Status BurningKirby Aug 13, 2025
Actually insane how many
Nearing the end of the game here though and otherwise it's been a treat!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations (2007)
Expanded Game of Gyakuten Saiban 3
Nintendo DS · PC (Microsoft Windows)
4.48 from 1569 ratings · #44 top rated on Grouvee
3205 members have it in their collection · 107 playing now · 636 backlogged · 538 wish listed
How long? Main story 25h · with extras 13h · 100% 20h (from 18 logged playthroughs)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations (known as Gyakuten Saiban 3 in Japan) is the third game in the Ace Attorney series. Players take on the role of Phoenix Wright, a defense attorney known for taking on seemingly impossible cases. While the game focuses on a few specific cases, the overarching story of the Phoenix Wright franchise spans …
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations (known as Gyakuten Saiban 3 in Japan) is the third game in the Ace Attorney series. Players take on the role of Phoenix Wright, a defense attorney known for taking on seemingly impossible cases. While the game focuses on a few specific cases, the overarching story of the Phoenix Wright franchise spans the length of the series, involving obscure characters from large families and intricate webs of lies, plots, and murder. The nature of the series remains generally lighthearted, something that's reinforced by its playful, anime-inspired visual style, but the nature of the crimes committed can be cold and downright disturbing. While the game's legal acumen is highly dubious, its aim seems to be more about producing comedic or stereotypically dramatic courtroom moments. Ace Attorney 3 makes light use of the DS touch screen, allowing the player to examine crime scenes and inspect evidence and character profiles. The top screen is used more for storytelling purposes, displaying various dialogue and conversations between characters. During these sequences the lower screen becomes a selection menu, displaying a series of questions to ask witnesses and further your investigation in search of evidence to use in defense of your client in each chapter.
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Details
- Developers
- Capcom
- Publishers
- Capcom
- Genres
- Adventure, Point-and-click, Visual Novel
- Themes
- Comedy, Mystery
- Franchises
- Ace Attorney
- Series
- Ace Attorney
Release dates
- Aug 23, 2007 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo DS
- Oct 23, 2007 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo DS
- Oct 03, 2008 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo DS
Also available on
- Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2004) · GBA, PC, WiiU
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations (2013) · ANDR, 3DS, NSW, PC, PS4, XONE, iOS
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Rating distribution
5 stars
939
4 stars
477
3 stars
129
2 stars
11
1 star
13
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status BurningKirby Aug 4, 2025
Not a conversation I expected to read in this game...
Status BurningKirby Jul 7, 2025
Godot's endless supply of coffee cups sliding into his hand from offscreen never fails to get a chuckle out of me. I can tell I'm going to like him a lot already.
Status Arkalliant Oct 12, 2024
I think I'm half way the last case and man, I hate Godot so much, such a downgrade from previous prosecutors. Also, Larry gets so much fucking screen time, I don't even remember him being this annoying in the first game, he is now kinda of a lazy perverted weirdo. IMO this is turning up to be the weakest of …
Read moreI think I'm half way the last case and man, I hate Godot so much, such a downgrade from previous prosecutors. Also, Larry gets so much fucking screen time, I don't even remember him being this annoying in the first game, he is now kinda of a lazy perverted weirdo. IMO this is turning up to be the weakest of the trilogy
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Status Yuna67876 Aug 20, 2024
This is now done, I feel it safe to say this is the best out of the og trilogy, even with sopme flaws I came out enjoying this. Espically in this game with the third case being enjoyable as it was is a very good thing as 3rd cases can always be downers. It might be a bit before I …
Read moreThis is now done, I feel it safe to say this is the best out of the og trilogy, even with sopme flaws I came out enjoying this. Espically in this game with the third case being enjoyable as it was is a very good thing as 3rd cases can always be downers. It might be a bit before I get to apollo justice but I get to it by the end of the year
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Status Yuna67876 Aug 12, 2024
I am on the final case of this now (did case 4 in 1 night), and I should get this done by next Monday I say because I see case 5 taking me this whole week. I start working tomorrow so I have days where it going to be hard to game now so for me i have one jrpg, …
Read moreI am on the final case of this now (did case 4 in 1 night), and I should get this done by next Monday I say because I see case 5 taking me this whole week. I start working tomorrow so I have days where it going to be hard to game now so for me i have one jrpg, and one vn or nonjrpg going forward because that is all I have time for. As for trials and tribulations I definitely think this is one of the stronger games in the trilogy (espically since I liked the 3rd case, and did not feel like a drag).
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Status DucksOnQuack Feb 27, 2022
"How many cups of darkness have I drank over the years? Even I don't know... I'll tell you though... Right now, this one here is the greatest cup I think I've ever had."
Status DucksOnQuack Feb 23, 2022
"The only time a lawyer can cry is when it's all over."
I almost did, but that was only when the 4th case ended. What a gut punch.
Status QuilDewIvy Mar 16, 2020
Trials and Tribulations - First Impressions
AA3 starts out swinging way harder than how the first two games did, with a case that was not only thematically interesting but also established the characters and motives well. It had something interesting to say, and the new music hits real hard to add onto the engagement.
This is however, immediately followed by …
Trials and Tribulations - First Impressions
AA3 starts out swinging way harder than how the first two games did, with a case that was not only thematically interesting but also established the characters and motives well. It had something interesting to say, and the new music hits real hard to add onto the engagement.
This is however, immediately followed by the second case right now being an utter drawl offering very little of thematic interest with characters who I am finding it REALLY hard to care about or steelman the slightest bit. Which is ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
At the very least, I can see what AA3 is setting up down the line, and Godot is a great foil to have as the new recurring narrative element. I have higher hopes than I did in AA1 and 2, but it does seem that consistency is not a hallmark of the series, at all.
