How about a morning MEGATON? The latest issue of
Famitsu contains an announcement of a new
Ace Attorney game: a spinoff called
Gyakuten Kenji (
Turnabout Prosecutor). Like the previous
AA games,
Kenji will focus on crime scene investigation (but
not courtroom theatrics). This time the action follows Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth and Detective Dick Gumshoe. Using new gameplay systems, you'll check out crime scenes for unseen evidence, and argue cases in court. Unlike
Saiban, Edgeworth will actually be visible on screen, making this more of a point-and-click adventure, versus a graphical text adventure.
It seems pretty likely that this is the
big announcement Capcom was planning to make about the series, unless they've got something even
bigger on the way. This is quite enough, however -- we're roughly 1% as excited as the Edgeworth fanfic community will be, which is to say
outrageously excited.
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[Thanks to Nmaster for the scans!]
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
4-09-2008 @ 4:16PM
KamenRiderTakoyaki said...
No courtroom?!
WAH!!!!
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4-09-2008 @ 4:44PM
The Doctor said...
the joystiq article says that there will be little courtoom, the dsfanboy says that it will be investigation/courtroom. I REALLY hope its the latter. 3-5= Best case in the series.
And a Diego VS Edgeworth battle would be amazing.
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4-09-2008 @ 5:35PM
elsng said...
We....we play as EDGEY?!?
Want.
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4-09-2008 @ 6:06PM
Nmaster said...
That murder in the scan is outside Wright's office.
Closeup of the scan:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2lk4b45.png
Map from Apollo Justice:
http://i30.tinypic.com/fm1cab.jpg
Hmmm...what could it mean...? >:3
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4-09-2008 @ 10:50PM
Joshua said...
I DUNNO, BUT IT'S AWESOME!!
Well, murder isn't awesome, but this game is!!!!
4-09-2008 @ 6:36PM
Dr_W@dsy said...
Unless I'm much mistaken...
A Diego - Edgeworth confrontation is impossible.....
......SPOILERS.......................
IIRC: T&T case 4 is Edgey's first case. Since Diego was poisoned by Dahlia while he was still working on that case any kind of clash between them would be out of line with past events...
I could be wrong though...
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4-09-2008 @ 6:59PM
Mad Martin Kinderhook said...
Diego wasn't poisoned immediately after the Fawles trial--if I'm not mistaken, it was some months after, as it took him time to gather enough evidence to get too close to the truth for Dahlia's comfort. One could find the exact time difference by playing far enough through the first T&T trial to get the newspaper article on the Armando "murder" and then seeing the date of T&T trial 4.
4-09-2008 @ 7:07PM
Mad Martin Kinderhook said...
Apologies for the double post, but I just verified it for myself. The Fawles trial happened on February 16, and the article on the Armando murder was from August 28, which leaves a roughly half-year span in which Edgeworth and Armando could have participated in a trial together. Provided that none of the dates were changed when T&T was localized, this problem is averted.
4-09-2008 @ 7:47PM
The Doctor said...
Mad Martin:
Sir, you are amazing.
4-09-2008 @ 9:31PM
Nightstar said...
Should have stated:
When can I pre-order it!
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4-09-2008 @ 11:32PM
eight said...
I really really hope this comes to America soon. I don't want to sit and wait and extra 6 months to a year to play this game. I'm already going through withdrawal from finishing AA4.
hopefully there will be some online sweetness like this guy suggests:
http://www.gamernode.com/news/6482-lawyers-abound-new-ace-attorney-game-on-its-way/index.html
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4-09-2008 @ 11:49PM
Nightstar said...
Same with AJ and the other three!
Wonder if they will also have a AJ #2
4-09-2008 @ 11:46PM
Nightstar said...
Between this and the create your own { Japanese only } Nice.
Wonder what the trinket would be?
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4-09-2008 @ 11:53PM
Robert Baldwin said...
Woot!
Although the location of that murder disturbs me now.
Hopefully it will be able to be released either shortly after here or, dare I hope, simultaneously.
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4-10-2008 @ 9:57PM
Aparoid said...
NEW! NOT!
They must be slow with the whole April Fools' Concept.
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4-11-2008 @ 5:47AM
Delayder said...
Trucy Wins.
Apollo Fails.
I wasn't really impressed by Apollo Justice, it was all the same thing...Just without the cool characters. It had some quirky moments but it just didn't equal up to the PW series. Though Phoenix looked real cool in his beanie and the sassy badge. I even made one me self...still working on the beanie though T_T...kinda tattled off the job..
Apart from that, it was the horrible...EXTREME lack of closure on all the characters from the first series, focusing more on Maya and Pearls, that lack turned me off :/
Though getting back to the topic at hand..
AWESOME! IM GONNA Lub this game! Finally we get to be the tea loving, frill wearing, detective whipping, Red engerlish lover boy!
WOOOOOO!
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5-25-2008 @ 6:42PM
RandomRedMage said...
If I remember right, and considering I haven't played PW in a while, didn't edgy start out as a defense attorney and then turn to prosecution due to some odd thing...? No... wait... maybe not, it was either that or he was training to be a defense attorney then changed to prosecution because of some event...
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6-14-2008 @ 12:21PM
marioandluigi206 said...
I wonder who the first trial will be against... Possibly the first time we don't face Winston Payne.
I'm hoping to face Armando and/or Gavin.
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