The elephant within the room when discussing the Apollo Justice: Ace Lawyer Trilogy is the argument that it is probably not a trilogy. The three video games which have simply been remastered and rereleased underneath the title — 2007’s Apollo Justice: Ace Lawyer, 2013’s Phoenix Wright: Ace Lawyer – Twin Destinies, and 2016’s Phoenix Wright: Ace Lawyer – Spirit of Justice — are certainly respectively the fourth, fifth, and sixth mainline video games within the Ace Lawyer sequence of courtroom dramedy visible novels. However nonetheless, many long-time followers had been stunned ultimately 12 months’s announcement that the remasters had been being marketed on this manner, since there’d by no means actually been a way that the originals had been supposed to be learn as a single steady narrative.
Ace Lawyer followers have been a bit spoiled on this regard prior to now. Most online game trilogies are loosely related once you actually take a look at them, however the Phoenix Wright: Ace Lawyer Trilogy actually is what it claims to be: three video games developed by the identical inventive crew that come collectively to type a single story, paying off in a extremely satisfying conclusion that weaves nearly each thread from begin to end again collectively. The identical is even more true of The Nice Ace Lawyer Chronicles, a prequel duology that was within the works alongside the Apollo Justice-era video games after they had been first launched, and which solely actually pays off as soon as you have performed each halves to the top.
In contrast, the three video games now united underneath the Apollo Justice identify are every much more stand-alone. Eagle-eyed readers will in all probability have already got observed that though Apollo Justice will get his identify within the assortment’s title, Phoenix Wright resumes his prime billing for the latter two particular person video games therein, which actually says rather a lot in regards to the sometimes-awkward push-and-pull drawing this compilation rerelease in several instructions. However nonetheless, they needed to name it one thing to distinguish it from the Phoenix Wright Trilogy, and none of that is Apollo Justice’s fault, so I believe it is sensible as a title. It simply has the unlucky side-effect of making an expectation that the Apollo Justice Trilogy is not fairly as much as delivering on.
