Nothing wrong with blasts from the past, but I get your point. I really do like Hix's speculation though. A theme of the natural vs. supernatural would be dope.
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Nothing wrong with blasts from the past, but I get your point. I really do like Hix's speculation though. A theme of the natural vs. supernatural would be dope.
It hasn't "always been there." It wasn't in AA4. It wasn't in AA5. AA1-3 was about that, but future games don't have to be. Introducing mystical elements doesn't have to seemingly revolve around most of a game, but it can be contained to a single case.
Even AA5 felt fresh upon its reveal (mainly due to the jump in graphics). AA6 isn't giving me any of the feelings of the reveals of previous games. It almost feels like a spin-off within the mainline games, which is a very weird feeling.
Again, we know very little about the game, so discussing one way or the other about what it could be becomes baseless, at some point. They've said they want to subvert the fans' expectations in a good way, so it could be totally different than how it presents itself right now. But, as others, right now I am not straight up optimistic about this.
But, again, that's literally what PLvsPW was about. I don't want it to feel redundant, and that's why I'm concerned because that was the basis of PLvsPW's entire courtroom segments.
Inquisitive_Ghost
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One of my favourite things about AA5.
Magatamas and psychelocks were most certainly in 4.
And this whole concern with redundancy is also weird if you were perfectly fine with 3 (4 depending on how you look at it) games in a row dealing with the same theme.
Magatamas and psychelocks were in 4 and 5. Apollo's power is kind of supernatural as well.
BrosukeHanamura
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I wish they'd touch on Apollo Justice plot threads instead of more spirit stuff.
But you know what, throw in some Ghost Trick references and/or cameos and I'll call it good.
Like how we get no mention of the Jurist System, or Trucy and Apollo's relation, or even their mother?
But you know what, throw in some Ghost Trick references and/or cameos and I'll call it good.
Rockman Wright
Banned
again with the spirit medium stuff? That's why i wanted more great ace attorney instead of this!
At least it was new and different!
I will still play it and probably enjoy it a lot, but man, stop with the medium child already!
But i'm really curious to see the new procuror, can't wait for the TGS trailer
At least it was new and different!
I will still play it and probably enjoy it a lot, but man, stop with the medium child already!
But i'm really curious to see the new procuror, can't wait for the TGS trailer
machemachete
Banned
Maya should be like 30 by now, married and with a child maybe.
That surely would be veeeery interesting.
That surely would be veeeery interesting.
And we all know the father :^)
I don't see any of that happening.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
If Maya appears she will look like she's 17, no question about it.
IchigoSharingan
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Apollo
themagicalkitsune
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Not Phoenix.
Wouldn't she be in her early 20's, given that she was somewhere between 17-19 in previous Ace Attorney games?
Hours Left
Member
Soldier guy <3
She's about the same age as Ema Skye. I think she was 25 in AA4.
I think she'd be around 27.
InternHertz
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It has to be for getting Maya back in the game, it has to! I want to believe.
I came to say the exact same thing. It always feels at odds with the court stuff. It's been the weakest element of the games so far and I just don't know why they keep going back to it.
AA5 Plays about 10-11 years after AA1, so she is going to be closer to 30 than 20
MaverickHunterAsh
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Can't wait, and I'm down with the supernatural theme. I just hope it heralds Maya's long-awaited return. It makes absolutely no sense that she's almost not even mentioned in AA 4 and 5 after being one of the main characters in the first three games.
EDIT: It does seem strange that Apollo and Trucy seem to be absent, considering how they went all in on their stories in AA 4 and 5. Wonder if they're really not going to be around for this game. Athena, too... I wonder if they're just going to pretend like she didn't exist?
EDIT: It does seem strange that Apollo and Trucy seem to be absent, considering how they went all in on their stories in AA 4 and 5. Wonder if they're really not going to be around for this game. Athena, too... I wonder if they're just going to pretend like she didn't exist?
Daria Morgendorffer
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I don't mind supernatural stuff as long as the crimes aren't done by spirits or something, I mean, supernatural stuff is real in the AA universe so it being present in newer games is only (super)natural.
SatoAilDarko
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This what I want. I would love a spinoff that was just a followup to 4 without Phoenix in a playable role.
I think I should be clearer: I'm fine with those elements in AA. What I'm less fine about is the game being all about that. Those were elements in 4 and 5 for sure, but they weren't a focus like they were in AA1-3.
I don't have a problem with "super powers" in AA. I was fine with Athena's Widget conceptually (although the execution is another story).
I was fine with it for 3 games because they were the first 3 AA games. They followed a clear arc; it was the start of the series and had a clear end. I don't need to see a return to it. And, apparently, I'm definitely not alone on this.
I'm actually expecting the opposite of this. A court system which convicts based on channelling the dead guy and saying 'yo who done it?'
'Oh obviously it was my neighbour, who else would've done me in?'
'Okay! Execute the neighbour!'
Phoenix Wright has to step in and say 'OBJECTION! I have evidence that your neighbour cannot be the killer'
'OMG wow such logic much turnabout'
...something like that anyway.
So these armed guards are the only characters we haven't seen wearing Magatamas.
That's interesting. Are they perhaps occupying this spiritual community? Not from around here, the military of another nation? Is this Ace Attorney Tibet?
Not75Drops
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The thing I'm confused about is the trilogy status of 4-6. Will they really be a trilogy, or is 4 the outlier and 5-7 will become a trilogy? Maybe they're not interested in doing an overarching plot any more and they'll focus on more self-contained stories. Phoenix going to a different country for what seems like the majority of the game doesn't feel like it ties in with either AA4 or 5 and I don't know where they could take it with AA7. I guess it's too early to say though.
There's a 7 year gap between AA3 and AA4. Besides that, each main game takes place the year after the previous one.
There's a 7 year gap between AA3 and AA4. Besides that, each main game takes place the year after the previous one.
SpacePirate Ridley
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If that girl supplants older Maya as the new assistant, and all feels like Kurain Village, the game, I dont know if I will be hyped enough to play the game, at least near release. Aprt from the ending of PW3, everything about kurain and mythcal villages is meh enducing for me, they are usually the worst parts of the games.
They are also probably going to say this place is somewhere near the Tibet.
He is fed up on not finding Maya.
Lets hope, using apostrophes there is a good sign they are trying to hide her.
They are also probably going to say this place is somewhere near the Tibet.
He is fed up on not finding Maya.
Lets hope, using apostrophes there is a good sign they are trying to hide her.
pinkurocket
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Interesting setting.
Not very.. American from the looks of it. Needs more hamburgers.
Oh he travels to a foreign country. Sure.
Not very.. American from the looks of it. Needs more hamburgers.
Oh he travels to a foreign country. Sure.
Daria Morgendorffer
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What are you talking about, it looks pretty American to me 
I loved the supernatural aspects they added in with LaytonVSAA, I somehow hope that they'll keep somethins similar here (as for the multiple characters investigated during the interrogation they kept for the Great ace attorney)
Wow, this game looks way more Japanese than DGS. Also it's funny how both Ace Attorney teams seem to be taking inspiration from Layton VS Wright, since this game is set in a world without lawyers where they use magic to get verdicts. Also, there's no way Maya won't be in this.
It's hard to tell. So far, it seems like AA4 was definitely its own isolated thing and didn't really branch out into a larger narrative, which is fine. I can't think of much they could work with going from AA5 to do the same as they did with the original trilogy; the thing that stands out to me is the final boss.
But yeah, too early. I'm sure Athena and Apollo will factor into the story, even if this mainly revolves around Wright again.
Was way more interested in an expansion of the Mob Cross Examination system than the magic... I did like the spell book in PLvsPW, but AA6 would really be going off the deep end if it had an analog of that.
And guys, Maya's going to be in it. It's obvious.
I'm always up for a change of setting, so hopefully this has apparent differences from Kurain village, and maybe the Water Mirror will make up for the lack of a jury system.
I don't really like that they went the Phoenix is the best lwayer of all time thing.
A main character doesn't ened to be a superhero, what was wrong with just being a normal good lwayer? (yes I know he wins all the cases we play).
I really hope the new girl isn't the new assistant and Maya just shows up at the end or soemthing like that.
Would be such a wasted oppurtunity to not have Maya be the assistant again.
A main character doesn't ened to be a superhero, what was wrong with just being a normal good lwayer? (yes I know he wins all the cases we play).
I really hope the new girl isn't the new assistant and Maya just shows up at the end or soemthing like that.
Would be such a wasted oppurtunity to not have Maya be the assistant again.