Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
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| Japanese Name | 逆転裁判 4 Gyakuten Saiban 4 |
| Genre | Visual novel |
| Developer | Capcom |
| Release | *April 12, 2007 (Japan)
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| Number of players | 1 |
| Media | 32 MB + 32KB EEPROM |
| Rating | -
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney is the fourth game in the Ace Attorney series. It features a new protagonist, Apollo Justice. It is the first game to be specifically built from the ground up for the Nintendo DS. (The previous titles were originally Game Boy Advance games.)
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[edit] New gameplay elements
This game features the bracelet, which has the ability to "zoom in on witnesses to gather information regarding them". This is denoted as the perceive function in the game. The bracelet is used in court to spot actions made by the witness that show nervousness. Apollo Justice shouts "Gotcha!" once the player spots such an action.
[edit] Demo
A demo was briefly downloadable from a Nintendo Wii to a Nintendo DS using the Wii's Nintendo Channel or playable from a website. The demo covers a short section of Turnabout Trump (specifically Phoenix's cross examination segment). When the player progresses beyond the content in the demo (after the player first successfully presents evidence), Apollo strains his vocal cords from yelling and loses his voice. After this point the demo ends with Apollo being assured that it was only a mock trial, and the player being told to buy the full game to solve the mystery.
[edit] Main characters
- Apollo Justice is the protagonist. He has been described as having "a passionate heart burning red".
- Kristoph Gavin is Justice's mentor in the first episode.
- Phoenix Wright is Justice's mentor after the first episode.
- Trucy Wright is Justice's assistant and Wright's adopted daughter.
- Klavier Gavin is a prosecutor who faces off against Justice in the latter three episodes. He is also the lead singer of his own rock band, the Gavinners. He became a prosecutor at 17, and unlike his predecessors, he is honest and friendly when first introduced.
- Ema Skye returns as the detective in charge of the latter three cases in the game. She is Apollo Justice's main contact in the police department. She is much moodier and less friendly than she was in Rise from the Ashes, disappointed that she was not assigned to the forensics department, but the prospect of conducting a forensic investigation excites her just as it did in her younger days. She plays a similar role to Dick Gumshoe from the first three Ace Attorney games.
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[edit] Reception
After release in Japan, Gyakuten Saiban 4 has been highly praised, with Famitsu giving it a 9/9/9/9 score (36/40), and selling around 250,000 copies during the first retail week, according to Media-Create. Six weeks after its release, Capcom announced that they had shipped 500,000 copies, accounting for 25% of the series' two million units worldwide.
