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!]
{ Apr 9th 2008 at 9:45AM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nightstar @ Apr 9th 2008 9:58AM
Nice!
But who will be the defense????
Swampgirl Inez @ Apr 9th 2008 10:04AM
Seconded. Who will defend?
P.S. Abso-frickin-lutely WOOHOO!!!! :D
Mertruve @ Apr 9th 2008 10:45AM
since it's a prequel, maybe Mia Fey?
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ Apr 9th 2008 12:28PM
There had better be at least one trial where Diego Armando is the defense; we would have on our hands the most epic clash of courtroom badassery ever witnessed. And considering this is pre-PW1, heads will roll if Manfred von Karma isn't in here somewhere helping Edgeworth out.
Joshua @ Apr 9th 2008 8:59PM
Wait, how do you know it's pre-PW1?
Aaanndd...How do we know it won't just be investigations, but also involve trials?
Anyway, I. AM. EXCITED.
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ Apr 9th 2008 10:00PM
Edgeworth only participated in two cases after the first Phoenix Wright game, having gone into hiding and, later, traveling abroad to study foreign legal systems. This requires it either taking place during the PW1 timeline or before it, so to hope that Diego Armando, Manfred von Karma, and/or Mia Fey are in the game is perfectly reasonable, especially considering that most other sites reporting this news are referring to it as a prequel as well as a spin-off.
The extent of courtroom activities is as of yet unknown and varies from site to site; I'm only going off of what the staff here have interpreted the information to mean. Admittedly we're being pretty quick to fill in the holes in information on the game with wishful thinking, but the prospect of this game is just too exciting to resist.
Joshua @ Apr 9th 2008 10:49PM
Gotcha. I guess we just have to wait until April 20, at that concert...
jsutcliffe @ Apr 9th 2008 10:17AM
Man, they pulled out all the stops coming up with the detective's name, huh?
Wilson @ Apr 9th 2008 12:52PM
This is AWESOME!!!
They better bring it to the US ASAP
iruka @ Apr 9th 2008 10:26AM
Great! I'll be expecting it to have more touch screen functionality aside from touching it to proceed with the next statement.
Eleniel @ Apr 9th 2008 12:33PM
IT LOOKS LIKE A SIERRA POINT-N-CLICK
GAME OF THE CENTURY 2000-2100!
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ Apr 9th 2008 12:38PM
I've been marathoning all four Ace Attorney games (currently at Apollo Justice case 3), which has tended to make me think about the game A LOT. Just the other day (after the temporary character switch in case 5 of Trials and Tribulations) I was imagining what a prosecution-based version of the game would look like, as I would imagine it's just as gratifying to lock guilty people away as it is to save people from false accusations. I'm beyond ecstatic at this news.
Considering this is, well, Miles Edgeworth: Ace Prosecutor and not Klavier Gavin: Ace Prosecutor, my fingers are crossed (in almost-certainly vain hope) that this is the first step toward kicking Apollo Justice out of canon and returning to the PW 1-3 characters.
Basman @ Apr 9th 2008 4:41PM
I thought Apollo and Trucy were pretty likable. I was affraid that Phoenix would show up once, and the whole cannon of the first three games would be destroyed, but it got neatly woven into the previous three games. Apollo deserves his place in the PW games, but as a side character that's occasionally playable, I want to play as Phoenix damnit!
I was sad not to see any sign of Maya and Pearls in AJ:AA though.
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ Apr 9th 2008 6:04PM
Yeah, Trucy and Apollo are likable characters in and of themselves, but not at the horrible cost inserting them into the storyline seems to have had on the character of Phoenix Wright. Of course since I'm not done with AJ:AA I don't know how this all resolves, but it's obvious that there's no way things are going back to the way they were for Phoenix. I imagine he'll be absolved of the supposed offense that ruined his career and Klavier will be shamed out of the prosecution business, but none of that is going to bring back his former glory, Maya, Pearl, Larry Butz, Gumshoe, Edgeworth, or any of the quirky minor recurring characters that made PW 1-3 what they were. Everything just feels so bleak and bland now.
Sakura3210 @ Apr 9th 2008 12:43PM
OH MY GOD!!!!!
...all I can say, sheer joy has caused my brain to stop functioning XD XD XD
ssuk @ Apr 9th 2008 1:02PM
MEGA awesome. I was discussing how awesome a prosecution side of Ace Attorney would be with friends ages ago. Good to see that dream wont be a dream for much longer.
GatorSax2010 @ Apr 9th 2008 2:20PM
I imagine the defense will be a new character, possibly someone really seedy, especially if it's a prequel. We won't be going up against Phoenix or Mia. Maybe Diego, which would be a truly epic grand finale. I can't wait to see how this plays. Best news all day!
Sean jdahsdka @ Apr 9th 2008 2:48PM
*droooooooooool*
hvnlysoldr @ Apr 9th 2008 3:11PM
Edgeworth just laid a big Objection into Phoenix's games.
Yan @ Apr 9th 2008 4:07PM
uh oh. its edgeworth! i wonder if we will experience the SL-9 incident in this prequel.
KamenRiderTakoyaki @ Apr 9th 2008 4:16PM
No courtroom?!
WAH!!!!
The Doctor @ Apr 9th 2008 4:44PM
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.
elsng @ Apr 9th 2008 5:35PM
We....we play as EDGEY?!?
Want.
Nmaster @ Apr 9th 2008 6:06PM
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
Joshua @ Apr 9th 2008 10:50PM
I DUNNO, BUT IT'S AWESOME!!
Well, murder isn't awesome, but this game is!!!!
Dr_W@dsy @ Apr 9th 2008 6:36PM
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...
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ Apr 9th 2008 6:59PM
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.
Mad Martin Kinderhook @ Apr 9th 2008 7:07PM
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.
The Doctor @ Apr 9th 2008 7:47PM
Mad Martin:
Sir, you are amazing.
Nightstar @ Apr 9th 2008 9:31PM
Should have stated:
When can I pre-order it!
eight @ Apr 9th 2008 11:32PM
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
Nightstar @ Apr 9th 2008 11:49PM
Same with AJ and the other three!
Wonder if they will also have a AJ #2
Nightstar @ Apr 9th 2008 11:46PM
Between this and the create your own { Japanese only } Nice.
Wonder what the trinket would be?
Robert Baldwin @ Apr 9th 2008 11:53PM
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.
Aparoid @ Apr 10th 2008 9:57PM
NEW! NOT!
They must be slow with the whole April Fools' Concept.
Delayder @ Apr 11th 2008 5:47AM
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!
RandomRedMage @ May 25th 2008 6:42PM
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...
marioandluigi206 @ Jun 14th 2008 12:21PM
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.