The official Gyakuten Kenji FAQ and information thread

Post by **Croik** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:32 pm

This thread is for official information released about Gyakuten Kenji. It is not for discussing, but if you have a question, feel free to ask and I'll add it to the FAQ. You can also check the News section on the CR main site.

Q. What is Gyakuten Kenji?

A. Gyakuten Kenji, which means Turnabout Prosecutor, is a new game in development for the NDS staring Miles Edgeworth. It's localized name is Ace Attorney Investigations.

Q. What is the gameplay like?

A. The gameplay centers around three modes: Investigation, Logic, and Confrontation. Investigations will be similar to the original AA games, where you move around the scene and collect evidence. Confrontations have taken the place of cross examination and presumably behave the same way. The big difference is in the Logic Mode, where pieces of information you receive during investigations can be used like evidence, and combined to help solve the murder.

Bits for logic mode can come in the form of actual evidence (such as a murder weapon) or simple facts, or even questions (such as "what was the criminal's motive?"). Combining two of these bits triggers cut scenes that move the story along. If you try to combine the wrong bits, you sustain damage like in court. Take too much damage and you'll get a gameover.

Q. Will there be court phases?

A. No. The "confrontration" phase is meant to make up for this and will operate pretty much just like a cross examination.

Q. Who is working on Kenji?

A. Working on Gyakuten Kenji are Director Takeshi Yamazaki, who joined the GS team around the time it moved to the DS; Producer Motohide Eshiro who has worked on other Capcom projects including two of the DS remakes; and Designer Tatsurou Iwamoto, who did the designs for JFA as well as many pieces of official art.

Q. Which characters have been confirmed?

A.
Returning Characters
Miles Edgeworth
Dick Gumshoe
Franziska von Karma
Maggey Byrde
Wendy Oldbag (cameo?)
Sal Manella (cameo?)
Winston Payne
Mike Meekins
Ema Skye

New Characters
See the character page on the main site
For the rest you can go to the Character page on CR.

Q. When was Gyakuten Kenji relased in Japan?

A. May 28th 2009.

Q. Will Gyakuten Kenji be released overseas?

A. America: Feb 16th, 2010. Europe: Feb 19th, 2010.

Q. How many cases are there?

A. 5.

Q. When does the game take place?

A. A month after 3-5, T&T

Q. Does the Japanese cart have duel language like some of the others?

A. No.

Q. Is there a limited edition set?

A. Yes, you can read up about it on the [url="http://www.court-records.net/News.htm]News Page[/url].

Q. Is there a rom?

A. Yes. Do not ask where to get it, do not post it. CR does not support roms. ~~Just sprite hacking~~

If you have more questions you think should be added, fire away!

ILikeShinyMirrors · Post by **ILikeShinyMirrors** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:52 am

Has it been confirmed WHEN this game will take place? If so, when? Forever I thought everyone was certain it was between JFA and T&T but now apparently everyone agrees it takes place 'shortly after' T&T.

This confuzzles me. :-(

Post by **Croik** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:44 pm

Ah, good question. So far the only official statement is that it's "around T&T." *adds to FAQ*

Nadindi · Post by **Nadindi** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:36 pm

Yay! Kenji thread! :edgy:

How exactly will logic mode work? Is it

Spoiler: 1-5

Well, not exactly with rotating and such, but as in moving them all around to try to fit them together and find bits that don't fit?

DramaticaXIV2 · Post by **DramaticaXIV2** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:39 pm

Croik wrote:Q. Will there be court phasse?

A. At this point, the dev team has indicated that there will NOT be court phases.

Thank god, I hope this stops the topics. :acro:

Post by **Croik** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:28 am

Nadindi wrote:Yay! Kenji thread!

How exactly will logic mode work? Is it

Spoiler: 1-5
The piecing together of the jar?

Well, not exactly with rotating and such, but as in moving them all around to try to fit them together and find bits that don't fit?

No, I don't think it's like that. They haven't really shown it in action, but I imagine it'll be something like:

Evidence A: The cookie jar is empty!
Evidence B: Gumshoe is eating a cookie!

*FUSHION DANCE*

Evidence C: Gumshoe ate the last cookie!!!!! :sadshoe:

Scent · Post by **Scent** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:35 pm

Thanks for the awesome info thread! Also, I've seen an image of the guy your talking about, the one that resembles Kristoph, he looks like him but...

Spoiler:

Zvarri! · Post by **Zvarri!** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:46 pm

Croik wrote:Q. Will there be court phasse?

Well, that's pretty much all my interest in the game gone =/ Mostly it's just the trials I was in it for; I found a lot of the investigation phases annoyances, just bits I had to push through to reach the good part.

Post by **Croik** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:18 pm

Zvarri! wrote:
Croik wrote:Q. Will there be court phasse?

Well, that's pretty much all my interest in the game gone =/ Mostly it's just the trials I was in it for; I found a lot of the investigation phases annoyances, just bits I had to push through to reach the good part.

If it makes you feel better, they've replaced the court phases with interrogations/confrontations, which have been said to function almost exactly the same as cross-examinations.

Post by **Gerkuman** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:28 pm

Besides, we shouldn't have to make you feel better. :P

Nadindi · Post by **Nadindi** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:52 pm

Croik wrote:
Nadindi wrote:Yay! Kenji thread!

How exactly will logic mode work? Is it

Spoiler: 1-5
The piecing together of the jar?

Well, not exactly with rotating and such, but as in moving them all around to try to fit them together and find bits that don't fit?

No, I don't think it's like that. They haven't really shown it in action, but I imagine it'll be something like:

Evidence A: The cookie jar is empty!
Evidence B: Gumshoe is eating a cookie!

*FUSHION DANCE*

Evidence C: Gumshoe ate the last cookie!!!!!

Thanks! That'll probably be the storyline for the tute for Kenji. WHO ATE MILES' COOKIE?

Heehee, thanks Croik :shoe:

osaka_dahlia · Post by **osaka_dahlia** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:16 pm

Croik wrote:Q. Who is working on Kenji?

A. Working on Gyakuten Kenji are Director Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, who joined the GS team around the time it moved to the DS; Producer Motohide Eshiro who has worked on other Capcom projects but not GS, though he is a fan; and Designer Tatsurou Iwamoto, who did the designs for JFA.

If I may be so bold, I'd like to submit 2 corrections to this statement:

1) The director's name is "Takeshi", not "Tsuyoshi"
2) Mr. Eshiro was the producer on both GS2 DS and GS3 DS before becoming the producer for GK (he is a big fan though, from what he says in interviews ^^; )

I found these two facts from the Japanese GS wiki and the official Japanese GS4 developer's blog.

*goes back into lurk mode*

Post by **Croik** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:07 pm

Ok, thanks~

Post by **Bad Player** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:42 pm

Y'know that screenshot where it has the close-up of Makoto and Edgy's eyes, like in the cross-examination of GS games? Is that from the investigation, logic, or confrontation phase?

Post by **Croik** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:55 pm

Bad Player wrote:Y'know that screenshot where it has the close-up of Makoto and Edgy's eyes, like in the cross-examination of GS games? Is that from the investigation, logic, or confrontation phase?

That's from the confrontation.

Post by **Croik** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:03 am

Relevant bump!

Now that we know that Turnabout Airline takes place on a plane and the body is discovered in the elevator, we now have 4 crime scenes shown in art/screenshots. Unless one case has two bodies or one of the artworks is only a concept piece, that would seem to confirm 4 cases.

I'm going to create a topic in a few minutes with a breakdown of all the locations we've seen so far :D

Salutation Here · Post by **Salutation Here** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:12 pm

Does it actually take place on the plane? Because it looked like just the airport.

Regy Rusty · Post by **Regy Rusty** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:06 pm

The murder has been established to occur while the plane is in the air. (Look at the windows!)

Yelect · Post by **Yelect** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:20 pm

Returning Characters
Miles Edgeworth
Dick Gumshoe
Franziska von Karma
Maggey Byrde
Wendy Oldbag (cameo?)
Sal Manella (cameo?)

No phoenix? :larry:

(Or is it just that he isn't confirmed yet?)

Regy Rusty · Post by **Regy Rusty** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:16 am

They've expressly said that Phoenix will NOT play a large role in this game. I don't think they've said he won't appear at all but I don't personally expect him to.

Yelect · Post by **Yelect** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:27 pm

Ok.
Aww well, it IS a game starring edgey after all...
I`ll kinda miss the judge too, got kinda attached to him trough all the games.

That aside it`ll be a great game, no doubt in my mind! :edgy:

Rebochan · Post by **Rebochan** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:34 pm

Maybe we'll get lucky and Udgey'll get a cameo role.

ILikeShinyMirrors · Post by **ILikeShinyMirrors** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:43 am

Rebochan wrote:Maybe we'll get lucky and Udgey'll get a cameo role.

:O And discover what the lower half of his body looks like?

XD It would probably be hidden by something like a counter. What if it was a running joke, like that guy on Home Improvement who you never see his mouth?

kireichan · Post by **kireichan** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:12 am

Bitter_Godot wrote:Thanks for the awesome info thread! Also, I've seen an image of the guy your talking about, the one that resembles Kristoph, he looks like him but...
Spoiler:
His hair is like Klavier's in AP Case 4, Phoenix's Last Trial.

If this game is supposed to be "sometime around T & T" I highly doubt that he is one of the Gavins. I would like to know who he is though because he does look like a Gavin. Perhaps a relative or something?

ILikeShinyMirrors · Post by **ILikeShinyMirrors** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:12 pm

kireichan wrote:
Bitter_Godot wrote:Thanks for the awesome info thread! Also, I've seen an image of the guy your talking about, the one that resembles Kristoph, he looks like him but...
Spoiler:
His hair is like Klavier's in AP Case 4, Phoenix's Last Trial.

If this game is supposed to be "sometime around T & T" I highly doubt that he is one of the Gavins. I would like to know who he is though because he does look like a Gavin. Perhaps a relative or something?

*ahem* This thread: prosecutor-lobby/kristoph-except-not-t8598.html?hilit=Kristoph?%20Except%20not! :edgy:

FirexxxSaber · Post by **FirexxxSaber** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:26 am

Can it really be after 3-5?

Spoiler: AJ

Regy Rusty · Post by **Regy Rusty** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:49 am

FirexxxSaber wrote:Can it really be after 3-5?

Spoiler: AJ
Because from what I heard about AJ, Phoenix got disbarred a few months after 3-5, correct? And I thought that Gumshoe quit the force soon after? Capcom would totally be limiting the amount of GK games...

Spoiler: AJ

Rushi · Post by **Rushi** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:24 am

I think this quiestion is very stupid, but, I need to ask xD

Edgworth japaness name is Reiji Mitsurugi, but, the game named Gyakuten Kenji... Why?

I can't understand :yuusaku:

The Sandwich · Post by **The Sandwich** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:37 am

Rushi wrote:I think this quiestion is very stupid, but, I need to ask xD

Edgworth japaness name is Reiji Mitsurugi, but, the game named Gyakuten Kenji... Why?

I can't understand

Japan doesn't change the name of the franchise to suit the character. Phoenix's games (1-3) were Gyakuten Saiban 1-3 and Apollo Justice was Gyakuten Saiban 4. Gyakuten Saiban means Turnabout Courtroom (or something like that) where as Gyakuten Kenji means Turnabout Prosecutor, because it's not a part of the main series.

When the games get translated to English, THEN they get *Attorney's Name*:Ace Attorney and what have you.

Rushi · Post by **Rushi** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:43 am

You're right! xD

mgs2master2 · Post by **mgs2master2** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:49 pm

Nice information. I was looking for something like this. Thank you.

charliechip95 · Post by **charliechip95** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:12 am

"Q. Will Gyakuten Kenji be released overseas?

A. Capcom hasn't yet confirmed it, but it's very likely they will. Especially if we bother them!"

Sounds like a plan to me :gant:

EdElricNeko · Post by **EdElricNeko** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:19 pm

Bother Capcom to death! They will surely release then!
Gosh I can't wait till an Enlgish Release 8D

Usagilover · Post by **Usagilover** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:40 pm

will the japanese version include an english version of the game like in some of the PW games? It takes so much time to be released if it's not XD

Post by **Nose** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:10 pm

No most likely, they didn't with AJ after all.

phoenixwrightmaster · Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:33 am

Croik wrote:Ah, good question. So far the only official statement is that it's "around T&T." *adds to FAQ*

but is it not between PW:AA and JFA. when edgeworth disappeared??/

Regy Rusty · Post by **Regy Rusty** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:01 pm

phoenixwrightmaster wrote:
Croik wrote:Ah, good question. So far the only official statement is that it's "around T&T." *adds to FAQ*

but is it not between PW:AA and JFA. when edgeworth disappeared??/

No.

No it isn't.

Cobblepotter · Post by **Cobblepotter** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:55 pm

I'm most likely going to look like the fool for asking this...

Is this game on the DS or DSi?

I first thought the former, but I've seen the demo on a DSi backdrop, then the limited edition DSi bundle. I'm a little confused now.

Post by **Bolt Storm** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:29 pm

It's a standard DS game. Because Nintendo's jumped ship to the DSi, most promotional material uses it.

VictorEdgeworth · Post by **VictorEdgeworth** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:42 pm

Q. Will the Japanese cart have duel language like some of the others?

A. No it'll be Japanese only.

What source made this question jump from 90% certain it won't be dual language to absolutley certain?

I'm wholly aware the chance is amazingly unlikely, and I'm not expecting it, but it just doesn't seem fair to write it off like that just because it's the most likely outcome, unless some article was release that I'm not aware of. If anything, the chance of Gyakuten Kenji being dual-language has went up from what it was before, due to the existence of the English trailer.