Not only is Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies the first Ace Attorney game for the Nintendo 3DS; the game is the first in the series to be given an “M” rating by the ESRB. Based on the newly released trailer for the game, which you can watch above, the upcoming game contains violence, blood, suggestive themes and language, all of which may be considered unsuitable for people under 17 years of age, according to the ESRB. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is scheduled for release in the fall.
This is a FIRST
You clever, clever boy
Pretty weird for the series
3DS isn’t fucking around. It will M rate shit. Fuck the soccer moms.
“Not only is Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies the first Ace Attorney game for the Nintendo 3DS; the game is the first in the series to be given an “M” rating by the ESRB. ”
Uh oh.
This is not good by any means.
Wow I wonder why they did that
You look like an idiot.
So
And you Are an idiot and rather shallow imo. We are discussing here the game and not looks of Avatars.
He can say what he wants. He just sounds like another hater who has nothing else better to do.
You see, the stupid thing about this is, I don’t hate you. I merely think you look like an Idiot in your previous picture. I don’t see how the word hate, or “hater” as you’ve put it applies to what I’ve said at all.
Well, thanks for that. In the future you should probably stray from starting sentences with the word ‘And.’ You should also check that run-on as well, not a good idea to leave things like that laying around for an idiot like me to correct you on.
And you look like a Pokemon
You know something, I really do don’t I? It never occurred to me. HOLY SHIT, MIND BLOW.
I get the feeling that it’s going to be more of the bloody cases similar to the previous games, but the 3D graphics are upping the violence rating.
Hugs anyone?
Huh. That was unexpected.
Wasn’t this old news? The first trailer featured a “Mature Audiences” disclaimer at the start. No? But this is a risky move, I wonder how it will affect the sales. Besides, the game isn’t even on retail, unless that is changed. It’s very weird…it’s like they want this game to fail, even though it looks excellent.
I don’t recall that in the trailer, but I don’t think it’s a risky move or anything for one very specific reason. The company that makes the game doesn’t decide the ESRB rating. It’s all ESRB that does the rating system. As far as I can tell, nothing’s any more or less mature than before and in the previous games anything suggestive was hardly so and the most language there was was ‘damn’ and that was rarely said. That said, Ocarina of Time is filled with violence and certainly has blood and only got an E10+ (also had ‘suggestive themes’ somehow).
Ocarina didn’t have corpse laying around with blood all over the place. The only blood is when you kill Canon. But could you imagine a M rated Zelda?
thats not true. in original ocarina of time in “the bottom of the well” theres blood on the floor, skeletons, redeads, and a creature named Dead Hand who has blood spots all over it..same with the Shadow Temple
The ESRB hasn’t had any credibility for years now. They often give games ratings they don’t deserve. Why is the barely Violent Halo rated M? Why is Smash Bros. Brawl rated T?
Wario and Zero Suit Samus. Nuff said.
Ocarina of Time DEFINITELY had suggestive themes. Don’t you remember the Great Fairies? They looked like they “wanted” Link, SO BAD! :3
Good…
Really? Now i’m curious as to why?
Maybe some of the cases are on sensitive material. I’m not saying there will be a rape case….but it sounds probable…
Seriously? I agree with some old EGM articles that the ESRB system is broken. Halo, Call of Duty, Thief, etc. should not be M-rated but rather T-rated or something invented in between. What kind of content is in this version to make it M-rated compared to past entries?
Probably blood. You are right, they should reinvent the ratings. Times are changing and society isn’t as sensitive.
halo makes me laugh!!! its fucking legos with alien guns and shit!!!! it should be rated e10!!!!
…..what? Legos?
you get the picture.
No, i don’t
you have to know i wasnt completely serious???? i was just basically stating how much bullshit it is for halo to be rated m, there is no reason, its the most non violent shooting game pretty much ever.
Legos? Yeah no.
http://soupytrumpet.com/uploads/2008/03/lego_halo.jpg
ESRB must be rating Halo based on the awful language said during online battles. Or else Microsoft personally asked ESRB to rate it M-Mature because they only want “Mature” people to play it…. ironic, I know. :3
There was blood in all the other games in the series and those were T Rated.
Probably he meant excessive gore, like being shot in the head or decapitation.
You don’t think Halo should be rated M? I’ve never played the series so I’m not sure.
It’s fine right where it’s at. The ways that some of the characters are killed (getting stabbed through the chest with a sword or getting blown to bits by a grenade) and plus some of the characters are pretty creepy (The Flood, for example).
Nothing you don’t see in T-rated games though.
Well Halo isn’t M rated anyway is it? I wouldn’t know, we have the PEGI or BBFC system which rates things by age, and Halo’s always been 15/16.
It’s one of the most mild M-rated series I have ever played. No profanity, nothing sexual, no gore, barely any blood. The only thing they really have on Halo is violence and it’s not realistic or even as serious as some T-rated games.
Halo’s one of the few games I think the ESRB messes up with the ratings system. But I honestly think that Microsoft probably pays them to do that. Notice how M-rated games sell better than many other titles? All the kids want to feel “cool” playing a M-rated game.
There are Teen games that are worse than Halo games. I would say Halo 4 was the closest to anything M-rated, but still barely.
Well companies can ask for what rating they want their game to be. Obviously they can’t have a rated M game be brought down to E-Everyone, but I am sure if they wanted their game to be bumped up from T-Teen to M-Mature than that is quite possible. Think about it. Halo is meant for “mature” gamers. Why would they want “teens” to buy it?
Eh, to be honest, rating systems are 95% right on games. It’s not just blood and violence, it’s how they handle it.
In many games you can hit people with bats or pipes and it comes off a okay, not too violent, but in something like GTA, or The Last of Us, they got full on and beat the shit out of them, so even though the games are doing the same thing, its the context and how it’s portrayed that dictate the rating.
Call of Duty and Thief can retain M ratings. Halo on the other hand, I have seen T-rated games 10x worse.
I agree, I never got why Halo was rated M. No gore, no harsh language, nothing sexual, and no drugs.
Same. I assume it’s a psychological marketing ploy, honestly. M-rated games tend to be more popular on the Xbox.
Multiplayer……
is this because phoenix right finally gets caught fucking the judges daughter????
For goodness sake Pheonix, keep it in your pants till after the game is finished!
Did Phoenix die :'(????
Yes he does. Spoiler alert.
Now do an Ace Attorney for Wii U and make it a game like LA Noire :P
No. Leave LA Noire to be LA Noire, and Ace Attorney to be Ace Attorney!
Lol I was kidding
looks like many nintendrones will skip this game…
What if it’s the other way around?…
And why not a big N?…
As if I care about the ratings of the games I play, I just care about the game itself.
I absolutely can’t wait, even though i still have to finish miles edgeworth investigations, but it doesn’t appeal to me as much as ace attorney
It’s a game where you have to deal with crimes. Blood and violence is just the reality you have to deal with, so I dont see why it should get an M rating….
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regardless of Rating, this is gonna be a kickflank game…
One simply cannot wait to get this title!
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Violence, Blood, Suggestive Themes and Language…… Pretty sure that still qualifies for T, but whatever……
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It’s just another ploy by Capcom. Not only do they refuse to make the game physical, but they are adding an M rating just to get fans NOT to buy the digital version because if fans don’t buy a lot of copies of the games, Capcom won’t bring any certain AA games to the west due to “lack of sales”
Let me know what you think of my theory.
highly doubt it. they don’t have any control over the ratings. they just send it to esrb, and they rate it. it’s even been given a higher rating everywhere else in the world, including japan, so I highly doubt it. This was probably just a coincidence.
anyone find the series extremely challenging? Im playing justice for all and am barely on the 2 chapter >.> plus you cant skip text so when u “die” you have to restart the chapter and listen to the same exact dialogue again and present the evidence again and press people again seems very very unnecessarily tedious…
Who really cares about ratings. I went to game stop today and saw a 5 year old getting gta 5.
I agree that it’s probably just the more realistic looking blood and maybe greater amounts of blood. ESBR mostly cares about blood and curse words, but barely about the plot. For example Vandal hearts (an old psx game) got a mature rating just because there was a fountain of blood whenever someone was defeated. Then there is the Xenosaga series which got away with teen ratings just because most of the blood was censored and I seriously doubt there will be anything in Dual Destinies, that’s as traumatizing as watching a guy decapatiate himself with his bare hands onscreen, dropping the head and stomping it into a bloody puddle.
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