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Investigate a Flash demo of Miles Edgeworth’s new game

November 13th, 2009 at 12:30am Under DS

Like it has for past Ace Attorney games, Capcom has prepared a demo of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. This demo seems even more relevant than past offerings, since aspects of the game other than the names on the text windows have changed. This demo will give you the opportunity to examine Edgeworth’s office with the new point-and-click interface, connect evidence with the new “Logic” system, and become impatient with Detective Gumshoe.

It doesn’t take a brilliant deductive mind with excellent taste in cravats to puzzle out that this demo contains spoilers, since it reproduces the first scene in the game. However, we suspect that you won’t be able to resist, after almost two years of no Ace Attorney games.

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TGS 2009: Hands-on: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

September 26th, 2009 at 06:30pm Under DS

Though it’s been available in Japan since late May, Capcom’s Phoenix Wright spin-off, Gyakuten Kenji, was playable in English form at the publisher’s Tokyo Game Show hotel suite. Inefficiently dubbed Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, the game sees you ditching the spiky-haired idealist and donning a delightful cravat in service of the prosecution.

In what could have been just another Phoenix Wright game, but presented from an opposing perspective, Ace Attorney Investigations diverges from tradition more than any other title in the series — which is to say that it actually diverges from tradition just a bit. The focus is still heavily on plot, characters and clever yappin’, but the sterile, first-person point-and-click investigation process has now been replaced with a third-person view.

The control system is functional, but quite unnatural in one respect. You can maneuver Edgeworth through the 2D environments, displayed on the DS’ top screen, by either dragging the stylus across the touch screen or simply using the d-pad (thanks for the option, Edgey!). When you’ve gotten him close enough to an item of interest, you tap a context-specific icon on the bottom screen to interact with it. So, it’s less point-and-click and more walk-over-there-and-tap-the-button.

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TGS 2009: Hands-on: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ace Attorney series will continue to testify on DS

August 17th, 2009 at 09:00pm Under DS

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth producer Motohide Eshiro told us that there were no plans for the Ace Attorney series to migrate to other consoles. In an interview with Siliconera, he offered more reasoning for the DS loyalty.

“It’s not that we don’t like other hardware and that we don’t want to do it,” Eshiro said. “It’s just it was original made for handhelds, it was made to be played on the go, and also the interface we created the game, especially for Ace Attorney Investigations, uses the touch screen and we want people to interact with that. You can’t replicate that on Xbox Live. For us, the DS seems like the most natural fit.”

What has changed was the original plan for Investigations’ protagonist. Eshiro revealed that “scientific investigator” and Apollo Justice detective Ema Skye was intended for the role. “The director originally proposed to use Ema as the main character,” he said, “but according to the feedback we got from our fans it seems Edgeworth was the more popular character.” And thus we have a game with a “Logic System” instead of a “Snackoo-Eating System.”

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Interview: Ace Attorney Investigations producer Motohide Eshiro

July 28th, 2009 at 05:00pm Under DS

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth will finally be legislating onto North American shelves in February of 2010, letting players take up the prosecuting side for the first time in the series. Luckily, you’ll still be able to shout OBJECTION! in Phoenix Wright fashion as much as you want.

Joystiq met up with game producer Motohide Eshiro at in Capcom’s booth at Comic-Con, which featured playable versions of the game and some very sweet swag. We asked him what else we can expect from the game, when we’ll be able to play as the judge, and what his thoughts were on all the crazy fans in San Diego. Read on for the full interview.

Update! Be sure and check out the photo at the end of the interview where Eshiro-san meets up with a cosplaying Miles Edgeworth at Comic-Con.

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Ace Attorney Investigation: Miles Edgeworth coming stateside February 16

July 23rd, 2009 at 12:44pm Under DS

Capcom’s in a fairly generous mood this morning! Its spirits are seemingly bolstered by the opening of the San Diego Comic-Con — in tandem with the convention’s kickoff, they sent a press release full of announcements. The most exciting of which is, of course, the revelation of the February 16 release date for Ace Attorney Investigation: Miles Edgeworth.

You may object to the amount of time now standing between you and the highly animated Law & Order sim — but if you happen to be attending the Con this year, you can get an early look at the game at Capcom’s booth, you lucky, lucky so-and-so.

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Infinite Space takes space at top of Japanese charts

June 19th, 2009 at 03:30pm Under DS

Platinum Games’ first release may not have been a sales phenomenon, but the company has found (relative) success with its second, the DS sci-fi roleplaying game Mugen Kouro (Infinite Space). It was a slow week for Japanese software sales, which allowed Infinite Space’s 38,394 copies to put it at the top of the Media Create sales chart for last week, its first week in stores.