Followers of iconic courtroom dramedy visible novels may suppose they’re all caught up on Ace Legal professional at this stage. Even should you by no means touched the sequence throughout its authentic 2001-2017 run, Capcom’s admirable curiosity in preserving their older flagship titles means you have had ample alternative to play the Phoenix Wright: Ace Legal professional Trilogy, which hit then-modern consoles and PC in 2019, and was lastly adopted by the Apollo Justice: Ace Legal professional Trilogy earlier this yr. Since 2021 you have even been capable of play The Nice Ace Legal professional Chronicles, a prequel duology that many followers had been satisfied would by no means be formally localised exterior of Japan.
However one recreation you in all probability have not performed should you’re a relative newcomer — heck, perhaps not even should you’re an old-school fan — is Ace Legal professional Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, which stays gated off to trendy audiences because of its distribution largely counting on an ever-diminishing provide of second-hand Nintendo DS cartridges (though at the very least you may play it on cellular). And since in the present day marks the fifteenth anniversary of that recreation’s authentic Japanese launch, it appears appropriately celebratory for us die-hard Ace Legal professional varieties to make some noise about the truth that whereas we’re actually grateful for our present bounty, we might additionally actually like to see this one get a remaster subsequent, Capcom, please.
For the good thing about the uninitiated, this two-part spin-off focuses on most important sequence protagonist Phoenix Wright’s childhood greatest good friend turned skilled rival and later pleasant adversary plus possible love curiosity, no severely, they’re barely even making an attempt to be coy about leaning into that studying any extra: Miles Edgeworth. (In case you are questioning, the second Investigations title — which isn’t celebrating a birthday in the present day and so should not be hogging our consideration an excessive amount of — got here out in 2011, and stays the one Ace Legal professional recreation except for half-a-dozen in-browser curios by no means to be launched exterior of Japan.)
