Phoenix Wright | |
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Phoenix Wright in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 6 | |
Japanese name | Naruhodo Ryuichi |
Age | PW:AA: 24 PW:JFA: 25 PW:T&T: 26 (21 in flashback case) AJ:AA: 33 (26 in flashback case) PW:AA-DD: 34 |
Occupation | Defense Attorney, Pianist, Card Player |
Maya Fey | |
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First game | Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2001) |
Created by | Shu Takumi |
Designed by | Tatsurō Iwamoto |
Portrayed by | Mirei Kiritani (film) Reno Nakamura (stage plays) |
Age | 17-28 |
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Height | 5'1" (154 cm) / 5'2" (159 cm) |
Birthplace | Kurain Village |
Occupation | Spirit medium/Phoenix Wright's assistant |
Family | Misty Fey: mother Mia Fey: sister Morgan Fey: aunt Pearl Fey: younger cousin Dahlia Hawthorne: cousin. Iris Hawthorne: cousin |
Larry Butz | |
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Japanese name | Yahari Masashi |
Age | PW:AA: 23 PW:T&T: 25 AAI:ME: 25 |
Occupation | Stall Vendor, Security Guard, Artist's Apprentice, Steel Samurai |
In the sixth game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, Phoenix travels to the Kingdom of Khura'in, where he reunites with Maya Fey, and discovers that defense attorneys are reviled throughout the kingdom, having a reputation of abiding criminals.
For the video game, see Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. For the series, see Ace Attorney. Phoenix " Nick " Wright, known as Ryūichi Naruhodō ( Japanese: 成歩堂 龍一, Hepburn: Naruhodō Ryūichi) in the original Japanese language versions, is a fictional defense attorney in Capcom 's Ace Attorney video game series. Phoenix is featured as the protagonist in ...
After clearing his name, Phoenix retakes the bar exam, regaining his badge and once again becoming a defense attorney. He also retains Apollo Justice as a protégé, and takes newcomer Athena Cykes under his wing as the newest junior attorney for the Wright Anything Agency.
Phoenix Wright's signature mannerisms, such as finger-pointing and cries of "Objection!", have become well-known, and were parodied in episodes of anime such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, No Game No Life and Maria Holic.
Ace Attorney video games. In the first game, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Phoenix must contend with the loss of his mentor and fellow defense attorney Mia Fey. Throughout the game, Phoenix is hired to defend various people of murder, including his friend Larry Butz and Mia's younger sister Maya Fey.
While a college student at Ivy University, Phoenix is accused of murder and successfully defended by a defense attorney named Mia Fey, who finds the true culprit to be Phoenix's apparent girlfriend and Mia's first cousin, Dahlia Hawthorne. After passing the bar exam, Phoenix becomes a defense attorney himself under Mia's law firm, Fey & Co. Following Mia's murder, Phoenix takes over the law firm, naming it Wright and Co., and also takes Mia's sister, a spirit medium named Maya, under his wing. Maya becomes Phoenix's assistant and legal aide, assisting him by setting him up with clients, and by searching for information and clues during cases. As the years pass, Phoenix takes on several cases to prove the innocence of those wrongly accused of murder, developing a name and reputation for himself. He also helps out Maya with the well-being of her younger cousin, Pearl, after her mother's arrest. However, in one case, he inadvertently presents forged evidence to the court, not knowing it was forged until it was too late, and is forced to turn in his attorney's badge. Adopting a young girl named Trucy Enigmar as his daughter, Phoenix sets up the Wright Talent Agency, turning to playing piano and poker games for a source of income.
Early brainstorming suggestions for Phoenix's name included "Cole" and "Wilton", but "Phoenix" was chosen as a name that would "stand out". The nickname "Nick" (used by his partner, Maya Fey) was chosen based on its believability and similarity to the sound of "Phoenix".
For the purposes of this article, I have looked over each major Ace Attorney game and spinoff. Every game has its own details on when events take place, allowing them to be described on a case-by-case basis. If simply going through the games according to when they (mostly) take place, this would be the best order to go about it.
Trying to follow the games as they happen can be a little more than challenging, as you can see. Part of why the series is structured like this is to fill in some gaps, set up interesting plot threads, and provide simple tutorials that still allow fan-favorite characters to show up.
After Phoenix Wright was disbarred for unknowingly presenting forged evidence, he adopted Trucy , who re-established the offices as the Wright Talent Agency and supported herself and Wright using her talents as a professional magician. Wright became a pianist at the Borscht Bowl Club, but was a terrible player.
However, his real purpose at the restaurant was as an undefeated poker player in its basement. The agency was renamed as the Wright Anything Agency when the agency took up law again with Wright hiring Apollo Justice as the agency's lawyer. At this point, only Mia Fey's law books and her plant Charley gave any hint as to the agency's original purpose.
During her career as a defense attorney, Mia Fey established a small law firm called Fey & Co. Law Offices. In these offices, she stored records of her investigations of Redd White, among other files. Fey also bought an old model PC, but she only used it for e-mail and nothing else. According to Phoenix Wright, who became employed as a trainee there, the firm made "a good bit of money" despite its size. In 2016, Mia Fey was murdered, and when Mia's sister Maya Fey stood trial for the murder, Wright took her case and cleared the charges against Maya and then himself. Wright then assumed control of the offices by Mia Fey's wishes, and the firm became known as "Wright & Co . Law Offices".
The Wright Anything Agency is a law office and talent agency specializing in criminal law located near People Park in Los Angeles, with the nearest medical facility being the Hickfield Clinic. The office consists of renowned defense attorney Phoenix Wright, teenage magician Trucy Wright, and rookie defense attorney Athena Cykes .
However, his real purpose at the restaurant was as an undefeated poker player in its basement. The agency was renamed as the Wright Anything Agency when the agency took up law again with Wright hiring Apollo Justice as the agency's lawyer.
A year later, once Phoenix regained his attorney's badge, he recruited Athena Cykes, forming a formidable trio of lawyers. However, the team would be broken up the following year, when Justice left the agency in order to stay in the Kingdom of Khura'in and run his own law office .
Shu Takumi wrote Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney almost entirely by himself, with the team pitching in at points during the game's development, and claimed that a main focus of the game was to create a linear story with a single ending that made the player feel as though they were solving the mystery themselves. In writing the game's cases, Takumi would write each episode's scenario first, and then create the game's characters around the circumstances and context of the case. In an interview with Nintendo Power Magazine in 2014, Takumi even claimed that he barely wrote any of Phoenix's backstory before writing the game itself, instead making the character's personality up as he went along. In this way, Takumi viewed Phoenix as a sort of 'self-insert,' writing the character in response to how he would react to the situations in the game.
An element of the Ace Attorney series that has come to define it over the years in western territories is the series' now iconic localization. Since the game was developed primarily by a small team of seven, the localization was likewise handled by an outsourced team by the name of Browne Global. This team included Alexander O. Smith, leader of the localization efforts, whose first task was to translate the characters' pun-heavy Japanese names into English in a way that respected the source material.
One inspiration for the events of the game came from an experience Takumi encountered as a child in second grade. When Takumi was younger, he got in trouble with his teacher after being accused by a student in another class of stealing a five yen coin left in a makeshift piggy bank in the schoolyard. After apologizing multiple times to the student he didn't know, and explaining to her that it had been a misunderstanding, Takumi later realized that the piggy bank had been left in the schoolyard as a prank, and that the student had intended to pass the blame onto another younger student the whole time. Realizing this, Takumi claimed he wished somebody had been around to defend him, inspiring the flashback scene that depitcts a young Phoenix at the center of a "class trial" in which he is defended by Miles Edgeworth and Larry Butz.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations is a visual novel adventure video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 4 and published by Capcom. It was originally released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 in Japan, and has since been released for several platforms, including a Nintendo DS version that was released in 2007 in Japan and North America and in 2008 in Europe. It is the third game in the Ace Attorney series, following Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney(2…
Trials and Tribulations is a visual novel adventure game in which the player takes the roles of Phoenix Wright and Mia Fey, defense attorneys who defend their clients in five different episodes. The gameplay remains unchanged from Justice for All, the previous title in the series.
From the start, only one episode is available to play; when the player completes an episode, a new one is unlocked. The episodes are divided into chapters, which consist of investigations and cou…
Similar to previous games, Trials and Tribulations focuses on the careers of defense attorneys Phoenix Wright and Mia Fey. Other featured characters include Maya Fey, Mia's sister and a spirit medium who acts as Phoenix's secretary and assistant, and her young cousin Pearl Fey. After Mia was killed during the events of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; Phoenix took over her law practice. Nevertheless, he regularly consults with her on cases by having either Maya or Pearl channel he…
Trials and Tribulations was written and directed by Shu Takumi, with art by Tatsuro Iwamoto and music by Noriyuki Iwadare. After development of the original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was finished, Takumi's boss, Shinji Mikami, told him that they should make an Ace Attorney trilogy, with a grand finale in the third game's last case. As Takumi wanted the three first Ace Attorney games t…
The game was originally released for the Game Boy Advance on January 23, 2004 in Japan; a Windows version followed on March 31, 2006, also in Japan. A Nintendo DS version was released on August 23, 2007 in Japan, on October 23, 2007 in North America, and on October 3, 2008 in Europe. It was released for the Wii via WiiWare on February 23, 2010 in Japan, on May 10, 2010 in North America, and on May 21, 2010 in Europe.
Trials and Tribulations has received generally favorable reviews for the Nintendo DS, holding a score of 81/100 based on 45 reviews at the review aggregator Metacritic; meanwhile, the Wii version holds a Metacritic score of 67/100 based on 9 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews. The North American Nintendo DS release was a success, with pre-orders more than double of Capcom's estimates, resulting in a shortage of it at both retailers and at Capcom's ow…
• Official website (in Japanese)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations at The Visual Novel Database