Bad news, law fans. According to fansite
Court Records (via
Cubed3) the latest in the
Phoenix Wright series,
Trials and Tribulations, may never see its much anticipated European release.
How did
Court Records come to this verdict? Elementary. If you go to Nintendo's European Ace Attorney
mini-site, there are no links to
Trials and Tribulations. Thus the case is presented.
But what about the motive? As ever, the real culprit is money. In the considered opinion of the plaintiff (
Court Records),
Trials and Tribulations was unable to secure a 12+ PEGI rating, and thus it was deemed a doomed venture by Nintendo and Capcom. Too few people legally old enough to buy it will have any interest in the shenanigans of a hot-headed parvenu.
All of this is conjecture, of course. Neither Nintendo nor Capcom have announced that
Trials and Tribulations will not be released in Europe, and while the case is supported by the absence of the game from pre-order on either
Amazon or
Play, the evidence is still circumstantial.
Still, should these suspicions prove to be well-founded, it will be a crime indeed.
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I feared the euro release was doomed as soon as I realised Apollo Justice was scheduled this spring. EAs marketing will have considered both titles competing for the same money in the same period. It is of course entirely their own fault for delaying Trials and Tribulations, and the denial of release indicates that they are a company that doesn't understand the games they are selling!
The speculation that the third installment didn't manage a PEG12+ rating is interesting (do you have an item in your inventory which supports this?), as reviewers claim it to be the darkest of the series. I will just have to wait for my ebay purchase to arrive from Hong Kong. I'm not going to play Apollo justice until I have finished the Phoenix story. Enough waiting for Godot!
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