I got it today from play-asia.com and my God it's fabulous.

Import it. For fast shipping it evens out at about 50 dollars, and all you have to do is touch the small button under the "Start Game" button on the title screen to switch the whole thing to English. It's not region encoded (like all DS games) and it's the full English version as well, even changing the "OBJECTION!" and "HOLD IT!"'s to English. No real reason to torture yourself waiting the few months it'll take to be released here.

New additions:

Psyche Lock
Some people aren't always "Lying" per se, they just "remember things differently"... For these, you undergo a "Psyche Lock" phase, where you see chains around the person, and "free their mind" so to speak by answering a series of questions they present you with. If successful, they remember things again and voila, the case makes a step forward.

Life Bar
Before, you had a series of "strikes" which you had before it was Game Over. Now, you have a Life Bar, which decreases if you fuck up, but can be refilled by completing Psyche Locks. Not that it matters entirely, as you can still save at any point, just as in the first one, to avoid game-overs near the end of a Court phase.



Unfortunately, the boring-as-hell Investigation phases are still here, though. Hopefully they'll axe them in Gyakuten Saiben 4, advertised on this piece of paper that came with 2. I believe this one is both 2 and 3 put together and ported onto the DS, and Phoenix Wright was just the first game with that long-ass DS specific case added. Most surprising about 4, however? PHOENIX ISN'T THE MAIN CHARACTER! :O



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(the beginning of the game is forgetfully hilarious)

According to his hairstyle, that new main character is going to end up being named Pheasant or something...

I got the slower shipping, so I have to wait another week for it, haw. That's ok because I'm still working away at Bully.

I actually liked the investigation parts too. But then again I like games where I can explore the hell out of an environment and talk to people a lot.

Well, I usually do, since as you know I love those old LucasArts adventure games, but the investigation parts in the Phoenix series just bored the hell out of me for some reason. Maybe it's the lack of spoken dialogue, or maybe that it just isn't funny enough (in some parts, mostly Detective Gumshoe spices things up a bit)

I've been chipping away at the last case of the first game so I can start up the second (I didn't get very far, since I wanted to finish the first, well, first) but Jeez this case is long.

It's about as long as the entire rest of the game.

Skool, if you've finished it, tell me. I just got to where Ema has confessed that she was a witness in the SL-9 incident, I disproved the "murder" in the Evidence Room to be Marshall being assaulted by Meekins, and now all that's left is Lana Skye's part...

Which seems pretty air-tight, plus the fact that Lana herself is admitting she did it isn't looking too great. In disproving the Evidence Room assault, Phoenix in essence proved Lana to be guilty. I'm sure there's going to be some crazy-ass twist coming, though.

EDIT: Oh, and there's the whole SL-9 evidence forgery thing, plus I'm certain Chief Gant is behind a lot of it.

Yeah, I finished it about a month ago.

I love Chief Gant. There's one part where he's laughing hysterically and I just couldn't help but bust out laughing. He's almost vomiting with laughter and clapping his hands, it was just too hilairous. I also love how they make you sit there and wait for him to do something. He's even weirder than Oldbag.

I think you're only about halfway through that chapter. It's really long (have you gotten to use the video evidence in trial yet?). By the time you get into Gant's office you're about 2/3 of the way through, I think. There's one or two parts to that chapter that were really difficult- finding the right bit of evidence to look at, etc. I think the trial itself is 4 days instead of 3. It has a really great ending though, really tense... some parts you have to basically guess at what to show, because there are more than one things that COULD work (depending on how you are thinking and which argument you think is the right one to object to, it's less obvious in this chapter where to object) but only one is the right one, which is frustrating. :/ You should make sure and save it often in the trial parts or you'll find yourself running out of checkmarks. There's also lots of times you think you're almost done, but you aren't.

Yeah, I did the Video evidence, and I got into Gant's office.

I know what you're saying though, I kept trying to point out the glove falling from the locker, and the fact that the cloth was stuck in Marshall's locker after he disappeared, but all I had to do was point out how the light was already on in the locker. :?


I did look at a FAQ, to see how far I am, it looks like I'm on the last day of investigation, then there's one more trial part.

Well, I finished the first one. I was getting nervous towards the end, I was actually starting to believe Ema DID do it, but Gant was still FAR too suspicious. Hell, I suspected him the first time I saw him. He's like an old man in a Scooby-Doo episode.

Yay, the second one is here!

Is it bad that I completely messed up at the first cross-examination? :S I KNOW what the contradiction is, I just can't figure which bit of evidence (there are two it could be) with which bit of testimony (there are 2 or 3) T_T

Bah, I'm going to go play Cooking Mama for a bit. She loves me.

First one: Her name is Maggey, not Maggie as was written in the sand. Present her profile at that part.


That's why is specifically tells you that you can now present Profiles as evidence.

It took me a while to find that.

I didn't even notice that. I thought it was the broken neck thing. You can't have a broken neck and then write stuff. Maybe that comes later. (I was determined to point out lots of evidence too early in the other game too, haha).


Man, I have almsot too many games now. I finished Bully up (the ending kinda fell apart, but that's Rockstar for you) and now I have PopoloCrois, Cooking Mama, and Phoenix Wright 2... plus my webcomic I'm trying to start except I can't draw for crap any more. T_T

Still have to finish Farenheit too...

make your life even more hectic! add okami to the mix, and you'll lose another 40 hours to gaming.

Oh, we're definitely going to get Okami, but we'll wait until it comes out in the UK in February. Mostly because my PS2 (US, older kind that's hard to clean) is starting to wig out when it reads some games, and I'd hate to have it sent over and then not be able to play it. The other PS2 (silver slimline, UK) will play it with no problems, it just isn't modded for multi-regions.

Also eagerly awaiting Twilight Princess, and the Zelda DS game... and Tingle RPG, if it comes out in English.

Man, you guys play a lot of games. Last video game I played was Tetris, and I bought that back in June.

Actually I play very few games, I'm just too picky about them. Plus I'm really slow at them unless it's a game I really adore, like Katamari or LocoRoco (or Bully).

Damn, that's right. You live in the UK and have to wait a while still for Okami. It's worth every bit of waiting there is for it.

I agree. I was also thinking that was the main thing... You actually never point that out in the trial, ever. :O

The next case is interesting though. Veeeery interesting.