Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
North American cover art, featuring several characters. Clockwise from top left: the judge, Edgeworth, Phoenix, and Maya.
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Director(s)	Shu Takumi
Producer(s)	Atsushi Inaba Minae Matsukawa (DS)
Artist(s)	Kumiko Suekane Tatsuro Iwamoto
Writer(s)	Shu Takumi
Composer(s)	Masakazu Sugimori Naoto Tanaka (DS)
Series	Ace Attorney
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, Wii, iOS, Android, Nintendo 3DS
Release date(s)	October 12, 2001 Game Boy Advance JP: October 12, 2001 Nintendo DS JP: September 15, 2005 NA: October 12, 2005 EU: March 16, 2006 PC JP: December 23, 2005 Wii Episodes 1-4 JP: December 15, 2009 NA: January 11, 2010 PAL: January 15, 2010 Episode 5 JP: March 16, 2010 NA: May 24, 2010 PAL: May 2010 iOS Original JP: December 21, 2009 NA: May 24, 2010 Trilogy HD JP: February 7, 2012 NA/EU: May 30, 2013 Nintendo 3DS JP: April 17, 2014 NA: December 9, 2014 EU: December 11, 2014
Genre(s)	Adventure, visual novel
Mode(s)	Single-player

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, known in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban (逆転裁判^?, lit. "Turnabout Trial"), is a visual novel adventure video game developed by Capcom. It was originally released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001 in Japan, and has since been ported to multiple platforms. The Nintendo DS version, titled Gyakuten Saiban Yomigaeru Gyakuten in Japan, was released in 2005 in Japan and North America, and in 2006 in Europe, and includes an English language option. The game is the first entry in the Ace Attorney series, and has received several sequels and spin-offs.

The story follows Phoenix Wright, a rookie defense attorney who attempts to get his clients declared "not guilty". Among other characters are Phoenix's boss, Mia Fey; his assistant and Mia's sister, Maya; and prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. The player controls Phoenix through two types of sections: investigations and courtroom trials. During investigations, they gather information and evidence, and during trials, they cross-examine witnesses and answer questions from the judge, the prosecutor, and the witnesses. The story is split into five cases, the fifth being introduced in the Nintendo DS version to take advantage of gameplay elements using the handheld's touchscreen and not available in the original Game Boy Advance version.

Development of the game was handled by a team of seven people over the course of ten months. It was directed and written by Shu Takumi, and was originally planned to be a Game Boy Color game about a private investigator. The game was designed to be simple, as Takumi wanted it to be easy enough for even his mother to play. While the original version of the game takes place in Japan, the localization is set in the United States; this became an issue when localizing later games, where the Japanese setting was more obvious.