I recently realized with some alarm that I spent almost 2% of 2024 playing Ace Attorney. That's not exactly 2% of my free time or even my spare time wake upto be clear, but a whole percentage of the time I was alive in 2024, in-game in Ace Attorney. But honestly, what can you expect in a year when five previously lost games from one of my favorite series have been restored and re-released for modern systems, to literally doubling the amount of Ace Attorney accessible to today's audiences within the space of just eight months?
I have no regrets about mainlining both Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy (published on January 25, total completion time: 105 hours) and the Ace Attorney Studies Collection (published on September 6, total completion time: 60 hours) as soon as I had a chance to do so. As someone who was first drawn to Ace Attorney when the latter two were reformed collections I brought the series to home consoles, knowing that I am now caught up on the top 10 games in this franchise makes me feel very happy, and I'm sure other fans in my situation feels the same way.
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But the trade-off of spending an entire calendar year with a 1-in-50 chance that I'd be playing Ace Attorney at any given time was—perhaps unsurprisingly—not left nothing else will affect me so much in 2024.
At first I called this to 2024 to be kind of like the morning after the night before, with “the night before” in question like all of 2023. By midway through last year, I had already nominated about 20 games as a GOTY contender, and I hadn't even met Baldur's Gate 3 however. It was just that amazing year for new games, and 2024 was always going to see a slight come down in comparison. But as this year draws to a close, I appreciate that, if I was a bit starving at first, the breakfast of a wonderful treat was essentially Full Monty fries. Ace Attorney – and probably ordered that. how much will I had left for other things.
That's not to say that I haven't been impressed by any other releases this year, in fact – far from it. I especially liked the funny one about the little boy who tries his best to help everyone like a fish out of water in an unfamiliar town: description I'm happy with him because he can be equally applicable to the surreal indie comedy gem Thank you very much You are here! and Sega Like a dragon: infinite wealtha massive RPG sequel that was nevertheless friendly enough to get me over my history of being seriously intimidated by the horror back catalog of the Yakuza franchise to jump in. (You could say I'm not… LAD shy anymore!)
An honorable mention is also deserved Little Kitty, the Citythe Goose Goose– similar about a stupid black cat who got lost on the very kind streets of a nameless, pastel-clothed city. This game has been on my waiting list for three years in a row, and I was thrilled when I finally got to play it in 2024 and found out that all nothing I hoped it would be.
And, on a very different note, it was Washing moutha retro-style indie in the body horror subgenre that I usually turn off as soon as possible, but ended up being hands down the best example of original game writing I've experienced in a while of the year.
But honestly, there's no rhyme or reason to what stood out to me this year, no real narrative conclusions I can draw from any trends I've invested in – but just how many brilliant remakes have been published throughout the year. A rust amount, which you can see calculated as part of our calculation VG247 Other Game Prizes.
So yes, stating that this year's duo of Ace Attorney renew collections as my personal co-GOTY is a completely selfish choice of heart, but it's Christmas, a time when we should be honest and celebrate what makes us happy. And by spending a solid week of this year solving crimes and defying the nonsense of the opposing council in the unlikely company of Apollo Justice and Miles Edgeworth I did just that. very happy.
