Can’t wait for Ace Attorney Miles Edgeworth to make his move to the Ds in February? That’s fine because we have a treat for your super sleuths. You can solve the first case of this fun crime scene adventure game in the newly released demo right here at GDN.

Ace Attorney is moving from the courtroom and onto the crime scene in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.   From Capcom’s critically acclaimed franchise Ace Attorney, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth returns to the Nintendo DS on February 16, 2010.

In Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth players take on the role of famed prosecutor Miles Edgeworth to actively investigate crime scenes in order to pursue the truth behind each case. By solving the challenging puzzles, players will work with the police to bring criminals to justice.

Until the release date rolls around, feel free to take on this first case:

Ace Attorney Miles Edgeworth Demo

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth takes the Ace Attorney series from the courtroom to the crime scene, leaving the legal battle behind.  

This time around, players take on the role of famed prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, a memorable rival of charismatic legal eagle Phoenix Wright. Edgeworth actively investigates crime scenes in search of the truth behind each case. By solving the challenging puzzles presented to him, Edgeworth will work with the police to bring criminals to justice.

Users will be able to directly control the character’s movement on the scene with the arrow key or touch screen and freely investigate the crime scenes. If, during the course of an investigation, users find contradictions, they will be able to obtain new information by presenting decisive evidence. In some cases, users will identify clues and conduct examinations of material witnesses. On these occasions, users will have to uncover the truth behind the crimes using collected information, the evidence, and logic.  

Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is composed of a number of episodes. In the first episode, an argument in Edgeworth’s office results in a mysterious murder. Edgeworth, coming back from a one-month business trip, enters his office and encounters the body of the man who was shot.

In the second episode, Edgeworth’s plane journey takes a nasty turn when he wakes up after being knocked out during heavy turbulence. Shaken by the flashback of nightmarish past memories, he opens the onboard elevator’s door to find a male corpse. At this very moment a cabin attendant witnesses the scene and Edgeworth is made a suspect of murder.

In these and further episodes, Miles Edgeworth will have to confront suspects and get to the bottom of his cases by collecting information and evidence through detective work between key locations. Also, in the ’Logic’ mode that symbolizes Edgeworth’s logical inferences, users can discover new information and evidence by combining two pieces of information out of the collected pieces. The real culprit that will be revealed through investigations and witnesses will be confronted in a ‘battle’ similarly fought (Testimony – Pursuit – Press – Confront) to that of the ‘Court Battle’ in the Ace Attorney series (Testimony – Cross Examination) to expose the contradictions.

Features :

• Starring Miles Edgeworth, the popular rival of attorney Phoenix Wright
• Gameplay moves out of the courtroom and onto the crime scene
• New investigative style using the Nintendo DS stylus to uncover evidence
• Several unique cases to solve with over 15 hours of gameplay
• New technique, such as “logic” mode assists you in uncovering the crime
• Unique dialog trees and interrogation techniques let you question witnesses to discover the truth

The game is set to release February 16, 2010