Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations (known as Gyakuten Saiban 3 in Japan) is the third game in the Ace Attorney series. Players take on the role of Phoenix Wright, a defense attorney known…
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 23 August 2007 on Nintendo DS and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations is
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2007. It is available on Nintendo DS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In her first trial, rookie attorney Mia Fey and her partner Diego Armando defend death row inmate Terry Fawles, who is under suspicion of murdering policewoman Valerie Hawthorne during an escape attempt. Facing off against Miles Edgeworth, also on his first case as a prosecutor, Mia's persistence pays off when she learns the truth: years earlier, Terry, Valerie, and her younger sister Dahlia staged a kidnapping to steal a priceless jewel from the girls' father. Dahlia then betrayed Terry by faking her death, leaving Terry to be convicted of murder based on Valerie's testimony. Terry had escaped in the hopes of learning the truth from Valerie, but unbeknownst to him, Dahlia had already…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ace Attorney series
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations is the 12th of 49 entries we hold in the Ace Attorney series. The next entry was Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth in 2009. Its critic score of 84 is 3 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Ace Attorney Investigations Collection at 87.
How it was received
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 186 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs.
What it launched against
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations launched on 23 August 2007, within three weeks of BioShock, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Rome: Total War - Collection. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: BioShock, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Rome: Total War - Collection.
Cheats and codes
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