Game review: Ace Attorney Investigations - Miles Edgeworth

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OBJECTION!!

[John Cleese]And now for something completely different...[/John Cleese]

NOT SO FAST!

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has you taking control of prosecutor Miles Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright's childhood friend and courtroom rival in the earlier Ace Attorney games) as he investigates areas and finds evidence that leads to the arrest of members of an international smuggling ring. Along the way, he runs into Interpol agent Shi-Long Lang, who acts like all prosecutors go to all lengths to prove the defendant guilty. My initial impression of Agent Lang was I thought he was a complete asshole, but he winds up being a real boon in the last case - he pulls a fast one that catches the main perp in the last case unawares.

There's more hands-on investigating done - you actually move Edgeworth around the area instead of just select "Examine" from the touch-screen menu. From time to time, you get pieces of logic which you put together using the Logic screen, and sometimes you deduce that something in your Organizer contradicts something you are currently examining. Be careful, though...deduce wrong or piece the wrong pieces of logic together, you slip further from finding the truth. At times, you'll have to rebut some claims by others accusing you or people you know of things you know they didn't do - it's done somewhat like the testimony/cross-examination stuff from the other Ace Attorney games. Again, presenting wrong evidence moves you further from the truth.

If you played the first three Ace Attorney games (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, Justice For All, and Trials & Tribulations), you'd recognize quite a few characters from them. The timeline as presented by www.court-records.net shows cases 1, 2, 3, and 5 as taking place about a month before a trial that sets the stage for Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and case 4 taking place several months before Edgeworth's courtroom debut.

A few more voices yell "Objection" along the way, Agent Lang has "Not so fast" instead of "Objection", and Edgeworth has a new exclamation (Trials & Tribulations had him saying "Hold it" and "Take that" because he filled in for Phoenix Wright at defense in the last case) - his new exclamation is "Eureka". It happens when you deduce something you see as conflicting with your evidence in your Organizer.

My ratings:

Music: 8 out of 10 (could've used some variety)
Visuals: 10 out of 10 (AWESOME!)
Challenge: 10 out of 10 (some parts of the case had me wondering what to do next)
Fun: 9 out of 10
Overall: 37 out of 40 (worth every cent)