Not really. I apologize for misleading you. I didn’t need to lie in the headline. All it needed to say was “Miles Edgeworth” and you would have clicked it nine times, rabid with anticipation of countless jurisprudence-related delights! You wouldn’t even read the article. You would just come on in looking for images of Miles and his perfectly coifed visage, hoping for some small passage of his urbane wit and scathing insight.
Maybe not.
Naturally I’ve been curious about Capcom’s new Ace Attorney spin-off, Perfect Prosecutor. Not just because Miles has gone from supporting character to star. The game’s also piqued my interest since it’s the series’ first foray into third-person play. This is good news. Who wants to play a Miles Edgeworth game if you can’t look at him the whole time? Capcom’s been keeping the game under wraps since it was announced last year, letting out only a few screens and a trailer or two. Happy day though! The Japanese Perfect Prosecutor homepage has a flash demo of the game’s first case and, even though it’s a hassle to read, intrepid internet denizens Croik and JapaneseGIRL have made an English translation script!
GO PLAY! While you do that, GO READ!
It’s pretty cool. I like the new twists on the vintage Ace Attorney play and the new perspective is just the sort of fan-service I love. I’m really hoping I don’t have to play the whole game reading a printed script like this, though. Capcom still haven’t announced Perfect Prosecutor for the States.
Derrick got me hooked on Ace Attorney last summer. Guy walked up to me, shady as any alley lurker in some 1989 anti-drug PSA, and said, “Go ahead, John. Check this cart out. First case is free, man.” Even after I got clean (i.e. beaten the originally trilogy between June and August), I couldn’t kick my obsession with Phoenix Wright’s rival, Miles Edgeworth. There’s something about the character that I find hilarious and charming. The anime-straight-man is a cliché that’s usually reserved for brooding warriors, burly he-men, or stern authority figures. Edgeworth, however, never falls into a specific model. He’s the rarest sort of videogame character: a well-rounded one. I really hope the game makes it to the West.
(Link: GoNintendo)
Related links:
Fandom Unplugged: The Beginning
Turnabout Animation
My Top 10 of 2008 in No Particular Order: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney