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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
Japanese logo English logo	Game Title:	Japanese: 逆ぎゃく転てん裁さい判ばん３ (Gyakuten Saiban 3 / lit. Turnabout Trial 3) English: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
	Developer(s):	Capcom Production Studio 4
	Publisher(s):	Capcom
	Release Dates:	Game Boy Advance Japan: 23 January 2004 Windows Japan: 31 March 2006 Nintendo DS Japan: 23 August 2007 North America: 23 October 2007 Europe: 3 October 2008 WiiWare Japan: 23 February 2010 North America: 10 May 2010 Europe: 21 May 2010
	Series:	Ace Attorney (Series)
	Relations:	Prequel: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All Sequel: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Bundle: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

General Information

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations is the third entry from Ace Attorney series. Known in Japan as 逆ぎゃく転てん裁さい判ばん３ (Gyakuten Saiban 3 / lit. Turnabout Trial 3). The game intended by the writer, Shu Takumi, to be the final entry of the series as he felt he had explored Phoenix's character fully.

The game first released for Game Boy Advance on 23 January 2004 at Japan, under the name 逆ぎゃく転てん裁さい判ばん３ (Gyakuten Saiban 3 / lit. Turnabout Trial 3). The game ported to Windows on 31 March 2006 at Japan. Nintendo DS version released at Japan on 23 August 2007, at North America on 23 October 2007, and at Europe on 3 October 2008. WiiWare version released at Japan on 23 February 2010, at North America on 10 May 2010, and at Europe on 21 May 2010.

In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, you follow Phoenix Wright, defense attorney tackling cases to find the truth, by investigating crime scene, speak to people involved in the case, and cross-examine the witnesses. It's been a year since Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All and you're facing a new prosecutor, Godot, a mysterious prosecutor who love coffee.

Gameplay

The game split into 2 modes, Trial mode and Investigation mode. And at any time you could access your Court Record, where your Evidence and Profiles are stored with more detailed information.

Trial mode where you defend your client on court trial.

Health bar: Your health represented by a blue health bar. Depending the risk involved, you'll lose more health on each mistake you made and you could see how much you'll lose by the glowing section on the bar. The health bar will remain the same through the episode and it could be recharge by successfully break Psyche-Lock. Once you lost all your health, your client will be declared 'Guilty' and game over.
Cross Examination: Every witness testimony must be examined, either by pressing certain statement to get more information or presenting evidence to contradicting statement. Pressing generally safe from penalty until told otherwise and presenting wrong evidence or presenting at wrong statement will result on getting penalized.

Investigation mode where you looking around various places to gather evidences for next day trial.

Examine: This mode allowing you to examine your surrounding (a.k.a background) to gather hint or get new evidence.
Talk: Sometimes there's people on the area you're visiting and you could talk to them to get more information. The conversation topic will had red checkmark if you already talked about that topic.
Present: Sometimes you need to present evidence to people to get more hint and presenting unrelated evidence won't cost health like in trial mode.
Psyche-Locks: Psyche-Locks is your ability to detect people when they are lying or trying to hide something. Present the Magatama to the person to attempt breaking the lock followed by presenting evidence or clues to uncover the truth. Successfully breaking the Psyche-Lock will regain 50% of your health. If you running low on health, you automatically stop the process of breaking the Psyche-Lock and return to investigation with minimum amount of health.