In an interview with Siliconera, the producer of the upcoming Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, Motohide Eshiro, provided some interesting information about the game. He talks about how they came up with the idea to create a spin-off that differs from the other games. He also comments on how Ema Skye was proposed as the game's protagonist; however, they chose Edgeworth due to his popularity with the fans. Read on to find out more about the game.

Ace Attorney Investigations stars Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright’s rival and occasional ally, on the field instead of in court.

During our interview with Motohide Eshiro, Producer of Ace Attorney Investigations, we asked him how the project got started and why changed the gameplay rather than making the obvious spin off where players try courtroom battles as Edgeworth.

Why did you want to make a spin-off of Ace Attorney?

Motohide Eshiro, Producer: I was also the producer of Trial and Tribulations and while making that I thought wouldn’t it be fun if we could make another game using the characters from the original series. That’s how Ace Attorney Investigations started.

I heard that Ema Skye was originally supposed to be the protagonist. How come you changed the lead character to Edgeworth?

The director originally proposed to use Ema as the main character, but according to the feedback we got from our fans it seems Edgeworth was the more popular character. So we decided to listen to the fans and use the more popular character.

What other character would you want to do a spin off with?

Personally, I really like Edgeworth, but if we were to make another series why not make a game with Gumshoe? We can have Ace Detective!

The gameplay is quite different, why did you change the Ace Attorney formula so much for Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth?

The Ace Attorney series puts players in court so there is a narrow focus of gameplay. We could have simply added a few things, but it wouldn’t have been very interesting. We decided to move it out of the court room and into the crime scene to add a whole bunch of new elements. This time you control Edgeworth directly, you can investigate the scene, and walk around.

McClubbin via siliconera.com »