“A prosecutor is someone who seeks the conviction of an accused. However… I don’t think we are just that.”
Relentless, severe and with a shining sense of justice. The prosecutor Miles Edgeworth He’s capable of either stealing a genuine smile or driving anyone who’s ever played the Ace Attorney series to despair, but we can all agree on one thing: with his quirks and manias, he’s a true genius. Even when he contradicts us on the other side of the court in any game where Phoenix Wright is the protagonist. That’s why getting him into trouble and trying to see him in a new light is so much fun. Especially in Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection.
Capcom is set to give double joy to fans of his own saga of lawyers launched the entire franchise on current systems. In January of this year we had the restored and complete versions of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy and in September it does the same with the solo adventures of Edgeworth, which, in addition, settles a pending debt from more than a decade: the sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations It never left Japan and comes to us with a spectacular treatment. Unfortunately, language will continue to be a barrier.
The lost files of Miles Edgeworth arrives in the West
First things first: you and I happily assume that the saga Ace Attorney It belongs to the genre of visual novels (so Made in Japan) but the truth is that there is something more to them: each process, each new mechanic and the way of expanding the narrative with those twists that have given shape and a reason for the existence of the sequels make it, for fans, go several steps beyond the limits of the successful Japanese adventure formula. By rule of three, the same applies to Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection with point-n-click.
The theme of milking a mystery or crime to extract the truth and, consequently, justice, remains intact; but these two spin-offs starring Miles Edgeworth They masterfully take advantage of the opportunity to offer fans similar themes and new ways of proceeding with investigations. All this without losing sight of the most essential: this time we are not lawyers, but prosecutors. More specifically, a ruthless prosecutor.
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth It arrived fifteen years ago (specifically in 2009) on a Nintendo DS completely immersed in the Touch Generations era and which offered a lot of room for exploring new mechanics and taking advantage of the possibilities of double screens and the stylus. Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection It represents a completely comprehensive update and also the world premiere of its sequel, promoting investigations in which this time we will be able to move freely through scenarios as in a graphic adventure.
It’s not all good news, mind you. Unfortunately, Ace Attorney Investigations It came to us in English and the version we have today, both on Switch and on the rest of the systems, offers more language alternatives, but none of them are Spanish: Capcom’s prosecutor defends himself in Japanese, English, French, German, Korean, Chinese…
And what happens if you can’t defend yourself against any of them? In a game where the subtlest notes of each dialogue are transcendental, that’s going to be a huge barrier when it comes to being able to play. A bitter pill to swallow that, as you’ll see, doesn’t represent the enormous effort Capcom has made to completely update both installments.
Capcom’s prosecutor won’t speak Spanish, but he’s back with tons of improvements
Like the previous trilogies, Capcom has given an impressive update to the two original installments for Nintendo DS and is now available on all platforms. Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection is adapted to modern screens with a visual update in which Tatsuro Iwamoto himself, one of the key illustrators and designers of the series, has remade each character. Achieving a truly satisfactory result that, as things are, manages to bring out the colors of Ultra Street Fighter II and its modern graphics.
That said, if you thought you were going to get away with the pixelated Miles Edgeworth (or were afraid he wouldn’t make the cut) I have some good news for you: from the main menu you can toggle between HD mode and the original characters. That said, even if you opt to play with the pixelated characters, both the resolution, the aspect ratio, and the artwork displayed in the dialogue scenes (including text boxes and 3D content) are displayed in high definition.
That said, the method for switching between the two visual styles is not like in other remastered point-and-click adventures like Day of the Tentacle or The Secret of Monkey Island, where you can press a button to switch and see the transition on the fly. To switch between the two visual styles, you must first use the mouse to select the desired style. Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection
As you might expect, Capcom has also adapted the Nintendo DS controls to a more traditional system, and while they’re at it, they’ve added tons of extras, including character sheets, art, and a jukebox. They’ve even re-orchestrated five tracks from the soundtrack for the occasion. And not only that, but to keep things as simple as possible, they’ve added two additional game modes:
- He Auto play It allows us to speed up dialogues or not have to constantly press the button.
- While Story mode It is a completely narrative experience in which we will see how the puzzles are solved before our eyes.
The difficulty of the puzzles is not excessiveand the procedures and the game experience, more aligned with graphic adventures, do not detract from the identity of the saga itself, nor does it clash with the other Ace Attorney games. On the other hand, and as in the other trilogies, from the beginning you can access the chapter selector, although I can tell you in advance that the best thing, what Miles Edgeworth would do, is to go in order.
In fact, and without going into details, it is enough to say -for now- that the events of both games take place between the classic trilogy and the new one. Apollo Justice.
Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection Release Date, Price, and Requirements
Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection will be on sale next September 6, 2024 on Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC at the price of 39,99 dollars. For its part, Capcom also announced a physical edition for the Nintendo console. At the time of writing these lines we do not know if this boxed version will be released in Europe, but it is worth remembering that the games will not have a translation and that the Nintendo console does not have a regional lock.
It’s worth remembering that, like the titles in the previous Ace Attorney trilogies, the two games included in the collection cannot be purchased separately. On the other hand, it goes without saying that the game can be played perfectly from PS5 (that’s where our screenshots come from) and on Xbox Series X / S thanks to backwards compatibility. In the case of PC, you have to meet some minimum requirements but, as you will see, they are very reasonable.
Minimum |
Recommended |
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Operating system |
WINDOWS 10 (64-BIT Required) |
WINDOWS 10 (64-BIT Required) |
Processor |
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Graphics |
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Memory |
8 GB RAM |
8 GB RAM |
DirectX |
Version 12 |
Version 12 |
Storage |
10 GB of available space |
10 GB of available space |
Use |
The monitor must be set to 60 Hz or higher. |
The monitor must be set to 60 Hz or higher. |
In any case, this first contact has been a very pleasant joy for us. Not only because of the care put into relaunching both titles, but because Miles Edgeworth knows very well how and in what way to expand the universe that until now has revolved around Phoenix Wright by doing things his way. His terrain. A double success that, I can tell you in advance, comes with surprises and is loaded with good feelings.
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