Fun, but could stand some improvements – Ace Attorney Trilogy HD Review

I haven't played the DS originals, so I can't compare theses games to those, but overall these are fun "visual novels" that do give you some sense of participation. The characters and stories are fun and creative, and there's a surprising amount of humor sprinkled throughout. The collection loses a star because there's no way to skip ahead when you're reading stuff you've already read before, and you'll find yourself doing that a lot in these games. The "Apollo Justice" sequel handles this better by sometimes (but not always) allowing you to skip ahead or display text more quickly. There's no reason they couldn't add that feature to this trilogy. Besides the sometimes-infuriating requirement of reading the same text over and over, the lack of a skip feature and/or any sort of text speed setting easily makes playing through these titles take at least twice as long, unnecessarily, as they would otherwise. And these are not short games. There are numerous textual errors and cases where one character's dialog seems to be attributed to a different character, but these weren't show-stoppers. I assume they were carried over from earlier versions of the games. Also, you may end up looking for online help in some spots where your next step is not clear. The stories are fun enough that I stuck with it despite the frustrations.
Review by Kaelef on Ace Attorney Trilogy HD.