Small but nice change in the new port of Ace Attorney Investigations: they've reflowed all the dialogue from three lines of text to two, taking advantage of the larger horizontal space. They didn't do that in any of the previous DS game ports, and honestly it doesn't look great - the three-line dialogue is formatted for a small screen, and with the full-screen textboxes they've been using there's a ton of dead space. This new approach looks much nicer.
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in reply to @dog's post:
I hadn't really paid much attention to the screenshots of the first game but I'm really glad they did this! The JP versions always used 2 lines so the 3 lines in the DS versions, though a necessary evil, are something I'm glad to see the back of. IIRC the original release of AAI1 even squished the three line text box down as far as possible to try and not take up so much room.
Yeah, I'm grateful they're finally taking advantage of the chance to!
Comparing to the Japanese version, it feels like we got the better-reading version this time; the Japanese version is awkwardly-spaced on two lines, unlike the English https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401970/12/?l=japanese
Ooh, Janet Hsu put out a blog post going into this in more detail (along with other technical advances that have helped localization): https://www.ace-attorney.com/investigations1-2/en-us/blog/1/
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