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I've been playing too many normal, decent games lately. Time to get weird! This is a very long write-up because the whole game is story based so my apologies. I'll do a much shorter summary soon.

Currently Playing: Trickle Greenweed: Mermaid at Law in Christmas Catastrophe

What Is It? Phoenix Wright rip-off where you're a mermaid trying to save Santa from being wrongfully accused of bombing a toy warehouse

Gameplay Overview: I promise you that description is the high point of the game. Have you played Phoenix Wright? This is that if you squint really hard. You have a visual novel part where you go around and inspect stuff and talk to people, then a courtroom segment part where you press witnesses on statements and present contradictory evidence.

Here's The Game Page! https://play.date/games/trickle-greenweed/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-Alright Im just going to grab this because this is the best title on the Playdate and there isnt a close second. Trickle Greenweed: Mermaid at Law in Christmas Catastrophe, YOURE NEXT
-I can tell from the screenshots and the title card that this is a budget ripoff of Phoenix Wright, but honestly Im kind of down? Especially if it is even halfway decent.
-It opens with a literal OBJECTION flash. Is it easier or harder to sue if the thing youre ripping off is lawyer based, I wonder.
-I can already do chapter select from the menu screen, which seems crazy. Theres only three so Im guessing this is basically like a short Phoenix Wright case.
-Uh theres no way to go back? I clicked on the trial portion just to verify I could and now Im stuck. HELP ME.
-Time to start, for real now.
-Theres a building that just says toys and then it explodes. Im pretty sure this is also what happened to my local Toysrus a couple of years back, too.
-???: Ha ha ha! Its done! Its done! Aw please dont show me who did it right away those are always my least favorite Phoenix Wright cases.
-???: Now Christmas is ruined, forever! This year the Grinch decided he had to take drastic measures to stop Whoville.
-Trickle: My name is Trickle Greenweed, and I have just graduated law from Atlantis U, meaning Im finally a fully fledged mermaid attorney, just in time for Christmas! I am a little confused why mermaid was the option they went with a Christmas themed Phoenix Wright ripoff. Why not elf? Or reindeer? Or something non aquatic, at least.
-Trickle: Im a defense attorney. That means that I go to court and use my knowledge of the law to help protect people. Hold on let me go check a Phoenix Wright walkthrough because Im not 100% positive that dialogue isnt lifted entirely from one of the games.
-Trickle: When someone is being accused of a crime they didnt commit, Ill be there to back them up! And if theyre being accused of a crime they did commit, Ill also be there if they paid my standard retainer fee!
-I now have to move the dpad around to inspect Trickles office and the cursor moves SO SLOW. I miss touchscreen interface already.
-Trickle: This is my official attorneys shell! It is only given to fully qualified attorneys. And also any child who finds one at the beach. Theyre also allowed to practice mermaid law at that point. Its a flaw in our system.
-Im waiting for my first client to show up, and pass out while waiting. Guess there arent a lot of underwater crimes.
-Unknown: Wow, do people really live like this? Its so depressing. Um excuse me Im not sure if you saw but I have a seashell badge so it is definitely NOT depressing.
-Unknown: OH! Oh gosh, Im so sorry! I dont know how I didnt see you there! Considering it is literally just me in a completely empty office, Im not sure either. BUT this seems catty and intentional, you jerk face elf.
-This elfs name is Sparky Blastcap. That sounds less like an elfs name, and more like the name of someone who would blow up a toy building. Number one suspect, hello. Thanks for coming here to turn yourself in.
-Oh, this guys not an elf. Hes a mer-elf. Of course. Now the whole underwater theme makes perfect sense.
-Sparky: We mer-elves all live together at the north pole. Were like one big happy family! Hey not to be rude but Im pretty sure thats also where all the normal elves live. Is it possible you are just a normal elf that likes to swim?
-I then question why the hell hes dressed the way he is. Were going to have a catty off, I guess.
-Trickle: Well, arent you a little bit, um, warm? Were in the tropics and youre wearing a polo neck jumper and a wooly hat with a bobble on it. It all made perfect sense to me until we got to the bobble. This guy must be a south pole mer-elf.
-Also we might or might not be underwater, Im not sure. Sparky please let me know if you start drowning as thatll be a pretty big clue.
-He almost passes out due to heat exhaustion. Or guilt from the arson he committed? Hm? HMMMM?
-Sparky chose me because he was just desperate for a lawyer and is agoraphobic and didnt want to go to downtown Atlantis. Sure, but again, do you not have elf lawyers that are maybe not half a hemisphere away?
-Sparky: So when I saw your tiny little office I was so relieved! It is even smaller than my workshop is! This feels like another burn but Im not sure. IM WATCHING YOU SPARKY.
-Sparky: Seanta has been accused ofMURDER! Thats a great pun and Im now like 50% certain this whole set up was because the author here thought of Seanta first and wanted to work that into a game somehow.
-Trickle: Seanta? As in the jolly old mer-man that gives toys to kids at Christmas? That Seanta? Uh trickle I believe you mean mer-toys to mer-kids at mer-Christmas. Cmon lets stay on theme here.
-Trickle: It would be kind of weird to call your kid Seanta, I guess. Anyone named Sean Ta in shambles right now.
-Also Santa being accused of murder is a pretty good hook for a Christmas Phoenix Wright rip-off, I got to say.
-Er. Sorry. Seanta. My mistake.
-The person Seanta is being accused of murdering? CHRISTMAS ITSELF!
-wait how does that work?
-Sparky here is like yeah mer-elf law doesnt make a lot of sense and a lot of it is metaphorical uh huh. This dumb war on Christmas rhetoric gets taken to extremes some places, huh?
-The warehouse that held all the toys was destroyed and thats why Christmas is considered murdered. Uh huh. Sure. But why not charge Seanta with oh I dunno an act of terrorism/bombing/arson/very real and not metaphorical crimes?