Burden of Proof Reviews

Extremely good. In general, the assets are not of extremely high quality detail, which is completely reasonable considering the production of this game, which seems to paint a misleading picture of the game's quality in screenshots and trailers; I at least thought the game didn't suffer much from it. The plotting, characters and sounds are extremely well done, and the gameplay is generally very good too. The exploration involves 3D movement, which I found very enjoyable, and I believe it justifies the use of 3D visuals even if they overall are required to be simpler than hyperrealistic AAA models that can be found in high production games. All of the characters are memorable, and most of them are likable; I did think a couple of characters (one in case one, one in case two) seened a bit shallow and annoying, but it isn't much worse than the worst of the characters in Ace Attorney, or any unimportant character in Professor Layton. I really liked the main recurring characters in particular, which is good since that is where the characters should be best (although the assistant, while not bad, probably wasn't in the highest tier of characters that this game has). There were a couple of minor things that I disliked about the system, though these are overshadowed by the general quality of the game, but they are probably worth mentioning here briefly. The lack of a skip text feature (as far as I saw) is a little annoying, though there aren't all that many situations where text will need to be reread. For a lot of scene changes, the cursor will be moved to the centre of the screen, but since the mouse is best to be used a fair amount anyway, it only requires the mouse to be moved slightly back to the original location. There are a few grammatical issues, though generally it is at least obvious as to what the meaning is. Also, the way to advance text with the mouse is only through clicking within the area around the arrow at the end of each line, so clicking elsewhere on the screen does not advance text (I personally just used the space bar to advance text instead anyway). And another, very minor "issue", is that I think the save files store a portion of the script or something, which is probably why the save and load features can take a few seconds to operate (from what I remember, it was still probably significantly under 5 seconds maximum, there are many similar games that have much longer save times), but it means that if one is stuck, they are discouraged from vastly abusing trial and error at a great speed, though still a lot faster than Ace Attorney or most such games. Despite these, the plot is excellent. There were a very nice level of twists and turns to the plot, more than I would have expected. In the final cases, I began to not really remember everything that was happening in the case, but that was mainly due to how I spent some periods of time between playing; it shouldn't be an issue for everyone but the later ones do sometimes have quite a lot of plot points to them. I unintentionally left the game idle at some times, so the amount of time it says I have played (31 hours) is a bit skewed, although the claim of "over 15 hours of story" in the description is certainly true. The difficulty, I found, was of a very nice level, not too difficult but also not exceedingly easy, though there are quite a few plot points that may be predictable (though generally not to the point that predicting such an event equates to knowing for a fact that it will happen). However, there were a couple of cross examinations in the fifth case that took me a while to work out, and I'm pretty sure there won't be a full guide to the solutions yet, so for now at least, if you can't solve part of it, then you will either need to guess, ask someone else, or try really hard to work it out. Overall, I really really enjoyed this game, I would highly recommend it (the price is a lot more than I would normally spend on a game, but I actually haven't ended up regretting it).

This game was... interesting. First, unlike some silly people up on here, we need to establish what a review is: it's more than just liking or disliking a game, it's a critical way of seeing the game, especially based on its very intent. This game's intent is not to have great graphics, so please don't judge it solely on that. With that out of the way... This was quite the unique experience. An ace attorney game that felt very connected and trimmed all the fat off. In AA, there is a LOT of side banter, and the investigation can sometimes take forever... this game really trimmed the fat, which made the game feel a little better. I think that for an investigation based game, it's better for most of the mystery to be solved in the court; if solved before, you're in for a slog of a court, where you already know all the answer. Even though I mentioned the models and all being off, the creator did do some jabs with it, with messages like "the dev hasn't done anything in that direction", which I thought were fun. It's good to be self-aware. And it's important for consumers to respect that not every game is gonna be a triple AAA in the graphics department. It had some quality animation as well, so the effort really needs to be noticed! Overall, really fun characters. I enjoyed all of them. I want to kiss Double Daire. While the model may sometimes backstab the character's personalities, you'll still notice some effort there, with each character having nice unique poses and expressions. This is an aspect I really enjoyed. The mysteries were quite interesting. By the end of the game, you're not even sure if you made the right decisions in all the chapters. But that... it goes into the final point, the ending. Oh... boy. The ending. Big mixed feelings, but a lot of dislike for it. But me not enjoying that ending does not mean the game is bad. !! SPOILERS AHEAD !! So, Cross ends up becoming a criminal, and sending an innocent person to jail. This really felt like a stab in the gut. This isn't like... Danganronpa's Perjury mechanic, where you lie to reach the truth. No, straight up, you get a character doing something fairly horrible, and hiding the truth, and coping about it. Not to mention that sword was never explained... The ending was something I did feel was a little... rushed, maybe. But this doesn't tarnish the experience being pretty great. Try it yourself. The ending may be a bit of a letdown, but it's not a badly written ending, but just a sour ending that may not resonate with everyone.

Disclaimer:Scroll down to the end to see a funny description of the game. There's quite a lot i want to talk about with this game but i'll try to only speak about what i NEED to speak about, so lets start out with the minor things, ALSO I WANT TO STATE THAT I WISH STEAM HAD AN MAYBE OR A NEUTRAL RECOMMEND OPTION BECAUSE THAT'D FIT MY OPINION OF THIS PRODUCT BETTER. Minor Pro ______ the music is surprisingly good, not really a bad track in here, nothing i'm going to remember out of the game mind you, but the music does a good job at setting the tone. Minor Con _______ the graphics aren't remotely good, thankfully graphics aren't super important, but i'm mentioning this because i'd love for this game to have looked better. fair enough right? so lets talk about the bigger stuff about the game. Major Pro _______ The Trial Writing is fairly on point for such an genre, nothing felt like a leap of logic, i can't state enough that this game's Trial Writing is on par with an actual big name studio's and i feel like this is something that the developers should take pride in, but also seek to go even further with if they do another game like it. Major Con _______ notice how i said Trial Writing in the above mention? yeah that's because a lot of the non Court writing is kinda ridiculous, i feel like the biggest issue that this game suffers from is that its comedy aspects clash with when the game WANTS to be taken seriously. Instead of other big name company productions where they manage to strike a good balance of Drama and Humor, this game fails at that aspect, while sure the game can provide a chuckle and engross you in its story, it rarely manages to combine both for great effect. I guess a better way to say the above is the Game's efforts of Comedy and Drama are like Water and Oil, they are fine on their own but they don't mix well together and this kept taking me OUT of the experience over and over again, any game that can't keep a player immersed, will be remembered less fondly than a game that can. this might be the biggest issue with the game, i did enjoy my time playing it but in the future i'm going to be remembering this game for the wrong reasons due to this. OVERALL _______ I really enjoyed my time spent with the game when it wasn't taking me out of itself, i feel like with more polish this could've been a fantastic budget Ace Attorney, but as it is now its just alright, honestly i'm tempted to put this game into the "So Bad Its Good" category, sure i still had fun, but a product doesn't have to be good to find entertainment in it. Would I recommend it? I have to give it a hard MAYBE, it all depends on how much your starved to play another game like Ace Attorney and such, which i admit i was pretty starved myself, the game is very much targeted for those kinds of people so you might want to check it out. But on the other hand, 15 dollars is far too much to buy this game for if you aren't a die-hard enthusiast, i bought it for like 5 dollars when it was on sale and felt like that was more than a fair price, i'd say i'd even go up to 8 or 10 dollars even, however due to how steam reviews only has "Yes and No" for recommendation i have to give it a soft "No, do not buy" unless your really thirsty for more games like it, if a sequel ever comes out i might check it out to see how much its improved. And lastly here's that funny description i was mentioning. This is some "what no pussy does to a MF" shit except in this case it's No Ace Attorney

It's an ace attorney rip-off, but it's well done. The devs lnow what males ace attorney fun and charming, and the cases are so good it seems like it's from an ace attorney game

An indie game that wears its roots in Ace Attorney on its sleeve, Burden of Proof is an excellent adventure if you're willing to look past its rough models and animation. As an Ace Attorney fan that has been starved of new entries for years, it is always nice to see a competent copycat. While not as polished of a story, I was impressed by the developer's foresight in not punishing the player for pointing out an inconsistency slightly differently than the game "wants" you to do it. That is an issue in Ace Attorney games, but perhaps due to the shorter nature of these cases, the developer foresaw and avoided those pitfalls in every case I encountered.

Okay, first things first, the graphics. You can tell by the screen shots what they are like and you get what you see. As for the rest of the game, it's alright. Nothing spectacular, but it gets the job done if you need some off-brand Ace Attorney. There were only 2 or 3 times I ever felt truly stuck, and over all it wasn't too hard. There are some good twists and overall I had a good time. As I said before, what you get what you see, so it's up to you to decide if you want to play this or not.

From what I've seen so far, Burden of Proof is a very well made game akin to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. It has some kinks, but generally is a great time and I've really had a blast playing it. If you're a fan of the attorney or detective genre of games, I recommend this game.

I have played the game all the way through, and I really did enjoy it. the story was great and I liked how all of the cases were connected and had a common theme throughout the storyline. as an ace attorney fan myself, I enjoyed the fact that you get to not only play as the defence lawyer, but on the very first case, you get to play as a prosecutor. to be honest with you, I really didn't see that coming. another feature I liked was that you could investigate the crime scene in first person or third person mode. it made the experience feel more authentic. there are other good points about this game that I liked too, but now I would like to get to the negatives. my first issue with the game is the graphics. while I understand that this is a 3d game and that can and indeed does take a lot of work and time to make, I still feel as though more work should have been done to make the graphics more realistic with regard to proportions of the characters, but I am probably just nitpicking here. some of the places on the game just seemed incomplete to me. also, outside of the Prosperity bank, there seemed to be an invisible wall blocking the way to the courtyard, and I had to go right to the edge of the curb to get to the bank courtyard. #spoilers what I really didn't like though was that Conrad, who is the protagonist of the game, had actually had to become a criminal in order to put a stop to Naile's organization and he had to break laws and even kill sarah to pin it on someone else. to me, this was not only unlawful, but cowardly. the situation could have been resolved in other ways. that's my opinion anyway. overall, I rate this game a 7 out of 10. its a good game. thanks for making it.

I am brutaly honest: Seeing those crude models and animations, I expected this to be a complete trash game and only bought it because I was desperately looking for a Ace Attourney like game. And boy, was I wrong, and happy about it. I can say in all confidence that this is a true gem. Many characters are clearly inspired by characters of the Phoenix Wright series; there is your new Maya, Gumshoe, a combined Edgeworth and Mia, of course you, Phoenix Wright, and even a Iris Hawthorne. Fortuanately, they left out all the spiritual and supernatural stuff, which never felt right in a series about -- you know? -- evidence. Generally, the characters are still over the top, as they should be; but they toned them down a bit, so they are nicer and more reasonable than they are in Ace Attorney, which makes it much more enjoyable. Also, the court proceedings are much more civil and less frustrating, as the court doesn't just make up new rules and isn't so much biased against you, the defense. Also, much less outlandish moon logic is required. Remember how frustrating the sections between trials were in Ace Attorney? Good thing they didn't repeat this error. You still have to look for evidence, but you cannot leave the area without finding all clues. You are not expected to revisit locations in a specific order to trigger events. Also, you are not barred from progressing because you fail to show some very specific piece of evidence to a specific witness, which often just turned into a trial-and-error process. The emphasise of this game is clearly towards the actual trials and visual story telling. And about that story: It is seriously good! The story telling makes up for all the bad graphics. Yes, the plot is a bit outlandish -- how could it not be? But at least it is not completely unthinkable like the supernatural BS of Ace Attorney. It is touching and tragic and the author can clearly wright. I sincerely hope to see a BoP 2.

-FEELS JUST LIKE ACE ATTORNEY- When I discovered a high school friend of mine posted a trailer for a 3D Phoenix Wright-esque game he was working on almost single-handedly, I couldn't believe it. One year and change later, having played through his work to the end, I can say with confidence that this is one of the Must-Play hidden gems of Steam. The trials give players who played Ace Attorney that sense of familiarity of piecing together complex truths seemingly story-boarded by one of Capcom's own. The mysteries of each case are fleshed out precicely enough that the player feels as if they're really solving in-depth cases without being held by the hand. The characters are memorable with a dash of witty humor that never feels forced. For a game practically programed and rendered by one individual, the models and animations are more detailed and fluid than your average stilted 3D indie game. You want to know what the best part about a Phoenix Wright tribute game is? T H E M U S I C So much devotion has gone into every aspect of Burden of Proof that I can say this is a real game, with 10+ hours of multi-mystery that deserves to be played and shared by those who love a good story. Personally, I hope many people find out about it and see for themselves a game made by someone willing to devote himself to the bone to create what might just be a masterpiece.