Case 4-1: Turnabout Trump

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THIS CASE.

After three days of waiting (and not just me, pretty much ALL of Canada) my copy of Apollo Justice finally came in this morning.

Anyways, I had a hard time sleeping last night so my playthrough of the first-case was kinda groggy.  I’ll probably end up playing it again after I finish the game so that I understood more of what’s going on.

First off, a few technical aspects were improved in Apollo Justice from its three predecessors, mainly in the voice recognition department.  For one, the game actually recognizes “HOLD IT!”  Trying to get the previous three games to recognize it when I feel like yelling at my DS to press someone.  Also, the fact that the music goes silent when the mic is on means it’s even harder to tell when you’ve presented correctly.

But anyway, this is easily hailed as the most epic first case of the whole series.  Phoenix is once again reduced to the role of defendant although he plays a huge factor in this whole case.  The epic factor increases even more when Phoenix replaces Kristoph Gavin in the co-counsel position and the Objection 2001 music starts playing.

This is definitely the longest of the four initial cases, coming in at around an hour and 45 minutes to complete.  (Case 1-1 could be done in about 10 minutes, Case 2-1 in 45, and Case 3-1 in an hour and a half.)  Part of this introduces you to two of the new features for AJ:AA; the perceive system and crime recreation mode, the former being a new system that allows you to pick out flawed testimony by spotting witness “tells”, and the latter being a system that allows you to rearrange the crime scene to give more of a idea of what the crime scene was laid out as the crime was taking place – which would eventually lead to more contradictions.  Most of the other features in this game aren’t all that new if you’ve played case 1-5, though.

The real shocker comes at the end of the first case, after you’ve gotten Phoenix’s acquittal he reveals that the one piece of crucial evidence used to convict the “real killer” was forged.  Why he did this, though, will come to light closer to the end of the game.

And so, now I shall be starting on case 2-2.

~ by Moofey on February 23, 2008.