Both games have a Text Skip option but they are bit different. On Spirit of Justice the Text Skip options applies to both the A and B inputs. The B input allows you to skip text faster (as you can hold it) if the option is set to All or if reading text already read with the Read setting.
In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, she was hired by the Criminal Affairs Department as a homicide detective, much to her irritation, but since then she has managed to also become a full forensic scientist, as she had originally envisioned.
Spirit of Justice received a 34/40 from Famitsu, being awarded two eights and two nines. It holds an 81 on Metacritic, placing it into the 'Generally Positive' category. The game also received a mediocre review from IGN (who awarded it a 65/100), citing that the game has a "bloated middle act" and a flawed new mechanic, among other criticisms.
The story of Spirit of Justice is set roughly one year after its predecessor, Dual Destinies, and once again focuses on defense attorney Phoenix Wright and his two understudies Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes.
All pre-order copies also included the Ace Attorney Theater episodes for free and pixel-art keychain charms of the main characters of Spirit of Justice. Purchasing the game in the first few weeks of release also granted alternate costumes for free, after which they became paid DLC.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice (逆転裁判 6, Gyakuten Saiban 6; lit. " Turnabout Trial 6 ") is the sixth installment of the Gyakuten Saiban series, and the tenth installment overall in the Ace Attorney series of text adventure video games. It was announced in Famitsu on September 1, 2015 as a title for the Nintendo 3DS, with Motohide Eshiro as producer and Takeshi Yamazaki and Takuro Fuse as co-directors. It was confirmed shortly after the Japanese announcement that the game was in development for a Western release.
Turnabout Storyteller - Athena Cykes takes on the case of Bucky Whet, a soba shop worker accused of murdering rakugo master Taifu Toneido, at Simon Blackquill 's request. However, with Justice and Trucy occupied and Phoenix out of the country, she must face off against Prosecutor Sahdmadhi alone.
Spirit of Justice has the honor of featuring the highest number of unavoidable, scripted "Guilty" verdicts of any Ace Attorney game to date at three.
Spirit of Justice uses a five-strike "Confidence Icon" penalty system ; this is the first main series Ace Attorney game since Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney to use this system, rather than the variable health bar-like "Confidence Gauge" system that has been in place since Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All.
Spirit of Justice also contains new features not seen in any previous initial release of a main series game. In contrast to the bare-bones title screens from previous games, Spirit of Justice follows the lead of Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy by featuring background music, as well as having a background design that does not simply depict a courtroom. Additionally, an options menu is accessible from the title screen that allows the player to toggle or adjust various settings, such as volume controls, skipping of unread text, and toggling the "Consult" feature, which is a first for the main series titles. The "Consult" feature itself triggers upon losing two Confidence Icons during a cross-examination, rather than after three mistakes as was the case in Dual Destinies. Within the game, cutscenes can now be skipped by pressing the START button or tapping the touchscreen. Like Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, there are instances of in-dialogue voice-acted lines, most notably when Nahyuta Sahdmadhi is reciting a sutra, when Rayfa Padma Khura'in begins her Dance of Devotion, and when Dhurke Sahdmadhi says "A dragon never yields."
The Rite of Turnabout - As Maya Fey is completing one of her final training rites, the priest conducting the session is found dead. Since Fey was the only one with the priest at the time and was wearing a ceremonial outfit that matched the killer's description, she is charged with the murder. Nahyuta Sahdmadhi returns to Khura'in along with forensic detective Ema Skye to try the case in the Khura'inese courts, while Phoenix Wright steps up to defend his friend yet again.
Six full-length episodes are available in all versions of the game. The base 3DS version comes with the first five episodes, with the last episode and two short non-canonical "what-if" scenarios available as DLC. This is the first game in the main Ace Attorney series since Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney to have all non-DLC episodes unlock in chronological order. Additionally, all are accessed from the "Episode Select" menu rather than in a separate DLC menu, as was the case in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. The base iOS version comes with the first episode with the rest as DLC, while the Android version comes with all six episodes at once.
The text skip is so inconsistent. In the 3DS Trilogy, you could always A or B-button skip text, no matter what. Probably in the iOS port, too.
TLDR: Pressing/tapping (not holding) A on the new trilogy makes it fast forward dialogue no matter the Text Skip Setting . On Spirit of Justice (and other games) you can turn it off.