Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Miles Edgeworth - Prosecutor's Path

***Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Miles Edgeworth - Prosecutor's Path***, is a 2011 visual novel game and is on the list of games that will eventually be played on ***Butt Spectrum Club***. Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Miles Edgeworth - Prosecutor's Path is the sixth game in the ***Ace Attorney Series***, followed ***Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth***, and was followed up by ***Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies***.

## Game Info

Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Miles Edgeworth - Prosecutor's Path is a 2011 visual novel game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS, Android, and iOS only in Japan.

Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Miles Edgeworth - Prosecutor's Path is an adventure game in which players control prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, who investigates five cases; in one of the cases, the player also controls Edgeworth's father Gregory. The gameplay is mostly the same as in the previous game, *Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth*, and is divided into two types of phases: investigations and rebuttals.

During the investigations, the player controls Edgeworth directly; they search the crime scene for evidence, and talk to witnesses to learn new information. As the player investigates, observed information is saved as Edgeworth's thoughts; by combining these, the player can obtain further information that would otherwise remain hidden. At some points, the player can use a device called "Little Thief" to generate hologram reproductions of the crime scene using known information about it; the player can walk around in the recreations and point out inconsistencies with the evidence, and update the recreation accordingly. Sometimes the player is able to switch back and forth between recreations of the crime scene at two different times.

A new gameplay mechanic, "logic chess", is used during investigations when a character refuses to testify. The player interrogates them, which is visualized as a game of chess, with the player aiming to destroy the other character's chess pieces. To do this, they need to build up their advantage in the discussion by alternating between speaking and listening; when the player believes they have the advantage, they can choose to go on the offensive. The logic chess sections are timed, with the player having to make decisions before the timer bar has decreased all the way. The player takes damage if they make wrong choices, and the logic chess opponents get more difficult throughout the game.

After obtaining sufficient information and evidence from the investigation, the player confronts other characters and reads through their testimonies of the events in the case. The player can choose to press the character for more information on their statements, aiming to discover contradictions between the testimony and the evidence; if they find one, they can choose to present collected evidence from the investigations to point out the contradiction.

## Plot

The first episode, "Turnabout Target", opens with an assassination attempt on Zheng Fa president Teikun Ō; he survives, but he later finds his head bodyguard, Gai Tojiro, dead. Asked by the Chief Prosecutor to investigate, and in the process getting involved with the infamous assassin Shelly de Killer, Edgeworth discovers that Tojiro's second-in-command Manosuke Naitō had killed Tojiro to replace him as the head bodyguard and that the assassination attempt was staged by the president to reverse his declining popularity.

In the second episode, "The Imprisoned Turnabout", Naitō is found dead in prison. Naitō's friend Sōta Sarushiro is suspected of murder, but Edgeworth's attempt to investigate is stymied when Judge Mikagami assigns prosecutor Yumihiko to the case in Edgeworth's place. To investigate, Edgeworth teams up with Shigaraki. They suspect several inmates, including the assassin Ryōken Hōinbō, but it turns out that prison warden Marī Miwa killed Naitō, believing that Hōinbō had sent him to kill her. Sarushiro is freed, but Mikagami warns Edgeworth that he could lose his prosecutor's badge if he keeps investigating cases he is not assigned to.

The third episode, "The Inherited Turnabout", takes up events eighteen years before the present, where Gregory and Shigaraki are called to defend Issei Tenkai from the charge of murdering fellow chef Isaku Hyōdō. Because the body has disappeared, Gregory and prosecutor Manfred von Karma cannot make much progress, but von Karma coerces Tenkai into falsely confessing to being an accomplice. This leads to Gregory accusing von Karma of forging evidence, resulting in his murder the infamous DL-6 Incident. In the present, chef Yutaka Kazami is almost killed in an art gallery run by Tenkai's assistant Tsukasa Oyashiki. Yumihiko is assigned to prosecute under Mikagami's direction, but Edgeworth still investigates. He concludes that Oyashiki attempted to kill Kazami as a trap to reveal the real culprit; Oyashiki admits her guilt but accuses Kazami of being Hyōdō's murderer. Mistakenly believing that the statute of the limitations for the crime has expired, Kazami admits to murdering Hyōdō, who he had conspired with to cheat in a cooking contest, but had then been betrayed by. Kazami and Oyashiki are jailed, and Tenkai is freed.

In the fourth episode, "The Forgotten Turnabout", an amnesic Kay is accused of murdering defense attorney Tsubasa Kagome. Edgeworth is brought up before the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, which threatens to take his badge if he becomes involved with Kay's case; Edgeworth voluntarily gives up his badge and continues to investigate with help from prosecutor Franziska von Karma. He discovers that someone has been auctioning off evidence from legal cases, and finds a recording indicating that Kagome's murderer had a burn mark on their chin. When Edgeworth is called to defend himself against the committee, Mikagami reveals Bansai Ichiyanagi, the head of the investigation committee and Yumihiko's father, as the auctioneer and the one responsible for legal corruption in his former position as chief prosecutor. Yumihiko then thoughtlessly mentions that Bansai has a burn mark on his chin, identifying him as Kagome's murderer. Kay then remembers being attacked by someone and Shelly de Killer reveals the concept of a mastermind to Edgeworth and Kay.

In the fifth episode, "The Grand Turnabout", president Teikun Ō is found dead, and Bansai attempts to rig Miwa's trial in her favor by manipulating Mikagami through the kidnapping of her adopted son, Shimon Aizawa. Edgeworth prevents this and investigates the murder, learning that Teikun Ō has been dead for twelve years: the person previously thought to be the president was a body double, who had hired Hōinbō to kill the president to take his place, and was helped by Miwa and Bansai to cover up the crime. Sarushiro is revealed to be Kazami's long lost son; as a child, he was abducted by Hyōdō to prevent Kazami from winning the cooking contest. Hyōdō forced his son, Naito, to dispose of Sarushiro, hence why Sarushiro had Naito killed. Hōinbō found Sarushiro and brought him to an orphanage; Sarushiro later saw Hōinbō kill Teikun Ō on behalf of the body double, Miwa and Bansai. They betrayed Hōinbō, but Sarushiro helped him escape; he later enacted his revenge on them, manipulating them into killing Naitō and Kagome and killing the body double. In addition, he was the one who attacked and framed Kay to ensure that Edgeworth got involved and exposed Bansai. Sarushiro is imprisoned afterwards, and Edgeworth regains his position as a prosecutor.