Kyle of Insert-Disc reviews the Harvey Birdman game due to its new low price of $5.
"I'm a huge fan of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and I love the Harvey Birdman cartoon, so when I heard the game was essentially Phoenix Birdman: Ace Attorney at Law I was intrigued. The game works just like Ace Attorney, having you look around crime scenes, talk to people, and use evidence to prove that people are lying in court. Unlike Ace Attorney though, everything is blindingly obvious. You never have to think and at times it feels like you're watching a cartoon that makes you press a lot of buttons before anything actually happens."
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Why do we do this? We are well aware that a specific licensed game isn’t good, yet we actually manage to be less critical, we manage to overlook its issues, and enjoy these tie-ins, these perfect definitions of the word “shovelware”, without an issue. What is it about these games that makes us more… tolerant? Is it the novelty of playing a game based on a license we like? Is it some kind of psychological effect that reminds us of simpler days? Does it mean that playing these games brings out the best version of the gamer inside of us?"
Drew Leachman writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our second series will focus on Sony’s sophomore entry into the console business, the PlayStation 2.
Let’s continue with the letter “H”.
The lost Ace Attorney game!
