'Great Ace Attorney' hype grows with demo date
A preview slice of the next entry to Capcom's "Ace Attorney" franchise is on the way soon.
Region locking practices mean that only Japanese variants of the Nintendo 3DS or 2DS consoles will be able to access the demo, which helps introduce the game's transition from modern day to late 19th century Japan and England.
The full game is due in July, with Sherlock Holmes coming alongside Ryunosuke Naruhodo, ancestor of series protagonist Phoenix Wright.
New to the mystery adventure franchise is an investigatory method being called "joint reasoning," in which the player, as Ryunosuke, must critique flash theories proposed by Holmes, reinterpreting evidence in order to come up with more credible hypotheses.
With eight releases since 2001, the popular series sold over 5 million units in its first nine years of availability; spin-offs have included a musical and even a film directed by Takeshi Miike of "Zatoichi" and "13 Assassins."
Capcom made the announcement during a weekend event in Tokyo, as surfaced by SiliconEra. It delivered a July 9 release date for "The Great Ace Attorney," as well as June 18 and July 23 Japanese console debuts for action game "Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition" and ahistorical battlefield reconstruction "Sengoku Basara 4" respectively.
