Drink Tea With Miles Edgeworth's Ace Attorney

John Funk

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Drink Tea With Miles Edgeworth's Ace Attorney



If you're a die-hard Ace Attorney fan who either: is Japanese, speaks Japanese, or just really likes limited edition collectables, the Gyakuten Kenji collectors' edition might be just up your alley.

If you've never played Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games for the Nintendo DS, you really ought to. Sure, they're pretty much standard adventure games, but the courtroom sections are a nice twist. Plus, they're brilliantly written and localized, and the moment you piece together how a crime actually went down is a rather nice payoff.

While the Phoenix Wright trilogy (and its successor, Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice) puts gamers into the shoes of a defense attorney who seeks to protect the innocent from being falsely accused of crimes, that isn't the only sort of courtroom story to tell. Hence Gyakuten Kenji, the upcoming game starring Phoenix Wright's cravat-wearing rival/best friend/partner, Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth (the title roughly translates to "Turnabout Prosecutor," based off of the series' Japanese title, Gyakuten Saiban - "Turnabout Court.")

But where's the fun in playing as Edgeworth trying to nail down the scum of humanity if you don't get to share the man's foppish, Victorian-esque fashion style? That's where the Gyakuten Kenji teacups [http://www.e-capcom.com/gyakutenkenji/]. Really, really, uh... fey-looking teacups, no less.

Now you too can pretend to be an elegant and experienced prosecutor, daintily drinking tea out of your girly pink-and-white teacups while berating your clumsy-but-well-meaning detective sidekick for screwing up, dodging the furious lashes from your hot-tempered, whip-wielding foster sister and angsting over your calling in life and what it really means to be a prosecutor. It's everybody's dream, right?

...well, it's my dream, anyway.

Don't judge me.

(Kotaku [http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2009/04/14/ace_attorney_limited_edition__japan])

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thenumberthirteen

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Wow. I hereby challenge the community to find me a piece of official game merchandise stranger than this. Extra points if it's not Japanese.
 

Chishandfips

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thenumberthirteen said:
Wow. I hereby challenge the community to find me a piece of official game merchandise stranger than this. Extra points if it's not Japanese.
1. Resident Evil 4's chainsaw-shaped controller.
http://www.amazon.com/Playstation-Resident-Evil-Chainsaw-Controller-2/dp/B000A6Q9W2/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1239830369&sr=1-11

2. Gears of War 2's Limited Edition coming with an actual-size Lancer replica.
http://www.amazon.com/Gears-Amazon-com-Exclusive-Lancer-Xbox-360/dp/B001CLYL24

Not sure if these would count as strange per se, but they're certainly unorthodox!
 

Barky13

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Lets kick some ass Miles Style... with tea cups! (Insert manly roaring here).
 

Onyx Oblivion

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DO WANT

I also suddenly wish that I liked tea...You can drink strawberry milk out of tea cups, right?
 

GloatingSwine

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Pity you don't also get a big shirt.

Edgeworth wouldn't be the same without big shirts.

Really, really, uh... fey-looking teacups, no less.
What's Maya go to do with this?