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Could We Get Ace Attorney News This Sunday?

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Sep 272024
 

Is it finally happening?

Edit: They have confirmed it is in fact not happening.

Yesterday was Capcom’s TGS show, and it was basically just a quick overview of their recently-released games (including the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection) followed by a ton of Monster Hunter Wilds information.

But near the end of the presentation, after talking about their current sales, they moved on to “an announcement from the Ace Attorney series,” and I had a moment of shock realizing we might actually be getting a new game announced at TGS after all. Instead, they announced a “product introduction trailer” for September 29.

Now, the way it’s described, it sounds like it could just be an overview of the series to let everyone know what games are available and how to play them.

But if that’s all it is, this is a very strange way to do it.

Why would you announce and schedule a simple overview video instead of showing it at the end of the TGS show? It’s also been announced that it will go live on September 28 at 11 PM PT / September 29 at 2 AM ET. That means this video is premiering at the same time in all regions. For regular videos, they have no problem uploading a Japanese video first and then an English trailer hours later.

Moreover, don’t forget how Dragon’s Dogma 2 was announced. Fans’ hopes were crushed when Capcom’s 2022 showcase brought up Dragon’s Dogma only to announce a “10 Years of Dragon’s Dogma” video instead of a sequel, but then the video a few days later ended with Dragon’s Dogma 2 being announced.

It feels like this means something.

Now, I remember the “unmissable” TGS showcase. I remember the Ace Attorney social media accounts changing their profile pictures. I remember the out-of-context Earth screenshot. Yes, I remember all the times we’ve gotten our hopes up for no reason, but that’s not going to stop me from doing it again.

What will be announced this Sunday? Will it be the long-awaited Ace Attorney 7? The Great Ace Attorney Investigations to explain the mysterious misplaced Van Zieks captions? A new anime? Or will there be no announcement at all and it’s simply a scheduled series overview trailer?

I know what I’m hoping for, but what do you think?

The Ace Attorney Investigations Collection is Here!

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Sep 062024
 

Today is the day. The Ace Attorney Investigations Collection is now out for all modern platforms.

Investigations and its sequel were the only games in the series that never made it to the 3DS, which made it feel a bit like Capcom had left them behind. And Investigations 2 had never received an official translation.

That makes this collection a momentous release, much more so than the Apollo Justice Trilogy earlier this year.

I already played the Investigations Collection and reviewed it over at MonsterVine, so you can head there to read my thoughts on this excellent remaster. I’m so happy this collection exists, and I’m thrilled that more people will get to play these games at last.

(Rest assured, I preordered a physical copy of the collection as well and it arrived today. There’s no way I was missing out on that!)

I’ve been waiting for this day for a long, long time.

All the way back in 2012, I blogged about the fan movement “Operation: Objection!” that hoped to show Capcom we wanted Investigations 2 localized. Two years later, we were holding a write-in/call-in event. A few months later, I was still at it. By the next year, we had a newly-revived movement to show our support.

I eventually put Investigations 2 localization on my list of pipe dreams, where it remained year after year after year…

By 2022, I had all but given up. I wanted to believe the Investigations duology would be remastered, but we’d had no new Ace Attorney announcements since The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (which itself felt like a miracle to have translated). I told myself that if there was no Ace Attorney news by the end of the year, I would finally give in and play the Investigations 2 fan translation. So the following May, I finally played the fan translation and came out of it hoping for an official translation harder than ever so that more people could play.

And now it’s finally here.

I’ve spent so long going into every single video game event hoping for an Investigations 2 localization announcement that it feels strange to no longer have to. What will I pin all my hopes and dreams on now? I guess I’ll just have to double down on wishing for Ace Attorney 7.

In the meantime, I can’t wait to see reactions from people playing these games for the first time. Are you planning to play the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection?

An Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Demo is Now Available!

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Aug 232024
 

We’re quickly approaching the release date of the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, and as if that isn’t exciting enough on its own, they’ve actually released a demo.

The Ace Attorney Investigations Collection demo will let you play through the start of each game’s first case, so you can try both the start of Turnabout Visitor and Turnabout Trigger.

Progress will transfer to the full game, too!

They announced it through a new trailer that also lets us hear some of the new Investigations 2 voice lines, but I didn’t embed it here because it includes some out-of-context shots from both games that I feel could be considered spoilers (such as a scene from the first game’s final case).

This is the first time they’ve released an Ace Attorney demo since… well, since we were last getting brand-new Ace Attorney games, back on the 3DS. None of the other collections got public demos.

Since the Investigations games play differently from the rest of the series, I wonder if that’s why they chose to give it a demo – to let players experience the new mechanics for themselves. It’s great to see, and it feels like they really want to give Investigations the best chance to succeed.

Meanwhile, the official Ace Attorney website has now been updated with an official timeline that shows all of the games – excluding the crossover – in chronological order, provides information about each individual game and what collection it can be found in, and shows some basic character relationships.

(It also confirms that they do not see Athena as a main protagonist of Spirit of Justice, only of Dual Destinies, which lines up with how she’s handled in the game.)

Honestly, all of this makes me more convinced than ever that we’re getting a new Ace Attorney game soon. They’re going hard with the Investigations Collection’s marketing and making it easier than ever for players to get into the series. That timeline page feels like the sort of thing you’d bring out to prepare for a new Ace Attorney game – and I’ve still got my hopes set on the Tokyo Game Show.

Are you going to try the Investigations Collection demo? Do you think Capcom is gearing up to announce Ace Attorney 7?

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