Finished Aviary Attorney (Sketchy Logic, 2015)
The year is 1848. Paris is on the brink of yet another revolution, and the prisons are overflowing with guilty and innocent alike. In this trying time, Monsieur Jayjay Falcon, a bird of prey with a good heart and questionable lawyering expertise and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, have bet their law office on one clever marketing trick - calling it Aviary Attorneys, to be listed near the beginning of the Parisian business directory...
The game is a detective visual novel in the style of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, was financed through a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised 18,917 GBP and released through Steam Greenlight. There are 4 cases, the last of which branches into 3 different endings depending on the player's handling of case 3.
Pro:
I loved everything about this game, what a gem! My only complaint is that there isn't more of it.
4.5/5
The year is 1848. Paris is on the brink of yet another revolution, and the prisons are overflowing with guilty and innocent alike. In this trying time, Monsieur Jayjay Falcon, a bird of prey with a good heart and questionable lawyering expertise and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, have bet their law office on one clever marketing trick - calling it Aviary Attorneys, to be listed near the beginning of the Parisian business directory...
The game is a detective visual novel in the style of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, was financed through a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised 18,917 GBP and released through Steam Greenlight. There are 4 cases, the last of which branches into 3 different endings depending on the player's handling of case 3.
Pro:
- As if the setting and characters weren't already charming enough, the whole game is illustrated in the style of (and occasionally with verbatim works of) 19th century French caricaturist J. J. Grandville and scored with arrangements of 19th century French classical composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet and Erik Satie. Intertextual art direction doesn't get better than this.
- The writing and story is great. Like its big inspiration Phoenix Wright, it's a comedy first and foremost, but it gets a fair share of satirical digs at the notion of justice in along the way.
- The story progresses by calendar days and the save system is very comfortable - it lets you go back to any day you have previously played at any point.
- The first case is pretty much a game tutorial, which leaves 3 proper story cases - which really isn't much. Even with the branching endings, this game will not last beyond six hours. The setting and scenario surely would have had room for more.
- Lacks a fast forward function.
I loved everything about this game, what a gem! My only complaint is that there isn't more of it.
4.5/5
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