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Forums - Nintendo - Is Level-5 Making a New Ace Attorney?

darthdevidem01 on 24 September 2010
Cactus said:
Buzzi said:
Cactus said:

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.

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noname2200 on 26 September 2010
Cactus said:

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'."

Admittedly, the ending to Apollo Justice means that any future games will be radically different than the rest of the series.  Still, that may not necessarily be a bad thing (note:  I love the Ace Attorney series, but I don't want it to get stale).



Cactus on 29 September 2010
noname2200 said:
Cactus said:

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'."

Admittedly, the ending to Apollo Justice means that any future games will be radically different than the rest of the series.  Still, that may not necessarily be a bad thing (note:  I love the Ace Attorney series, but I don't want it to get stale).

I agree with you. If they do go back to the main series, I wonder if they'll continue on from Apollo, or backtrack? It would probably be very difficult to attempt the former, which probably explains why Takumi saw AJ as the finale and the spinoffs are all prequels, but I think that it should be a direction that they explore.