Phoenix Wright Returns to 3DS in Ace Attorney 5

Your favourite defense attorney is taking the stand once more as Phoenix Wright has been confirmed to star in Ace Attorney 5.

Japanese magazine Famitsu has posted details on the new game - a 3DS point and click adventure with fully rendered 3D characters and some form of facial expression mechanic. The series took a slight detour with Miles Edgeworth getting his own pair of games, and Phoenix himself stepping back for Apollo Justice, but the prickly haired attorney is finally taking the lead once again.

Set one year after Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice, we see Wright returning to being a lawyer. There's an explosion at the courthouse and a high school girl known as Shinobu is in the frame... enter Phoenix, who faces Winston Payne's brother at trial.

Motohide Eshiro is acting as producer, alongside Takeshi Yamazaki, with series creator Shu Takumi focusing mainly on Level-5 collaboration, Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney.

Ace Attorney 5 will make its official debut at this year's TGS show with a demo planned for justice seeking show-goers.