Ace Attorney Investigations 2

Ace Attorney Investigations 2
Cover art, featuring (left to right) Edgeworth, Kay, Shigaraki, and Mikagami
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Director(s)	Takeshi Yamazaki
Producer(s)	Motohide Eshiro
Artist(s)	Tatsuro Iwamoto
Writer(s)	Takeshi Yamazaki Yuki Nakamura
Composer(s)	Noriyuki Iwadare
Series	Ace Attorney
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS
Release	JP: February 3, 2011
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Japanese: 逆転検事2^?, "Turnabout Prosecutor 2"), unofficially referred to as Ace Attorney Investigations 2, is an adventure video game developed by Capcom for the handheld video game console Nintendo DS. It was released on February 3, 2011 in Japan; Capcom does not plan to release the game outside Japan, but a full English fan translation was released in 2015. The game is the sixth entry in the Ace Attorney series, and a sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009).

The game follows prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, detective Dick Gumshoe and the teenage thief Kay Faraday, who investigate five cases; they face off against judge Hakari Mikagami, a rival character who is part of a "prosecutor purge" that removes weaker prosecutors from duty. The gameplay is divided into two types of phases: investigations, where the player searches the crime scene for evidence and talks to witnesses, and rebuttals, where they aim to find contradictions in witnesses' testimonies using the evidence found during the investigations.

The development team, which included director Takeshi Yamazaki, producer Motohide Eshiro and character designer Tatsuro Iwamoto, created the game for the series' tenth anniversary, and finalized its direction during a five-day stay in the Capcom Manor in 2010. The game took shorter than usual to create, as the developers had the original Ace Attorney Investigations to use as a base, leading to an increased focus on the game's story. Reviewers were positive to the game, citing its story and the new "logic chess" gameplay mechanic as highlights. Several Western journalists commented on the lack of a localization and included it on lists of games they wanted to see localized.

Ace Attorney Investigations 2 is an adventure game in which players control prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, who investigates five cases; in one of the cases, the player also controls Edgeworth's father Gregory. The gameplay is mostly the same as in the previous game, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, and is divided into two types of phases: investigations and rebuttals.