Killings, investigations, and fingers; Another Ace Attorney game
Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney is a big improvement over the past Ace Attorney games. It brings everything you love to the table, except for the courtroom action, as well as a few new ideas that play out very well.
The Ace Attorney series has been around for a while. After starting as a Japanese GBA game, it's become a phenomenon on the Nintendo DS, starring Phoenix Wright, and then later Apollo Justice as defense attorney's, proving their clients falsely accused of murder, innocent. But for the first time, Ace Attorney is taking a new direction and focusing on a prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth, a "rival" of Phoenix Wright.
The story is the main part of the game. You'll probably spend more time reading text than investigating and going through testimonies. And that is just fine. The story in Miles Edgeworth is very enjoyable. It is funnier than you'd expect from an Ace Attorney game. The story is well put together, and all plays out very well, with more than a few twists in the end that you are more than sure to be surprised by, and an ending just as great.
Next to the story, you'll spend a lot of time on investigating as well. The process you may remember from previous games has been completely overhauled, and replaced with a newer system that works out surprisingly well. The investigations involve you running around in a room looking for clues. The clues you are looking for depend on the situation. For example, if you are stuck in a room, you'll be looking for a way out, and if you are just beginning the investigation, you'll look for clues as to what exactly happened. The investigations also involve a good amount of Logic. It's a new system where you help Miles Edgeworth connect two thoughts to create one big idea out of both of them. It works out pretty well, but your logic isn't always the games logic. In other words, if you have an idea that connects two thoughts together, it may be correct, but the thoughts don't connect. If you are wrong, you lose some green stuff in green bar at the upper-left of the screen. (Green stuff is the best way to put it, as there really is no proper name for it.) If you lose all of it, "the truth is lost for all eternity." Don't be scared though. That just means you have to start from the last save point.
Normally after investigations, you have to receive testimony from somebody. Normally, their information is different from yours, and you are trying to prove their "logic" wrong. Sometimes, you may just be trying to verify information. You'll recieve testimony from a variety of sources, such as the detective, Von Karma (another prosecutor), a witness, suspected murderer, or the real murderer. Just like with Logic, some of your ideas may be correct, but presenting evidence that would normally make perfect sense is rejected. Also with Logic, if you run out of the "green stuff," the testimony is over, and the other person's testimony is assumed to be the truth, which means "the truth is lost for all eternity," aka a restart. When you do testimonies, you can press the person's statement for more information. There is no real penalty for pressing people. Sometimes it leads to more testimony or a request for evidence proving them wrong. Or you can present evidence. When you do this, the evidence has to contradict their testimony.
The soundtrack is amazing. It uses some of the old Ace Attorney songs, as well as mixes some of them into a Miles Edgeworth theme (you know, the pianos and other stuff like that?). It also brings some new ones to the table. All of them are perfect for a Miles Edgeworth game, and sound great even if you aren't as stiff or classical as him. It's catchy, and easy to listen to all day while you play.
The graphics are just like from previous games, but they seemed to have been updated slightly. Either way, it looks just like another Ace Attorney game in terms of graphics, and there is absolutely no problem with that.
The only real major complaint I have is that there is no courtroom action. By that, I mean you aren't ever in a courtroom trying to prove a defendant guilty. In fact, throughout the game, you'll be proving people innocent. As much as it now matches his style of searching for the truth, there still isn't any courtroom action whatsoever. This is big for an Ace Attorney game. Especially after the developers promised for courtroom action as well, it is a big disappointment for the Ace Attorney series.
All in all, it's another Ace Attorney game, without the courtroom action. It has the humor, the people, the pointing fingers, and the action of proving that "witness" guilty of murder that makes the series so great, and it's very present here as well. While there is not much replay value, it is a good 20-30 hours of fun to be had in the game. If you haven't played a game in the series before, this isn't a bad start. But if you are a fan of the series, there is no doubt in my mind that you will enjoy this game.
The Ace Attorney series has been around for a while. After starting as a Japanese GBA game, it's become a phenomenon on the Nintendo DS, starring Phoenix Wright, and then later Apollo Justice as defense attorney's, proving their clients falsely accused of murder, innocent. But for the first time, Ace Attorney is taking a new direction and focusing on a prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth, a "rival" of Phoenix Wright.
The story is the main part of the game. You'll probably spend more time reading text than investigating and going through testimonies. And that is just fine. The story in Miles Edgeworth is very enjoyable. It is funnier than you'd expect from an Ace Attorney game. The story is well put together, and all plays out very well, with more than a few twists in the end that you are more than sure to be surprised by, and an ending just as great.
Next to the story, you'll spend a lot of time on investigating as well. The process you may remember from previous games has been completely overhauled, and replaced with a newer system that works out surprisingly well. The investigations involve you running around in a room looking for clues. The clues you are looking for depend on the situation. For example, if you are stuck in a room, you'll be looking for a way out, and if you are just beginning the investigation, you'll look for clues as to what exactly happened. The investigations also involve a good amount of Logic. It's a new system where you help Miles Edgeworth connect two thoughts to create one big idea out of both of them. It works out pretty well, but your logic isn't always the games logic. In other words, if you have an idea that connects two thoughts together, it may be correct, but the thoughts don't connect. If you are wrong, you lose some green stuff in green bar at the upper-left of the screen. (Green stuff is the best way to put it, as there really is no proper name for it.) If you lose all of it, "the truth is lost for all eternity." Don't be scared though. That just means you have to start from the last save point.
Normally after investigations, you have to receive testimony from somebody. Normally, their information is different from yours, and you are trying to prove their "logic" wrong. Sometimes, you may just be trying to verify information. You'll recieve testimony from a variety of sources, such as the detective, Von Karma (another prosecutor), a witness, suspected murderer, or the real murderer. Just like with Logic, some of your ideas may be correct, but presenting evidence that would normally make perfect sense is rejected. Also with Logic, if you run out of the "green stuff," the testimony is over, and the other person's testimony is assumed to be the truth, which means "the truth is lost for all eternity," aka a restart. When you do testimonies, you can press the person's statement for more information. There is no real penalty for pressing people. Sometimes it leads to more testimony or a request for evidence proving them wrong. Or you can present evidence. When you do this, the evidence has to contradict their testimony.
The soundtrack is amazing. It uses some of the old Ace Attorney songs, as well as mixes some of them into a Miles Edgeworth theme (you know, the pianos and other stuff like that?). It also brings some new ones to the table. All of them are perfect for a Miles Edgeworth game, and sound great even if you aren't as stiff or classical as him. It's catchy, and easy to listen to all day while you play.
The graphics are just like from previous games, but they seemed to have been updated slightly. Either way, it looks just like another Ace Attorney game in terms of graphics, and there is absolutely no problem with that.
The only real major complaint I have is that there is no courtroom action. By that, I mean you aren't ever in a courtroom trying to prove a defendant guilty. In fact, throughout the game, you'll be proving people innocent. As much as it now matches his style of searching for the truth, there still isn't any courtroom action whatsoever. This is big for an Ace Attorney game. Especially after the developers promised for courtroom action as well, it is a big disappointment for the Ace Attorney series.
All in all, it's another Ace Attorney game, without the courtroom action. It has the humor, the people, the pointing fingers, and the action of proving that "witness" guilty of murder that makes the series so great, and it's very present here as well. While there is not much replay value, it is a good 20-30 hours of fun to be had in the game. If you haven't played a game in the series before, this isn't a bad start. But if you are a fan of the series, there is no doubt in my mind that you will enjoy this game.
