Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Nintendo DS)

This is a fun game. I have played all of them in this series. I do like the older ones better, still this one is good. Seems like alot of reading to do in it though. Also mine froze up twice, and luckily I save my game alot.

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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.

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I played this game and by the time I was finished I was hoping for a sequel!

Music:The music was extremely well done, and was very catchy. 10/10

Graphics: Graphics were done very well as well-better than most of the other ace attorney games! 9/10

Length: The game was long enough to last me my entire 5-day vacation, and the 5 days before it! All 5 cases were long, but certainly not too long to get boring. 9/10

Plot: I personally loved the story line. Even without Phoenix as the main character, Edgeworth was a welcome substitute. All of the characters were very entertaining.

Overall: Sequel. NOW. This game was great! If they have the same quality music and graphics as they did in this one, I would gladly buy it on its release date! 9.5/10

Closing comments: Even if you have never played the other phoenix Wright games, this game will still make sense to you. It makes some references to Phoenix, but never actually says his name aloud. Describes him as 'the guy in the blue suit' and 'him'. Really descriptive, huh? Anyways, this game is definetly a worthwhile investment. So what are you waiting for? Go out and buy it!

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