We did it. We solved the DL-6 Incident and the murder at Gourd Lake, proving without a shadow of a doubt that Miles Edgeworth was innocent in both cases. With that, we’ve beaten the first game in the Phoenix Wright trilogy.
Wait… Then why is there another case!? And what the heck is scientific investigation!?
Welp. Guess we better get busy.
As I mentioned before, this is a unique case in the original Phoenix Wright trilogy. Though it canonically takes place two months after the first game, before Justice For All, it was developed after the complete trilogy was finished for the Game Boy Advance.
It wasn’t until the Nintendo DS game out that the series would get localized here in the West, and when it did they added this case as DLC. Even without knowing that, there’s a stark difference between this and the first three cases that even a layman like myself was able to identify.
Immediately, in the very first sequence before the case formally begins, seeing 3D animation for the first time in a game that has always used 2D sprites caught me completely off guard. In addition, since the developers had access to DS hardware for this case, gimmicks like rotating and manipulating evidence, that simply weren’t possible on a GBA, become a focal point for our investigative gameplay here.
Other distinctions separate Rise From the Ashes from the rest of the cases in this game, but we’ll come to those later. For now, we can focus on the new investigation tools and cast.
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