Devil's Advocate by LDJam user 384280
Play as Jaya, a defense attorney in hell who is needing to get their newest client Abaddon out of serious punishment, except he's definitely guilty. Gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss your way through "proving" his innocence so that Jaya can keep paying for their luxury condo.
For macOS players: Godot builds are broken on chrome. Please use Safari (tested on Safari 17.4) or Firefox (right-click the game and select "This Frame -> Open Frame in New Tab").
Controls: - Escape: open and close pause menu - Left click: interact with interface and dialogue box - Spacebar: finish current dialogue line or skip to next line
Changelog: - Fixed Dialogue crash - Fixed Strike overflow crash - Fixed pause menu stuck during victory - Fixed Summoning skip



| Itch.io | https://spectradev.itch.io/devilsadvocate |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/devils-advocate-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 23th | 4.333⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 84th | 4.111⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 382th | 3.574⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 159th | 4.222⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 6th | 4.778⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 21th | 4.352⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 21th | 4.407⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 9th | 4.537⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
Ace Attorney, I love it soo much good job, I love how there are multiple possible endings and just in general I love
Attorney related stuff, 10/10!
The game is written well and fells very polished. Amazingly done!
My client walks free, and I can chill in my condo :grin:

I really like the visuals, the artist did a great job on this one. The writing was pretty and entertaining funny,
I replayed it to see what else I missed.
Really good entry!
Funnily enough, the first thing that came to my mind after hearing the theme was court summons, but that didn't really inspire my teammates, so I'm glad someone did it. The game's presentation is solid, a giant toad for a judge is perfection. I like that you had different voice bleeps for various characters, although Jaya often went mute and other characters sometimes swapped voices.
To improve it as an Ace Attorney-like, I would suggest to make the dialogue lines a little shorter, and add effects to break the monotony of reading text (AA has sound effects, flashes and screen shakes during dialogue to mark emphasis). I'm also not sure how I managed to get that "not guilty" verdict as it felt like we knew very little about what happened, certainly not enough to clear Abbadon's name entirely (maybe that's why he went to purgatory?) I assume it's because I reached the end without getting three strikes.
In any case, congrats for finishing!
Would be a shame if I didn´t get my paycheck for my nice condo!
Great game overall with the obvious nod the Ace Attorney.
If you want to be nitpicky it would have been nicer to see the Judge again when he was talking while the witness was on stand. Also, the summoning scene could have been a little bit shorter.
But yeah, thats just to critique something.
Overall a pretty solid and fun game!