The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Reviews

WHAT AN AMAZING ACE ATTORNEY GAME AND VISUAL NOVEL!!!! My only issue is that it can go on for too long at times and not make itself very clear with what you have to do and Case 1, 2 and 4 of the first game are too long but other than that this might be one of my favorite games ever.

Naruhodo is my boy, play this game if you like good characters and story

I do not recommend this game to newcomers; it's only for serious fans of the franchise who are already used to it, I think. While I was invested in the journey of the main character and the mysteries around the cases, the experience of playing the game was, to put it in one word: 'painful'. Everything is just painfully slow and laborious. I clocked around 10 hours+ after 3 cases, but I think the actual content is probably just 5 hours. The extra 5 hours is just because of how unnecessarily slowly everything moved, from the dialogue to the animations (excessively repeated, at that) to the slow transition screens, etc. Not to mention how, as other reviewers have pointed out, points get repeated during the trials, or how long it takes to arrive at when the game had made it clear long ago. Just feels annoyingly padded out. I liked Ryunosuke and Susato, I am interested in the cases and stories but it just takes up so much time unnecessarily. So much so I've discovered: if I set text delay to 0.5 seconds and hold right click during dialogues it will fast forward the quickest, but I can't catch anything and have to refer to history for the dialogue text (still saves a lot of time and annoyance). But if I set text to Auto and hold right click to fast forward, it still moves fast but I can still catch all the on screen text. TLDR: only buy if you really like this series, otherwise be prepared for really archaic game design that wastes your time. (cue 3-second black loading screen > character appears on screen > 5-second animation > 10-second scrolling dialogue text > 3-second wait for character to fade out > 2-second wait for prompt buttons to appear > press OK > 3-second loading to proceed to next screen > repeat forever)

I grew up with the original series, and I spent 4 cases trying to figure out if it was THIS easy back then too. Or long winded. SUPER long winded, and another detective that comes in and makes small details SUPER NOTICEABLE and then forcing you to confirm that you observed it. Before, I felt like I had to go through the transcripts and examine items and use logic to find the solutions- but this time I felt like I was waiting months before I could submit the obvious contradiction, and waiting till the last moment for some piece of evidence to be entered at the very end to wrap it all up. No- sorry- maybe I'm older and younger people will find these mysteries engaging, and there's no doubt they brought that animated theatrical charm, but this writing is not very good. Interesting world, but super heavy handed time waster.

Writing this immediately after getting all of the achievements. An amazing duology that I think any fan of Ace Attorney should try at least once. While these games aren't without flaws in some areas (like the immense amount of dialogue and characters that get way too quirky), I think they're probably the closest to being as good as the original trilogy (Mostly the first game for me personally. Though I did enjoy Dual Destinies and Investigations 2 a lot). Also these games take place before the events of the original trilogy and is pretty self-contained. So while I do recommend that you play the games in release order or at least the original trilogy, you can start here if you want.

Pretty fun story overall, and 30h in seems to switch up stuff. It doesn't end up being stale and genuinely interesting to continue. No reason for the game to be locked at 30fps though :/

Despite being considered spinoffs, The Great Ace Attorney 1: Adventures and 2: Resolve are perhaps the series' finest hour. I honestly find these 2 games superior to the Phoenix Wright trilogy. Both games are grounded in reality in comparison (except the finale of Resolve but that's classic ace attorney hijinks for you. If you know, you know) and this results in memorable cases and mysteries as well as a great cast of main characters. Your millage may vary with the first 2 cases of Adventures as they are quite slow paced though as least it tries to establish the time period and characters before the plot thickens with cases 3-5. All of Resolve's cases are an improvement and the story of both games conclude in a grand satisfying finale. If you're an ace attorney fan this set of games is a must buy.

8/10 (first game 7/10, second game 9/10) First one is good, second game is great with an electric finale in true Ace Attorney fashion. (my playtime isn't representative, finished it on another platform).

Ace Attorney but better. No seriously, the jury should be in the mainline games. The Dance of Deduction is also a neat way of doing the investigation sections without the go to x location and back 50 times. Multiple witnesses testifying at the same time also makes it easier to find out exactly what the flaws in their stories are. I really like the cases in this game and some of them are the best in the series.

An exceptional expansion to the Ace Attorney universe with amazing writing, great 3D modeling and animations, fun characters, clever mysteries and a pleasing soundtrack. The second game is the better of the two in my opinion, but that doesn't mean the first game is bad, just that it suffers from more issues that bring it down such as the mysteries and villains not being that engaging for the most part, but if you liked the previous games in the series, definitely pick this up, you won't regret it. 10/10.