At last, our client has been proven innocent, and the true killer of Detective Bruce Goodman has been exposed. The case is over, but we still have just a few loose threads left to tie up.
As a reminder, Rise From the Ashes was written after both Justice for All and Trials and Tribulations had been released in Japan. At the time, the first game had only just come to America via the 3DS, and this was an extra case added to what was already a complete game.
While this case does stand on it’s own, nearly the full length of an entire Ace Attorney game, taken in the context of franchise as a whole it’s fairly awkwardly placed. That’ll be more clear as we start to discuss Justice for All, but for now I’ll simply stop to say that I believe the transition from Turnabout Goodbyes to Justice for All more plausible than the jump from Rise from the Ashes to it.
That said, this expansion had the additional purpose of serving as a testing ground for 3DS touchscreen-based gameplay in the Ace Attorney games. As far as that was concerned, this was a successful proof of concept. The only problem mechanic was arranging the pot to look like the Blue Badger. Aside from that, everything else fit just fine into our investigation segments, adding just a tinge of variety into the proceedings.
And though we won’t see much more of them for some time, they will return if we ever get to the Apollo Justice games.
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