Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One

Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One

Released Jul 2021

The chart-topping itch.io and Newgrounds indie hit comes to Steam, with a slew of enhancements and new features! Step into court as Nina Aquila, rookie defense attorney in this thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, and fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!

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Evaluation

Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One is a complete, self-contained visual novel/adventure game collecting three cases. It launched on Steam on July 9, 2021, and received a substantial v5 update on November 24, 2021, adding native Linux/Steam Deck support, new character artwork, name cards, animated poses, and Steam Cloud support. That v5 update is the last content shipped for Season One itself. The game is the first entry in an episodic series. Subsequent chapters are separate, individually sold products on Steam — not DLC or updates to Season One. The developer announced Chapter IV: Sacred Feathers on its own Steam store page (referenced in news posts as recently as March 25, 2025), and on October 2, 2025, announced that Chapter V: Full Metal Law had commenced development, also as a separate Steam listing. These are new games in the series, not additions to Season One. Season One itself has received no content updates since November 24, 2021, and the developer has made no announcements of any planned updates, DLC, or additions to this specific product. The game launched as a complete package of three cases and remains so. Players waiting for Season One to be "finished" can consider it complete as of the v5 update.
Evidence
The v5 update launched, adding Linux/Steam Deck support, new character artwork, name cards, animated OBJECTION pose, Steam Cloud, and numerous fixes. This is the last content update shipped for Season One.
news post · Nov 24, 2021 source content shipped
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Developer announces Chapter V: Full Metal Law as a separate Steam product (App ID 4020310), confirming the series continues — but as distinct, individually sold games rather than updates to Season One.
news post · Oct 2, 2025 source ambiguous
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Details

Publisher
Tanuki-sama Studios
Achievements
27
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

The chart-topping itch.io and Newgrounds indie smash comes to Steam, with a slew of enhancements and new features!

Step into court as Nina Aquila, rookie defense attorney in this thrilling VN/adventure game hybrid, and fight for justice in a world where all anime genres exist at once!

  • Experience an exciting mystery story told over ~10 hours

  • Discover a unique hybrid of Visual Novel & 2D adventure game that celebrates & parodies multiple anime genres

  • Investigate crime scenes & interrogate witnesses from a top-down perspective

  • Defend your client in court with evidence & cross-examination

  • Play minigames as varied as turn-based battling and downhill drift racing

Now collected together into NINA AQUILA: LEGAL EAGLE, SEASON ONE, investigate & defend your clients through three different cases, themed around cosplay, card games & illegal mountain street racing!

When Nina Aquila, freshly qualified defense attorney, takes part in her last supervised trial, she sets events in motion that will cause her career to become a casualty of a secret war. A great game is being played for the heart of Fledge City by the ruthless and powerful, one that Nina will have to uncover one case at a time.

Step into court and defend a young woman cosplaying as a fire mage, who stands accused of arson! In this trial, Anya will show you the ropes of how NALE works, while setting events in motion that will change Nina's life forever.

Several weeks after Chapter I, Nina's life is in turmoil after a costly defeat in court. Her confidence shattered, Nina holes up in her office until a visitor comes to the door - one who believes that only she can help him. A murder has been committed at the High Flyers Casino. The victim? A celebrity player of a trading card game, "Dragon Fantasy Arena", on the eve of the national tournament!

Who would commit murder over a children's card game? And why?

Surrounded by hot-blooded heroes and dastardly cosplaying villains, Nina will need all her cunning if she's to make the best of a bad draw... Or her client's going to be sent to the graveyard!

Following on from Chapter II, Nina and Dylan have been looking into the events surrounding a key trial and arrest, but the volume of evidence is huge, and weeks have already passed without any leads. Still, Aquila Defense & Law is a business, and when a person calling himself "The Jack of Diamonds" comes to the door in the middle of the night, Nina and Dylan are forced to take up his case.

Something is wrong up in the mountains. Shockwaves are ringing through the world of Fledge City's illegal street racing scene: Clara Mass, longtime racer and "The Ace of Spades" has been murdered during a race, and several other racers stand accused of the crime! The fragile truce between the street racing groups is being stretched to breaking point, and police involvement threatens to end mountain road racing once and for all!

Now, Nina and Dylan must journey north of the streets of Fledge City to the snow-covered passes of The Rostro Spire, the tallest mountain in the region, to search for answers amid the high-octane sub-culture of Touge Janken Racing...

... but some truths can only be found in the heart of the drift!

  • Hybrid VN/Graphic Adventure gameplay with ~10 hours of story-driven content

  • Pacing, presentation & tone that celebrates and satirises different anime genres

  • Defend your client in court by cross-examining witnesses

  • Investigate crime scenes and search for clues

  • Explore Fledge City's Mode7-style overworld

  • Take part in "Dragon Fantasy Area", a trading-card themed battle system unique to the world of NALE

  • Engage in "Touge Janken Racing", a turn-based downhill driving minigame inspired by street racing manga & anime

  • Accessibility features, including options to reduce effects for photosensitive users, and an "always-win" option for minigames to facilitate casual play

NINA AQUILA: LEGAL EAGLE, SEASON ONE is the definitive Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle experience, including...

  • The original three chapters of NALE presented as one package for the first time

  • New illustrated character busts for Nina, Dylan & Chad bring greater emotional weight to scenes

  • New Steam Achievements to uncover

  • Unlockable special features, including an art gallery & music test

  • An unlockable exploration mode, where you can tour the locations of Chapters 1-3

  • Revised video sequences that take advantage of new art

  • New audio elements including improved sound FX

  • Countless small improvements too numerous to list

Now, step into court as Nina Aquila, and defend your clients in a world where all anime genres exist at once!

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