Being a series that has traded as much on story and dialogue as anything else, Ace Attorney has been able to get impressive mileage out of using the same basic structure for more than 15 years. The biggest change the formula has seen came with the 2009 arrival of the first official spin-off title in the franchise, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth [Free]. Following Phoenix Wright's rival and sometimes-ally, Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, the game virtually abandoned the courtroom in favor of focusing on the investigations themselves. Taking a form similar to a point-and-click adventure, fans of the series got to enjoy a whole new perspective on familiar characters and locations. The game did well enough to earn a sequel, but that game went unlocalized due to how late it arrived in the Nintendo DS's lifespan. With the main series picking up again on the 3DS, most fans assumed we had seen the last of Ace Attorney Investigations.
Capcom has been pretty aggressive about getting as many of the Ace Attorney games as possible onto mobile platforms of late, though, and it seems that's not limited to the main games. Thus, Ace Attorney Investigations has another chance at impressing English fans, this time on a platform in a slightly healthier point of its life. This is an enhanced port of the original Nintendo DS game, with high-resolution backgrounds and character art. The pixel art used for the character sprites is also sharper, but still retains its slightly lower-res lo...