The developer of the Ace Attorney series decided to switch the visual novel's graphics to 3D after it was influenced by the success of the Professor Layton crossover game.
In the latest issue of Play Magazine (Issue 36), Kenichi Hashimoto, producer of the upcoming Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, discussed the series' pivot to 3D graphics after several years of staying with the widely recognized 2D visuals. Despite a blog post from 2007 suggesting that the team behind the game experimented with 3D graphics almost 20 years ago, the producer remembers the history differently.
