Q&A with the Producer

[Tenebra]

Hi all, the Producer for Ace Attorney will be visiting Capcom Europe offices soon, so its a great opportunity for the fans to ask their questions. Fire away!

[Urya]

Any word on Apollo Justice 2 or a western release of Gyakuten Kenji?

Ill try and think of some other questions later, but I figured Id post these in case I dont get to it.

[Skeksis]

Questions? We want pictures or it didnt happen. :p

Ever thought of releasing the series on another format like the Wii or do you feel the series at home on handhelds?

[Boeboe]

- Will PW3 be released in Europe or not?
- What do you think about European gamers importing games from the States or Japan? Especially with PW3 being endlessly delayed, breaking the storyline for PW fans that dont import their games .
- Merchandise! As a fan I am dying for some cool merchandise. Even America got some cool stuff on almost every edition. Even if you dont want to make it a special edition or preorder: at least let us buy our merchandise.
- Not wanting to ask for any specifics about the releasedate: will perfect proscecutor be released in Europe (almost) simultaniously with America?
- I put a lot of effort in letting my friends at least try out the game, as most dont even know it exists or what it is about: Will there be more marketing for PW-related games in the future?
- PW suddenly made the whole very Japanese graphical novel genre popular in the Western world. Can we expect similar games translated to English in the future?
- Being selfish here: I want a European PW-related contest with nice prices! It felt kind of bitter to notice capcom USA had this contest with really cool stuff to win.

[Tenebra]

Hi Boeboe, welcome to the forum and thank you very much for your contribution, very interesting indeed.
May I sneakingly ask you where do you live? Please feel free to PM me if youd rather not reveal this kind of info publicly in the forum :)

[Boeboe]

Thanks for the welcome :). Saw this newsflash and decided I should add my own little contribution here. Likely I will hang around here a bit more often if I can find the time.
If you want to know where I live I can tell you that I updated my profile with that info. Appearantly that section isnt public to everyone, so I dont mind :)

[ironlunch]

Hey, saw the update on court-records.net. Thought I might as well join in, even though Im American ;). No worries, no release date questions here (weve GOT TnT here in the states). But there are some things on my mind.

When might we see new info on the next Ace Attorney game?
Will the next game in the series feature a new defense attorney?
Are there any plans for an Ace Attorney game or spin-off to be developed for other systems (like WiiWare?)
Will we ever get to play as phoenix again?
Is the upcoming Turnabout Prosecutor game part of a series? Or... will there be a sequel to it?
And most importantly...
Will Capcom colaborate on the next Super Smash Brothers? I MUST have Cornered theme for my stage creations! (this questions a bit of a joke, dun take it too seriously :P )

[Tenebra]

Hi Ironlunch, welcome to the forums and thank you for your contribution :)

Heres a link to your final question ;) Super Smash Brothers? (http://kotaku.com/5046537/why-no-mega+man-in-super-smash-bros-inafune-says-ask-nintendo)

[Takagi-kun]

Ive just seen this thread in court-records as well and I thought I might ask some questions. Id be really happy if you could ask any of them to Ace Attorney Producer. Im from Spain so I apologize in advance if my English is not perfect :d

- Have you ever considered expanding the Ace Attorney universe and story in other media such as animated series, in a similar fashion to other Capcom games such as Devil May Cry or Viewtiful Joe?

- In Japan, Ace attorney music concerts are quite popular. Do you think it would be possible to have one of these concerts held in the US or Europe in the future if the fan base is numerous enough?

- The first three Ace Attorney games for the Game Boy Advance were Japan-only releases. What made you change your mind and release the DS versions in western markets?

- Was there any specific reason to release Apollo Justice before Trials and Tribulations in Europe while in the US it was the other way around?

- What is, in your opinion, the biggest quality of the Ace Attorney games?

Thanks for this opportunity. If I can think of any other question Ill post it here.

[Gravy On Toast]

Another person to see this from Court Records :p , and I thought I would ask a few questions,


- Will Turnabout Prosecutor be a stand alone, or will it have a series? Or, will it be linked in with the other PW games?

- If it is a stand alone, will Capcom do anymore AA games?

- Does Capcom have any plans with the AJ series? (To be honest, I hope not. I didnt really like that series.)

- And, will we see many familiar characters in TP? (I know Edgeworth, and Gumshoe are there, but is there anyone else?)

- Will we ever see Phoenix & Maya again?!


Also because I come from England, will we be able to get the game at around about the same time as those in America? :)

[chyiochan]

Ok here goes!

I want phoenix and Maya to be seen again so badly. You built up their friendship, and I think they deserve something more.

Also, is it possible to sell Phoenix Wright Merchandise online at all for international business? Everyone wants Phoenixs hobo hat, and the buttons, and everything you can think of from that game, yet the only place you can get that stuff is in Japan. Show it to everyone else, and let us buy it. you have no idea how much profit you are missing out on.

[Guille Skye]

Hi! Id like to make some questions:

- Can you say the English and European (Spanish, Italian, French and German) voice actors of Manfred Von Karma, Apollo Justice, Kristoph Gavin and Klavier Gavin? Its strange that in the PW:TaT credits are included the voices actors/ actress of the characters while in the AJ credits not.
- Is there any release date about Gyakuten Saiban soundtracks?

[BBQVegeta]

Hi, Id like to ask a few questions :)

-Who is your favourite character in the series and why?
-Do you think we will ever see Diego Armando again? Id love to know what happened to him after PW3.
-Im really looking forward to seeing Edgeworth again in Gyakuten Kenji, do you think well see him in the regular series alongside Wright again?

I had a few more, but I think other people have covered them!

[charmed699]

I certainly have a few questions for the mastermind behind such a quality series!

- Where did the inspiration for makiing games about a defense laywer come from and was it easy to get the go ahead for producing it?

- Since in Japan concerts based on music from the game have become hugely popular are there plans to make concerts happen in other countries?

- Is Phoenix Wright only going to have the trilogy or will there be more in store for our famous lawyer in the court room?

- Do you see the Ace attorney series as something that could have many sequels to come and go on for so a long time like others such as Resident evil did?

- When will there be more details about any sequels for Apollo Justice?

Thank you for this opportunity. :)

[Nocturnal Stillness]

well first you have to thank him for making such a good series of games. My questions are as follows.

1) Will you bring back Phoenix Wright as the main character? (This has been asked several times but its an important question as personally I loved PW1-3 but felt AW was just ok)

2) any chance of a Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Wii? Id love to play it, imagine getting to point the wiimote at the screen or make the motions for objection and hold it! not to mention use the wiimote in the searching parts of the game.

3) Will you make future AA games that are more opened ended? Ive had several moments where I could present evidence to object but it wasnt accepted as it wasnt the right one [SPOILER: If i remember correctly they say the victim died upon hitting the floor in the death record yet the prosecution were saying they wrote the name after hitting the ground,i presented the record and it didnt get accepted] I believe having the option of presenting more than one correct evidence would open the game up more for replayability.

4) How about letting the player continue even if there client is guilty? ie instead of five seperare turnabouts, have it as five cases the player does all five one after another and depending on how well they do and if each client is innocent and guilty they get a grade (again it would add replayability)

[Tenebra]

Sorry for not posting this earlier, I was hoping Id get the opportunity to pick up some more questions today but its been a crazy busy day for me today, no chance. The producer (great, lovely person) was with us today and I have some answers already waiting on my desk at work, which (fingers crossed I wont have another uber hectic day) will be posted here tomorrow.

Ill see if I can get more questions answered in the future ;)

[Jade Edgeworth]

It seems that once again Im late to the party... Questions questions, what to ask?

Alright, hopefully Im not Too late.

I have two questions, well, one is more a query.

1. As much as everyone says that Europe is indeed too small to get an opinion in the Ace Attorney fandom, there are actually more of us offline that (Like I didnt until it was linked on Court-Records.) dont know of forums such as this. I mean, I cosplayed as Franziska at the London MCM Expo and got shouted Objection at and chased for pictures Many times. I know the Edgeworth we had got stalked alot too. (Everytime I saw him he was posing for a photo.) And a large group of us cosplaying PW and AJ got bombarded by people as soon as we entered the hall.
Alot of our characters people would have only known if they had played the game (Such as Luke Atmey.) thus making there more fans...
Yet, we dont get too much merchandise and other things flying our way.
I mean, Im sure Im not the only one who would kill (Well lightly bruise) someone for a PaPa hat. x3

2. If the fans are the ones that sway the developing of the storylines, then are Edgey and Phoenix cannonly gay yet? =V

3. How are you going to get around the fact that fandoms with high pairing rates and an orchestra thats based on romance is going to start a bit of chaos? Its kinda thin ice isnt it? I mean like, three quarters of the fandom ship Edgeworth/Phoenix. D:

Sorry for making you read alot of pointless writing. @o@

...I should have put a TL;DR in there. xD