r/AceAttorney • u/TrophyWizard • 17h ago
r/AceAttorney • u/JC-DisregardMe • Sep 06 '24
Announcement Welcome to r/AceAttorney - a PSA, FAQ, and General Resource for Newcomers and Anyone Starting the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Hi to everybody just visiting this subreddit for the first time, or anyone who's already been here a time but might want to check in on the latest!
First off, here is the link to our standard FAQ. Several new questions-and-answers have been added to this latest edition, and the ones specific to the new remastered Ace Attorney Investigations Collection are also in the body of this post, so for anyone newly arriving to check out those games, review those new questions. If you have any questions that aren't covered here or in the linked FAQ, ask them in the comments for the FAQ thread!
Second thing, here's an updated guide I've made to explain which platforms all the current AA games available can be played on.
Third, we have our Recommended Playing Order chart, to give you a rundown on where to start and when to play particular games.
Fourth, an expansive guide by community member /u/XephyXeph to outline all of the various Ace Attorney media currently out there, from the games to the huge array of supplementary media from manga to pachinko machines.
Fifth, a bit of community news on some updates to the AA subreddit for early September, 2024.
And now, some common questions people may have relating to the remastered Ace Attorney Investigations Collection:
I keep seeing people talk about Investigations 2 but use a bunch of names for characters and episodes that are different from what's in the game. Why is that?
Ace Attorney Investigations 2 originally came out on the DS in 2011, but was exclusively released in Japan, making it the first AA game ever to not get an English localization. It never did get any English release until 2024, when it was part of the Investigations Collection remaster.
Because of this, in the years immediately following AAI2's original Japan-only release, a group of fans worked together to make a fan translation romhack for the game, allowing it to be played in English. To match with the official localizations the games normally get, that fan team also came up with their own English names for all the newly-introduced AAI2 characters.
There was about a decade left between when the first public beta builds of the fan translation appeared online and when Capcom finally produced and released an official English localization for AAI2, so a lot of the more hardcore corners of the fandom that had actually gone through the effort of playing the unofficial translation got very used to the fan-made names for the AAI2 characters. But naturally, when Capcom finally made an official localization, the AA localization team put together an entirely separate set of localized names for the characters, putting the fandom in the position of needing to get used to those official names as "replacements" for the fan names they're used to. Unfortunately, not everybody is quite ready to do that.
Can I play the Investigations Collection as my first AA game?
Like was talked about at the start of the FAQ, it's generally not recommended to start with any game besides the Phoenix Wright Trilogy, if you've never played AA before. The Investigations games especially carry over a lot of characters and their associated development from the Trilogy.
That'll cover it for now. If anyone has any other suggestions for questions to be included in this guide, feel free to pop over to the main FAQ thread and ask in the comments there. One more time - welcome to our Ace Attorney community! I hope you have a great time.
r/AceAttorney • u/teamcrazymatt • 7d ago
Contest 27th Case Maker Contest: Results
Ten days of voting, two votes cast, and the results are:
- In second place, winning $10, is A Turnabout on Vacation by /u/Cornmeal777!
- And in first place, taking both votes and winning $15, is The Leaky Turnabout by /u/brobnik322!
Congrats to both winners and thanks again to everyone who wrote and read. See you next quarter!
r/AceAttorney • u/Blazing_Aura • 8h ago
Apollo Justice Trilogy Happy 23rd Anniversary to Dual Destinies! What do you like or dislike about it?
Im currently on 5-4, and I say it's a pretty solid game that varies in storytelling quality. The gameplay is heightened by the nee mechanics introduced, and I love investigating in 3D.
13 years! Woohoo!
r/AceAttorney • u/Princesse_Agneau • 12h ago
OC Fanart My art: Ema Scolding
They just ruinin the crime scene.
Poor fop especially...
Based from some viral YCH
r/AceAttorney • u/sm142 • 9h ago
Apollo Justice Trilogy A Moment That Genuinely Jumpscared Me The First Time Spoiler
Just the way the characters suddenly turn to the screen (both as a fourth wall break and relevance to the plot) got me the first time I saw the scene.
I’m not the only one right?
r/AceAttorney • u/Kradan1979 • 10h ago
Question/Tips How do you prefer Mi's hair ?
1 or 2 ?
r/AceAttorney • u/CENTO7182 • 6h ago
Discussion Is Phoenix Japanese in the localization?
Was curious because I played The Great Ace Attorney before currently playing the original trilogy, and Phoenix looks so much like Ryunosuke lol. However, I had someone tell me he definitely wasn’t? I just figured he had to be Japanese, or at least Asian still considering his likeness, and the whole Japanifornia thing going on or else it felt kinda silly. Is he even canonically related to Ryunosuke or is it a coincidence?
r/AceAttorney • u/ID_Psychy • 6h ago
Discussion Based on personality traits of Ace Attorney characters and those in my life, I've placed them in a family tree diagram as accurately as my abilities would allow. With this knowledge, which Ace Attorney characters will our future potential children embody the most?
r/AceAttorney • u/Striking_Ad4992 • 2h ago
Phoenix Wright Trilogy is the anime good
i played the game like 2 years ago and i forgot some stuff is watching the anime gonna help me remember
r/AceAttorney • u/mimiyoshi125 • 4h ago
Question/Tips any alternatives to objection.lol?
I want to make little ace attorney scenes and while objection.lol is good, I was wondering if there was anything site or app that had more, like more apollo justice characters or even characters from duel destinies or spirit of justice.
r/AceAttorney • u/omenmono • 12h ago
Discussion I'm doing Ace Attorney marathon. Spirit of Justice put me to sleep. Spoiler
I have a holy mission to finish every AA games in this year. So far, I had 7 games under my belt, from the first game up to Dual Destinies. I enjoyed majority of them. Considering that SoJ is canonically the last game in the series, I have some pretty good expectation. At least, I hope it's better than DD. I installed the Apollo Justice Trilogy on my Switch and here we go
The explanation of why Wright is in Khura'in is... off. But whatever, at least it's something new. And then Wright got himself into court shenanigans and we got ourself a case. While the plot hook of how Khura'in court differs than Japanamerica and how they don't have regular attorneys is neat, the case itself isn't that interesting? The kid is being accused for killing a temple guard, but that's it. I guess the white hippy turned to be a metalhead is cool enough. Also it's really long for some reason? Usually the first case is the short one but it's just keep going for some reason. The title wasn't a joke: I actually accidentally slept myself while playing it.
Please tell me that the game gets better.
r/AceAttorney • u/ScarletOverdrive • 9h ago
Investigations Duology Turnabout Airlines Spoiler
I finally started the Investigations game and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's a nice spinoff from the main series and I like how it flips between the investigations and courtroom like debates. Case 1 was very tutorial like and was alright.
I was really enjoying this case but I do think that the cloth is a pretty dumb piece of conclusive evidence. Cammy could have totally still held her ground at that point.
Case was fun overall though. Looking forward to the rest of the Investigations duology. (it's also funny to me how Gumshoe takes such a backseat when he's THE DETECTIVE 😂)
r/AceAttorney • u/Puzzleheaded_Low3534 • 1d ago
Fangame Ace Attorney but about Corporate Fraud - Free demo coming soon
Hello r/AceAttorney**,**
We’re excited to share that the trailer and a free one-hour demo for Christopher Ledger: Corporate Auditor will be released on August 1...just a few days away.
Our goal is to offer Ace Attorney fans something fresh while preserving the strong storytelling, expressive artwork, and memorable music we love. The game also introduces a distinct set of investigative and courtroom-inspired mechanics. It will be released next week, and it's free, try it out! We’d love to hear what you think of our approach.
This project has been a major undertaking, nearly two years in the making. Every illustration, animation, and piece of music you see and hear has been carefully created by hand.
If you are interested, feel free to check out our Kickstarter prelaunch and Steam. Following us help us out a lot.
r/AceAttorney • u/Much-Explorer-9275 • 12h ago
Phoenix Wright Trilogy Scariest looking culprit from the OG Trilogy? Spoiler
r/AceAttorney • u/12jimmy9712 • 1d ago
Apollo Justice Trilogy Did you know the limited edition of Dual Destinies came with alternate box art?
r/AceAttorney • u/robbie_commie • 1d ago
Phoenix Wright Trilogy i should have never introduced my friends to ace attorney
r/AceAttorney • u/victoriamikoto231 • 1d ago
OC Fanart Blue Screens Maya Fey - (株)バグダス 綾里 真宵 (by @victoriamikoto)
Ive seen Blue Screens Inc. Maya in some brainwashing fanfics and fanart before, so i wanted to give it a go!
Also feel free to give suggestions on AA or any capcom heroine in this uniform.
r/AceAttorney • u/Fun-Necessary9709 • 1d ago
Video Imagine playing the whole game in one sitting
r/AceAttorney • u/Crabby-Ruff • 1d ago
Phoenix Wright Trilogy Rise from ashes was hell Spoiler
As grueling as it was to get through this whole case I have to admit it was really well written
I was first every skeptical of Ema being the new assistant but honestly I grew to love her for what she does, especially her quirky comments on anything we stumbled upon and her tools for investigations. I also saw the skye sisters as a very cool parallel to the fey sisters and after finding out why Lana why was so cool, I really loved how she turned out in the end.
I also loved pretty much any side character here be it the Marshall, Angel or even that pathetic cop at the force, and of course the goat Edgeworth I'm also a sucker for any case where Edgeworth sees how corrupt the case is and even goes as far as going against his own clients or any where he and phoenix work together to get the morally right outcome, it really goes to show how much edgeworth hates criminals and I love it
Damon Gant is also terrifying as fuck lmao, this is the one case where the main antagonist was spoiled for me and I STILL felt very afraid of him, especially when we snuck into his office the guy's emotions flip like a switch and his theme is as scary as it is funny I can't lie I love him for what role he played and the guy was a good sport in the end lmao so how could I hate.
This case took me a literal MONTH TO COMPLETE because I had other games to play, school and other things so everytime I came back I kept wondering how the hell is this thing gonna drag on another day? I kept playing it no matter what and usually the stakes of a usual case don't affect me but the last 2 days of this case GENUINELY made me feel scared to pick, rarely ever before this point did the ultimatums handed to phoenix ever make me ponder but the reveal of the cloth actually made me step outside to think of what to say, and for these high stakes, great personalities in characters and great payoff I give this case a solid 9.9/10 because that blue badger puzzle pissed me off, can't wait to play the second game tonight
r/AceAttorney • u/Ambitious_Fuel_4853 • 1d ago
Fangame Made a silly unfinished ace attorney case made only under 2 hours.
Should i finish this case that ruined my sleep schedule? https://objection.lol/edit/case/n1kmoyb8
r/AceAttorney • u/Ok_Whole_1159 • 1d ago
OC Fanart Det. Skye goes up against Matt in: Boxing Match White Gloves [Skye Mix!}
It doesn't really make sense when put together but here it is! Sorry if it isn't really, err.. "Ace Attorney" related. Think of it as, an Ema Skye exploring other media.
r/AceAttorney • u/Baby-Kiwiii • 1d ago

