Is Level-5 Making a New Ace Attorney?

A mysterious Tweet from Level-5's Jiro Ishii:

"Huh? Oh, Gyakuten XX. I'm making it, with Mr. Takumi!"

This was in response to Square Enix's Jin Fujisawa. Ishii and Fujisawa had apparently been dining the night before.

The "Mr. Takumi" is presumably Shu Takumi, director and story writer for the Ace Attorney games.

The Ace Attorney series is known in Japanese as "Gyakuten" followed by something. Gyakuten "Saiban" is the Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright line. Gyakuten "Kenji" is the more recent Ace Attorney Investigations line.

Gyakuten Kenji 2 was announced just prior to the Tokyo Game Show. Capcom has not made an actual Gyakuten Saiban game in a while, causing many fans to wonder when we'll be getting a new one.

Ishii is relatively new at Level-5, having left Chunsoft after completing work on the critically acclaimed 428 to work on Time Travelers, a game about which we've head nothing since its April announcement.

Given the brevity of Ishii's Tweet, it's possible that there's some sort of misunderstanding going on here, or Ishii could be just joking around.

But then again, Capcom's Keiji Inafune did recently say that he and Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino were teaming up in some capacity.

Art from Gyakuten Saiban's WiiWare version.

In separate Shu Takumi news, Platinum Games' Hideki Kamiya, maker of such titles as Bayonetta, Okami and Viewtiful Joe recently said via Twitter that Takumi is his favorite game designer.

[Seen at Hachimaki]