Capcom on the return of Phoenix Wright

http://media.edge-online.com/wp-cont...ht-610x343.jpgTo mark the release of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies in Japan (where it is called Gyakuten Saiban 5), Capcom held a special launch tombola at branches of Bic Camera in Tokyo and Yodobashi Camera in Osaka, where fans could win prizes as they picked up their copies of the game. It also announced its DLC plans.Japanese game news site 4Gamer.net attended the Tokyo event and took producer Motohide Eshiro and scenario director Takeshi Yamazaki aside for an interview. “I’m so happy I could buy a copy myself!” joked Eshiro. “As a game creator, there’s nothing better than being able to directly see the fans come to pick up the game.”“I’ve never done an event on launch day before, but whenever a game (I’ve worked on) comes out I go to the shop and watch the sales floor from behind going, ‘Please buy it! Please buy it!’” laughed Yamazaki. “And I arrange the games on the shelf so they catch the eye better.”A long-awaited return for hardy litigator Phoenix Wright, Dual Destinies was made playable at Tokyo Game Show in September, 10 months before the game’s release on 25 July. It is due in Europe and North America this autumn as a digital-only release.Eshiro explained that he had actually thought the game would take even longer to be released. “Because the platform changed to 3DS this time, there was a lot of time spent on research,” he said. “Especially with the graphics, how to give them that 2D feel in 3D. And the story is everything in an Ace Attorney game, so Yamazaki had to really knead the scenario into shape. So the production took a long time, but I wanted to make sure the game came out before the summer holidays. 3DS is a portable system, and lots of people take their handheld with them for Obon (a Japanese festival where families gather in their hometown to honour the dead). So I was like, ‘Get ahead of schedule. But don’t compromise the content!’”

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