Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane

//some mild character spoilers toward the end of the review// When I started playing Attorney of the Arcane, I was apprehensive. I love the Ace Attorney games, and they feel like a very singular set of experiences that would be difficult to replicate by another developer. I was overjoyed to be proven completely wrong, and believe that Tyrion Cuthbert continues the trend of indie developers creating fantastic games based on beloved series. Bug Fables delivered an excellent Paper Mario-style RPG, Project Wingman stands alongside the Ace Combat series, and Attorney of the Arcane managed to be one of my favourite Ace Attorney games. One of the biggest aspects this game gets right is pacing. AotA doesn't have a case that drags, and I can't say that about many AA games. The investigations are painless and enjoyable, questioning witnesses isn't a slog, and the game introduces a brilliant argument system allowing the player to quickly go through multiple deductive steps. I had a begrudging a...

I didn't particularly like case 5 including the ending, but cases 1-4 were top tier, definitely makes you care for the characters, I would highly recommend this as a visual novel experience

I highly recommend this to anyone who loves the thought of a fantasy-themed Ace Attorney, with a a very fun-yet-meaningful story. The mysteries of the Ace Attorney style acts are well written, although as somebody who engages with a lot of the mystery genre, I often found myself solving the mysteries very early on into their introduction. However, even when the solving the mystery wasn't the main motivation, the characters, story, and humor were well worth it. Case #4 was an especially fun mystery to solve, and I was extremely invested in the characters by the end of the game. Looking forward to a sequel.

Ace Attorney without Ace Attorney. A great homage to that series with a magic twist.

The setting, mechanics and twists all make for an unforgettable VN!

To compare it to Ace Attorney; I'd say it's not as good overall, there are some points where it's falling behind slightly, like the presenting of items. In AA I would present everything to everyone to get funny text, and you could show your badge to anyone and almost always get something. In this only really specific key items get a reply out of characters and it it's rarely needed to continue. But that aside. Some "turnabouts" are really unexpected, but a few you can see a mile away. That said, while it doesn't quite reach AA's heights it comes damn close, especially in terms of story and characters, so definitely a recommendation from me. I'll definitely be buying the sequel too as soon as it's released.

Fantastic story, and an excellent setting. Very interesting cases with the use of magic in a detective/law genre. Although the sprite animations are a little generic compared to Ace Attorney. Overall a very fun visual novel detective game.

As someone who played all the Ace Attorney games, I really liked this game, it filled the itch I had for a new game in the genre. While cases 1 to 4 are relatively easy, I still liked all of them, due to the combination of the writing, art and music (big up to the music, I really loved the jazz style and the "Objection", "Cornered" and "Pursuit" themes really hightens these moment as they should. I'm still currently listening to them on the side lol. I'm also really invested in the grander narrative, and really hope we'll see at least a second game for this series. I would love to see where this story goes.

If you like Ace Attorney and similar games, you'll definitely like this one.

Great game! Characters are charming and the court cases are interesting enough. Obviously inspired by Ace Attorney but has its own spin. I would recommend this game to anybody that likes the Ace Attorney series. I think its just as good as any of the other AA games.