Drinkable Chicken

This Nintendo DS game is the third in the Phoenix Wright series. As such, it's much the same as its two predecessors, and doesn't introduce much (or anything at all) in the way of new gameplay. In spite of that, I found it to be quite enjoyable.

The ongoing story of Phoenix & co moves ahead, sometimes in unexpected ways. Most of the well-known supporting characters are here again. We get to learn more about their past, and sometimes you even get to play them for a while (rather than Phoenix). Also: Phoenix has a love interest! :-) Or maybe two. In addition to that, there's the usual number of cases that seem impossible to solve at first glance, but turn out to make sense (well, sort of) as the game goes on.

Like the other two games, there are some minor nits that make gameplay somewhat less enjoyable than it could have been. Where some text adventures suffer from the "guess the verb" syndrome, PW sometimes suffers from "guess the correct piece of evidence"... or rather, presenting a piece of evidence at the exact point the makers of the game had in mind, even if there are other points where it would make sense to do so. Saving often helps, but is still annoying.

But overall, this game's highly recommended. It's too bad the Phoenix storyline seems to be over now. Fortunately it's not the end of the series; the next game will be Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. ^_^ (Apparently it's already out; I haven't seen it anywhere yet.)