http://www.capcom.co.jp/gyakutenkenji/2/goods.html

Did they... curve Miles' nose in that picture? D=

But Miles isn't supposed to be a pretty boy like the Gavin brothers. He has squinty eyes and a wide nose. And Miles has always had a rounder face than, say, Phoenix. What's with the PERFECTLY CHISELED JAW now? Why are they making him a pretty boy? It takes away so much of what made his design interesting.

I am going to go sulk now. V_V

And GK2 Demo will come in December!

I just wanted to say, thanks again for always keeping us up to date with all the news from Japan, JapaneseGirl.

...I...I didn't even notice...
*goes to scrutinize older official art of Edgeworth in order to understand and to be able to keep calling myself an Edgey fan*
I guess it's true that his design is evolving. I'm not good at recognizing the subtle details that change, but I know that I never thought of Edgeworth as a bishie, and I am kind of getting bishie vibes from the GK2 art.
I can't say I personally dislike the "new" design, but I can understand your concern. It's crazy if they think they have to change anything in order to better sell Edgeworth as the main character, because there was never anything wrong or unmarketable about the awesomeness that is/was Edgeworth.

I just wanted to say, thanks again for always keeping us up to date with all the news from Japan, JapaneseGirl.

...Yup, I better dye my hair white and draw some wrinkles into my forehead to prepare!

Don't do that! People get prettier with age, not more worn looking, apparently! Just ask Miles!

Granted the whole cast has gotten updated through the years as the art style has changed. But even so, Edgeworth has always retained his squinty eyes and wider nose, and is the roundest faced of the boys' trio (with Phoenix having the strongest jawline and Larry being the pointiest in design).

It simply irritates me that he has to be made "prettier" now that he's the protagonist. On the contrary, I think he looks more interesting the way he was. If anything, I think there was really something intriguing about the fact that everyone seemed to think Edgeworth was so "hot" while he had the less masculine and heroic features compared to Phoenix, and less fine features compared to Klavier.

Why must the desirable characters all have the same exact fine features?

It's funny, but when I first saw Edgeworth in PW1, I thought he was too pretty. I mean, not girly pretty but I'd considered him to be just another soft-featured guy that all the girls were going to fawn over because he was so soft-featured.

...You know, it's weird.
While I am definitely looking forward to playing GK2, I have this strange feeling that upon finishing it I'm going to be that "old geezer" Ace Attorney fan who sits in the corner of Court Records and tells the young'uns long-lost tales of the good old days, back when we walked uphill to school both ways in the snow and before we had our fancy gimmick 3DS contraptions and before Kay Faraday existed in lore, back when Ace Attorney was just a trilogy starring a young attorney and his group of lovable friends . You know, before the series went down into the gutter and was corrupted by the "new generation" and all its gizmos and whatzits replacing a solid, edge-of-your-seat narrative.

...Yup, I better dye my hair white and draw some wrinkles into my forehead to prepare!

I just wanted to say, thanks again for always keeping us up to date with all the news from Japan, JapaneseGirl.

...I'm just sick and tired of Capcom's approach of "let's introduce a new game with all these brand new supporting characters you couldn't care less about!"

...When meanwhile I'm like "All I want to do is spend some quality time with , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . Can't we just stop the stupid investigations and go out for a nice day at the beach with our good friends?"

But for some reason the vast majority of the supporting characters who come back are the really annoying ones, and Phoenix never gets to hang out with all his buddies, Edgeworth never bothers to call him or anything, and instead we're distracted with even more Oldbag or maybe Meekins or Lotta or fifty new characters who really aren't anything special and just drive me up the wwwwaaaaallll.

I'm glad that's not Lotta's new design, at least. But if it's just her replacement, then it's just annoying in a different way. =/

A replacement for Lotta? How would this work? I don't see that Lotta is fitting any specific role.
You mean that girl could be the new "witness who appears in more than one case"?

A large version of the box art:



I wonder who fedora man is? Miles and the judge lady look great, I love their artwork.

I mean fulfilling Lotta's role as the series' main source for pictures. We already have Lotta and Brushel as journalists, and neither one of them is exactly attractive. So are they replacing them with a prettier, more gimmicky journalist character instead?

As for what Preserverance was saying, I can understand the frustration with all these new characters that feel like nothing more than gimmicks, when we have a wonderful cast waiting in limbo. Of course new characters are necessary, but AAI's supporting cast felt pretty surface compared to what we've gotten in the past. Meanwhile, everyone from AJ is left hanging, as well as several from the original trilogy.

Whoa! Edgeworth actually looks a ton manlier than any of his prior depictions and I now find myself inexplicably attracted to his manly-good looks. Stupid sexy box art!

You guys don't make any sense. If you don't like the game just say it, you don't need a specific reason to not like things.
But this fake reasoning is weird.

Less of a generic bishie like the Gavins. =(

I don't see it. Edgeworth's eyes are narrower and he has a much more serious grimace than Klavier or Daryan.

I don't think it's fake reasoning to say that the cast of AAI feels more shallow and gimmicky to us compared to the casts of past games? 0_o

You don't have to agree with our assessment of the AAI characters, of course, but it isn't fake reasoning just because you disagree. ^^;

Exactly! He's always had the squintier eyes, the short and wider nose, the rounder face. Phoenix even has more of a "pretty" design than Edgeworth.

But they've made Edgeworth's face prettier in this box art than he was before. The thinner and longer nose, the chiseled jaw, his eyes are still narrow but they've lessened the lines he used to have around his eyes and made them appear less squinted, now instead his eyes look sharp.

It is fake reasoning to blame Capcom for introducing new characters (I know you didn't say this).
And calling the new characters gimmicky, when there were a lot of gimmicky characters in the old games also feels fake to me. Just say you don't like the new characters. I really have no problem with that.
Although I really doubt AAI would be better if we only had old characters...
To me it feels some people here just don't want any change at all and are biased against any new characters.

Are you sure you're not hallucinating?
He looks just the same as on the AAI or JFA boxart.

Whoa! Edgeworth actually looks a ton manlier than any of his prior depictions and I now find myself inexplicably attracted to his manly-good looks. Stupid sexy box art!

Maybe it's the angle at which he's posing, accentuating his facial appearances? As far as I know, we've never seen an out-of-game shot of Edgeworth facing the player. His sharper looks could be attributed to that.