If you're here, you're probably already an Ace Attorney fan, or at least a visual novel fan, and you want to know what makes THIS game special.

Well, this game is about attorneys in Paris in 1848, just before the founding of the Second Republic. Except every single character is an animal person. The main character is a falcon, his assistant is a sparrow, his opposing prosecutors are a rabbit and a cockatiel, the judges are a heron (?) and a wolf. The art style is extremely simple, consisting of public domain images by J. J. Grandville, yet it really works for the game.

What I particularly liked about this game is that it tackles the question of what justice really is. What happens if you defend a client who was actually guilty, and an innocent person gets indicted instead? Where is the justice in a legal system that imposes harsh punishments on poor people who committed petty crimes because they needed to eat? It resolves this so much better than the "Dark Age of the Law" storyline in Ace Attorney 4 & 5.

You will meet, among other characters, a grizzled old war veteran, a prince, a king, a poor mother and her child, an angry rebellion leader, and an angler who is not a fisherman. There are puns galore, and you can assume that any character name is either the name of that animal in French OR the name of a famous person associated with the revolution in 1848. In particular, Jayjay Falcon is using an assumed name, and you will likely be shocked when you find out who he really is.

My friend and I stream the game over Discord and act out the lines from each of the characters. So far we have done one "bad" route and the "good" route, and we still need to finish the other "bad" route. My friend thinks that Ending A, the "bad" route, was more satisfying than the "good" Ending B. I liked both. I really appreciate that there ARE multiple endings and that your choices mean something. It is possible at any point to go back and replay a previous day, if you find later that you didn't get a piece of evidence that you needed.

Obviously I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys Ace Attorney, but I also feel that the game is "meatier" than Ace Attorney. The graphics are simple but the concept and the text are rich. I'm genuinely sad that this indie games studio doesn't seem to have made any other games, because I'd love another game of this type.