Prepare your finger and object 'til your heart's content.
So basically you're in the role of Phoenix Wright, a rookie defense attorney who is beggining to build his career alongside his boss, the beautiful and experienced Mia Faye.
During the game, you'll basically have to defend someone in order to obtain a Non-guilty veridict. Sounds complicated, but it actually isn't. You'll have a witness who'll give a testimony and then you'll have to cross-examine it while trying to find signs of contradiction. Point the contradiction and prove it presenting the items you have in your Court Record. Get the right item and get the glory or get the wrong item and get a penalization (you can get a maximum amount of 5 penalization warnings, or else the case is closed and your client is considered guilty). If you succeed by doing the right thing, you'll have your client's innocence as an award.
Don't worry, you won't spend THAT much time in the courts. Sometimes you'll have to do some homework and do some research in order to prove your client's innocence. Search for clues, interview people. Then go back to the court and make the audience shiver. That's the basics for this game.
The storyline is excellent and very well-planned. The cases are very interesting and may catch your attention for quite a while (specially the last ones). There's a total of 5 cases (and the last one is quite long), each of them have a field-search part.
You'll basically use only the touch-screen (you may play as well with the buttons, but in a few parts the touch-screen is mandatory) and the microphone... and that's the best part of the game. Each time you present an evidence, you can either press the "Present" button or hold down the Y button and scream: "OBJECTION", "HOLD IT" or "TAKE THAT". Yeah, I'm not kidding, you can do this to increase the level of fun (and believe me, it's worth it).
The sound may be kinda boring at first, but after you get familiar with them, you'll end up loving them, both songs and sound effects.
Weak point: the game is extremely linear. You can't do whatever you want or present something. If someone in the court says "show me the proof that there is a contradition in this statement", there's ONE AND ONLY ONE item that satisfies it. Sometimes it's hard to figure it out, but the connection of the object and the crime situation is always logical.
Another one: the game is relatively short. After you finish the game you may miss "something else".
Well, but still, an excellent and definitely worth-buying game. Highly recomended!