
- 77/100
- Players27 ratings
- 79/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic15 critic reviews
- 77/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 73/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3.79/5
- Player reviews
- 94% positive1,162 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$14.99
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2015 · Adventure · Historical
Aviary Attorney
Aviary Attorney is an adventure game in the style of the Ace Attorney series. The player takes the role of a defence lawyer, and must investigate crimes and then defend their clients in court.
- Released
- 21 December 2015
- Platforms
- WindowsmacOS
- Genres
- AdventureHistoricalIndieVisual novel
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Comedy
- Engine
- Construct
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Time to beat
- 4.5hmain story8hcompletionist
About
Aviary Attorney is a 2015 adventure game in the style of the Ace Attorney series. The player takes the role of a defence lawyer, and must investigate crimes and then defend their clients in court.
›Story
The year is 1848.
Paris is on the brink of yet another revolution, and the prisons are overflowing with guilty and innocent alike.
One man stands for justice amid society's chaos. No. One bird...
Play the role of Monsieur Jayjay Falcon, a bird of prey with a good heart and questionable lawyering expertise. Join him and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game is set in 1848 Paris inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, and the player takes the role of Jayjay Falcon, a defence lawyer who must defend a series of clients in court. For each case the player is given a limited number of days to explore various locations around the city of Paris, gathering clues, but also numerous red herrings. The player must then use the results of their investigation to cross examine witnesses at the trial, to try and procure a verdict of not guilty from the jury.
The game is composed of a series of cases. The game makes use of public domain works, the character artwork is taken from the caricatures by J. J. Grandville, and its soundtrack includes the music of Camille Saint-Saëns.
Development
The game was developed by Sketchy Logic, and partly financed through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, raising £18,917 towards its development in January 2015. It was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in December 2015.
On 30 January 2020, Portugal-based Vertical Reach published a Nintendo Switch port under the title Aviary Attorney: Definitive Edition in North America and Europe, exclusively via Nintendo eShop. In November 2022, Singapore-based publisher Leoful announced they are launching the Nintendo Switch port on 15 December 2022 both digitally and physically for various Asian markets, such as Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, with Japanese and Chinese language support included.
Reception
Critical reception was generally positive, generating a score of 77/100 on reviews aggregation website Metacritic, Eurogamer recommended the game, highlighting the characters as "written with poise and wit, making for laugh-out-loud moments and genuinely exciting revelations". USGamer in their 3.5/5 review, described the artwork and the music as the "perfect accompaniment", but felt the game did not reach the same heights as the Ace Attorney series. Hardcore Gamer panned the game, giving it 1.5/5. They cited numerous bugs in the initial release, delay in the release of the final chapter, and the brevity of the game as reasons for the low score.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Ported as
- Aviary Attorney: Definitive Edition
- Built on it
- Aviary Attorney: Definitive Edition
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Genres
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