Gyakuten Kenji Planning Document (Capcom Town Excerpts) (2023)

Title: Gyakuten Kenji Planning Document (Capcom Town Excerpts) / 逆転検事企画書
Source: Capcom Town Museums

Summary: On June 12, 2023, Capcom opened Capcom Town, a website to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the game company. On August 21, a few pages from the original planning proposal for Gyakuten Kenji (Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth) were posted in the Museum section of Capcom Town. These were the official documents for internal use to explain what the game was going to be about. In the four pages posted, we see what they wanted to bring over from the main series, but also how they tried to differentiate the game from the main series in terms of gameplay. While in other interviews, director Yamazaki has told about a time when they were contemplating making a game featuring Akane (Ema Skye), the pages shown here are from the time when they had firmly decided on using Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth) as the playable character in the planned game.

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 [SLIDE 1]
◆CONCEPT◆

 

◎A new adventure game continuing the appeal of the Gyakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) series.
The appeal of the Gyakuten Saiban series is the well-paced mystery solving and the surprising story developments. This project will take on the challenge of creating a new detective adventure game inheriting these points of appeal. The stage is not the courtroom.  We will present the players with a new tale of turnabout, with never-before handled cases and new mysteries.

◎Draw in the fans by appealing to them with the series characters!
The unique characters are also a point of appeal of the Gyakuten Saiban series. We will put the spotlight on the most popular character Mitsurugi Reiji (Miles Edgeworth), and show a side of him not seen before. Besides him, many other characters will also make an appearance to draw in the fans of Gyakuten Saiban.

[SLIDE 2]

■THE CRIME SCENE BECOMES THE STAGE FOR THE TALE OF TURNABOUT !!

 

Become the prosecutor Mitsurugi Reiji and investigate the crime scene!
Find evidence through intuitive investigation and pursue the trail of the culprit!
 

Lots of evidence is left at the scene of the crime!

[SCREENSHOT]
Switched Off Lights
Broken Window
Stolen Present
Rummaged Room
Mysterious Footprint
Broken Clock
Fingerprints on the Mirror
Flowers from Anonymous Sender
Weapon Left Behind
Dying Message

Mitsurigi: “I won’t overlook even the smallest clues.”

 

 

 [SLIDE 3]
■ CLOSE IN ON THE TRUTH THROUGH DIVERSE SITUATIONS!!

 

Follow the culprit’s footprints!
Scientific Investigation with Akane-chan (Ema Skye)
Questioning with Detective Itonoko (Dick Gumshoe)
Get Information Through Interrogation!

And there are even more situations!?

 

 [SLIDE 4]
■ EXAMINE THE SITUATION AT THE CRIME SCENE WITH THE LATEST INVESTIGATIVE TOOLS!!

 

The latest tool in criminal investigation: “INFORMATION GOGGLES” (Tentative)
Place the information/evidence you found at the crime scene and examine the scene in a visual manner! Find the hidden truth!

Even if some time has passed ⇒ By donning the goggles ⇒ You can reconstruct the scene as it was at the time of the crime!
 

[SCREENSHOT]

EMPTY
Small window: was locked.
Estimated time of death: 16:00

Can you turn the situation completely around by reconstructing the scene at the time of the crime and learning where everything was!?