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December 15th, 2009 at 05:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
The release list for the Japanese Wii and DSi Shops are a bit more restrained than the last couple of weeks, offering a much more manageable (read: smaller) selection of downloadable titles. On Virtual Console, for example, Sega’s isometric arcade shmup Zaxxon is the only offering. Similarly, there’s just one WiiWare game, but it’s Phoenix Wright!
DSiWare gets the cool Photo FIghter X, which lets you build fighting game characters from DSi camera snaps. More Paint By DS joins it, this time all about dogs; and in the requisite “puzzle game” positions are a new G.G. series entry and a Jupiter-developed game about rotating blocks to match colors.
- Zaxxon (Arcade, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (WiiWare, 1 player, 900 Wii Points)
- Shashin de Kakutou! Photo Fighter X! (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200 DSi Points)
- G.G. Series Vertex (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Kanji Practice First Grade (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
- Artist ni Narou! Minna no Nurikai Inu-hen (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
- Atelier Deco La Doll (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
- Castle of Magic (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
- Panewa! (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Phoenix Wright, Zaxxon, Photo Fighter X originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Mister-X
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December 9th, 2009 at 07:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
This slightly hokey Japanese trailer for the WiiWare ports of the Phoenix Wright games features an overexcited kid informing his easily shocked father that the series is now available on WiiWare — at which point they turn on the Wii and, essentially, watch more of the trailer that they are currently in.
The family also demonstrates the new Wiimote gestures for Phoenix’s exclamations: Igiari! (Objection!), Matta! (Hold it!) and Kurae! (Take that!) Seeing people perform the motions on video, it actually looks like much more fun than we anticipated. So much fun that we’ll be driven to play through the games again on Wii just to make fools of ourselves in a new way.
Phoenix Wright WiiWare trailer takes the stand originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 18th, 2009 at 09:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
As revealed in the latest issue of Famitsu, Capcom is bringing its three Phoenix Wright “courtroom battle” games to Nintendo’s WiiWare service. Today the publisher confirmed that the releases will be making their way to the US beginning in January. Capcom intends to release the games every other month (January, March and May) for 1,000 Wii Points ($10) apiece, with “Rise from the Ashes,” the extra case added to the DS Ace Attorney, arriving as DLC in May for 100 Wii Points ($1).
The first game, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, is a port of the original Game Boy Advance title — and, like the two subsequent WiiWare editions, Justice for All and Trials and Tribulations, remains unchanged from its original release (read: same graphics, sound, dialog) save for the ability to swing the Wii Remote out (as in the image above, which is one-off, non-sprite art) to object and present evidence to the court. They’ll all be presented in widescreen, but the actual gameplay only takes up a 4:3 area on top of an animated background. Nevertheless, the games are still superb, and at $10 with the ability to play them on the big screen you won’t hear any objections from us.
Check out a whole lot of screens and two pieces of art from Ace Attorney in the gallery below.
Phoenix Wright summoned for duty on WiiWare this January originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 5th, 2009 at 10:45am
Under Wii / Nintendo
A rating on Germany’s USK database suggests that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is being planned for Wii. “Objection!!”, you may say, thrilled to have the opportunity to work that in. “Didn’t Ace Attorney Investigations producer Motohide Eshiro already say that the series would remain on handhelds?”
While it’s true that future Ace Attorney games will probably be on handhelds, the series has already been ported to PC, proving that someone within Capcom — and not necessarily anyone involved with actually making the Ace Attorney games — has no issue with porting the existing titles, which is extremely likely to be what is happening here. And this is the same Capcom that said that Resident Evil 4 would be a GameCube exclusive.
Our guess would be an episodic WiiWare presentation of the first Phoenix Wright. Or a mistake in the rating description.
USK: Phoenix Wright holding court on Wii originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 05:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
It’s not often we’re at a loss for words, but the potent combo of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” Elite Beat Agents and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is too much for our feeble little brain to handle. The gameplay looks incredibly punishing and, quite frankly, we wouldn’t mind a few of Wright’s cases going down like this.
Instead of failing to describe this fan-made mash-up any better, we’re just going to direct you past the break, then into the comments section where you can heap on some praise of your own.
[Thanks LuigiHann!]
Source – osu! – Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now [Cruisin'] (Storyboard showoff)
Source – osu! (Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now [Hard ROCK!])
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Queen, Elite Beat Agents and Phoenix Wright make for a great combo originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Mister-X
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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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August 31st, 2009 at 04:00pm
Under DS
We’ve been quite happy to watch clips of Takarazuka Revue’s Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Shinjitsu (Gyakuten Saiban: Resurrected Truth), the first Phoenix Wright musical performed by the renowned all-female theatre company.
YouTube user GKKLJapan has added an element to the clips that increases our enjoyment significantly: subtitles. Now you can not only watch the show, but see what’s happening! The translator’s LiveJournal is being used as a project log for the translation, and suggests that the entirety of the play is in progress. In the meantime, enjoy the two clips after the break (do not miss the Edgeworth song) … and think about this: if Phoenix Wright games had full animation and voice acting, they’d look a lot like this.
[Via Kotaku]
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August 18th, 2009 at 01:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Honestly, we’re only about 50 percent sure we believe Ryota Niitsuma when he explains why video game lawyer Phoenix Wright didn’t get the chance to battle in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, but we thought you should decide for yourself.
The producer told NGamer that Phoenix’s one attack — shouting at his opponent — would have been a fine size in Japanese (”igiari” can be written in four characters), but when translating that shout to the 10 characters in “Objection” … well, we should let Niitsuma explain it: “When we localize, the balance of the game gets destroyed because the move becomes bigger. There’d be no way of avoiding it! We had to remove [Phoenix] for these reasons. In the future, it is one of our aims to get him in.”
OK, upon re-reading, we’re now 99 percent sure that he’s joking. Still, it’s funny, right? Read the interview for yourself here, or, better yet, just go buy the magazine.
[Via The Escapist]
So, why isn’t Phoenix Wright in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom? originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 17th, 2009 at 02:25pm
Under DS
Udon Entertainment has announced its next Capcom artbook, following collections of Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, and Mega Man art: The Art of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, featuring 240 pages of improbably dramatic images of lawyers and their teenage friends. The book features covers, promotional art, and character designs and profiles from the three Phoenix Wright graphical text adventures, as well as “the complete artwork” from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
Udon plans to release this in October — the same month in which it will release the Mega Man Official Complete Works, potentially causing a problem for people with only enough money in their artbook budget for one book about a blue-clad Capcom character per month.
[Via Kotaku]
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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.
Ace Attorney Investigation: Miles Edgeworth coming stateside February 16 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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