Having obsessed over LocoRoco in a rather disturbing way (my house is still covered in carboard locoroco’s) my attention has been finally drawn away from their bouncy colourful forms and their crazy, insanely addictive music. Once I got my white and shiny DS Lite I hopped on Pheonix Wright to find out why so many people that I know keep banging their hands on desks, poking me in the eye and shouting ‘objection!’ in my face and now all their crazy antics make perfect sense.

Pheonix Wright is a very strange game. There’s not much action to be had, it’s often so weird that it stops making sense. It’s the most simplistic of point and click games and the flow of play is all over the place but for some reason it’s the perfect game for travelling on a train with, and I’ve been doing a lot of that recently. Between travelling to Teeside for the Women in Games Conference and Newcastle for a day out with some of my gamer buddies I’ve managed to play almost the entire game except the last post credits case which I’m told is rock hard. I’ll have to wait till I have a real big train journey for that one, I think.

It’s funny though how certain games suit certain times of day, certain situations or days of the week. So what do you play and when?