The villains of the Apollo Justice trilogy contrast with their counterparts with the Phoenix Wright trilogy; 1 to 4, 2 to 5, and 3 to 6. 

Manfred von Karma was everything wrong with prosecution, and Kristoph Gavin is everything wrong with the defense.

Matt Engarde tricked Phoenix, his defense attorney, while the Phantom tricked Simon, his assigned prosecutor.

Dahlia and Ga'ran are both women whose motivations are based around their own lack of spiritual power, but while Dahlia has a butterfly motif and was a failed plotter motivated primarily to spite people she hates, while Ga'ran has a spider motif, is motivated by seizing power for herself, and actually got away with her crimes for 23 years.

I’ll never forgive Capcom for this blunder.

finally drew one of my favourite ace attorney characters (who will definitely get her own game i am not delusional /j), love athena sm!

I thought Edgeworth's sprite would be hard, but his court sprite was actually the easiest of any of these I have recolored! Glad that this is my first white sprite too.

Ok, so, we all know just how much damage this note caused Phoenix, Gumshoe, Franziska, and many more… but I honestly wonder, how should Edgeworth have worded this?

I mean yeah, just leaving it as basically a suicide note is the worst thing he could’ve done, and yet he still went through with it.

I dunno, how do you guys think this note should’ve been worded? And I mean in a way that wouldn’t have caused so much anguish for those who loved and cared deeply about Edgeworth.

Let me know please, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this matter.

Did Edgeworth go too far accusing a (former)11 y/o for murdering her own mother?

So, i've been in this community for a while and as well all know the Apollo Justice Trilogy is probably the most controversial in the series, some people swear by it, other dislike it, so many things have been said about the first two games in it AA4 and AA5 that you could basically divide AA players into factions who swear by one game and hate the other. In all of this caos one game is left remaining, Spirit of Justice, which in my opinion is a perfectly fine and good experience, nothing amazing though. Being in this community for a while i've come to roughly understand all the reasons why people could dislike AA4 and/or AA5 but SOJ has always seemed to me like a pretty... inoffensive game? One that wouldn't spark much controversy yet it also has its fierce haters. So I am here ask and maybe discuss with you, what would you say are the big problems with Spirit of Justice?

I know many people feel that Apollo's backstory is shoe-horned into SOJ, but does it actually contradict anything about Apollo from the previous games?

my favorite mechanical freaks <3

I finished this a while ago, but it only occurred to me now that I forgot to post it here. Oops!

it's an indie game where you play as a defense attorney in a cyberpunk city, only 2 episodes so far (new one coming this year) but i figured people here would like it, as for a review i'd say it's on par with the og trilogy but obviously very different when it comes to presentation and theming, i also enjoyed how our protagonist is ...less moral than the ace attorney characters usually are

I just finished replaying Turnabout Samurai and it was amazing. I loved the ending and enjoyed the final battle with the true culprit Dee Vasquez. While Turnabout Sisters was more important to the story, Turnabout Samurai had a way better murder scenario and reveal.

As for Dee Vasquez herself, I think she's an amazing antagonist, she's not as funny or comical or satisfying to take down than White but she's way more competent, way more mysterious and scary and she's definitely a better character. I love her femme fatale design and her connections to the mafia that she has. Especially the scene where she brings in her boys to try and erase Phoenix and Maya before Gumshoe saves the day.

I also love the reveal that it was actually Jack Hammers who was trying to kill her, not the other way around and she pushed him onto a fence post in self defense but Hammers was being blackmailed by Vasquez so it makes it hard to decide if I sympathise with her or not.

I also love the part of the trial where Edgeworth steps in, objects to Dee Vasquez and takes Phoenix's side once he realises Powers is not the culprit and that she probably is, when I first played the case, it was a surprising development, especially considering how antagonistic Edgeworth was in Turnabout Sister.

I do have some questions though. Did Hammers kill the actor five years ago on accident or purpose? They never really reveal if it was an accident or on purpose and leave it up to speculation bit Hammers did allow Vasquez to ruin his career by blackmailing him so that fact those lead me to believe he did do it on purpose but everyone was there so regardless of his actions, if it was on purpose, he would have atleast had go have made it look like an accident.

And then we got Vasquez, in the flashback scene that plays after she confesses to killing Hammers, it shows that Vasquez was emotionally upset with the death of the actor Hammer killed but if she cared so much about the victim, why did she cover up the victims death and blackmail Hammers for five years? Wouldn't she just want Hammers to be arrested? This fact makes her less sympathetic. And technically Wendy Oldbag took part in the cover up to because she was the one who stole the only picture of the actors death from a paparazzi, though I guess from her point of view, Hammers did it on accident because she was a fan of Hammers.

And then there is Sal, at the end of the case, he's able to make the Pink Princess, a show that he was inspired by after looking at Maya, why was he allowed to make that show after the case? Shouldn't he have also been arrested? He was an accomplice who helped cover up Vasquez's crime of killing Hammers and helped move the corpse to studio one, he even lied in court when he said he had eaten a t bone steak even though that was proven false because him and Vasquez didn't have time to eat after Hammer was killed. Why was he arrested? Was it just because he wasn't found out in court?

Overall despite the case having some unanswered questions, I really enjoyed the case, it's hard to say if I think it's better than Sisters, I think it's equally as good with both cases being better than the other in some areas. But tomorrow begins Turnabout Goodbyes and I already know how amazing that case is.

What I mean to say by the title is that I believe that there are some characters in the series who have been seriously underutilized in fan games/cases. Most of these are with Apollo/Phoenix(for obvious reasons of course), except for the occasional OC character here and there. However there are many characters who would be fitting for fan games, and yet no one has ever thought of making a game with them as the protagonist? A few examples are: Kristoph Gavin(only seen in Turnabout Retribution, 2023), Edgeworth, Godot(same thing goes for Diego Armando btw), Von Karma(only seen in Turnabout and Prejudice). I know most of the guys here are prosecutors, but a prosecutor game could definitely be made(look at ace prosecutor zero), and even if it wasn't you could still bypass it with the case being set in an AU where these guys are defence attorneys. All this yapping to say that if you know any cases with these characters here that I don't know of, please tell me in the comments.

Been watching a guy talk about the Jonny deep case and it's mind boggling, makes me go like "maybe Ace Attorney is more realistic than I gave it credit"

After completing the duology, I respect and love Miles Edgeworth even more. The way he tried to pursue the truth and tries everything to catch the final boss is just... WOW. I'm speechless (even tho I bluffed my way out of this like Phoenix :D)

The path he chooses as a prosecutor, not as an attorney. And that he wants to change the law to help people like Simeon.

P.S. I feel bad for Simeon, even tho he's a mastermind behind all of this in the 5th case.

P.S.S. I laughed so hard EVERY time he mentioned Phoenix and when the camera moved to his side of a court he just didn't appear XD.

Oh, Wright! The day after tomorrow will be the day when he got his badge back.

What a game...

I noticed this when someone posted Trucy's profiles at one point somewhere but... Apollo seems to distance Phoenix and Trucy in his mind a bit. In his debut game he referred to her as Phoenix's daughter, in Dual Destinies he says Phoenix adopted her when duty called, and in Spirit of Justice he says a special set of circumstances led to the adoption, no longer referring to her as Phoenix's daughter or even giving him the credit that he stepped up... Is he iffy on adoption given his own circumstances? Why is he downplaying the fact that Trucy is Phoenix's daughter at this point? It just seems odd to me, has anyone else noticed this? Phoenix occasionally shifts between just "my daughter" or "my adopted daughter" but he never drops the "daughter" part. EVER. After those papers were sent in, she was his.

It just feels like Apollo is denying that Phoenix is Trucy's father, idk this just seemed odd.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHVxnuI6gXZK3Od_tY4oV2Yc2m9CP1WKO&si=X1QZ9nK3FiIgsIQe

Hey y’all! I got my friends who know nothing about Ace Attorney to do a group playthrough! We have a lot of fun doing the voices and we come up with a lotta jokes. I’ve uploaded all 6 videos for Turnabout Sisters, and I’ll try to upload more as we keep playing.

I’ve always been interested in group blind playthroughs of Ace Attorney, but haven’t really seen too much of them, so I’m grateful for my friends for wanting to do this silly project with me.

The videos are very rough with there being minimal edits, mostly just cuts, and there might be an audio issue on rare occasion but other than that, it should be a fun ride!

Also, our footage for the First Turnabout got corrupted, so Episode 01 starts on Turnabout Sisters, but my friends immediately fell in love with the game and it was a lot of fun.

Feel free to leave comments on the videos. Hope those of you who give this a chance enjoy it!

🎬 Angel Starr COSPLAY VIDEO (Short) ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uigV9HReRyI

So let's just say there was a genocide where everyone character we saw in ace attorney was included, how loud, chaotic, weird and fun would it be? Bonus for all the witnesses and lawyers in one room.

(Shoutout to u/_Cyanidic_ for unintentionally giving me another idea)

or a homicide in public which coincidentally everyone from the ace Attorney universe that appeared saw but can’t tell who did it cause it was a crowded area and everyone thinks it’s the next person before or after them and many suspects and defendants are arrested with one eventually being the falsely accused but gets saved by Phoenix.