Take that! New features & languages added in the latest update! Gallery - Music Player: Listen to music from the game and selected tracks from the special arrangement album. - Art: View various artwork from the game, including official illustrations and event scenes. - Scene
Take that! New features & languages added in the latest update!
Gallery - Music Player: Listen to music from the game and selected tracks from the special arrangement album. - Art: View various artwork from the game, including official illustrations and event scenes. - Scene Creator: Have fun creating different scenes with character models and animations.
More features to enjoy - Episode Selection allows you to start playing from an episode of your choice. - Story Mode allows you to solve cases automatically to enjoy more of the story. - Auto-play allows you to automatically play through the dialogue to focus on solving cases. (switch between Story Mode and Auto-play to suit your play-style).
Additional language support for Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese including text and voice!
Bug Fixes - We implemented measures to address vulnerabilities in Unity.
Take that! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is getting a free update on November 19! Court will be back in session with quality of life updates including Episode Selection, Story Mode, as well as three additional features to enjoy in Gallery mode!
Take that! Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy is getting a free update on November 19! Court will be back in session with quality of life updates including Episode Selection, Story Mode, as well as three additional features to enjoy in Gallery mode!
HOLD IT! If it pleases the court, defense attorney Phoenix Wright and prosecutor Miles Edgeworth would like to welcome you into the wacky world of Ace Attorney with “That’s Wright! Ace Attorney TV”! Join them as they chronicle the entire Ace Attorney series, starting from the beg
HOLD IT!
If it pleases the court, defense attorney Phoenix Wright and prosecutor Miles Edgeworth would like to welcome you into the wacky world of Ace Attorney with “That’s Wright! Ace Attorney TV”! Join them as they chronicle the entire Ace Attorney series, starting from the beginning with Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and the very first “Objection!”.
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection is available now! Join prodigious prosecutor Miles Edgeworth as he pursues the truth at any cost in two beautifully remastered games, complete with redesigned chibi character sprites, an array of special content and features, and the Western
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection is available now! Join prodigious prosecutor Miles Edgeworth as he pursues the truth at any cost in two beautifully remastered games, complete with redesigned chibi character sprites, an array of special content and features, and the Western debut of Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit.
A demo is also available to download on Steam. Step out of the courtroom to investigate crime scenes and deduce facts in the first half of the first case of each game in the collection.
The Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection bundle(The set SKU of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles) will be discontinued as of May 31, 2024. *New downloads of Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection will not be available in the store, but owners will
The Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection bundle(The set SKU of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles) will be discontinued as of May 31, 2024. *New downloads of Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection will not be available in the store, but owners will be able to continue to play game. *Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles will remain available for purchase.
Take that! Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy is out now! Modern HD graphics, an expansive Orchestra Hall and Art Library, an optional Story Mode, and bonuses galore make this collection the definitive way to enjoy Apollo's growth as a lawyer navigating the Dark Age of the Law.
Take that! Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy is out now! Modern HD graphics, an expansive Orchestra Hall and Art Library, an optional Story Mode, and bonuses galore make this collection the definitive way to enjoy Apollo's growth as a lawyer navigating the Dark Age of the Law.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy launches January 25, 2024 on Steam! The game is available for pre-purchase starting today! Join the Wright Anything Agency in courtroom battles and engaging investigations and bring about a legal revolution!
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy launches January 25, 2024 on Steam! The game is available for pre-purchase starting today!
Join the Wright Anything Agency in courtroom battles and engaging investigations and bring about a legal revolution! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2187220/456/
If it please the court, we have new evidence to submit about the lawyers, friends, and rivals of the Wright Anything Agency across all three games included in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy! Check the Court Record, and you'll see this collection is packed with a gallery, mu
If it please the court, we have new evidence to submit about the lawyers, friends, and rivals of the Wright Anything Agency across all three games included in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy!
Check the Court Record, and you'll see this collection is packed with a gallery, music player, cutscene viewer, and previously released DLC. Join Apollo Justice, Phoenix Wright, Athena Cykes, and a colorful cast of friends and foes as Apollo puts an end to the Dark Age of the Law! Check out the previous title in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, now on sale for a limited time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/787480/_123/
Other Capcom titles are also on sale, please check them out!
■TGS 2023 Capcom Online Special Program Get all the latest Capcom news in our pre-recorded TGS Online program! Program starts September 21, 7:00 AM PDT / 15:00 BST / 10:00 HKT "Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy", "Resident Evil 4", "Exoprimal", "Dragon’s Dogma 2" and more Offi
■TGS 2023 Capcom Online Special Program
Get all the latest Capcom news in our pre-recorded TGS Online program!
Program starts September 21, 7:00 AM PDT / 15:00 BST / 10:00 HKT
[featured titles] "Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy", "Resident Evil 4", "Exoprimal", "Dragon’s Dogma 2" and more Official website // https://www.capcom-games.com/tgs/online/
A remastering of the supernatural puzzle-solving thriller from Shu Takumi is out now! Check out the launch trailer! Featuring - Revived high resolution graphics - Newly rearranged music and 1 new track - A new collection feature for art and BGM tracks Demo version also available!
A remastering of the supernatural puzzle-solving thriller from Shu Takumi is out now! Check out the launch trailer!
She Hulk is the only part of the MCU I'm currently remotely invested in at the moment. Aside from WandaVision, it's one of the few things Marvel Studios has produced that actually reflects how broad superhero comics can be. They are so much more than banter and big monster fights
She Hulk is the only part of the MCU I'm currently remotely invested in at the moment. Aside from WandaVision, it's one of the few things Marvel Studios has produced that actually reflects how broad superhero comics can be. They are so much more than banter and big monster fights, but that's largely all we get from the MCU. While She Hulk does dabble in these things, it's more Ally McBeal than Avengers, and the result is immensely entertaining. Developers thinking of pitching a superhero game should take note... Read more.
Sometimes when I say I'm doing work what I'm actually doing is messing around with silly, fun bots other people have made. The latest one I've been toying around with is an Ace Attorney bot that turns certain Reddit threads into a courtroom drama scene. Getting it all to work req
Sometimes when I say I'm doing work what I'm actually doing is messing around with silly, fun bots other people have made. The latest one I've been toying around with is an Ace Attorney bot that turns certain Reddit threads into a courtroom drama scene.
Getting it all to work requires a few things. First up you should sign up to Steamtable and Reddit, and bot creator Micah Price explains that you'll need to "set the appropriate env vars to use the bot". You'll also need to download the game sprites from court-records, and the music from khinsider.
Once that's all out the way, you can head to any of the subreddits the bot supports and type in '!objectionbot' or '!objection-bot' to get things rolling. While not every subreddit is supported, there are plenty to try. You can head to the Politics or Soccer pages if you like, but I went straight to CyberpunkGame - what can I say? It's topical. Subreddits for Destiny 2, Star Citizen, and Fortnite are also supported - have fun.
Objection! And now that that's out of the way, it looks like Capcom and Microsoft are teasing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy coming to Game Pass. A Twitter exchange between the official accounts suggests an announcement may be imminent. The exchange began with the official
Objection! And now that that's out of the way, it looks like Capcom and Microsoft are teasing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy coming to Game Pass. A Twitter exchange between the official accounts suggests an announcement may be imminent.
On the hellscape that is Twitter, corporate accounts can be prone to offhand exchanges like this, but the companies involved make this seem like an obvious hint. The Ace Attorney account doesn't tweet other than to advertise - this is the second post since July - and the Game Pass account is prone to slightly goofy hints. For Rainbow Six Siege, we got a picture of six rainbows over a castle being attacked right before the multiplayer game dropped on the Xbox part of the service. These detective games could very easily follow suit.
The whole Ace Attorney Trilogy looks better than ever on PC, and if you somehow missed it in the last couple decades, here’s your chance. It’s a story-driven game about two lovers forced to battle it out on opposite sides of the courtroom. They’re fighting for their own version o
The whole Ace Attorney Trilogy looks better than ever on PC, and if you somehow missed it in the last couple decades, here’s your chance. It’s a story-driven game about two lovers forced to battle it out on opposite sides of the courtroom. They’re fighting for their own version of justice whilst also attempting to fight their feelings for one another. (more…)
There won’t be silence in the courtroom this time around – as if all the finger pointing and OBJECTIONs weren’t enough, you can re-create the trademark chaos in the courtroom of Ace Attorney with soundtracks for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney , Justice for All , and Trials and Trib
There won’t be silence in the courtroom this time around – as if all the finger pointing and OBJECTIONs weren’t enough, you can re-create the trademark chaos in the courtroom of Ace Attorney with soundtracks for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Justice for All, and Trials and Tribulations! Every track sounds just Wright.
Each soundtrack comes with MP3 (V0 bitrate), FLAC (16-bit), and AAC (Variable bitrate) music files. Ownership of the base Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy game is not required to purchase this soundtrack.
Music aficionados, rejoice! A variety of soundtracks from our recent releases are now available to purchase as stand-alone albums via the new Steam Music Player, including the album Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Turnabout Tunes! Previously available only as DLC that required the
Music aficionados, rejoice! A variety of soundtracks from our recent releases are now available to purchase as stand-alone albums via the new Steam Music Player, including the album Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Turnabout Tunes!
Previously available only as DLC that required their respective game purchases, these soundtracks are now part of our first wave of music being converted to Steam’s new Music Player. This means you can actually enjoy the game’s rockin’ tunes without necessarily owning the full game. And to get the party started, we have even discounted some of the soundtracks for a limited time!
All soundtracks are available in a variety of formats including MP3, AAC and FLAC, offering plenty of flexibility between small file sizes and superb audio quality. Also note that if you already owned these soundtracks as part of previous DLC purchases, you get to keep them in your Steam Music Player and have access to the newly available file formats for certain soundtracks.
Not a whole lot of game franchises offer character development that bridges several instalments. It’s easy to see why—you don’t want to make it too hard for people joining a franchise late to get up to speed with what happened to its heroes. Sometimes however, you get a chance to
Not a whole lot of game franchises offer character development that bridges several instalments. It’s easy to see why—you don’t want to make it too hard for people joining a franchise late to get up to speed with what happened to its heroes. Sometimes however, you get a chance to start at the beginning, especially now, thanks to all these re-releases.
That’s how I met Miles Edgeworth. Miles is Ace Attorney’s not-so-secret star, because his relationship with protagonist Phoenix Wright supplies much of the game’s narrative backbone. Due to it giving you different cases to solve, I expected Ace Attorney to be a collection of comedic, but ultimately unrelated one-shots. But Miles quickly establishes himself as your ongoing antagonist, and he makes a great anime foil—a fop with the most dramatic fashion sense, a permanent scowl and no time for nonsense.
His alarming reputation succeeds him. Miles, they whisper in the hallways, doesn’t care about justice, he only cares about upholding his conviction record. What a revelation then, an unexpected delight, that this grumpy fellow cares about justice very much indeed. Behind his stoic shell hides one of the most dramatic backstories I’ve had the pleasure of discovering in a long time.
Rise and fall
Miles Edgeworth’s story is so good to me because it takes the bully who otherwise might have become a villain and offers him redemption. Miles and Phoenix go way back. They became childhood friends after Miles stood up for Phoenix in a dramatic classroom trial, inspiring the latter to take up a career as a defence attorney. But their paths diverged, chiefly due to the trauma Edgeworth experienced when his father died—trauma that would fuel his relentless chase of criminals later on. Without giving too much away, the backstory is still almost hilariously overwrought, but all in all we can understand Miles’ motive. He became vulnerable and was basically led astray into the role of Phoenix’s adversary. Only when he becomes a suspect himself and has to deal with the feelings of helplessness he inflicted onto others does Edgeworth understand what he’s done.
Edgeworth admits this to himself, which leads him to help Phoenix out more than once and even grudgingly accept help. It’s so enjoyable to watch, particularly because he doesn’t ever unthaw. Miles doesn’t become nice or, God forbid, soft. At first, this makes Edgeworth more akin to a running gag, the fop who gets flustered by the shenanigans around him. But every once in a while his shell cracks and something endearing slips out—like how he’s a massive fan of Ace Attorney’s in-game TV show Steel Samurai.
While part of Edgeworth’s slow transformation comes from the fact that he can’t seem to beat Wright in court, he is only able to truly move on when he finds closure regarding his father’s death. What a simple yet powerful message—before you can show justice to other people, you have to experience justice yourself.
Live and learn
Miles Edgeworth characterises how we’re all looking to do the right thing but sometimes get waylaid through no fault of our own. Miles wanted a new father figure and thus modelled himself completely after his mentor Manfred von Karma. His story shows that when we’re looking for our place in the world, we may end up following someone because it’s the easier thing to do, but playacting someone else won’t sustain us.
In Phoenix, Miles Edgeworth recognises the person he could have been, and across several games he mulls that over. But that’s another attempt at being someone else.
Over the course of the Ace Attorney games you hear from Miles less and less as the series introduces you to new protagonists. He comes to an agreement with Phoenix that ensures both sides focus on finding the truth, rather than trying to one-up each other. Official art depicts Edgeworth as part of the large, happy courtroom family, where he joins picnics and beach trips.
Eventually he finds his own thing, and it’s reassuring that sometimes it takes even videogame characters years to settle into themselves.
Many, many people have stories about how video games have impacted them. It's rarer for a series to be a continuous, changing influence on half of your life. And yet somehow Ace Attorney, a comedy game about lawyers, became bizarrely foundational to my teenage years - and then ja
Many, many people have stories about how video games have impacted them. It's rarer for a series to be a continuous, changing influence on half of your life. And yet somehow Ace Attorney, a comedy game about lawyers, became bizarrely foundational to my teenage years - and then jarringly alien in my 20s. So when the original trilogy was remastered earlier this year, it felt like so much more than the chance to revisit a classic. It seemed an invitation to reflect on an influence lasting more than a decade, kicked off by a video game, that ended up nowhere near where I expected it to.
The first time I ever saw Ace Attorney being played, I was 12. The first game was already five years old, having made the transition from the Game Boy Advance to the Nintendo DS by the time I glimpsed it over a friend's shoulder. She was playing one of the tense courtroom battles and, for reasons long lost to time, I was immediately hooked by the concept.
The investigative sequences were less interesting to me, but this was a blessing in disguise. My friend soon got fed up of calling me over when she was back to arguing her case in front of a judge, and I wasn't understanding the story properly from those fragments anyway, so I picked up my own copy and tore through it, falling in love with the characters and story.
Before I became familiar with Japanese media, I associated courtroom dramas with the no-nonsense rulings of Judge Judy or the uber-serious suspense of A Few Good Men. Meanwhile, in Japan's fictional courtrooms, the silly and the dramatic is found in equal measure, making it a hug
Before I became familiar with Japanese media, I associated courtroom dramas with the no-nonsense rulings of Judge Judy or the uber-serious suspense of A Few Good Men. Meanwhile, in Japan's fictional courtrooms, the silly and the dramatic is found in equal measure, making it a hugely popular genre. This is especially true of Ace Attorney, which imbues its trials with all the visual and stylistic trappings of an engaging anime serial.
Ace Attorney is the latest in a line of HD remasters of Capcom's previously console-only games. Prior to Ace Attorney, hardly any visual novels were officially localised, and even now it’s still a niche that more commonly brings to mind dating games over adventure. Ace Attorney's courtroom setting and goofy humour still set it apart; both from visual novels and games at large. Trials range from ridiculous to genuinely suspenseful. Rather than just a collection of selectable player reactions, Phoenix Wright is one of the few main characters in this type of game who gets to freely express himself. While he often seems overwhelmed by the shenanigans around him, he genuinely cares—making me care in turn.
You learn everything you need to know to become a winner in the courtroom during your very first case. Fresh from law school, defence attorney Phoenix has promised to get his best friend Larry Butz acquitted of murder. Your clients are generally hapless people like him, and in order to keep them out of jail, you have to identify the true culprit and then—to quote Wright—"put the pressure on until they squeal". First you listen to a witness's testimony, then pick it apart statement by statement during the cross-examination. You can ask a witness to clarify ("Hold it!") or expose inaccuracies and straight-up lies by presenting a piece of contradicting evidence ("Objection!").
All evidence is handily collected in the court record, which you can access at any time. Presenting evidence can be frustrating however, because not only do you have to present the right piece, it also has to be presented at the right moment. If a witness is elaborating on a prior statement in their next sentence, either seem like viable moments to object, but the game will only acknowledge the right sentence to do so. Get it wrong, and you'll be penalised and lose part of a health bar. The more is on the line, the more health you stand to lose, but you can save at any time from the options menu.
Diagnosis: Murder
Starting with the second of 14 episodes, you also put your Sherlock Holmes hat on and do some sleuthing ahead of a court date. Looking for clues out in the world is an unwieldy affair, as you have to move from screen to screen in a certain order and randomly click just about anything that could be of interest. Sometimes you move about aimlessly without knowing what to do next until a person appears out of nowhere or you've finished all available conversations.
Ace Attorney is a hilarious game, highly dependent on wordplay and overdramatic witnesses
Trials soon turn into lengthy affairs over multiple days, in which dramatic revelations and new evidence regularly provide interesting twists and turns. Yet Ace Attorney isn't just a 'case of the week' affair—over time you come to know an eclectic cast of main characters whose backstories intertwine with the seemingly unrelated cases you're trying to solve. Many episodes over the course of the trilogy involve Wright's assistant Maya Fey, who belongs to a family of spirit mediums who to help with investigations by channelling the dead, for example. Police detective and lovable village idiot Dick Gumshoe is another regular. Of course no trial would be complete without prosecuting attorneys, Wright's opponents in court. In the first game, this role is filled by Miles Edgeworth, a delightfully sour-faced fop who wears actual cravats as part of his everyday outfit. Edgeworth is my new favourite, because how many men do you know, fictional or otherwise, who can rock a magenta suit and a tragic backstory?
Edgeworth provides a lot of the overarching story's backbone, as do the Feys. Ace Attorney does put a lot of stock in character development, and watching Phoenix relationship with his friends grow over time is heart-warming. As much as these characters grew on me though, the individual cases remained my main source of enjoyment over the course of the three games. Still, I appreciate the interplay between random trials and more personal stories.
Murder, She Translated
The localisation is Ace Attorney's actual star. Ace Attorney is a hilarious game, highly dependent on wordplay and overdramatic witnesses being completely oblivious to the gravity of the situation they find themselves in. There's more than one running gag that stretches over several episodes, and like SEGA's Yakuza series, it's often just Wright's deadpan reactions to everyone else's outlandish behaviour that makes each interaction so much fun. The localisation confers each suspect's linguistic ticks and is overall vital to helping you find out just when they say something that doesn't quite add up.
To help illustrate the scope of influence the localisation has, you just need to look at names in the series. Each character’s name in the original is a pun. Take Phoenix Wright—his first name was chosen for its heroic sound, then modified into "Nick” by several characters, becoming a literal nickname. His original name is Ryuichi Naruhodo, and his surname is actually the Japanese way to say "right” as an affirmation. To justify using English names however, localisation moved the setting of the entire game. A drastic decision in order to accurately localise as many puns as possible, especially when the Japanese setting becomes increasingly obvious in the second and third games, but the frankly ridiculous puns give Ace Attorney its own charm.
When it comes to having you uncover evidence, Ace Attorney uses a curious combination of very eagerly pushing hints onto you (complete with marking text passages of interest in red), and staying completely schtum. Every piece of evidence you collect will become relevant at some point, but sometimes you only find out by trial and error what Phoenix is referring to. When situations enter the territory of the absurd, cases turn into guesswork. The creative twists that make each criminal case interesting also make them so difficult to puzzle out. Still, Ace Attorney avoids feeling punishing. During my playthrough I only saw the game over screen once.
Anime calls for drama and highly unlikely events the same way it calls for characters with candy-coloured hair
Solving a puzzle feels great, thanks to the frankly smug way in which Wright explains his deductions. Ace Attorney would likely be half as long if Wright didn't announce his breakthroughs in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, followed by a lengthy explanation to make sure everyone's on board. "You want to know what this business card signifies? I'm going to tell you what it signifies!" Clickbait, in my games? Thankfully, a simple button press is enough to skip to the end of a sentence or to have the text run slightly faster.
Of course Ace Attorney wouldn't be the same without these antics. With the HD remaster's smoothed-out sprites, the games look more like an anime than ever before. Ace Attorney also leans more heavily on the tropes associated with anime than most other Japanese games. It's designed like an actual TV series, complete with posters for each episode, end cards that say "to be continued", flashbacks and filler episodes.
Anime calls for drama and highly unlikely events the same way it calls for characters with candy-coloured hair, and from murder to ghostly possession and kidnapping, Ace Attorney has it all. All the screaming, copious amounts of screenshake (which you can blessedly disable) and characters going "what's the meaning of this?!" can get a bit much, especially when the formula remains virtually unchanged across three games, but it is satisfying to watch suspects become increasingly desperate.
Justice For All adds to elements to the overall formula—the option to use character profiles as evidence, finally putting them to use, and the magatama, a mystic stone that tells you if someone is lying to you during investigations. This allows you to object to people's tomfoolery outside the courtroom and get witnesses to give up their secrets. These are small additions rather than anything new. Had Capcom at any point decided to get rid of them again, I wouldn't have missed them.
Law and Order
Game number three, Trials and Tribulations, is the weakest of the trilogy. Being 50% flashbacks, it adds context to events discussed in prior games, but the pacing is off. To my mind the episodes would have worked better in between more exciting trials to help that pacing. The tutorial episodes at the beginning of each game are also definitely weaker than others; they take place entirely inside the courtroom and are full of hints.
Despite this, Ace Attorney hooks you the same way any good crime serial does: you want to know whodunit, and how, and once you do, you want to point your finger at the criminal in a heroic fashion and laugh. I dare you not to be sold on Ace Attorney as soon as the verdict hits the screen in big, bold letters, and the room erupts into cheers and confetti.
