In an interview with NGamer magazine, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom producer Ryota Niitsuma revealed that everyone's favorite defense attorney, Phoenix Wright, had been planned as a playable character in the crossover fighting game. Unfortunately, the team found difficulty in creating a moveset for Wright, due to his limited arsenal of combat techniques:
...because Phoenix Wright only has one move, 'Objection!', we struggled. We designed a move for him: when he says objection, the actual writing attacks the opponent. However, 'objection' in Japanese is 'igiari' -- it's four characters, whereas 'objection' becomes ten. When we localise, the balance of the game gets destroyed because the move becomes bigger. There'd be no way of avoiding it! We had to remove him for these reasons. In the future, it is one of our aims to get him in.
So, there's still hope that we may see Phoenix crop up in the future. What would be really awesome is if they decided to just make him a character unique to the North American release of the game. Only having him available in one special version of the game, the one that I will be buying and playing on my Wii, seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to me.
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1:00 PM on 08.15.2009
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Godot for obvious reasons and Gant because he's Zeus.
That's such a dumb idea. Why didn't they just make "Objection!" a special move that, by putting the opponent under stress, slowly drains their health until they land another hit on Phoenix.
Then "Hold It!" could have frozen the enemy in place for a short time.
"Take that!" could have just been a physical attack from his oversized finger.
Capcom saying Phoenix Wright only has one attack makes think a lot less of them. He would have been a great character.
Here's to hoping someone steals my ideas here and puts him in the NA version.
And come on, Nintendo made an entire moveset for Captain Falcon for Super Smash Bros. It doesn't have to make sense! Though I've heard a lot of people say he should use evidence from previous cases as weapons/etc. =P
And yes, using his verbal attacks as DPS moves would rock the flippin' house. Maybe the player has to quickly input a fireball motion to call Edgeworth or Franziska? :D
I pretty sure half the people buying the game are weaboos (hopefully no one gets ofended)....
Not to mention his art style would fit so well with the rest of the characters :D.
He Better be in the US release or in TvC 2.
He would have been much cooler than Axel or that guy from Onimusha dawn of dreams
see? *holds thumbs that the images will actually be shown in comment*
If they made Jill Valentine a character 10 years ago, someone had to be able to make a cool skill set for Pheeny...
You could have just kept this to yourself, Conrad Zimmerman; we didn't need to know.
If we're going to get a character that's only been in one other game before, I figure that it will be a character from a series that Capcom is hoping will become a new series for them, and not necessarily on the Wii. The Dark Void guy, Frank West, that sort of thing.
Personally, I know that no matter who they pick, there will be at least five other characters that I'll have wished they also used. I wont be really happy if and when TvC2 hits.
Now I smell BS behind this reasoning. Were they gonna make him the joke character and backed out because of possible alienation of Phoenix to the fans?
But come on a Super Objection Attack would rock especially if like people said earlier it could get overruled and such.
Man with all this talk he better be in number 2 which better happen
I mean, look at what HAL/Nintendo did with Captain Falcon in Super Smash Brothers. They had to extrapolate a lot for his moveset. Surely the same can be done for Phoenix!
too stupid-cool.
Also. Supposing we get Ace Attorney Characters. I demand The Amazing Mr Hat, Apollo, or Klavier as well as Franziska for consideration. >.>
O shi... I completely forgot about how awesome the Power Stone series was! They should totally do that!
-Shouts "Hold It!". If timed correctly, the speech balloon stops the opponent's attack.
-Shouts "Take That!" and pulls a random piece of evidence, which he throws at the opponent.
-Slams the ground with his hands, just like he does with his desk
-Swings his briefcase at the opponent.
-Pulls a paper from his briefcase and throws it at the opponent.
-Hits the opponent with the "The Thinker" clock statue.
-Attacks with Steel's Samurai spear
Hyper combos:
-Gumshoe, Edgeworth, Larry Butz, Maya Fey, Ema Skye, and Cody Hackins run into the opponent.
-Wright shouts "Objection!", and a giant version of the judge's hammer falls above the opponent.