Ace Attorney 6: website renewal, videos, screenshots

10 February 2016 Lite_Agent Capcom, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice

This week, Ace Attorney 6 is showcased in the latest issue of Famitsu with a 4-page article introducing the new rival prosecutor (Nayuta Saadmahdi), and some of the gameplay systems. And today, the renewal of the official website went live, with some extra details (nothing really new), but also some artworks, and some animations for the various characters!

Characters

First, we have artworks for the various characters revealed so far:

Phoenix Wright (Lawyer)
Apollo Justice (Lawyer)
Athena Cykes (Lawyer)
Nayuta Saadmadhi (Prosecutor)
Gaspen Payne (Prosecutor)
Leyfa Padma Kurain (Oracle of Spirits) [click here for more details]
Bokuto Tsuani (client) [click here for more details]

There’s also some animations: you will find those below!

Story

Gameplay systems

This section has quite a bit of details/pics, but nothing really new… especially for fans of the Ace Attorney series. First, here’s the game flow of your typical case:

a murder happens
the person who will become your client gets arrested
you go investigate in order to gather evidence to use in court
you defend your client in court using the evidence found during the investigation part, and by questioning witnesses
the previous two points repeat until you get a not-guilty verdict (usually, only once)

Here’s how the investigation parts go: you go to the crime scene in order to investigate. Of course, there’s various locations to take a look at, and you can examine various points of interest in order to get clues, evidence, or simply some interesting/funny dialogue. On the crime scene proper, you look around, in order to find clues and evidence. Just like in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, you can look at the crime scene at different angles.

You can also talk to people you meet during the investigation: they may be witnesses, simple passer-bys, or more… You will generally get some useful info from them (about the case, the place where the crime took place, the people involved, what happened elsewhere when the crime took place, and more).

Of course, you can also present evidence to those people, in order to get some reactions. Most of the time, it will not have any notable effect, but if you present the right evidence to the right person, you will get some precious details and/or evidence. Also, fans of the series know pretty well that the first thing a lawyer should do when meeting a new person is ~~shoving~~ showing your attorney badge ~~in their face~~!

And as mentioned previously, you’re now free to go wherever you want during investigation parts again.

Next, the court parts. Your goal is to get a not-guilty verdict for your client. To do that, you listen to the testimonies of various witnesses, and try to find contradictions. To do so, you have to listen carefully, and check frequently the evidence in the Court Records.

One you’ve found a contradiction, you can press for more details, or raise an objection by presenting evidence. However, you have to be careful: if you present evidence carelessly, you will get penalised. After too many penalties, you will get a Game Over, and your client will be found guilty.

Finally, we get a look at two gameplay systems for the court parts:

Medium Vision
Mood Matrix, which works just like in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies. During certain sections, you will be able to use the Mood Matrix to find contradictions in witnesses’ testimonies. Basically, while you listen to their testimony, you look at the Mood Matrix and point out any strange behaviour (such as a witness being overly happy, when they should be sad). By finding the source of that “emotional contradiction”, you will get one step closer to the truth.