Since play-asia's recently announced that they won't be including their sticker set on it's release, I'm sort of down. I'd really love to have those stickers on my DS. But alas, they cease to exist.

I'm still getting it, though. The japanese version has english like the original so I'm not worried about that. If it's anything like the first game it'll be out of stock within a week, because I think the original's deemed "rare" by now. Sealed Phoenix Wright's are selling on ebay for insane prices.

Sadly, they're not selling for high prices on Ebay anymore. They only go for roughly $25, which would mean a $5 loss. I looked into it just the other day because I've got a Rhino Games nearby that tends to have one or two new copies.

I've never seen why they sold for those prices. Even before the reprint, I've always seen at least one new copy at every Gamestop I went to. I know that probably wasn't the situation everywhere, but it still never seemed as rare as people made it out to be.

Back in August, my best friend came up here to stay a couple days and to check out the town. He was interested in playing some of my new DS games, Phoenix Wright being one of them. He played the first case, and was immediately hooked wanting to get his own copy.

We went to every possible video game selling retail store within a 20 mile radius looking for the game. The most we found, and what he eventually settled on, was a used copy that had no manual or box for $24.99.

Maybe some areas simply got more of them in stock than others did. I got my copy out of complete and sheer luck, I wasn't even looking for it at the time. Not really a way to explain it I guess.

Back this summer when I was looking for my copy, I wasn't able to find a single one anywhere in the state (Minnesota). At least in any of the ones near my house. Gamespot.com also says there were none within 200 miles. I ended up getting mine from national console support. Which, by the way, still has new copies in stock so anyone who has paid a hundred dollars for this game on ebay in the last few months is an idiot.

I scored a used copy at my local Blockbuster of all places for about $24 and it was complete. Box, game, manual and even had the other useless papers. There was a new copy that stayed on the shelves a good month after the news of the discontinuation but my area is known for looking over games other than sport games.

Just preorded the Japanese version from playasia (hallelujah for the english translation). Too about the stickers, though... I was kind of looking forward to them.

The first game is one of the best I've played on the DS (although, technically, its a GBA game, right?), and if number 2 is anything like it, I won't be disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiPwIGqxhdc

Preview for number 4.. I'm extremely confused about this whole thing. So 1-3 was on GBA and they're rereleasing them on DS and at the same time, they're releasing a new number 4 for DS as well? Anyone know if 4 will have English on the Japanese version as well?

1-3 were released on GBA. 1 and soon 2 will be re-released with enhanced sound and touch-interface for the DS. 1-3 are coming/already(?) out to Jap mobile phones. 4 is a completely new arc featuring brand new protagonists, coming to the DS in Japan only, period. Got it memorised? :P

Well the fourth one is Japan-only. For now.

All I know is, Phoenix Wright 2 is coming at the end of the month (in japan) in english. You'd be insane not to buy it.

Actually, I've already preordered it. Unfortunately it doesn't come with stickers, but eh, it's the game I really want after all.

I saw gameplay footage of this awesome game on Cinematech: Nocturnal Emissions. It looked awesome! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

Except......what was up with the judge????? O_O

Mine shipped from NCSX today, can't wait!

I almost forgot about this game since I had it pre-ordered so long ago. It should be coming by the end of the week I believe.

There will be much rejoicing and many hours spent solving evil cases.

I've been playing this and found it to be just as good as the original. Except can somebody tell that bitch van Karma to put her whip away? Thanks.

What's interesting is that not only English text is in this game, but ENGLISH VOICE ACTING. HOLY SHIT.

(Sadly, von Karma sounds like a sissy. Capcom screwed up that VA.)

I'm pretty sure the Japanese Version of the First for NDS also had a language selection.

We could only assume if Capcom of Japan brings the Third to the DS it'll have a selection made for English. Probably would still keep it on Japanese regardless of text anywho. T_T

It's more than just English text. There's two interesting aspects:

1) English voice acting.
2) If you play in one language, the save only works for that language. So you play the English version for a while and wanna switch to Japanese, you have to start from the beginning.


I'm through Episode 2 and it's harder than the original IMO. The 2nd episode definately throws a few really fantastic loops in there. Though while the psyche locks throw an interesting twist to the game, you can't completely fail while going through that portion of the game, you just lose more life.

Which is exactly the same as the japanese original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jns2Dlv9S9w

Clearly the best Phoenix Wright promo video ever..

Meanwhile, I've been playing the sequel for a while now, and is it just me or do the new court room songs sound a lot more gameboy advance-ish than the previous game? I'm glad they threw in some of the old tunes when familiar faces showed up.

I finally finished the game.

Case 4 is HARDER THAN ALL PRIOR CASES IN BOTH GAMES COMBINED. OH MY GOD. *pulls hair out*

That case was one major fucking headache. Great story, but damn what a pain in the ass.

I liked the final part of the final case.



This case was so freakishly long and there were moments where a wrong accusation was instantaneous death.

At least it had the best story, in my opinion.

Man, I was fully expecting an encore case, much like in the first game, but there wasn't one. Now I feel let down and desperate for more cases..

For those of you interested in supporting the US release that may or may not already have the import best price release, US pre-orders have begun.

$29.99 at Gamestop/EB, current pre-order bonus as of right now is only the finger point stylus, see images in below links to see a small shot of it.

http://www.gamestop.com/search.asp?N...=0&find=Search
http://www.ebgames.com/search.asp?Nt...=0&find=Search

The stylus will ship with the game for online orders, and you'll receive it with the game for in-store orders.

Isn't that similar (if not exactly the same) to the one you got with the first game if you preordered it from Capcom's website? It's cool either way though, since I never got that one.

I believe it is the same one, and I never got one either so this is a good opportunity for anyone that doesn't have one to get one.

It will be interesting to see if Capcom will up the ante on the pre-order bonuses at all following what Konami did with the Castlevania DS release. I doubt it, but it'd be cool nonetheless.