Courtesy of Joystiq, a rumor sprang up a few days ago regarding the newest game in the Ace Attorney series, starring our favorite prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth.
The spin-off includes features never seen in the series. The point-and-click series will be modified to fit the DS specs better than Apollo Justice did, with enhanced graphics and... movement?
Yes, it appears that Edgeworth can actually walk around the scenes, bringing a "3D-ness" to some of the beloved characters.
According to Weekly Game Journal, the game will be called Gyakuten Saiban: Perfect Prosecutor, at least in Japan. I can only imagine how Americans would pronounce that.
I won't strain your eyes, here are some zoom-ups of the Famitsu issue:
This month's issue of Nintendo Power split the stitches on the next Trauma Center title, making its rounds back to the DS for more touch screen surgery. Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 is the first true sequel in the series, and utilizes the "upgraded" features of the tools as seen in the Wii games with the familiarity of the original portable version.
The sequel begins with the struggles of the aftermath of GUILT. Being the fourth game in the series now, it can be assumed that Atlus has learned its lesson in barraging stay-at-home doctors with "save the world from an epidemic" archetypes, but the launch site of the game seems to say otherwise:
"A legendary doctor has come to Zakara, one of the many refugee camps. In these harsh lands that are ill equipped for providing medical care, he will find hope in new allies. However, a deadly disease thought to have been eradicated once again looms on the horizon..."
Considering it is a sequel, the devastated country is in Africa, I would venture a guess that this deadly disease is called something like, let's say, GUILT? Or at least the possibility exists that this disease is associated with GUILT, like a "degenerate son" of sorts. With a mohawk. This game is just getting better and better!
Included in the launch site are character profiles, with only two (Derek and Angie) currently available. Since the pictures are only lightly shaded, it is pretty easy to spot quite a few familiar faces alongside some fresh ones.
Below is the trailer for the game. Note that there is another 'broken bone' operation included in the flashing montage, which makes me curious about the controls during certain operations. Without multitouch capabilities (which could be well used here,) will we see the d-pad used to rotate bone fragments, or a "click to move, click to rotate" type of control scheme here?
The game is currently slated for release stateside on July 1, 2008.
