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Ace Attorney (ROBLOX game) - Review

Ace Attorney games. Funny. Cool. Dumb. Ladders.

When I heard there was an Ace Attorney roleplay game on ROBLOX, I was fairly excited.. I could finally be toxic and get away with it. Eventually, the excitement wore off, as I noticed the faults of the game... what they are? Why don't you just read?

When you start up the game, you are greeted with this rather peculiar title screen.

The first question is why exactly they chose this image for the title screen. Unfortunately I don't think this will ever be answered. We can only speculate. But who cares?

The title screen asks you a rather strange question: "Would you like to continue?" Continue what, I wonder...?
Under the question are two options you can click on, "Yes!" and "No." Clicking on "No." will yield no results, hovering over it will cause the option to change to "Never!"... Sure, why not?

When clicking on "Yes!", you will be given a choice of 4 roles: Defense, Prosecution, Witness, and Judge. As a result, only a max of 4 players can play on a server... Hideously low. Perhaps the game should allow for more roles? Like, say, a defendant?
That'd be really nice.

Nitpick alert, but doesn't that screenshot seem a bit empty to you? Perhaps a "Choose your Role" above the options wouldn't have hurt...

This is the courtroom you find yourself in when you choose a role. What's notable about this game is that you cannot move around at all; you stay in your place at all times. It's like I am playing the real deal! My goodness!

And yes, this picture is edited to cut out the judge.

On the right side of the screen is a box which you can use to chat. The special actions and color change depending on which role you are. For whatever reason, witnesses have no rights to do anything. Depressing. They can't even slam their stand.
Incase you haven't noticed: "Take That!" is nowhere to be seen... I wonder why?

Perhaps it's because this game doesn't support evidence. Yes, you heard (saw?) me right: There is no way for you to present, or create evidence in this game, forcing roleplayers to write down evidence "presented" in a Notepad file or try to remember it. (Not to mention: No evidence in an ACE ATTORNEY roleplay game...?) Another problem with this is that when a player leaves and another player joins, they will not know the details of the current roleplay, forcing the other players to explain it to the newcomer.

On top of that, there is no actual way to start or record a witness testimony, so that's another thing players have to write down/remember... not to mention witnesses may suddenly change their testimonies during the cross-examination.

Also, there is no chat log, which means if someone gets interrupted, they have to say it all over again, which can be quite annoying when it's a whole sentence!!
Furthermore, the game suffers from various bugs. Sometimes, when two messages are sent simultaneously, the game breaks, and text messages can no longer be sent. The only way to fix this is to use an "Objection!" or the judge's gavel.
Witnesses are hopeless in this situation, because they don't have access to these tools. The only thing they can do is try to change roles. It is quite irritating.

Oh well, atleast you can slam the desk in this game... Unless you're a witness.

Clicking on this little button opens a sidebar, where you can choose which piece of pre-determined music you want to play. The music selection consists mostly of typical Ace Attorney tracks, like Cornered or Objection! 2001. It even includes sad music (Classroom Trial).

Small question, though... where is the Testimony music? You know, Moderato and Allegro? How are you supposed to testify when there is no fitting music playing in the background!? ... Maybe it's not as big of a problem as I make it out to be, but I still think the lack of Testimony music is very shocking, to say the least. Classroom Trial is apparently more important than testimony music, it seems.

Somewhat related: "Objection!" and "Hold it!" are only available in Phoenix's voice. Edgeworth must be screaming inside right now.

Ace Attorney is a unique roleplay game that has a cute idea, but doesn't execute it very well. I do think that this game can work... However, faults, such as the lack of evidence and testimony support aswell as no chatlog make it not as good as it could be.

You may have noticed that this review is not that long... That's because there isn't really much to say about the game; it's just a roleplay, after all...

UPDATE 07/05/2021: It seems they were planning on doing an update to the game that'd fix all my issues here and more... But, they posted that back at the beginning of February... Are they working on it, even? It seems we have to wait a little eternity. No offense, but... I'd appreciate an update on development or something. Unless that's on Discord. To be honest, I don't use that...

UPDATE 02/20/2022: The game moved, but no update. I'm slightly glad they didn't forget the game existed.
UPDATE 03/08/2022: The game is back in its old place now. Maybe an actual update will happen again sometime.
UPDATE 03/18/2022: The fact that they actually updated the game blows my mind. Literally. Most glaring update includes remixes of in-game music. This includes the once broken ApolloObjection.
UPDATE 06/03/2023: Nothing.

Pro	Con
+Unique concept	-No chatlog
+You can slam the desk	-Doesn't support evidence/testimony
	-Not much music variety (Moderato?)
	-Low max player count
	-Semi-game breaking glitches

Score: 4.5/10

- Below Average -