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Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations #4
Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations 4
AN OGRE'S REVENGE
Stranded in the middle of the mountains, Gumshoe and Edgeworth spend the night in a nearby hotel. The employees believe an ogre has been set free by a recent fire, and is terrorizing the guests! Is the hotel really a host for the occult, or is this just a novel scheme? Edgeworth, along with Gumshoe and Candy Holly, must uncover the truth before the entire hotel falls into ruin!
FINAL VOLUME!
Stranded in the middle of the mountains, Gumshoe and Edgeworth spend the night in a nearby hotel. The employees believe an ogre has been set free by a recent fire, and is terrorizing the guests! Is the hotel really a host for the occult, or is this just a novel scheme? Edgeworth, along with Gumshoe and Candy Holly, must uncover the truth before the entire hotel falls into ruin!
FINAL VOLUME!
208 pages, Paperback
First published February 4, 2011
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December 10, 2015
This review is for the series as a whole. As a video game tie in, it was pretty good. Edgeworth and Gumshoe are both in character, and the general trajectory of the mysteries is basically what you would expect to find in Ace Attorney Investigations. The art is pretty good, though Edgeworth is slightly off model, just enough that it will be noticed by the sort of person who's likely to read an Ace Attorney Investigations spin off comic. The mysteries are pretty good, but more on the level of the second or maybe third case in an Ace Attorney game. Fans of Ace Attorney and especially Edgeworth will like this, probably quite a bit. And it's highly unlikely that anybody else would read this.
May 14, 2026
As a reward (?) for making it to the end of the Ace Attorney Investigations manga, here's a volume that's brand-new to me! Yes, somehow I completely neglected to read or review this back in 2013, thus leaving the series frustratingly incomplete. I wish I could say it contained a pair of hidden gems just waiting to be uncovered, but it was at least nice to have a couple of mysteries where I didn't already know the solution for a change!
While this was a significant step down from the Phoenix Wright manga for me, I don't think Kenji Kuroda deserves all the blame. After all, the first AAI game is also kind of bad, if I'm being completely honest! It all comes down to Miles Edgeworth being an awkward fit for the protagonist role, a decision that almost certainly out of Kuroda's hands. Without someone like Phoenix around to puncture his calm and collected demeanor when necessary, Edgey-boy just gets to be a hyper-competent professional who's never in any danger of not getting the job done. And where's the fun in that? I want to see him sweat!
Turnabout! The Secret of the Ogres
In which Edgeworth and Gumshoe spend the night at a hotel plagued by unexplained fires, ogre (oni) sightings... and murder. Sadly, the oni stuff fell a bit flat for me; it's more effective when your monster actually does stuff the reader can't explain, rather than, um, just standing there. It doesn't help that the locked room (building?) situation utilizes a gimmick that's very similar to a previous story in the AAI manga. Sure, it's a clever idea, but they really should've picked one or the other.
And surely we can't have a supernaturally tinged mystery without the return of Candy Holly! What's that you say? You don't remember Candy Holly? Well, that's because her name was previously translated as "Russi Clover" in the Phoenix Wright manga! But the sense of confusion isn't entirely the translators' fault, as the plot hinges on her and Edgeworth recognizing each other from her previous two appearances. The problem? Both of those cases were prosecuted by Franziska von Karma, with Edgeworth nowhere to be found!
The Turnabout Clinic
Time to wrap things up (that's a bandage pun, folks) with one more locked room for the road! But maybe that was one locked room too many for Kuroda, as he's resorted to one of the oldest, most basic tricks in the book. It's the sort of thing that comes to mind every time I encounter a locked room in fiction, only to dismiss it because, frankly, it's too basic. So basic, in fact, that I've seen comedians do this very thing to accomplish tasks from another room on Taskmaster (admittedly with a bit less finesse, but still)!
Also, the running gag about Detective Gumshoe's constant pay cuts sure becomes a lot less funny when you've got a medical professional saying he's malnourished because he literally can't afford food, doesn't it? Waitaminute.... is this why he's not in any of the Apollo Justice-era games???
While this was a significant step down from the Phoenix Wright manga for me, I don't think Kenji Kuroda deserves all the blame. After all, the first AAI game is also kind of bad, if I'm being completely honest! It all comes down to Miles Edgeworth being an awkward fit for the protagonist role, a decision that almost certainly out of Kuroda's hands. Without someone like Phoenix around to puncture his calm and collected demeanor when necessary, Edgey-boy just gets to be a hyper-competent professional who's never in any danger of not getting the job done. And where's the fun in that? I want to see him sweat!
Turnabout! The Secret of the Ogres
In which Edgeworth and Gumshoe spend the night at a hotel plagued by unexplained fires, ogre (oni) sightings... and murder. Sadly, the oni stuff fell a bit flat for me; it's more effective when your monster actually does stuff the reader can't explain, rather than, um, just standing there. It doesn't help that the locked room (building?) situation utilizes a gimmick that's very similar to a previous story in the AAI manga. Sure, it's a clever idea, but they really should've picked one or the other.
And surely we can't have a supernaturally tinged mystery without the return of Candy Holly! What's that you say? You don't remember Candy Holly? Well, that's because her name was previously translated as "Russi Clover" in the Phoenix Wright manga! But the sense of confusion isn't entirely the translators' fault, as the plot hinges on her and Edgeworth recognizing each other from her previous two appearances. The problem? Both of those cases were prosecuted by Franziska von Karma, with Edgeworth nowhere to be found!
The Turnabout Clinic
Time to wrap things up (that's a bandage pun, folks) with one more locked room for the road! But maybe that was one locked room too many for Kuroda, as he's resorted to one of the oldest, most basic tricks in the book. It's the sort of thing that comes to mind every time I encounter a locked room in fiction, only to dismiss it because, frankly, it's too basic. So basic, in fact, that I've seen comedians do this very thing to accomplish tasks from another room on Taskmaster (admittedly with a bit less finesse, but still)!
Also, the running gag about Detective Gumshoe's constant pay cuts sure becomes a lot less funny when you've got a medical professional saying he's malnourished because he literally can't afford food, doesn't it? Waitaminute.... is this why he's not in any of the Apollo Justice-era games???
October 22, 2019
The thing with the hotel fires on different floors was too confusing! Also, they really need to get that elevator updated, and replace the fire stairs.
June 1, 2025
miles "painfully and obviously uninterested in women" edgeworth strikes again!!
January 26, 2026
rate: 1.25/5 stars
sad, but this was boring as hell :(
sad, but this was boring as hell :(
June 11, 2026
What a lack luster finally
May 25, 2015
Although this book is rated Teen I should warn those who consider buying this book for younger readers should know this book series has multiple cases and thus far everyone of them involves murder (as is common in the games too.) So by all means check out the book for yourself first and make your best judgment on this book. I for one find the antics of the various characters in the series more than enough draws attention from the more serious tones of the book save for the fact each story involves solving a murder.
The final book in the series once again treats us to 2 cases contained in the one volume with the first case dominating the book at about 3/4 of its width and offering us a much simpler case to wrap up the series. With all of the games associated with the Phoenix Wright licence we have seen many interesting characters and have seen the truth pulled out from the darkness thanks to the protagonist whether it be Phoenix himself or Edgeworth who is sorta like a modern Sherlock Holmes. If you have read all of the books up to now I hope you enjoy and are not upset by the final book. I for one am looking forward to the next Phoenix Wright thing to hit the shelves to revisit some of our favorite characters. :)
In the first case Edgeworth and Detective Gumshoe are stranded when the detective's patrol car breaks down and they discover a hotel named "Ogre's Axe Hotel" which has an old history steeped in superstition and recent fire damage. There is a supposed suicide from the building but the facts don't add up and Edgeworth decided to investigate. This story also brings back the character Candy Holly who has appeared multiple times in the Phoenix Wright manga and is an occult otaku looking forward to seeing a real ogre and gets a job at the hotel for any chance to see the mystical monster. Look forward to the answers as Edgeworth shows us all why he deserves more games with him as the protagonist.
In the final case Edgeworth and Gumshoe caught a cold and are making their way to a clinic the detective heard of but find the place is far more dilapidated then they thought it might be. It turns out the Doctor on call is a very nice man who was being taken advantage of by a scam artist who claimed he made his injury worse and not better. As always it seems there has to be a lawyer of some type to be around when a murder occurs in the fine city the Phoenix Wright gang lives in because as Edgeworth and Gumshoe were waiting a horrible scream echoes out and everyone discovers the scammer dead of poison. The room he was murdered in had only one way in by means of a security card and it was discovered in the room after Detective Gumshoe bashed the door in meaning whoever poisoned the coffee somehow escaped even though the windows have bars in them and they locked the door after the murder so no one could save the swindler in time. Although a shorter case this was still a fine example of investigation as Edgeworth goes for the truth and unveils the true culprit easily enough.
My favorite part of this book has to be when Edgeworth explains all the details as to how the murder occurs. There were several details we were lead to in the story that made it seem like there was a real Ogre prowling the hotel but unswayed by the supernatural Edgeworth saw past the illusions and discovered the real truth. :)
The final book in the series once again treats us to 2 cases contained in the one volume with the first case dominating the book at about 3/4 of its width and offering us a much simpler case to wrap up the series. With all of the games associated with the Phoenix Wright licence we have seen many interesting characters and have seen the truth pulled out from the darkness thanks to the protagonist whether it be Phoenix himself or Edgeworth who is sorta like a modern Sherlock Holmes. If you have read all of the books up to now I hope you enjoy and are not upset by the final book. I for one am looking forward to the next Phoenix Wright thing to hit the shelves to revisit some of our favorite characters. :)
In the first case Edgeworth and Detective Gumshoe are stranded when the detective's patrol car breaks down and they discover a hotel named "Ogre's Axe Hotel" which has an old history steeped in superstition and recent fire damage. There is a supposed suicide from the building but the facts don't add up and Edgeworth decided to investigate. This story also brings back the character Candy Holly who has appeared multiple times in the Phoenix Wright manga and is an occult otaku looking forward to seeing a real ogre and gets a job at the hotel for any chance to see the mystical monster. Look forward to the answers as Edgeworth shows us all why he deserves more games with him as the protagonist.
In the final case Edgeworth and Gumshoe caught a cold and are making their way to a clinic the detective heard of but find the place is far more dilapidated then they thought it might be. It turns out the Doctor on call is a very nice man who was being taken advantage of by a scam artist who claimed he made his injury worse and not better. As always it seems there has to be a lawyer of some type to be around when a murder occurs in the fine city the Phoenix Wright gang lives in because as Edgeworth and Gumshoe were waiting a horrible scream echoes out and everyone discovers the scammer dead of poison. The room he was murdered in had only one way in by means of a security card and it was discovered in the room after Detective Gumshoe bashed the door in meaning whoever poisoned the coffee somehow escaped even though the windows have bars in them and they locked the door after the murder so no one could save the swindler in time. Although a shorter case this was still a fine example of investigation as Edgeworth goes for the truth and unveils the true culprit easily enough.
My favorite part of this book has to be when Edgeworth explains all the details as to how the murder occurs. There were several details we were lead to in the story that made it seem like there was a real Ogre prowling the hotel but unswayed by the supernatural Edgeworth saw past the illusions and discovered the real truth. :)
September 28, 2013
Ah, if the Goodreads description is correct, I'm sad that this is the last Ace Attorney Investigations volume :( This book was another fun-to-read set of two self-contained mysteries. The first mystery takes up about 2/3 of the book, being split into two parts, with the last 1/3 being a shorter mystery. I enjoyed both, though I do wish the first hadn't been quite so long (I was already figuring things out long before the story brought them up). At least if this is the last volume, it ended well, especially for fans of the relationship between Gumshoe and Edgeworth :3
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February 23, 2026
It's already the last one.... It was a good one I love to see how Miles works with Gumshoe.
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