Review: PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY

Admittedly, one of the hard parts of picking out titles for this month was finding works that I was familiar enough with the game to judge fairly.  Thankfully, that's not a problem with today's review.  It's part of one of my favorite video game franchises, but can it stand proudly with the games that spawned it or is it guilty of adaptation failure?

PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY (Gyakuten Saiban), written by Kenji Kuroda & art by Kazuo Maekawa.  First published in 2007 and first published in North America in 2011.

PLOT:

Phoenix Wright is an up-and-coming defense attorney.  With his assistant Maya Fey at his side, he's determined to bring justice to his clients, be it his perpetually unlucky in love pal Larry Butz or a wealthy family with a lot of secrets, a lot of spiders, and a potential murder.