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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth | 
| From: Capcom
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 1470
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: 32018
Model: 32018
UPC: 013388320189
EAN: 0013388320189
ASIN: B002BS4834
Publication Date: January 31, 2010
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| Features:
| • | New action game component that allows for exploration of crime scenes using either D-Pad inputs of the DS/DSi stylus to uncover clues. | | • | Crime-solving adventure for Nintendo DS and DSi starring Miles Edgeworth, the popular rival of attorney Phoenix Wright. | | • | Gameplay moves out of the courtroom and onto the crime scene and features several unique cases to solve with over 15 hours of gameplay. | | • | New technique, such as "Logic" mode assists you in uncovering the crime. | | • | Unique dialog trees and interrogation techniques let you question witnesses to discover the truth. |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is a single player, crime-solving adventure for Nintendo DS and DSi. Featuring Miles Edgeworth, frequent opposing council in the Phoenix Wright games, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes players out of the court room and introduces them to crime scene investigation. Here players can physically collect clues, interrogate witness and suspects and develop evidence as they endeavor to solve five engrossing cases. Story
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes the Ace Attorney series from the courtroom to the crime scene, leaving the legal battle behind. This time around, players take on the role of famed prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, a memorable rival of charismatic legal eagle Phoenix Wright. Edgeworth actively investigates crime scenes in search of the truth behind each case. By solving the challenging puzzles presented to him, Edgeworth will work with the police to bring criminals to justice.  Move out of the courtroom and on to the crime scene with Miles Edgeworth.
View larger. | Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is composed of a number of episodes. In the first episode, an argument in Edgeworth's office results in a mysterious murder. Edgeworth, coming back from a one-month business trip, enters his office and encounters the body of the man who was shot. In the second episode, Edgeworth's plane journey takes a nasty turn when he wakes up after being knocked out during heavy turbulence. Shaken by the flashback of nightmarish past memories, he opens the onboard elevator's door to find a male corpse. At this very moment a cabin attendant witnesses the scene and Edgeworth is made a suspect of murder. Gameplay
Like Capcom's Phoenix Wright games, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is designed around the point-and-click game mechanic, with the player taking on a series of cases placed before them. Playing as Miles Edgeworth, players get to the bottom of cases by collecting information and evidence through detective work between key locations. These locations must be physically explored, with players given the choice of either the DS stylus or the D-pad to to facilitate movement, and collect clues. Within the game's 'Logic' mode, which symbolizes Edgeworth's logical inferences, users can discover new information and evidence by combining clues discovered in the action portion of the game. Eventually, with the discovery of the right clues the real culprit will be revealed through these investigations and the confrontation of witnesses to expose contradictions in a 'battle' mechanism (Testimony - Pursuit - Press - Confront), which is similar to that of the 'Court Battle' in the Ace Attorney series (Testimony - Cross Examination). Key Game Features - Starring Miles Edgeworth, the popular rival of attorney Phoenix Wright.
- Gameplay moves out of the courtroom and onto the crime scene.
- Several unique cases to solve with over 15 hours of gameplay.
- New technique, such as "Logic" mode assists you in uncovering the crime.
- Unique dialog trees and interrogation techniques let you question witnesses to discover the truth.
- New action game component that allows for exploration of crime scenes using either D-Pad inputs of the DS/DSi stylus to uncover clues.
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Product Description
Ace Attorney Investigations DS
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 Fun, interesting new direction for the series February 23, 2010
D. W. Moody (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After being somewhat disappointed by the previous Ace Attorney game, Apollo Justice, I was cautiously optimistic about this new game. I needn't have worried: this game presents a new direction for the series that has all the charm of the Phoenix Wright games and the fun of the best "Turnabouts." It's great fun to play as Miles Edgeworth - I really enjoyed playing as him in the last Turnabout from "Trials and Tribulations," and having his own game is as fun as I'd hoped.
If you've played the previous games in the series, you'll be pleased (and maybe dismayed by one or two irritating return characters - I'm looking at you, Wendy Oldbag) by the large cast of recurring characters. The first 3 Turnabouts especially are a parade of returning characters. Don't worry, though, the designers have also added a liberal helping of new characters to the game as well, each very well drawn and animated. The new characters are just as well-written and likable as you'd expect from the series, in fact, at several points I got the impression that even the "throwaway" characters who only show up in a single Turnabout were just as well done as the characters who appear throughout the game.
The new formula results in a much more varied game experience. In the previous games, I found that the Investigation and Courtroom phases often took longer than I'd have liked, especially in the later Turnabouts. Sometimes I would find myself wishing I was in the phase that I wasn't in. This new game circumvents this issue by changing frequently between investigation and cross-examination.
For instance, you might be investigating a crime scene, and come across a vital witness. After hearing the witness's testimony, Miles thinks there's something fishy with the testimony, and will then go into a cross-examination mode to get the whole story before returning to Investigation mode.
The translation is excellent overall. The puns and jokes are very well done. I did see several minor translation errors, more than I have seen in any of the previous games, but given the large amount of dialog and the fact that it's always easy to tell what they meant, I elected not to dock a star from my score for it.
All in all, a great addition to the Ace Attorney series, and definitely a worthy addition to the game collection of both Ace Attorney fans and adventure game fans in general.
A new direction, but still an Ace Attorney game April 8, 2010
Charlie Brooks (Vermont)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth plays like a love letter to fans of the franchise. It is easy enough for a novice to get into it, but is most definitely geared toward those who have played through the other Ace Attorney games featuring Phoenix Wright. While the Ace Attorney series up to this point has focused on the defense side of the courtroom, we now get to play the other part of the field, taking up the role of Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix's old rival and one of the most skilled prosecutors in the business. For fans of the series, this is a long-awaited chance to play one of the most popular characters through a full game - Miles got a bit of play time as a defense attorney stand-in during Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, but now we get to see him in his natural field as an investigator and prosecutor.
Of course, being a prosecutor makes the traditional courtroom formula a problem. The series so far has focused around a defender seeking to find a wrongfully accused client innocent. Since Edgeworth prosecutes criminals, it makes no sense for the turnabout to occur in the courtroom. As a result, the court scenes have been cut, although the fourth case does have a clever callback to the attorney duels of previous games. On the bright side, the game hasn't lost the over-the-top drama or the cross-examination duels; they've just moved out of the courtroom and into the investigation. Miles will have to break through lies and false evidence to prove the wrongfully accused innocent and find the true culprit behind each crime.
Despite the change in format, the game is definitely an Ace Attorney game, with all the melodrama and humor that entails. The cast of characters features old standbys like Detective Gumshoe, Larry Butz, and Franziska von Karma, but also has clever new characters such as Kay Faraday, an aspiring great thief who makes an unlikely assistant to Edgeworth, and Agent Lang, an interpol agent who hates prosecutors (not unlike how the original characterization of Edgeworth hated defense attorneys). The real highlight, though, not surprisingly, is Edgeworth. He really makes the game different. While Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice are both bumbling, good-natured defense attorneys who bluff their way to success, Edgeworth is smug, clever, and driven by logic. The game mechanics reflect this, introducing a new logic system that allows you to piece together a crime scene through gathering facts as well as evidence, and the dialogue accurately reflects Edgeworth's personality, rather than making him another Phoenix Wright knockoff.
For fans of the series, the game is worth it for the chance to play Edgeworth alone. For newcomers, be prepared for a game that can best be described as CSI meets Abbott and Costello. That's a compliment - the weirdness, humor, and sheer fun of this game makes it well worth a play through.
Eureka! March 26, 2010
Jennifer Roland (Atchison, KS USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best Ace Attorney game yet. The investigating with the new "Logic" feature is very user friendly and well...logical. No more knowing the answer but getting penalties for not presenting at the exact right time. No more hunting for the clue you missed over multiple locations. I love getting to know Miles better and working from his point of view. I have always been a bit of a Miles Edgeworth fangirl!
Another Ace Winner! March 7, 2010
KDMask (Rochester, Planet Fab, NY)
This game is more advanced than the others in the Ace series. This takes place not in the courtroom but in the investigation arena. New characters and storyplots that keep you guessing and interested. The characters can be moved by your stylus within scens. You interview suspects, put together logical sequences using crime scenes. It's all about discovering the truth! Great game for your DS.
"Eureka!" This Game is Pure Genius! March 9, 2010
D. Williams (north central FL)
My daughter, game expert, wrote this review on the game she had me buy for her:
Another great installment in the Ace Attorney series! I have played the last four games; and I must say, they were AWESOME! Anyway, back on topic. I like this game very well because it is DIFFERENT. You can use logic to connect your thoughts, interrogate witnesses/suspects (basically like cross-examinations in the previous attorney games), and much more! The new cast of characters make this feel like a new game, but has all the elements that made its predecessors great. I pre-ordered this game 3 months ahead of release for $30, and it was worth every penny. I believe this game is good for all ages, since I am 12 years old. Please order, as I feel this game is terrific!
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