These last years, Capcom pleased fans of his visual novels judicial on leaving Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles And Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogygiving access on current platforms to the six main episodes and two spin-offs of his license Gyakuten Saiban. Besides the crossover with Professor Laytonso all that remains is Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and its sequel never published in the West Gyakuten Kenji 2 which remain difficult to access. Upstream of Nintendo Direct this Tuesday, a Chinese account on Weibo said that we would have news of the series on this occasion, to which the Pyoro leaker has answered “I will investigate it.” Obviously, the community quickly made the connection, a good indicator which does not suffer from any objection, since the Japanese publisher was present during the presentation with a nice announcement.
It is therefore a compilation of the two point'n click text adventures simply titled Ace Attorney Investigations Collection which will be released on September 6, 2024 on Switch, but also on PS4, Xbox One and PC (Steam and Windows). We will therefore embody Benjamin Hunter aka Miles Edgeworth, whether in court or in the field to conduct the investigation. Investigation enthusiasts will be able to count on the systems of Logic and D'Mental chessboard to combine evidence and confront suspects.
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Among the new features, in addition to the modernized graphics, we will finally be able to enjoy it in French in writing, among other languages, and various bonuses will be present. Besides, the title of the second episode will be with us Ace Attorney Investigations 2: The prosecutor's bet. In terms of dubbing, in addition to Japanese, we will therefore find French, English, German, Korean and Chinese (traditional or simplified).
- Improved visual appearance – HD visuals of the characters created by Tatsura Iwamoto, designer of the saga, smoother character animations and richer expressions. It will be possible to switch between the original sprites (2D characters and objects) and the reworked sprites.
- History Function – It will always be possible to return to a detail of a conversation or an important clue thanks to the Notebook function.
- Story Mode – An option for those who above all want to enjoy the plot by automatically following the progress of the game without exercising their little gray cells too much.
- Gallery mode – A complete catalog of illustrations, character animation, sketches, advertisements, synopses and the original soundtrack, including 106 audio tracks from the game as well as 23 orchestral tracks, an original creation and five arranged tracks from the original Ace CD Attorney Investigation.
- Game soundtrack – It will be possible, in the Options menu, to replace the original soundtrack with the five new arranged tracks (pre-order bonus, Editor's note). List of arranged tracks from Ace Attorney Investigations: Benjamin Hunter:
- [AAI Collection] Confrontation – Allegro 2009;
- [AAI Collection] Confrontation – Presto 2009;
- [AAI Collection] Miles Edgeworth – Objection! 2009;
- [AAI Collection] Pursuit – Chase Down the Truth;
- [AAI Collection] Pursuit – Chase Down the Truth (No Intro).
Visuals can be seen on the next page. In the meantime, you can get Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and the two other video game collections at the house of Gamesplanet from €23.99.
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