Objection!!!
I’ve been playing “Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney” on my DS throughout my 3 week vacation – and to my surprise, I finished it. It’s been ages that I had the time and will to finish a game.
It’s funny because this game in particular is so untypical for this platform. Basically, it’s an interactive novel about a defense attorney learning the ropes through 5 different cases (stories). You have to interview people, collect evidence, find contradictions, and then cross examine witnesses statements, present the right evidence to reveal contradictions…
All in all pretty linear, but very well written (and funny) – although it’s more or less ignoring the DS’ technical capabilities, mainly because the first 4 of the 5 episodes are ports from the GBA version; only the 5th case introduces some pretty nice touchscreen-features.
I don’t know whether I want to play through the next game in the series (also because it seems to be a 100% GBA port, and people were complaining that the features that were introduced in the 5th DS-only case of the first game are completely missing again) – but there’s a third one already in the making and should be released later this year.