When Capcom announced its Harvey Birdman game, it was one of those rare moments when a video-game license made perfect sense. After all, the company's Phoenix Wright games had cultivated a solid fanbase with its combination of sleuthing and courtroom drama, and the Adult Swim show contained plenty of those elements. After playing the game, GameInformer's happy to report that Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law is faithful to the offbeat source material while providing a close-enough approximation of the gameplay from Capcom's other legal series.
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!
Oh yes. I love this fvcking show.
"More Adult Swim games please" - in best Stephen Colbert voice with hand out.