Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice

Ace Attorney 6 continues the investigation and courtroom of its predecessors, in which players take the role of the defense attorneys; Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, and Athena Cykes, and try to defend their…

81 9 June 2016

Adventure Point-and-click Puzzle Role-playing (RPG) Visual Novel Comedy Drama

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 9 June 2016 on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS.

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What Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice is

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story of Ace Attorney 6 once again focuses on defense attorney Phoenix Wright and his two understudies Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes. Phoenix gets reunited with his longtime friend and spirit medium companion, Maya Fey, while visiting the island of Kurain, where lawyers are deemed unnecessary as spirit mediums are able to conjure up visions of a victim's memories moments before death. As ever, Phoenix and Maya seek to prove out that even a supposedly definitive method of convicting defendants has its own contradictions, while Apollo and Athena stay back home and have their own set of cases to deal with. Trucy Wright, Phoenix's daughter, becomes Apollo's defendant after a death occurs…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ace Attorney series

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice is the 31st of 49 entries we hold in the Ace Attorney series. It arrived 7 months after Project X Zone 2. The next entry was Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice: Phoenix Wright - Asinine Attorney in 2016. Its critic score of 81 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 - Spirit of Justice holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice launched on 9 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Inside and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine.

Cheats and codes

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