games of ‘mind chess’ as you try and coax even more information out of particularly stubborn suspects.

By this logic, the fingerprints of the mainline Ace Attorney games are still very much intact here.

They can be exasperating in the extreme, but that’s not to say its cases are all bad.

Miles Edgeworth swings on his magenta suit jacket while walking away from the camera in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

But that’s precisely Investigations' problem.

In practice, though, they’re not just sequel gimmickry for the sake of sequel gimmickry.

A copy of Ace Attorney Investigations Collection was provided for review by Capcom.

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A silver-haired woman points their finger in a lush airplane cabin in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

A smug lawyer presents their case in front of a crumbled theme park ride in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

A young boy sneers in front of an ornate jail cell in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

The deduction menu screen in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

A lawyer is accompanied by an air hostess in a large first class cabin area in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

Three people stand in a virtual reality crime scene recreation in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.

A lawyer decides which dialogue option to make in a game of mind chess in Ace Attorney Investigations Collection.