesses called up by the prosecution, and using various methods, such as pressuring them by asking more questions, or flaunting your evidence at hand you will break down the lies and inconsistencies in the witnesses' words.

There is not much to talk about in terms of gameplay (it is a visual novel), the strong point of PW:AA is it's story. The cases are all interesting, and full of twists and turns which will keep you interested as you progress in the relatively mundane gameplay. Obviously I'm not going to spoil much, since that's the entire game.

The music is also important to mention, because it is amazing. Both the timing, with it cutting of in important moments, and starting up at turning points, as well as the scores themselves are superb.

The game is not without it's flaws however. Like I said in the beginning, these are older games, (from the Nintendo DS era), that were given some upgrade technically, but it's impossible to mask the age. They look much better than they did, but in comparison with other new titles (especially, since it's a visual novel, which relies heavily on visual presentation) it's still quite lacking. Though you can consider the more pixelated look a style choice, and a bit of a nostalgic throwback as well, so it's not exactly a deep flaw, I would still argue that pulling them off to full HD wouldn't have been too much work.

The controls during the investigation parts are also very... strange. Maybe it's just me being stupid for the proper settings, but instead of moving the cursor with the mouse pointer, I instead have to "grab" said cursor and drag it manually across the picture, then click on it if I want to examine something, otherwise I have to move the thing with the keyboard.
Besides that the map movement is slightly irritating, especially since you will be backtracking a lot. Thing is, you can't move from 1 location to another if you were there before, you first have to move to a connected location. Let's say, you want to go from the bedroom, to the kitchen. Normally, you could choose kitchen, if you visited it once, and fast travel there, here you first select locations tab, choose "upstairs hallway", select locations tab again select "downstairs hallway", select locations tab again, select living room, select locations tab, select kitchen and bada bing bada boom. It's tedious as hell, and completely unnecesarry, it acts only as an artificial time waster.

The final negative point is the typical flaw of many other games of the mystery genre. Replayability. Unless you are a jaded achievment hunter who wants to collect all badges, or just really like the story, there is no reason to play the games again once you are finished. You already know who the culprit is, what evidence to use, where to break the argument, and there isn't an "advanced mode" or something where the difficulty would increase since it wouldn't make sense. But, but it's also not a full-price collection either. If I remember, it's 30 dollars or so, meaning you get 3 games, 10 dollar each on average, with a good 15-20 hour gameplay at least, maybe even more. You are getting your money's worth back quite a bit (if I can get about an hours worth of game for every dollar I consider it a worthwhile investment).

Conclusion: Ace Attorney is a pretty niche game, since it's really just a slightly more interactive detective novel, with pictures, but if you are looking at the game page, you probably already know that. It delivers on it's expected points, (the writing) really well, and keeps you on your toes all the while. It does have a healthy dose of japanese humor and pop-culture, so be ready for that, but that hardly takes away from it's charm, it augments it. Overall, if you are interested in these types of games, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will definitely be a worthwhile buy, and if you are still skeptical, you can wait for a sale, since it often goes for 20s or so, and that would be more than reasonable for these 3 games.

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Pros:
+The game offers a refreshing take at the stale MOBA format
+Is easy to pick up, but offers a decent skill ceiling
Cons:
-Early access means the game suffers from several bugs, unbalances, and some questionable designs (but these are mainly quality of life changes, which can be improved over time)
-Looks like a game from the miniclip era
-Low playerbase causes matchmaking to put you in together with top-listers regularly which can be very disheartening(especially when they are premades as well)

Conclusion: It's a free game, which takes up very little space, so I think you should definitely check it out, and see if you like it.