History VisualNovel / PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations

* BlindIdiotTranslation: While the script has less overt editing compared to the last, the number of overt translation errors are ''far'' more egrigious. In particular, the final trial of the game is ''filled'' with multiple lines which aren't just nothing like the Japanese, but actively create entirely new plot points by complete accident:

** [[spoiler:During her cross-examination, Dahlia claims that her mother was originally to kill her as well, despite Dahlia already being on death row. The Japanese is actually a sardonic remark about how Morgan was so heartless as to incorporate her own daughter's execution into her EvilPlan from the very start.]]

** During an earlier case, the lights go out. The scene is played comedically and all you can see is Phoenix's eyes and Godot's visor. [[spoiler:During the final case, Phoenix has the bailiff shut the lights off to prove a point about why the murderer could be seen so well in the dark, and look at whose visor is lighting the courtroom in the dark. This time played seriously.]]

* BluffingTheMurderer: In [[spoiler:3-3]], this is how Phoenix finally catches the killer.

* DownerEnding: [[FlashBack Case 4]]: [[spoiler:Mia Fey was ''[[AcquittedTooLate that]]'' close to proving Terry Fawles' innocence in both the current murder and the events five years earlier but instead of continuing his testimony he [[DrivenToSuicide commits]] [[SuicidePact suicide]] in front of the entire courtroom, traumatizing both Mia and Edgeworth.]]

-->-- '''Phoenix Wright''', "Bridge to the Turnabout"

The Phoenix trilogy as a whole has been [[CompilationRerelease compiled]] and [[UpdatedRerelease updated]] for rerelease (including HD art and smoother animations) for [[PortOverdosed multiple systems]][[note]] [=iOS=] and Android, UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/Playstation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and PC[[/note]] as the ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy''.

!!Tropes in this game:

* AlwaysMurder: Double subverted with case 3-2, which starts off with a grand larceny trial only for your client to get charged with murder after acquittal for the theft.
* AmbidextrousSprite: In case 3-5, when [[spoiler:Edgeworth becomes acting defense attorney.]] [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] somewhat, because while the animations were flipped without accounting for handedness, the sprites ''were'' redrawn to keep the buttons on his vest/jacket facing the right way [[spoiler:and add an attorney's badge to his lapel.]]

** And in case 5, Sister Bikini. There's a good chance she actually does it ''on purpose''.

* ContinuityPorn: Case 3-5, let us count the ways. It brings back two criminals, one from an earlier case and one from an earlier game, and both of the main prosecutors from the first two games. It manages to incorporate the ''entire'' Fey family, and that goes for the main family, the branch family, the living, and the dead. [[spoiler:And yes, tragically, that includes Misty Fey.]] Even the DL-6 incident is tangentially relevant, as is [[spoiler:Edgeworth's fear of earthquakes]]. Franziska references a previous case when she says there's a precedent for [[spoiler:a flying defendant; remember Max Galactica from 2-3, who allegedly flew away after killing someone]]? And, on top of all of that, Gumshoe brings out the same metal detector Phoenix used in case 1-4 to [[spoiler:convict Manfred von Karma,]] and the mechanics change so that it works the same way as Gumshoe's bug sweeper in case 2-4. Phew! Fitting for the conclusion of the trilogy.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Back in case 3-4, Edgeworth was in full "Demon Prosecutor" mode, but when he sees that the defendant [[spoiler: has been poisoned]], he immediately calls for the trial to be stopped. Mia's ending narration also states that he was just as traumatized as she was by how everything turned out.

** At the end of case 1, Phoenix says that [[spoiler:he doesn't believe the Dahlia he saw during the trial is the one that he knew]], Mia thinks that he's delusional. Then it's revealed in the ending of the final case of the game that [[spoiler:she really wasn't the Dahlia he knew, but her twin sister Iris, who was a genuinely nice girl]].

** In case 2:

*** Maya asks what Phoenix would think if she came in calling herself Ayam (which is both the backward spelling of her name and a homophone of "I am"). Early in case 3, when it turns out that someone is [[spoiler:impersonating Phoenix, who Maya calls Xin Eohp]], Maya asks, "I wonder if [[spoiler:Ayam]] will make an appearance?" Later, we see that [[spoiler:Phoenix's impostor also has an assistant from a messed up family who looks a teensy bit like Maya, although the person said assistant impersonated wasn't Maya]].
*** The culprit, [[spoiler:Luke Atmey]], is finally caught after [[spoiler:giving away a piece of information he definitely couldn't know unless he was at the crime scene, as he was in a different trial when that detail was disclosed]]. The culprit of case 3, [[spoiler:Furio Tigre]], is caught under similar circumstances.

*** Godot mentions that when he finds evidence he picks it up and puts it in his pocket, very much like Phoenix does. [[spoiler:And as it just so happens, case 4 reveals Godot was originally a defense attorney.]]
** In case 3:
*** Upset with Viola's misguided affection, Phoenix mentions that poisoning and betrayal --the marks of a coward-- are things he considers unforgivable. This serves as a CallBack to case 1 (where Phoenix was nearly betrayed and poisoned), but it also references [[spoiler:case 4, where Dahlia Hawthorne convinces Terry Fawles to commit suicide, and also betrayed him five years earlier when she and her sister sold him to the police.]]

** Franziska in case 5:

** [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] in case 4:

** Godot in case 5:

* INeverToldYouMyName: In case 5, Iris says Phoenix's surname when talking to him, even though he never revealed it to her. When confronted about it, five Psyche Locks appear before her and the issue has to be dropped. It's not explained until the very end of the game. [[spoiler:The fact that you ''can't'' ask her about the subject later actually {{foreshadow|ing}}s the fact that the Iris that you talk to and the Iris that had the Psyche-Locks are actually [[TwinSwitch two different people]].]]

* JerkassBall: Franziska gets an even bigger one than usual in case 3-5 when she whips Phoenix while he's still suffering from a cold.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the beginning of case 3-2, Phoenix easily gets Ron [=DeLite=] off a larceny charge by proving he was somewhere else... only for Godot to come up to him afterward, say there was a murder committed there, and haul Ron off into custody ''again''. What, you thought it ''wouldn't'' be AlwaysMurder? [[spoiler:He was the thief in general, but not in that particular instance. He turned himself in to ensure he could have an alibi for the aforementioned murder. Phoenix was defending him because his wife told Nick he was a delusional {{fanboy}}. Thug begins a court case where Phoenix has to prove that his defendant ''is'' Mask☆[=DeMasque=] when the previous day he had just disproved it.]]

* SandInMyEyes: Inverted. After being revealed as the true murderer of [[spoiler:Elise Deauxnim (A.K.A. Misty Fey)]] at the end of case 3-5, [[spoiler:Godot starts bleeding from behind his mask due to the stab wound he sustained from Dahlia, but [[ManlyTears he insists that it's tears]] because he can't see red.]]
* SdrawkcabName: All of them in case 3:

* SissyVillain: Subverted in case 3-3. Jean Armstrong is very much a sissy, and has a criminal record, a motive, an opportunity, and the means to commit murder, but is not the culprit.

* SmokescreenCrime: In case 3-2, [[spoiler:Luke Atmey steals an urn while disguised as Mask?DeMasque in order to establish an alibi for a murder he committed during the robbery. His goal is to invoke double jeopardy through a larceny conviction.]]

** ''Investigation ~ Core 2002'' was quite an impactful track in JFA as it first played when [[spoiler:Matt Engarde shows his true colors]]. In this game, it plays much more frequently in rather mundane moments (in comparison to its use in JFA), like when Mia mentions the poisoning in case 1, when it's revealed Phoenix has a phony in case 3, and when Larry's sketch is revealed in case 5.

** You get your client innocent of larceny in case 2 in one single trial... but [[spoiler:Godot immediately lets you know that he's going to accuse your client of murder the next day, forcing a second investigation and a second trial]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: Back in case 3-4, Edgeworth was in full "Demon Prosecutor" mode, but when he sees that the defendent [[spoiler: has been poisoned]], he immediately calls for the trial to be stopped. Mia's ending narration also states that he was just as traumatized as she was by how everything turned out.

* ReclusiveArtist: Elise Deauxnim is said to be a popular children's book author, but is so reclusive and mysterious that even the police have a hard time finding out any info on her. [[spoiler:Turns out she's [[MissingMom Misty Fey]].]]

* ArcWelding: [[spoiler:The finale connects Morgan's plot to overthrow Maya so Pearl becomes the head of the Fey Clan, previously seen in ''Justice For All''; the quarrel between Mia and Dahlia, which was shown in this game's first and fourth cases; and Godot's projected grudge against Phoenix. All of these plotlines converge into a GambitPileup. Furthermore, Dahlia's dark and troubled past is also indirectly connected to the DL-6 incident, which was ThatOneCase throughout the main story of the first game]].

* ArcWelding: [[spoiler:The finale connects Morgan's plot to overthrow Maya so Pearl becomes the head of the Fey Clan, previously seen in ''Justice For All''; the quarrel between Mia and Dahlia, which was shown in this game's first and fourth cases; and Godot's projected grudge against Phoenix. All of these plotlines converge into a GambitPileup]].

''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations'' is the third game in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' visual novel franchise, following ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll''. It was initially released for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2004, then for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS in 2007.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the first game in the series where you play as more than one character, but the game only has one objection theme, which plays regardless of who the player character currently is. Later main series entries would have separate objection themes for each playable character.