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I was speaking two the two top men behind Ace Attorney Investigations in their last interview at the Tokyo Game Show. We talked about their game, which stars fan favorite attorney Miles Edgeworth (pictured, dashingly, above), and I'll have more on that later this week.
But today's all about fighting games, so I wanted to share this part of the conversation. The translator working with me gave them my question:
If Frank West from Dead Rising can be in a Capcom fighting game, then why not the lawyers of the Phoenix Wright series? Who should go in and what would their moves be?
They cracked up.
"They're not sure any of the characters suit the fighting game world, so they've never actually thought about it," a Capcom translator told me as Ace Attorney Investigations' producer and director, Motohide Eshiro and Takeshi Yamazaki, laughed and started pantomiming attacks.
Eshiro was the first to get specific: "Wel,l I guess if we were going to do one, we could put in Agent [Shi-Long] Lang, because Agent Lang, in the story, he has a specific martial art he knows. Sometimes you see him do poses from it. If we were to expand that, his martial arts could fit into a game somehow."
"Well, if you want to talk about weapons, Franziska von Karma has weapons: Her whip," Yamazaki said. "So it would probably be pretty easy to fit her and her whipping into a game."
He added, joking, "We could put in Phoenix or Edgeworth and they could yell 'Objection!' and a little bubble would come out of their mouth and it would be like —' Objection!' — like a projectile.
"Or they could throw evidence at the opposition and yell 'Take That!' as they throw their evidence." He was pretending to throw evidence at me while he said this.
I suggested that the series' judge could be a good fighting character. He'd use his gavel to hammer his opponents.
"It's awesome," Yamazaki laughed. He started shaking his hand up and down vigorously, as if demanding some order in the court. "It would be a really strong attack."
But that was all speculative brainstorming. As of this writing Capcom has put none of their legal heroes into the deep rosters of their many fighting games.
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Other than throwing evidence they could swing certain melee weapons (knives, sword, the thinker, etc.)
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What about having a character pop from offscreen to do an assisting attack?
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Edgeworth. he can strangle people with his cravat.
Trucy can cast magic missle.
Hobo Phoenix can through poker cards (a la gambit)
Franziska can use her whip to attack her oponent's weak points for massive damage.
Maya can attack by beating people over the head with blunt objects (the bottle from 2-3, the Schisitscho from 3-2)
Apollo can impale people with his hair.
Godot can throw coffee, and shoot laser beams with his mask.
jean armstrong can attack... by forcing his foes to eat his cooking (and stripping).
Steel Samurai. Nuff said.
Glen Elg can summon MC Bomber. (as an eidolon/esper/summon ect)
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Actually (I don't know if this is post or pre smash bros.), C. Falcon is actually a martial artist in addition to being a racer. Kinda like Klavier is in a rock band in addition to being a prosecutor (they're both just that awesome).
Trucy can cast magic missle.
This.
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I just imagined Trucy as a black mage from FF.
Trucy casts Ultima!
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Oldbag would have her ray gun...
The title (my little brother thought of it)
Super Smash Lawyers.
And what on earth would Hotti use as a weapon?!
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Trucy can summon Mr. Hat, then it turns into an Ice Climbers kinda fighting....
Mia can jump up and land on people....
Von Karma can use a taser...
And then there's the Hypnogant.....
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Meekins could freak people out to the point of uselessness with his appearance in general, and/or paralyze them by shouting into his megaphone; after that, even a weak punch from him could finish anyone off. Hotti might have some...interesting moves up his sleeve.
Remember his kinda creepy animations where he'd make a little screwing motion with one hand and then some sort of convulsive slitting motion with his other arm? I'm sure Capcom could get very creative with him. In fact, they'd have to, along with a lot of other characters.Bottom line, yeah, Capcom would have to get really silly to give most characters a fighting chance, but that's what would make it great!
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Oldbag would have her ray gun...
The title (my little brother thought of it)
Super Smash Lawyers.
And what on earth would Hotti use as a weapon?!
Why his tentacle-fingers of course.
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Eldoon can manipulate salty noodles at will... hmm.
(Whacks foes with his noodle) (Not that kind of noodle!)
Phoenix can be a ninja, with shuriken shaped like his outbursts (Throws an objection shaped discus at target) (and I hit edgeworth. oops.)
Gumshoe can do tag team attacks with missile...
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It's not about the jumping, it's about the landing.
I also thought of some more...
MOE USES CORNY JOKE.
ONE HIT KO....
Ema could blow fingerprint powder into people's eyes, or just throw snackoos at them...
Edgeworth attacks by staring at people...
The Blue Badger does the Dance of Doom!!!!
Pearl could slap people.
Furio Tigre does the roaring thing.
And Grossberg could sit on someone......
Dang, this is fun!
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FIXED.
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FIXED.
Oh yeah, that does make more sense.
Hmm...not much left for Edgeworth to do then?
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FIXED.
Oh yeah, that does make more sense.
Hmm...not much left for Edgeworth to do then?
I dunno, the mental image of Edgeworth strangling someone with his cravat is awfully menacing
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I dunno, the mental image of Edgeworth strangling someone with his cravat is awfully menacing
It just doesn't seem very Edgeworth-like...
Maybe he could just be a Phoenix clone?
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Hehe, agreed. XD
Or he could just use his "Glare of Doom."
"Note to Self: Don't get in crouton's way when it comes to Edgeworth. She WILL bite." - PhoenixFire
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That's what I tried to say............
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I would love Super Smash Lawyers. Or even better:
A Capcom fighting game.
Capcom's 2 blue heroes can fight eachother!
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Oh yeah. I can definitely see Edgeworth fencing. 8D
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He would make a good playable character, I guess.
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He would make a good playable character, I guess.Atmey would be epic in a fighting game. He would have to go to the corners to do his strongest attacks.
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I dunno, the mental image of Edgeworth strangling someone with his cravat is awfully menacing
Hehe, agreed. XD
Or he could just use his "Glare of Doom."
very much agreed
Adrian drops/throws urns at people.
Payne screams/objects.
I could see Mike either throwing a small knife around or hitting/yelling into his megaphone. He could even choke people with his handcuffs.
Hotti would use his arm...for something.
Violetta would offer around extra creamy coffee and extra thick tea.
Redd would blind people with his jewelery...or hit them over the head with statues.
It would be really fun to have a fighting lawer game, but very unlikely at the same time.
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What about having a character pop from offscreen to do an assisting attack?
This is really the only thing that would work for me.
Smash Bros. isn't a fighting game.
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Smash Bros. isn't a fighting game.
Not that I'm deliberatly disagreeing with you, but how so?
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Smash Bros. isn't a fighting game.
Not that I'm deliberatly disagreeing with you, but how so?
I always thought it had more of a party game feel than a fighting game.
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I mean you punched and kicked people to death.
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Example:
Sahwit - bashes with The Thinker
Bellboy - serves tea to recover a little of health, and so on.
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When you present a knife to him in 1-5, he claims he has mild aichmophobia! He wouldn't use a knife!
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?She would just own everyone, with evil eyes and pointy umberellas and poison coffee.
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When you present a knife to him in 1-5, he claims he has mild aichmophobia! He wouldn't use a knife!Present: security tape from 1-5
This video tape clearly shows mike's fighting style! The only time we learn of him using a weapon in the AA series is shown on this video! Aichmophobia or not, this is solid proof.
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