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Serebii.net recently reported new information about Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver a month before the games‘ official English-language release. The site revealed the English names of the player characters, Rocket Executives, and more.

The player characters’ English names were revealed. Hibiki is now known as Ethan and Kotone as Lyra. Please note that the name Lyra was first revealed by the official Pokémon site on their summary for the upcoming episode An Egg Scramble!.

Team Rocket Executives’ English names were revealed, as well. Apollo is now known as Archer and Athena as Arianna. Lance has been renamed Proton, and Lambda is now named Petrel.

The Ace Attorney series consistently delivers funny, well-written stories, and Capcom’s latest game in the ever-expanding series, Ace Attorney Investiagtions: Miles Edgeworth, seems on route to follow in its predecessors’ footsteps. I recently finished playing through the first case in the Japanese release of Investigations, and while it tickles my nostalgia bone with plenty of nods to the previous Ace Attorney installments, it offers quite a bit new as well.

The game doesn’t change the basic “search for clues and talk to people” formula, but Capcom adds one very important thing that the last game in the series, Apollo Justice, was missing: a main character that you already know. Sure, the cameos in Apollo Justice were fun, but trying to extend the franchise by bringing in a new attorney isn’t as effective as Investigations’ exploration of the backstory of prosecutor Miles Edgeworth.