Has Phoenix Wright 3 been removed from the docket in Europe?
by JC Fletcher 
{ May 13th 2008 at 5:00PM }
Capcom released Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney in Europe last week despite the fact that its predecessor, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations has yet to come out. We thought it was bad enough when the games were being released out of order, but now two pieces of tenuous evidence suggest that Phoenix Wright 3 may not see a European release at all.The first (less convincing) sign is that Apollo Justice's (loud) Nintendo Europe webpage has the string "AceAttorney3" in its URL. That doesn't really mean that the third Ace Attorney game isn't happening, rather that Apollo Justice is the third Ace Attorney game to be released, and that whoever created the URL didn't save a space for the real AA3.
More troubling is the fact that there is a site for Trials and Tribulations, but there are no longer any links to it. Could this point to a cancellation? Court Records members speculate that T&T would get a higher PEGI content rating than the other Ace Attorney games, and because of that, Capcom wouldn't benefit from releasing it. In any case, both the U.S. and Japan have cheap and plentiful Trials and Tribulationses. Feel free to partake!
[Thanks, Maz!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ken Shammy @ May 13th 2008 5:39PM
Maaan. I can't even think of a reason why T&T would get a higher rating.
FantomRedux @ May 13th 2008 6:11PM
Theres more blood. And its much darker than 1 or 2 IMO.
Roto13 @ May 14th 2008 11:06AM
SPOILER
Someone commits suicide right there on the stand. That's kind of freaky.
Jason @ May 13th 2008 6:00PM
I feel bad for Europe. Phoenix Wright Three, in my opinion, was the best in the series.
doom saber @ May 13th 2008 6:01PM
Maybe, the rating is because of the fifth case where
*Spoiler*
Elise is shown to have been stabbed with the Fey Sword with red blood nearby at the beginning of the case. True, the first PW has blood with various characters impaled, but I dont think they were shown up close and most of the time, the blood shown is on a black and white picture.
The only depiction of blood in the first game that I think was colored and happened at the scene of the crime was when the chick in the first case gets hit in the head with the "thinker"
doom saber @ May 13th 2008 6:03PM
It is lame that Europe does not get this game since it concludes the Wright arc. I mean most of the loopholes in the previous two games are answered in this game.
Zal @ May 13th 2008 6:20PM
That's just annoying as hell. I live in the UK but since the second game I've imported the US version of each one upon their release so although this doesn't affect me it's so stupid that they've skipped a game and are making so many fans miss out on what was an awesome experience .
Zuko @ May 14th 2008 12:50AM
CRapcom goes again.. =/
Ethan @ May 14th 2008 4:21AM
I've already imported it. On the last case.
kaiser.tia @ May 14th 2008 7:49AM
I have a friend that works in Absolute Quality, the company that handled the localisation of Apollo Justice, and they don't have Trials and Tribulations on their project schedule, which is a worrying sign...
If Capcom complain about people importing or downloading ROMs, they only have themselves to blame...