Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All

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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom AUS Nintendo Australia
Distributor(s)	AUS Nintendo Australia
Designer(s)	Shu Takumi
Writer(s)	Shu Takumi
Composer(s)	Akemi Kimura
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance, PC, Nintendo DS
Release date(s)	Game Boy Advance JP October 22, 2002 PC JP March 31, 2006 Nintendo DS JP October 26, 2006 NA January 16, 2007 EU March 16, 2007 AUS September 6, 2007
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	CERO: A ESRB: T OFLC: PG PEGI: 12+
Input methods	Face and shoulder buttons, touchscreen, built-in microphone

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All, released in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban 2 (逆転裁判 2, Gyakuten Saiban Tsū^?, lit. "Turnabout Trial 2"), is a visual novel adventure video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS video game console. It is the sequel to 2005's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. It was released in Japan on October 26, 2006 and in North America on January 16, 2007.^[1] The game was also released in Europe on March 16, 2007 and in Australia on September 6, 2007. The Japanese release features a Japanese/English language toggle at the main menu.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All is an updated port of the Game Boy Advance game Gyakuten Saiban 2. Like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, it features touch screen, microphone, and dual screen support, but does not have any new cases.

A PC version under the title Gyakuten Saiban 2 PC was released by the Japanese company SourceNext in March 31, 2006. Similar to the PC port of the first game, this is an emulation of the original Game Boy Advance version to be played on Windows based PCs, rather than an enhanced remake like the one that was released afterwards for the Nintendo DS. Again, it was only released in Japan.

Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Plot 2.1 Setting 2.2 Story 3 Development 3.1 Game Boy Advance version 3.2 Nintendo DS version 4 Audio 5 Reception 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Gameplay

Justice For All plays similarly to the first Ace Attorney game as a virtual novel game. While the game has been adapted from the GBA version to use the DS touch screen, none of the special investigation techniques introduced in the "Rise from the Ashes" case from the first game reappear.

A small but significant change is that a player can now present the profiles of people involved with the case, in addition to the evidence in the Court Record. The player can present them either during the court room or investigative phases. For example, the player can present a profile to ask a person about that person.

Justice for All features a new gameplay concept called Psyche-Lock. Phoenix Wright has to unlock several locks that have been placed over a witness' heart in order to reveal the truth. The Psyche-Lock occurs only during the Investigation phase, and is observed when trying to following a line of questioning with a person involved in the case. When it is revealed that the person has one or more Psyche-Locks, the player can then initiate breaking of those locks. Typically, the player will be asked to point out evidence or a location to complete a question being asked; if the correct evidence is used, it is likely one Psyche-Lock will be broken or may lead to an additional question. If the incorrect choice is made, the player takes health damage (described below). However, unlike courtroom questioning, the player can cancel the breaking attempt if he feels he doesn't have the right piece of evidence without any penalty; all of the locks will reappear the next time the breaking attempt is made, though these will break in exactly the same manner as previously discovered. Also, a certain amount of health is restored on successfully unlocking all the Psyche-Locks of a person. Breaking all the Psyche-Locks of a person will allow the player to question that person further on more details.

In the first game, the player had five marks of health; if he or she made a mistake during the courtroom proceedings, the judge took one off, and losing all five resulted in a guilty verdict for the client. Justice for All changes these marks into a life bar; when the bar is completely depleted, the game ends and the player's client receives a guilty verdict. The amount of health lost will vary depending on the magnitude of the error; a mistake in one area may result in the loss of the whole life bar.

[edit] Plot

[edit] Setting

The setting for the game takes place roughly one year after the events of the first game (based on the ages of the returning characters), and again in Los Angeles, California in the English localization.^[2] The player controls the protagonist of its predecessor, Phoenix Wright, as he defends clients in four court trials. Primary characters from the predecessor that appear in this title include Maya Fey, Miles Edgeworth, Mia Fey, and Dick Gumshoe. Two new primary characters include Pearl Fey and Franziska von Karma. Characters from the first title have supporting roles in this title, including Lotta Hart, Will Powers, and Wendy Oldbag.

[edit] Story

The game begins with Phoenix's first trial, "The Lost Turnabout", which involves Phoenix gaining temporary amnesia after being hit on the head by the real killer and having to defend his client in this condition. In the second trial, Phoenix goes with a man named Dr. Grey looking to request the services of Maya Fey, Phoenix's friend, former assistant, and spiritual medium, at the Kurain Village to get a now-dead nurse, Mimi Miney, to admit that she was at fault for the death of fourteen patients at his hospital to take the blame off of him. Mimi was killed in a car accident earlier. Phoenix meets Morgan Fey, Maya's aunt, at the Kurain Temple. However, the doctor is murdered during the spirit channeling, and Maya is arrested on suspicion of murder. Phoenix attempts to reassure her by telling her it was the spirit she was channeling that did it, but she is convinced that she did it. He later meets Morgan's daughter, Pearl Fey, who continues to help Phoenix throughout the entire game. During trial, Phoenix defends Maya against Franziska von Karma, the daughter of Manfred von Karma, a former prosecutor who was arrested for murder because of Phoenix, who states that she is intent on defeating Phoenix in trial. While investigating, Phoenix meets Ini Miney, the younger sister of Mimi. Through investigating, Phoenix learns that Ini was also in the accident that caused the death of her sister, and became disfigured, requiring plastic surgery. Phoenix later proves that she was actually Mimi Miney, and Ini Miney was the one who died. He also proved that she was the one who killed the doctor by impersonating Maya.

During the third case, the ringmaster of the Big Berry Circus is murdered and a very popular magician who can "fly through the air" (using invisible wires of course) named Maxmillion Galactica who Maya is in love with is charged with his murder. During the course of the story Phoenix encounters the rest of the circus members, including the Ringmaster's daughter and Max's girlfriend, Regina, Moe, an odd clown, a ventriloquist by the name of Ben whose puppet Trilo does most of the talking, and Acro, a disabled acrobat. Acro was injured when his brother Bat suffered brain damage when he put his head into Regina's lion's mouth for a dare. Regina had previously put a huge amount of pepper on Bat's scarf, which made the lion sneeze and bite down on Bat. Acro then felt that it was Regina's fault that his brother was put in a coma from which he will never wake up, so Acro set out to murder Regina, but instead murdered the Ringmaster by mistake. Acro felt great debt towards the Ringmaster, and was horribly hurt when he killed him. There is a brief cutscene at the end where it is shown that prosecutor Miles Edgeworth submitted the final piece of evidence that made Acro finally guilty.

In the fourth trial, Maya is kidnapped after a huge TV star, Matt Engarde, is suspected of murdering his media rival, Juan Corrida, and the kidnapper says that he will let Maya go if Phoenix can get a complete acquittal for Engarde. Miles Edgeworth returns to prosecute the case and Will Powers, Wendy Oldbag, and Lotta Heart return from the previous game. Phoenix learns that Juan's former manager committed suicide, and Matt's manager, Adrian Andrews, was so upset that she attempted suicide as well. Phoenix decides that Celeste's death would be a good motive for Adrian to kill Juan, but he is unable to incriminate her in court. Later, Phoenix confronts Matt, who reveals his true character as a sinister killer. He admits that he hired a serial killer named Shelley de Killer to kill Juan before Juan could use Celeste's will to reveal to the world that it was in fact Matt's fault for her death. He also explains that he didn't completely trust de Killer and planted a camera in Juan's hotel room so he could confirm the murder for himself. On the final day of the trial, Adrian presents Celeste's will to the court, and the courtroom demands a guilty verdict. Phoenix and Edgeworth desperately stall for time as Gumshoe and the police search for Maya. Finally, Killer is brought to the witness stand via two-way radio and Franziska bursts in the door bearing evidence that Gumshoe discovered. Phoenix presents de Killer with the video tape of the camera in Juan's room, explaining that Matt didn't trust the serial killer. De Killer is outraged by this breach of trust and nullifies Matt's contract, releasing Maya. Matt finally receives a guilty verdict.

Franziska becomes very upset with Edgeworth's personal philosophy and previous failures against Phoenix, and she decides to leave to return to Germany. However, Edgeworth confronts her at the airport and returns her whip. She leaves in tears and promises to someday return to prove herself against Phoenix.

[edit] Development

[edit] Game Boy Advance version

Justice for All was originally released for the Game Boy Advance as Gyakuten Saiban 2. It was released on October 22, 2002 in Japan only. It uses the same engine as its predecessor, Gyakuten Saiban (known in English as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney).

[edit] Nintendo DS version

Gyakuten Saiban 2 was remade for the Nintendo DS as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All using the same engine as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. It was released on October 26, 2006 in Japan. It was later released in other countries, including North America on January 16, 2007, Europe on March 16, 2007, and Australia on September 6, 2007. The localization in this release remains almost unchanged from the previous release, which contains some errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation and word usage. These have generated complaints in some reviews.^[3] The English translation of the game includes many references to TV shows, movies, other video games, and pop culture references, placed in the dialog by the localization team.^[2]

[edit] Audio

The music was composed by Naoto Tanaka, under the pseudonym Akemi Kimura^[4].

[edit] Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores Aggregator Score GameRankings 78% (57 reviews)[6] Metacritic 76% (51 reviews)[5] MobyGames 78/100[7]
Review scores Publication Score 1UP.com B+[8] Allgame [9] Eurogamer 8/10[10] Famitsu 35/40 (GBA)[11] Game Informer 8/10[12] GamePro [13] Game Revolution A[14] GameSpot 7.7/10[15] GameSpy [16] GamesRadar 8/10[17] GameTrailers 7.9/10[18] GameZone 8.0/10[19] IGN 7.8/10[20] Official Nintendo Magazine 72%[21]

Although Justice for All received generally favorable reviews, it ends up being the least acclaimed of the series' titles. It was criticized mostly for lacking certain DS exclusive features available in the first installment in the series (if only during the final case).

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official U.S. site
• Official Japanese site
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All at GameFAQs

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