It's been a mostly enjoyable week for Ace Attorney fans, primarily due to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 6 being announced for 3DS and confirmed for the West. The downside came with accompanying news that The Great Ace Attorney doesn't seem to be planned for localisation out of Japan, and it'll be a great pity if that stance remains the same for the rest of the year.
Some snippets of storyline and references to a 'Water Mirror' approach to viewing clues have also come through, though there are also some handsome art assets and screens also doing the rounds. Not all are at their full resolution, but nevertheless give us a look at how the current 3DS-gen visuals for the series are being applied to a 'foreign land' with a prevalence of temples.
Check out some of the art and screens that are doing the rounds below.
[source neogaf.com, via capcom.co.jp]
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Super pumped for this, still hoping the great attorney makes it here!
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Looking forward to this, as always. Hoping it will be retail over in Europe, but never hoping too much (-cough- Project Zero -cough- NA -cough- DIGITAL ONLY -cough-).
The original trilogy is honestly my favorite series of all games, but man...I HATED Dual Destinies. I hope that this doesn't do the same stuff that I disliked.
I also hope that Maya comes around. I'd like to see what she's up to as the Master. Maybe we could even see Gumshoe? Probably not.
Great Ace Attourney will probably come west.
So AA6 is essentially set in China and it gets localized, but Great Ace Attorney is set in Japan and doesn't?
@Zach777 I wish I could be that optimistic about it.
I don't listen to rumors and speculation... Nothing has been said yet.
@RaymanFan2 They will probably translate it as Canada or something
@Zach777 About...?
@Zach777 "Something" actually has been said, it was confirmed there are no plans to bring it to the west.
@Discipledoctor Don't leave me hanging. Do tell what exactly you don't like about AA5.
@RaymanFan2 Because GAA deals with Wright's and Payne's lineage and it's really hard to twist the explanation to make younger players believe that Phoenix's great grandpa is Japanese but himself is American in the localized version. Besides, some of the characters didn't know much English and were struggling in London. Will the localized characters speak English yet struggle with British English as well? Unless they change London to France and Sherlock Holmes is speaking in French instead? I know these are non-issues if it were a fansub, but we're talking about Capcom USA who would change miso ramen to burgers.
In AA6 Phoneix is only traveling to "China", no problem.
@Discipledoctor Really? Personally, I bought AA5 was amazing. What didn't you like about it?
Omg I'm sooooooooo hyped for this. Would love a Great Ace Attorney release, but honestly, I'm skeptical that it will release over here.
@Zach777 Except it has. Capcom France confirmed no current plans to bring the title to the west. It's not damning, but certainly worrying and much more than a rumor or speculation.
@Discipledoctor Why did you hate Dual Destinies? I played the demo and didn't really like it (found it boring). Later I bought the Trilogy on sale and liked the game a lot. I thought I might buy Dual Destinies when the next sale is on, since I have a different perspective on the series now.
This looks rather nice with the dark mythic appeal!
But I would have loved The Great Ace Attorney to be localised too.
Well, maybe they change their minds sometime.
I've only played Dual Destinies and Pheonix Wright Vs Layton but I loved them both, shame that they don't tend to have any replay value.
Can't wait for AA6 and the eventual fan translation of Great Ace Attorney if Capcom ignores the western audience.
The announcement for localization (sorry, Westernization LOL) of Ace Attorney 6 came quite swiftly after the announcement of the Japanese version and since the same can't be said for the Great Ace Attorney, it makes me a little sad. Even if a fan translation came out, I would have to buy a Japanese 3DS to play it, wouldn't I?
Still wish The Great Ace Attorney to come, but it's great to see Phoenix Wright back in action. Would love to see Maya and Athena again, hopefully they'll return.
Yes! My hype meter is definitely going higher and higher, as I learn more about this game (I hope it comes out soon), and I've been craving for a new Ace Attorney game for a long time. The original trilogy consists of some of my favourite games of all time (Trials & Tribulations is definitely in my top 5 list for favourite games of all time), and I really liked Edgeworth 2 and Dual Destinies (AJ and Edgeworth 1 were decent though). I can't wait to explore the Ace Attorney world once more, and am excited to see Maya, Gumshoe, Franziska, etc. again, who missed out on Dual Destinies, but simply HAVE to be in AA6.
I'm a bit bummed that this will be the first main series Ace Attorney game without Udgey/Judge Fickle as the judge (hoping the new Judge is good).
First we almost stopped getting AA games because they didn't want to localize and/or produce hard copies. So, we get AA, lose hard copies for download only, and now, there's no guarantee this will get localized. Smh Capcom, smh.....
I'd still keep hope if you live in English territories as an Ace Attorney game hasn't been released in France since investigations (excluding PL vs AA)
@ollietaro I was not sure if I was allowed to talk about a way for you not to purchase a japanese 3DS for import games but nintendolife already reported the fact:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/ironhax_to_use_free-to-play_ironfall_invasion_to_run_3ds_homebrew_and_region-free_workaround
Now, you know what you have to do before it is too late. (search on twitter or google what you need)
@KodyDawg You see the '???' woman with the magatama staff? That is most likely her.
@Cattymadness That most likely is NOT Maya. Let me translate what she says. In the first picture, "....Silence, you imbecile." In the second, "Your Honor, I do not see why not! Not bad as a form of entertainment." (most likely a reply to Phoenix's volunteering to be Bokuto's defense attorney as this country doesn't have one).
If you're telling me that Maya had been in this country for quite some time, gaining reputation as a haughty priestess and getting quite acquainted to the country's judge, I will not buy it. That ??? woman is a new character. In fact, that is not a magatama (Google it). A magatama looks like a "9", but this new country's gem has a soul design.
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