Just finished this trilogy today, what an amazing experience, i think these 3 games had some of the best cases in the franchise.
First of all Apollo justice is my third favourite Ace Attorney game at the moment, each case had me hooked in, and i loved learning about the amazing cast of characters consisting of Apollo himself, Trucy, Klavier, Kristoph, what happened to Phoenix Wright himself, etc.
1-1 and 1-4 especially deserve the applause, some of my favourite cases in the franchise, i loved 4-2 and 4-3 too of course, but 4-1 and 4-4 are just amazing imo.
This game also has the best soundtrack in the franchise imo, as well as best art style, the game just looks beautiful in 2d art.
Now, dual destinies, i enjoyed this game a lot. however it did have some issues.
5-5 is in my top 5 favourite cases of all time so that one's fantastic, I also enjoyed 5-3 and 5-2 a lot as well, of course not nearly as much, but despite their flaws i enjoyed my time with them a lot. The dlc case was all right, it was good, wasnt amazing but also wasn't bad either.
5-4 was just a set up case, which i dont mind, but on it's own it was all right.
5-1 was neat but i wouldn't call it that great either.
Overall i liked the game but i definitely didn't like the fact that it kind of felt like it side lined the Ace Attorney 4 cast, such as Trucy or Klavier, or even Apollo himself who, while he does get an arc here, it's not nearly as important as the arc Athena or even Phoenix go through. Which btw, Athena Cykes was definitely a great character here, as well as Blackquill, enjoyed their characters thoroughly.
As for Spirit of Justice, i think the game is great overall, but it has more noticable flaws for me than dual destinies did, the prosecutor in this game, Nahyuta, wasn't a good character at all imo until his very last few moments, he was just annoying as hell to face in these cases, however, despite all that, magical turnabout (being 6-2) is an S tier case, that was just amazing, loved seeing Apollo and Trucy have an entire case on their own, specially with the Apollo Justice call outs.
This game in general feels more like an Apollo Justice sequel than dual destinies does, Apollo truly does feel like the mc of this game, with Phoenix having a second role, i wish Athena wasn't so sidelined though, she has a lot of potential, well here's hoping for her to be the main protag of Ace Attorney 7, i guess.
So as for specific cases, 6-1 was meh for me, i really despised the antagonist and the introduction to the new country Phoenix found himself in wasn't all that good, imo. As i already said for 6-2, that was just fantastic. 6-3 was actually great, imo, i loved learning about this new country and while Phoenix had to defend Maya again, it was still an enjoyable ride. I was looking forward to 6-4 as that was an Athena focused case, but ended up enjoying only certain parts of it, while being dissapointed with the rest. And...6-5 was an amazing end to the game, and the trilogy as a whole, for that matter.
And the dlc case, i thought was all right, nothing to write home about but i definitely expected more from it, since it's the last case in the mainline games since spirit of justice came out.
Music side of things though i find flawed, theres only like 2 or 3 tracks from this game that i really enjoyed, as opposed to Apollo Justice where i saved most of the game's OST to my playlist.
As for the 3d models, i liked the change and thought it brought a breath of fresh air to the franchise, however i still prefer the 2d style, would love to see Ace Attorney 7 go back to the Apollo Justice style art, would be lovely.
Overall i'd say this trilogy is amazing and worth playing, especially if you loved the original Ace Attorney triology (which i sure did), certain cases from these games aren't as good as the original trilogy, while certain other cases are even better than some of those from the original trilogy, at least, in my opinion.
Overall, definitely recommend, would give it 9.5 out of 10 attorney badges, for sure.
