Capcom’s fortieth anniversary web site, Capcom City, has launched a particular exhibit in its digital museum devoted to the Ace Legal professional Investigations video games. This initially reads like a little bit of a missed alternative to advertise subsequent 12 months’s upcoming Apollo Justice Trilogy remaster, nevertheless it appears the followers wished it that manner.
A ballot posed Ace Legal professional followers the query of which important collection protagonist they’d relatively be defended by in courtroom: Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, or Miles Edgeworth. It was a troublesome selection, however followers of Phoenix Wright’s greatest good friend slash arch rival slash official love curiosity per Nintendo Journal are clearly fairly the organised voting bloc, since they managed to push Edgeworth — and, by affiliation, his comparatively obscure spin-off duology Ace Legal professional Investigations — to the highest of the ballot:
For the uninitiated, Ace Legal professional Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and its sequel have been a pair of Nintendo DS exclusives launched in 2009 and 2011. The video games characteristic quite a few characters and ideas borrowed from the mainline Ace Legal professional collection, however swap up the gameplay considerably, taking part in extra like point-and-click adventures than visible novels. Therefore these lovable and hilarious little sprites you will typically see of Edgeworth operating round, stills of which at the moment are on show as a part of the exhibit.
Investigations 2 has by no means been launched outdoors of Japan, however a well-liked English fan localisation patch (that includes the skills {of professional} VA SungWon Cho as Edgeworth, no much less!) has helped to make sure that each video games have a cult standing among the many collection’ worldwide fanbase — though opinion seems sharply divided over whether or not AAI2 is the very best or worst Ace Legal professional recreation ever. One factor everybody can seemingly agree on is that it is unacceptable to put it anyplace in-between when composing your tier checklist.
Different curios showcased within the exhibit embody key artwork, design paperwork, trailers and promos, and some different random oddities — akin to a poster for a 3rd entry within the Investigations sub-series, a 2013 stage musical that includes an all-female forged and relying closely on time journey to make the plot work. Sure, this was a 100% actual present that Capcom formally licensed, though its relationship to the canon of the video games is much less sure.
Whereas this is not the long-awaited information of an Investigations remaster, there are nonetheless causes to be optimistic. Capcom appear to be on a little bit of a kick for reviving Ace Legal professional for the time being: following the relaunch of the unique Phoenix Wright trilogy on Change, The Nice Ace Legal professional Chronicles was lastly launched worldwide again in 2021. Then earlier this summer time we bought a remaster of collection creator Shu Takumi’s on-theme side-project Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, quickly adopted by the Apollo Justice trilogy information alluded to above. That’ll quickly depart Investigations as the one non-crossover Ace Legal professional title(s) unavailable to trendy audiences.
And — as this ballot clearly implies — all these devoted Edgeworth followers should wield some spectacular shopping for energy. So whaddya say, Capcom? There should be some room left in your 2025 launch slate to make some hella particular nerds actually, actually glad.
