Gyakuten Kenji 2 2011

Is it still worth playing?

Capcom's 2011 adventure for the Nintendo DS, released first in Japan, in which prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, detective Dick Gumshoe and the teenage thief Kay Faraday investigate five cases. In investigations you search crime scenes, talk to witnesses and combine what you observe into Edgeworth's thoughts to find hidden details. When a character refuses to testify, Mind Chess turns the interrogation into a timed game of chess. Rebuttals have you press witnesses and present evidence to expose contradictions in their testimony. Its first official English release came only in 2024, in the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, after a fan translation was finished in 2014. Combining clues and pressing witnesses in turn makes each case a chain of deductions you work out yourself, which is still a pleasure.