Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
- New action game component that allows for exploration of crime scenes using either D-Pad inputs of the DS/DSi stylus to uncover clues.
- Crime-solving adventure for Nintendo DS and DSi starring Miles Edgeworth, the well loved rival of attorney Phoenix Wright.
- Gameplay moves out of the courtroom and onto the crime scene and features several unique cases to solve with over 15 hours of gameplay.
- New technique, such as “Logic” mode assists you in uncovering the crime.
- Unique dialog trees and interrogation techniques let you question witnesses to learn the truth.
Product Description
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes the Ace Attorney series from the courtroom to the crime scene, leaving the legal battle behind while bringing the action to various crime scenes. This time around, the player takes on the role of famed prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, a memorable rival of charismatic legal eagle Phoenix Wright. Edgeworth actively investigates crime scenes in order to pursue the truth behind each case. By solving the challenging puzzles presented him, Edgeworth will work with the police to bring criminals to justice. Users will be able to directly control the character avatar’s movement on the scene with the arrow key or touch screen and investigate the crime scenes freely. If, during the course of an investigation, users find contradictions, they will be able to take new information by presenting decisive evidence. In some cases, users will identify clues and conduct examinations of material witnesses. On these occasions, users will have to uncover the truth behind the crimes using collected information, the evidence, and logic.Amazon.com Product Description
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is a release player, crime-solving adventure for Nintendo DS and DSi. Featuring Miles Edgeworth, normal opposing council in the Phoenix Wright sports meeting, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes players out of the court room and introduces them to crime scene investigation. Here players can physically collect clues, interrogate witness and suspects and develop evidence as they endeavor to solve five engrossing cases.
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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes the Ace Attorney series from the courtroom to the crime scene, leaving the legal battle behind. This time around, players take on the role of famed prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, a memorable rival of charismatic legal eagle Phoenix Wright. Edgeworth actively investigates crime scenes in search of the truth behind each case. By solving the challenging puzzles presented to him, Edgeworth will work with the police to bring criminals to justice.
 Go out of the courtroom and on to the crime scene with Miles Edgeworth.
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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is composed of a number of episodes. In the first episode, an argument in Edgeworth’s office results in a mysterious murder. Edgeworth, coming back from a one-month affair trip, enters his office and encounters the body of the man who was shot. In the second episode, Edgeworth’s plane journey takes a nasty turn when he wakes up after being knocked out during heavy turbulence. Shaken by the flashback of lurid past memories, he opens the onboard elevator’s door to find a male corpse. At this very moment a cabin attendant witnesses the scene and Edgeworth is made a suspect of murder.
Gameplay
Like Capcom’s Phoenix Wright sports meeting, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is designed around the point-and-click game mechanic, with the player taking on a series of cases positioned before them. Playing as Miles Edgeworth, players get to the bottom of cases by collecting information and evidence owing to detective work between key locations. These locations must be physically explored, with players given the choice of either the DS stylus or the D-pad to to facilitate movement, and collect clues. Within the game’s ‘Logic’ mode, which symbolizes Edgeworth’s most likely inferences, users can learn new information and evidence by combining clues learned in the action part of the game. Eventually, with the discovery of the right clues the real culprit will be revealed owing to these investigations and the confrontation of witnesses to expose contradictions in a ‘battle’ mechanism (Testimony – Pursuit – Press – Confront), which is similar to that of the ‘Court Battle’ in the Ace Attorney series (Testimony – Cross Examination).
Key Game Features
- Starring Miles Edgeworth, the well loved rival of attorney Phoenix Wright.
- Gameplay moves out of the courtroom and onto the crime scene.
- Several unique cases to solve with over 15 hours of gameplay.
- New technique, such as “Logic” mode assists you in uncovering the crime.
- Unique dialog trees and interrogation techniques let you question witnesses to learn the truth.
- New action game component that allows for exploration of crime scenes using either D-Pad inputs of the DS/DSi stylus to uncover clues.
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This is a fun game. I have played all of them in this series. I do like the grown-up ones better, still this one is excellent. Seems like alot of reading to do in it though. Also mine froze up twice, and luckily I save my game alot.
Rating: 4 / 5
First off, I LOVE Edgeworth. He’s one of my favorite characters in all of fiction. He was wonderfully deep, richly developed, and entertaining.
So, when I heard they were making a game all about him, I was ridiculously excited.
But, just about everything that had made me like him in the first Phoenix Wright game (his first and previously most prominent appearance) was not present in Ace Attorney Investigations.
Don’t get me incorrect, this game was very well-written, in terms of dialogue, tale, and plot-twists. The mysteries were challenging and entertaining (for the most part) and the music and graphics were perfectly suited to the Ace Attorney series.
But the one key thing that I felt was lacking–the one thing that I had been wanting from a game about Edgeworth–was more development of Edgeworth’s character.
Contracted, of the five cases in the game, I loved three of them entirely. The first three, to be specific. They had Edgeworth at the center of the action, involved in the cases on a personal level. I wanted to solve the mysteries for his sake.
But the final two cases were more about the case itself, rather than Edgeworth. I felt that he was involved purely because he happened to be around, rather than being in person, emotionally involved. The last two cases seemed as if they could have easily starred Phoenix Wright rather than Miles Edgeworth, and in a game meant to showcase the darkhorse of the series, I wished that it had been more tailored to him.
Additionally, the fact that they make only the vaguest mention of the events of the first game (and the things that made me like Edgeworth to start with) seems like the actions of the game makers to preserve the experience of the first game for those who have yet to play it. While I know why they did this, I do not like it.
All of that aside, the gameplay is solid, the mysteries are both fascinating and challenging, and the dialogue is witty and gifted. Those not as all ears on Edgeworth’s character as myself will probably find it perfectly satisfying if they loved the other sports meeting in the series. Although the complete lack of courtroom play might be disappointing to some.
In small: for a game about Edgeworth, there’s just not enough in fact ABOUT Edgeworth in it. For the most part, he’s merely present, and that’s the extent of his involvement. The game itself is not terrible, but it was not what I, as a rabid Edgeworth fan, was hoping for.
Rating: 3 / 5
After being somewhat disappointed by the previous Ace Attorney game, Apollo Justice, I was cautiously optimistic about this new game. I needn’t have worried: this game presents a new management for the series that has all the charm of the Phoenix Wright sports meeting and the fun of the best “Turnabouts.” It’s splendid fun to play as Miles Edgeworth – I really loved playing as him in the last Turnabout from “Trials and Tribulations,” and having his own game is as fun as I’d hoped.
If you’ve played the previous sports meeting in the series, you’ll be pleased (and maybe dismayed by one or two irritating return characters – I’m looking at you, Wendy Oldbag) by the large cast of recurring characters. The first 3 Turnabouts especially are a parade of returning characters. Don’t agonize, though, the designers have also added a liberal helping of new characters to the game as well, each very well drawn and animated. The new characters are just as well-written and likable as you’d expect from the series, in fact, at several points I got the depression that even the “throwaway” characters who only show up in a release Turnabout were just as well done as the characters who appear throughout the game.
The new formula results in a much more varied game experience. In the previous sports meeting, I found that the Investigation and Courtroom phases often took longer than I’d have liked, especially in the later Turnabouts. Sometimes I would find myself wishing I was in the phase that I wasn’t in. This new game circumvents this issue by changing frequently between investigation and cross-examination.
For instance, you might be investigating a crime scene, and come across a vital witness. After hearing the witness’s testimony, Miles thinks there’s something fishy with the testimony, and will then go into a cross-examination mode to get the whole tale before returning to Investigation mode.
The translation is brilliant by and large. The puns and jokes are very well done. I did see several minor translation errors, more than I have seen in any of the previous sports meeting, but given the large amount of dialog and the fact that it’s always simple to tell what they meant, I elected not to dock a star from my score for it.
All in all, a splendid addition to the Ace Attorney series, and certainly a worthy addition to the game pool of both Ace Attorney fans and adventure game fans in general.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am writing this as a experienced person of the series, I don’t know how new players would fare here. This review is also spoiler free!
Now to start there have been some updates innovations and changes since Apollo Justice. Scenes are most of the time now played out with full pixelated characters on screen rather than the “from the waist up” view. It’ll seem odd at first but it does seem to make investigating large areas simpler and after a tiny bit it comes nearly naturally. Note: during investigations you can go the small Edgeworth with either the control pad or the stylus.
Edgeworth, not being an attorney, also has a different flow to his tales and nearly all scenes happen outside of the courtroom. Edgeworth’s new tool is logic, wherein you take two nagging questions and link them together to answer them both. It’s not a terrible addition but is very unadorned compared to some of the previous puzzles of the franchise.
References to events and items from the previous sports meeting are at every turn, and I mean EVERY turn! So if it’s been a while it wouldn’t hurt to replay the others first. Jokes and humor are splendid, and in the usual stylishness, and the characters are certainly Phoenix Wright caliber. Edgeworth himself has lost a bit of his sternness, he feels like a watered down version of his previous self, but this is kind of inevitable as you didn’t have to watch the poor guy screw up nearly as often originally when you couldn’t control him. XD
As for the tales they’re excellent, yet the murders tend to be a bit more graphic than in previous sports meeting. It’s not overly graphic, more like it’s finally showing the Teen rating. As excellent as the tales are, the puzzles are rather unadorned and feels like you’re more following obvious connections until the solution is handed to you.
By and large I’m giving it a four because it really is a splendid Ace Attorney game with excellent graphics, writing, music, and tales, but it isn’t quite up to the high points that Phoenix set for the series. It’s still a must play for fans!
Rating: 4 / 5
If you’re a fan of the Ace Attorney series, you know that the pattern of point-n-click investigation and courtroom arguements was starting to wear thin. New characters and a few new gameplay options helped to buoy the setup, but after the prior volume, it seemed to have run out of steam. Penetrate Miles Edgeworth, with a rather impressive revamp.
Graphics and gameplay have rather improved, and the characters are crisper and better detailed. Also, a more interactive setup, including a large environment 2d character motion, has been added, rather than having to do a screen by screen analysis, allowing for more depth and a better feel to the tale.
In place of the rather tedious courtroom tennis match that made up the majority of the AA sports meeting, the arguments are much shorter and separated, though the climax encounter tends to drag out a tad longer than necessary. Also included are most likely jumps, which edgeworth uses multiple evidence pieces to piece together tale bits to advance the plot, rather than relying on finding that last piece of evidence or wandering around looking for the new character interaction.
Audio still is a let down, in that theres small to no voice apart from the few cries of “objection” and “hold it,” the mainstays of the series. I’m still puzzled that more can’t be included, if only a few crucial snippets from the main characters.
By and large, this is a very excellent revamp. A lot of it is the same right, but the main meat and potatoes has been overhauled, and prevents much of the frustrated searching that bogged down much of the Ace attorney sports meeting.
Rating: 4 / 5