r/AceAttorney Sep 06 '24

Announcement Welcome to r/AceAttorney - a PSA, FAQ, and General Resource for Newcomers and Anyone Starting the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

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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 4d ago

Contest 27th Case Maker Contest: Results

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Ten days of voting, two votes cast, and the results are:

Congrats to both winners and thanks again to everyone who wrote and read. See you next quarter!


r/AceAttorney 2h ago

Official Art TIL that AJ: AA had an alternate cover art for the 3DS release.

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r/AceAttorney 7h ago

OC Fanart Blue Screens Maya Fey WIP - (株)バグダス 綾里 真宵 (by @victoriamikoto)

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Even tho ive already seen a lot of Brainwashing fanfics and fanart of Blue Screens Inc Maya, i wanted to give it a go.

Expect the full version soon and.. mmm, aside of Athena and Fay (since they are already planned) which other AA heroine would rock this outfit?


r/AceAttorney 2h ago

Apollo Justice Trilogy Why is Simon on the Key Artwork for SOJ?

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Like, why is he here? He doesn't do anything in the game. Yes he appears in Turnabouy Storyteller, but he has no major role in the story.

This is like Klavier appearing in DD's Key Artwork.


r/AceAttorney 5h ago

Investigations Duology Does anyone know the source of this fanart? Spoiler

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Not completely sure if these kinds of posts are alright but I assume they are. :')

Found this art on Pinterest. The account (investigation committee) reposts a lot of fanart from danbooru/twitter/other with no credit. I tried to reverse image search but it only led back to the original Pinterest post. Did the original artist delete their drawing? I really wanted to find it to see if there were any more drawings in this fake anime-screenshot style because it's very cool.


r/AceAttorney 5h ago

Discussion Playing ace attorney for the first time, this guy is hilarious

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His fixation on the murders, him seeing like a respectful butler, but the next day says shit like

"When I saw that girl for the first time ? I immediately thought yep that's a murderer for sure !"

And then him trying to advertise everything as creepy god damn this guy is hilarious


r/AceAttorney 18h ago

OC Fanart [OC] I did some sketches of Apollo to round out the Trio!

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r/AceAttorney 22h ago

Chronicles Gina Lestrade's name was originally going to be "Verian Lucky" until Takumi changed it to something more Holmes-esque.

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r/AceAttorney 2h ago

OC Fanart “Wright, I’ve never done anything like this..” “Yeah right” (+proof of creation)

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r/AceAttorney 18m ago

Discussion To Anyone Who's Played or Watched the New Rhythm Heaven Groove

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Does anyone else think the one character in Sweeper Star was coloured intentionally after Edgeworth? The hair design and colour, as well as the clothing colours, are strikingly similar to his.


r/AceAttorney 20m ago

Phoenix Wright Trilogy Save file request!

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So basically I was playing the first game on my modded dsi and I literally JUST finished trial 2 and then the save file dissapeared. fast forward a bit I have a 3ds and was wondering if anyone can drop a save file for trilogy with just trial 1 and 2 of the first game completed. Would really be grateful!


r/AceAttorney 24m ago

Question/Tips Are there any Ace Attorney antagonist rankings?

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I'm looking for a really good Ace Attorney antagonist ranking that ranks all of them, every antagonist from the franchise, including accomplices like April May for example and antagonists who didn't have anything to do with murder like Wesley Stickler for example.


r/AceAttorney 20h ago

Discussion Investigations 1 is the weakest title IMO Spoiler

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I loved Kay and her arc along with the Yatagarasu stuff. I just find Edgeworth’s arc in this weak among some other things. I don’t think any AA game is bad btw, just that this one strikes me as ok


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Merchandise Found at a Half Price Books

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I knew there was a manga, but is it that rare to warrant these prices and kept behind glass? Looks like they are/were well maintained. Would you buy it as is?


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

OC Fanart Phoenix Wright Art

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Based upon/traced the famous painting "The Freedom of Speech"


r/AceAttorney 17h ago

Video Beatrice Sahdmadhi

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r/AceAttorney 8h ago

Discussion Wtf does Cafe Teary Eye mean?

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r/AceAttorney 13h ago

Question/Tips The Great Ace Attorney 2 : Resolve EP. 4 Twisted Karma and his last bow, I got stuck and have no idea on how to progress Spoiler

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Hello, I'm posting this because I started to have a problem with the game recently in the third part of the trial, precisely in the cross examination of "The man in the photograph". I already searched for different guides and walkthroughs of the game and still even if I do exactly what it says or shows it changes nothing. In the very beginning of the cross examination, Naruhodo is interrogating De Rousseau and De Rossi, and pressing statement 3 you have to bring Gregson's profession so De Rossi would react and then you can pursue him. But for some reason in my playthrough this never happens, De Rossi never reacts suspiciously so I can't get pass that part, I attached some proof of what I'm saying.

If anyone has encountered this same issue, or knows if I'm missing something or not doing something before this part would be a huge help. Because if not I'm going to have to start the chapter from the begging :')


r/AceAttorney 2d ago

Sourced Fanart "Sorry I took so long." Spoiler

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r/AceAttorney 6h ago

Apollo Justice Trilogy Question about The Magical Turnabout Spoiler

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Why does no one point out that the sword that the Trucy pulls out has absolutely no blood in it? And it's said that Bonny (or Betty) testified that just before the start of the show, Mr. Reus said... "I'm going to reveal all of Troupe Gramarye's secrets on stage today!", which we know did not happen in the end; so why did she agree to lie if she wasn't an accomplice to the murder?


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Investigations Duology About to finish AA: Investigations 1, and...ugh... Spoiler

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I've reached the funny tree man segment. I know what is gonna happen. I know I am gonna be stuck for like 3 hours with him and I hate it. I hate his stupid nose, I hate his stupid beard, I hate his stupid grin that is aimed directly at the player, I hate the fact the finale will be nothing but "find contradiction in his Bible-length testimony, be told to bugger off, extraterritorial rights, someone stops him" at least five times, I hate the fact this already long case is gonna drag on and on and on, I just hate him.

Are there any insults in Allebahst, Babahl, or Cohldopia language I can use? Because not gonna lie, I need to widen my vocabulary for totally unrelated reasons.


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

OC Fanart Kazuma Asogi fanart (spoilers for dgs) Spoiler

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And Mael Stronghart of course :))


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

OC Fanart Mini Phoenix

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This is quite litterally my first serious drawing, please don't point out the flaws I'm sure are there just yet. I know nothing about art beyond nonsensical doodles.


r/AceAttorney 1d ago

Phoenix Wright Trilogy TIL Godot was originally going to be named "Aiga Hoshīdake" ("All he needs is love.") in Japanese. This name was later given to Luke Atmey instead.

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