Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Nintendo DS)
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 19 February 2010 Publisher: Capcom Rating:   Sales Rank: 1957 | | Look for similar items by category: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: Excellent Spin-Off (17 June 2010)It's nice to see the other side of things! For the last four games in the series, Ace Attorney has followed defence lawyer Phoenix Wright, and then Apollo Justice in their mission to save the innocents accused of dastardly crimes. This time, it's the turn of the key prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, who has appeared in almost all the previous games so far. You guide him through what should have been an ordinary few days, which ends with him becoming embroiled accidentally in murder. Never one to leave things alone, he sets out to solve the goings on around him, helped and hindered by Agent Lang, the new investigator, and his mandatory teenage-girl sidekick Kay Faraday. It's set just after the third Phoenix Wright game (Trials and Tribulations) and several years before the later Apollo Justice. Though it's never explicitly said, some character's ages give this away, and vague references to other characters not appearing in this game. However, it can be played without knowing anything about the other games in the story arc at all. The characters' personalities come to light quickly enough, and you can quickly gauge who's got history with whom. Often, clarifying statements are made by characters to this end - explaining who so-and-so was, briefly. You'll just miss out on that mysteriously pleasing feeling when Miles makes an allusion to Phoenix at rare intervals. The gameplay is as intuitive as ever - point and click in the crime scenes to discover pieces of evidence. New in this game is Deduction, wherein Miles can combine an area he's examining with a piece of evidence in his Organiser. The backgrounds are as interesting and well-drawn as ever, as are the new characters. I could definitely see some of them returning in later games. The main difference is in investigating, where you see a little Miles Edgeworth walking around the scenes in third person, unlike previously, where you don't see Phoenix really unless he's in court. If you've not played the others, you ought to be told that there's a lot of reading involved, as one person pointed out. It's probably closer to an interactive story at some points than a real game. Phoenix Wright had his magatama, and Apollo had his bracelet and Perception, so too does Miles Edgeworth have his Logic. Unlike his defence counterparts, Miles' skill is not in catching out lies in the courtroom, but in putting together seemingly unrelated pieces of information to arrive at a new conclusion. Intermittently, throughout the game, new information is added to his logic screen, and when two pieces appear related, they're joined together to further the progress of the investigation. Once the investigation of an area is over, often Miles argues with another character - sometimes the murderer themselves! This part plays out much like the court scenes from the previous games, though not nearly as long, and without the Judge as the mediator. Testimony is given by another character, and this time, it is Miles who cross-examines, pressing and presenting evidence to catch lies and acquire more information. There's no Not Guilty verdict this time, just the satisfaction of the murderer being carted off by the police. The story line was pleasing, and interesting, with all the intricacies that come together as you'd expect from the other games. There are five cases in total - each in close proximity time-wise to the others, and they're as long as you'd imagine from the others. Definitely not a short game by any standards, and as usual, the last case is the longest. I just... don't think it's as good. I think, like someone else mentioned, it's missing going to court. Even though that part often drove me mental in other games, I miss it. It seems like you've only played part of the game in that sense. I didn't enjoy the cross-examining in the crime scene as much. Even though I loved Agent Lang, even though I loved seeing Detective Gumshoe again in al l his bumbling glory, and the Logic, and walking around in third person in the crime scene... I miss the court! And I found Kay an irritating sidekick. It's a shame, because I think if you'd had the investigation, and then the trial, but from the prosecution's point of view, it'd have been an amazing game. As it is, it's still great, and I'm sure I'll replay it for the story value, like I have with the others. Not the best of the Ace Attorney games, but definitely an excellent play, with lots of intesting new characters, and worth buying. Its ok. (12 May 2010)Bought this game as the write up sounded just what i wanted, BUT.... There is a lot of reading and it just gets a bit boring. I tried to keep my patients but after half an hour and nothing had happened i decided it wasn't for me. I J'adore Miles Edgeworth (02 April 2010)I'm a HUGE fan of the attorney series and here we are, a game i waited a long time for. To actually play the best character ever (imo) Miles Edgeworth. And if i love him so much, why not 5 stars? Well, as much as i loved the game, there were things i missed. So other reviews have covered the game brilliantly so i wont go into it too much, but i really did miss not going to court. And also you dont get to move around much, you basically stay at the scene of the crime, or in that area. One of the best things about the previous games for me was seeing lots of different locations. Of course in this game you get to walk around and look for evidence that way, which worked really well. And there was a return of fantastic characters, you cant have an Ace Attorney game with out Detective Gumshoe! And you cant have the presence of Miles Edgeworth without his biggest fan (apart from me!) Mrs Oldbag! I wont reveal anyone else, but i love how she embarrasses Miles and calls him Edgey-poo :) Also the new characters are great, Agent Lang is fab, and i love Kay Faraday as Edgeworth's partner. There are also some other fab newbies. But i do miss Phoenix, and the rivalry between him and Miles. I know the developers of the game are maybe trying to leave Phoenix in the past but i wish they would bring him back with Maya too. He doesnt even get a mention in this game, i think there is just one part where Miles merely hints about him. The cases themselves are easier i think. Although still fun, and i still love the outrageous reactions of the ones that are guilty when they are found out :D There is a strong storyline running through all the cases which comes to a fabulous end in the last case, a true genius of a case. All the cases are well written again, but i just think without the court room, they feel easier. And apart from the last case, they dont feel as long either. Although i did love seeing the fabulous Franziska Von Karma as a 13 year old. You wont find a 13 year old Prosecuter anywhere in the real world :D I dont know what the developers are going to bring out next, maybe another Apollo game? Which i would get as i do like the Apollo game. But i'd love a game involving the return of Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey and with Miles Edgeworth and Kay Faraday, maybe they could be a rival team in some huge cases? lol, i know, it wont ever happen, but i can dream. :D Excellent, if a bit unoriginal in places (21 March 2010)Ace Attorney five has been announced, but what do we do in the meantime? Die of boredom? Absolutely not. Capcom has listened to the cry of Edgeworth fanboys and brought this little gem while we wait. When I saw a trailer for this about two years back I thought "UGH this looks awful!" When I played a demo a year later I thought "This is AWESOME!" and pre-ordered the game straight away. I don't regret paying for express delivery! Ace Attorney Investigations (AAI) is a spin-off of the Phoenix Wright series, a point and click adventure game where you take on the role of a lawyer. It's had three games, as well as Apollo Justice, where you play as ANOTHER attorney. You play as Miles Edgeworth in AAI, a prosecutor character who served as your rival in the original game. I'm not going to give away spoilers, but he had a personality re-vamp in Justice for All, which made him extremely popular. He returns to his office to find a dead body in there, ouch. Then is confronted by the killer, who threatens him. To which he replies "No-one gets away with committing murder in my office." At which point I'm thinking "I've only been playing for thirty seconds and this is more epic than the end of some games I've played with riveting plots! Holy cow!" The story spans over five episodes, (Which aren't in chronological order, in case you were wondering.) It has plenty of twists that you won't see coming, which I will not spoil. All the cases are murders, with one exception. Fundamentally,you can pretty much work out who the culprit is by process of elimination, however, in order to work out the details, you will need to play them through to the end, you need to play to the end of the game tie all the things together anyway, which is good. There is masses of text in AAI, just like the original, although maybe not as much due to you being able to move a lot more freely this time. It's basically an interactive novel, but again, less of that than in Phoenix Wright. Still, if you hate games with lots of text, you could find this very tedious. The story is well written, and you do come to love the characters and start caring about them, which is a sign of good script, so that's one less thing to worry about. AAI does not follow the original gameplay, there are no courtroom proceedings this time around, instead, it's a more fleshed out version of the investigation phases in the original. In a lot of ways it follows the same formula as games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Nintendo DS), due to being able to run around in a 3rd person kind of way, as opposed to the original which had you looking at things from Phoenix's point of view in 1st person. There is the new logic system, like the Magatama and the bracelet in Ace Attorney two, three and four. All Edgeworth needs is his over 9000 IQ! Inside jokes aside, logic works by having two pieces of information and connecting them together to make a "logical" conclusion. It can be accessed any time during the investigation phase, so you don't need to worry about remembering it. There are aspects of Apollo Justice in the way you examine evidence, so that makes things more fun. The evidence was well designed, even if it was a bit blocky in places, but still very realistic. Be warned, the guns look frighteningly real. You also have the Court Reco--- I mean the Organizer, which keeps all of the evidence in one place for you, and it gets updated regularly. You can use this for proving "contradictions" in crime scenes and testimony. Yet another feature is Cross-Exami-- I mean Rebuttals, which were included in the original game a lot, and I found and still find them annoying, repetitive, and just irritating in general, however, not having them would be considered unforgivable I suppose, since they were a major part of Phoenix Wright and in that game, if you didn't have them, the courtroom parts would be dull. The graphics are a realistic manga style, and all the people speak in gif-tastic, out of sync animations. The characters are colourful, and fun too look at, which adds to charm. They're slightly different to how they are in Phoenix Wright, but that isn't bad. The music is catchy as heck, and gets in your head really easily, it's nice, and reminds me of Simcity. I don't know why. Most of it is very good. My hat is off to Noriyuki Iawadawe, the composer. The infamous "Objection!" sound clip is still there, along with "Hold it!" and "Take That!" and you can still scream into the mic until you lose your voice, however, I prefer the press X. (On a side note, you can control either with buttons or the stylus. I use buttons.) Other characters who aren't lawyers also can say "Objection!" which is nice. It makes them more life like. When looking for contradictions n crime scenes, you can also say "Eureka!" (Similar to "Gotcha!" in Apollo Justice.) This was quite cute, I thought, if not a little cheesy. I prefer the original Japanese one, "That's it!" personally. Overall, this game is fantastic, and well worth the price. It's extremely addicting. (I once played for three hours non-stop.) There is no replay value other than wanting to just experience the story again, and you will beat the game quickly, so bear that in mind. Even if the investigation aspects are cliché, this game is absolutely worth a buy. Click add to basket. You know you want to. thanks (10 March 2010)i deffo love the game and thank the seller for sending me it two days sfter the british release i recived the game and thank you again. |
