Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

Dual Destinies continues the style of gameplay from previous installments, in which the player must utilize evidence and find contradictions in witness statements to prove their client innocent. Like previous…

80 25 July 2013

Adventure Puzzle Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Visual Novel Action Drama

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 25 July 2013 on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS.

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What Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2013. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS. It runs on MT Framework.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dual Destinies takes place roughly a year after the events of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. The legal system has entered a dark era, filled with false charges and fabricated evidence. The Wright Anything Agency, run by Phoenix Wright, who retakes the bar exam to once again become a defense attorney following the previous game, takes on a newly christened lawyer named Athena Cykes, who specialises in analytical psychology, joining his other young attorney, Apollo Justice. Working together, Apollo and Athena tackle the case of a murdered alderman, facing up against Simon Blackquill, a fierce prosecutor who is ordered to stand in court despite currently serving a murder sentence (in the game's…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ace Attorney series

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is the 26th of 49 entries we hold in the Ace Attorney series. The next entry was Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies: Special Episode - Turnabout Reclaimed in 2013. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Ace Attorney Investigations Collection at 87.

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How it was received

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 86 votes.

What it launched against

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies launched on 25 July 2013, within three weeks of Dota 2, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please and Europa Universalis IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dota 2, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Europa Universalis IV.

Cheats and codes

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