Posted Sep 25, 2010 at 02:14, By Anoop Gantayat

A mysterious Tweet from Level-5's Jiro Ishii:

"Huh? Oh, Gyakuten XX. I'm making it, with Mr. Takumi!"

This was in response to Square Enix's Jin Fujisawa. Ishii and Fujisawa had apparently been dining the night before.

The "Mr. Takumi" is presumably Shu Takumi, director and story writer for the Ace Attorney games.

The Ace Attorney series is known in Japanese as "Gyakuten XX." Gyakuten Saiban is the Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright line. Gyakuten Kenji is the more recent Ace Attorney Investigations line.

Gyakuten Kenji 2 was announced just prior to the Tokyo Game Show. Capcom has not made an actual Gyakuten Saiban game in a while, causing many fans to wonder when we'll be getting a new one.

Ishii is relatively new at Level-5, having left Chunsoft after completing work on the critically acclaimed 428 to work on Time Travelers, a game about which we've head nothing since its April announcement.

Given the brevity of Ishii's Tweet, it's possible that there's some sort of misunderstanding going on here, or Ishii could be just joking around.

But then again, Capcom's Keiji Inafune did recently say that he and Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino were teaming up in some capacity.

Art from Gyakuten Saiban's WiiWare version.

In separate Shu Takumi news, Platinum Games' Hideki Kamiya, maker of such titles as Bayonetta, Okami and Viewtiful Joe recently said via Twitter that Takumi is his favorite game designer.

[Seen at Hachimaki]

hmmmmm

I dunno I really LOVE the Phoenix Wright games as they are, the team that makes them is great.

But Level 5's semi-similar franchise professor Layton is also very good

Combining the two in some ways.......could be interesting.

*crosses fingers*

This could be very awesome, or very bad. Here is hoping for very awesome.

That'd be cool.  Hope it's more like the first three than Apollo Justice.

Please don't make it happen. Phoenix Wright games are perfect as they are! Level 5 is the SH I love most after Nintendo, but I don't want to take the risk. Instead, Capcom please announce an AA game for the 3DS!!

The further Inafune is from this the more awesome it'll be

Takumi recently said that fan demand has made him rethink whether he should take the Gyakuten Saiban series out of retirement (the Kenji games are spinoffs with no Takumi involement). If collaberating with L5 means a new main-series game that otherwise would not have happened, then I'm all for it.

Things are going from bad to worse...really, did he say this? Hell no! It's obvious the series is selling less, AJ was awful compared to the PW trilogy (still a very good game) and the Investigation series isn't that great if you ask me...plus, they didn't localize it in Europe, so many people didn't bought it.

Yes, Takumi did say it.

"It's a hard question to answer. For me, Ace Attorney ended with the fourth game. I think everything I wanted to do and everything that should have been done in the series was done with the last installment. With Ghost Trick, I've had the chance to speak directly with the series' fans, at E3, in Japan, outside of Japan... even now [at iDÉAME] I'm listening to a lot of people telling me they want a fifth game. Direct contact with fans is making me stop and think... I really felt that I had ended the series, and I'm loving what I'm doing now with Ghost Trick, and I want to go this way. So, I'm debating myself between do options: what should I do? Because I want to go on with this, I don't want to go back, but people want it, meaning that doing it could be a good thing... this is a moment when I can't say 'I'm going to do a fifth game' nor 'I'm not going to do it'."

http://forums.court-records.net/trial-minutes/the-controversial-takumi-interview-complete-t19710.html

I agree with you about Investigations though. I really thought it was a step below the rest of the series, including AJ.