I wonder if the scenes of Phoenix and Blackquill in court are from the game's final case?

These look really cool and has sent me to yet an even higher hype level for this game (I didn't think it was possible ).
Can someone please translate some of this?

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Hm...did he use "Hami-chan" there instead of "Harumi-chan"?

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Maybe I'm looking too deeply into that.

haha look at edgeworth rocking those sweet shades

They're actually regular glasses. Maybe too much Steel Samurai.

Also, that top image on the home page of the site... isn't it a bit spoilerific?

speaking of which do they have suck thing as chief defense attorney?

No because legal wise, Prosecutors are employed by the state, while Defense Attorneys are employed by people who need defending. So there would be no "Chief defense attorney."

yeah but what about District attorneys?

District Attorneys are Prosecutors. If this were in real life, Edgeworth would be the DA of the district. Like Edgeworth he/she rarely prosecutes cases personally unless they are big cases and instead oversees the cases while his assistant district attorneys (ADA, EADA, etc.) are the ones usually in court all the time. (That's why I'm named ADA McCoy, since Jack McCoy was the ADA of most of the run of Law & Order).

That's a public defense attorney. The state hires them for you if you don't hire one on your own. There is presumably some rules in place to force attorneys to accept the cases.

So the state hires them as sort of a third party?

Just curious, but is there any possibility we get to choose who we play as? We've seen a lot of pairings so far, and unless if they've spoiled all of the possible pairings in this game (assuming there's 5 cases) it's possible we could be seeing the same case repeated, but with different leads.

Based on what we've seen so far it would appear the pairings are as follows:
Case 1 - Phoenix v Gaspen
Case 2 - Apollo v Simon
(Mock Trial) - Apollo v Klavier
Case 3 - Athena v Simon
Case 4 - Phoenix v Simon
Case 5 - Phoenix v Edgeworth

It seems weird to me that we would already learn about all of the pairings before the game's release, especially since the AA games usually only reveal info on the first 3 cases while leaving the rest a complete mystery. What also confuses me is how we get to play as Athena (even though I'm quite excited for this)... maybe we have the ability of picking which main character we play as based on the case?

Like for example, in case 2 we can choose to either play as Apollo or Athena, where the other acts as our partner. If case 4 featured Phoenix and Apollo, we would get to choose between the two characters while the other acts as a follower. If true, it could explain the purpose of "dual destinies" - we pick between two characters, and can use their "gimmick" to change the game play for each trial.

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I think Capcom did a really good job on the amount and type of info they showed us. We may think that we know a lot about the first three cases and many characters, but we actual know nothing (like Jon Snow) and have more questions now than we had before.

@Rubia Silve Ryu: Hahaha, that's a nice way to advertise the new check list feature.