Aviary Attorney

Even though I will probably be hunted for sport for admitting this: I like it way better than Ace Attorney. It has so many bird puns.

Aviary attorney is a fun spin on Phoenix wright with inspirations from an 1800s caricaturist artist. Indeed the art style is very striking, with all the characters appearing in a distinct style with lithographic backgrounds as well. However the humour of the game is a little too mid 2000s internet humour for my liking with most characters having little depth. Indeed I do wish the game took itself a little more seriously with more info about the actual historical events being referenced so I could get context. Indeed there is a lack of many visual novel conveniences with no dialogue backlog or fast forwarding of dialogue you have already gone through. The main villains have little depth with a confusing desire of wanting carnivores on top despite almost all charicters even herbivores eating eating meat with even carnivores being fine with vegetables. Indeed all the charicters being animals is not utilized for more then just jokes. While in the past this had its place for being an ace attorney experience on pc there are enough alternatives for this to be not as special as it once may have been. While it’s not bad the quick change from court room drama to tracking down rebels in the third case was too much of a departure from the previous chapters. I would have to say unless you are intrigued by the art I would not recommend.

Since the artwork and music is all(?) public domain stuff I can't really praise it, it does look and sound nice but the sprites are obviously quite limited. It was a little overwhelming but I liked that you had a bit more freedom in the order of how you do things, it is kinda easy to screw yourself over but the game does let you go back and try again from any day. The three endings are pretty different from eachother and I thought they were all not perfect but quite good and I was happy to have gone for them all. The mysteries aren't really anything special but the game has enough interesting characters and funny writing that I didn't mind much. Overall, pretty good.

I definitely did things in the "wrong" order, because this game convinced me to go off and place the Ace Attorney games! It's got a delightful aesthetic and the mysteries are a lot of fun.

A fun game. Not terribly long, but I enjoyed it. One particular case was a bit frustrating, as it was easy to run out of time if you did anything extra at all, but the ability to reload any day helped to get it right eventually. The art and music were great.

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Sem spoilers. Este jogo lembra a clássica série de Ace Attorney, não tem como negar: A gameplay envolve interrogar NPCs, investigar planos de fundo no estilo "Point and Click", colher evidências para o dia do julgamento, etc. As histórias/plot são decentes, além de os diálogos serem bem construídos e engraçados. Mas o que se destaca no Aviary Attorney é a maneira como o jogo se desenvolve. Os jogos deste gênero, em sua maioria, inclusive no caso de Ace Attorney, tendem a ter um mecanismo de "trigger" na história: Por exemplo, você precisa fazer algo (conversar com um NPC, ou ter alguma evidência em mãos, etc) para que a história continue. Não é bem o caso em Aviary Attorney. Pelo contrário, há um mecanismo de data no jogo, então, se o julgamento for acontecer dentro de três dias in-game, ele ocorrerá em três dias independentemente das evidências que você tiver em mãos. Considerando isso, você precisa ter jogo de cintura na hora de escolher os lugares e as pessoas que for investigar, para não perder tempo e conseguir ir ao tribunal com as evidências necessárias. E por que este mecanismo é interessante? Porque dependendo das cartas em sua mão, a história pode mudar de trajetória. O bom é que o jogo salva automaticamente quando um dia in-game se passa, então dá pra facilmente jogar de novo para "triggerar" as outras linhas de desenvolvimento da história. Minha única crítica é que o botão de "save" não funcionou para mim por algum motivo. Eu tive de sempre usar o botão de escolher o dia in-game (auto-save) do menu para continuar a jogar. Tirando este bug, é um jogo bem sólido.

Friends, French anthropomorphic caricatures, countrymen, lend me your ears. When I bought this game, I expected a cute Ace Attorney knock-off. When I started playing the game, the simple case structure and heaps of bird puns convinced me I'd made a correct assessment. This game is short, it's full of puns, and it's simple... but it is far from a cheap imitation. It is an exceptional little story, with real heart. Act 3 showed me that it was capable of breaking the simple case-investigation-case-investigation flow of its predecessors, and showed me that it is also capable of telling a deeply engaging story in such a short time. I found it's investigation mechanics to be rather satisfying. In breaking from Ace Attorney, you CAN go into a case without all your necessary evidence, and your choices feel all that more impactful for it. I found myself engrossed in the story that upon reaching one case without all my evidence, I felt the need to walk back the clock. Cut to my surprise that you can easily load previous days' save states! I can't recommend this game enough. It far exceeded my expectations, and while it's been a very long time since its release I hold out hope to see more of its kind from the developers in the future. 10/10