Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

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• 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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• ASIN: B002BS4834
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 16, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,312 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #16 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Games > Adventure
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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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. Additional Screenshots: Interrogate witnesses. View larger. Explore crime scenes. View larger. Search for clues. View larger. Develop clues into evidence. View larger.

Product Description

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes the Ace Attorney series from the courtroom to the crime scene, leaving the legal battle behind while bringing the action to various crime scenes. This time around, the player takes on the role of famed prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, a memorable rival of charismatic legal eagle Phoenix Wright. Edgeworth actively investigates crime scenes in order to pursue the truth behind each case. By solving the challenging puzzles presented him, Edgeworth will work with the police to bring criminals to justice. Users will be able to directly control the character avatar’s movement on the scene with the arrow key or touch screen and investigate the crime scenes freely. If, during the course of an investigation, users find contradictions, they will be able to obtain new information by presenting decisive evidence. In some cases, users will identify clues and conduct examinations of material witnesses. On these occasions, users will have to uncover the truth behind the crimes using collected information, the evidence, and logic.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A new direction, but still an Ace Attorney game April 8, 2010

By Charlie Brooks

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Entry in the Series! February 18, 2010

By Patricia D. McCoy

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I am writing this as a veteran of the series, I don't know how new players would fare here. This review is also spoiler free!

Now to start there have been some updates innovations and changes since Apollo Justice. Scenes are most of the time now played out with full pixelated characters on screen rather than the "from the waist up" view. It'll seem odd at first but it does seem to make investigating large areas easier and after a tiny bit it comes almost naturally. Note: during investigations you can move the little Edgeworth with either the control pad or the stylus.

Edgeworth, not being an attorney, also has a different flow to his stories and almost all scenes happen outside of the courtroom. Edgeworth's new tool is logic, wherein you take two nagging questions and link them together to answer them both. It's not a bad addition but is very simple compared to some of the previous puzzles of the franchise.

References to events and items from the previous games are at every turn, and I mean EVERY turn! So if it's been a while it wouldn't hurt to replay the others first. Jokes and humor are great, and in the usual style, and the characters are definitely Phoenix Wright caliber. Edgeworth himself has lost a bit of his gruffness, he feels like a watered down version of his previous self, but this is kind of inevitable as you didn't have to watch the poor guy screw up nearly as often originally when you couldn't control him. XD

As for the stories they're good, yet the murders tend to be a bit more graphic than in previous games. It's not overly graphic, more like it's finally showing the Teen rating. As good as the stories are, the puzzles are rather simple and feels like you're more following obvious connections until the solution is handed to you.

Overall I'm giving it a four because it really is a great Ace Attorney game with good graphics, writing, music, and stories, but it isn't quite up to the high points that Phoenix set for the series. It's still a must play for fans! :D

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars New, better direction February 18, 2010

By Brian Long VINE™ VOICE

Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

If you're a fan of the Ace Attorney series, you know that the pattern of point-n-click investigation and courtroom arguements was starting to wear thin. New characters and a few new gameplay options helped to buoy the setup, but after the prior volume, it seemed to have run out of steam. Enter Miles Edgeworth, with a rather impressive revamp.

Graphics and gameplay have rather improved, and the characters are crisper and better detailed. Also, a more interactive setup, including a large environment 2d character motion, has been added, rather than having to do a screen by screen analysis, allowing for more depth and a better feel to the story.

In place of the rather tedious courtroom tennis match that made up the majority of the AA games, the arguments are much shorter and separated, though the climax encounter tends to drag out a tad longer than necessary. Also included are logical jumps, which edgeworth uses multiple evidence pieces to piece together story bits to advance the plot, rather than relying on finding that last piece of evidence or wandering around looking for the new character interaction.

Audio still is a let down, in that theres little to no voice apart from the few cries of "objection" and "hold it," the mainstays of the series. I'm still puzzled that more can't be included, if only a few crucial snippets from the main characters.

Overall, this is a very good revamp. A lot of it is the same true, but the main meat and potatoes has been overhauled, and prevents much of the frustrated searching that bogged down much of the Ace attorney games.