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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles: The anime game is a “hive” that gathers the scariest things like a high school girl wearing a mini skirt and an English voiceover with a naturalness equivalent to 5,000 copies of Mark Zuckerberg. Giving speeches at the same time, of course, members of this heretical cult will always convince you that “only if you have a degenerative brain, you can only play Japanese games and listen to ‘dubs’ in English.”
Therefore, the magic in Capcom’s “great” efforts to globalize The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles was pushed into all 36713689 + its 1 line of dialogue. When the writer discovered that the game had a character named Iyesa Nosa saying “yes/no sir,” the writer felt that this Earth has just implemented cultural integration, and puns have become a common subject.
It seems we can make a list of ingredients to help reduce weapon mistakenly, “anime nature,” so that they are less creepy for weak people like the writer. Play on words is one; turning part of the game’s story into fan-fiction is two.
Before you raise your fists in the air, the writer would like to remind you that Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is the forefather of fan-fiction, no argument!
So The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles satisfies the second easy criterion: the writer gets to go on a trip with Sherloc… erroneously, “Herlock Sholmes.”
And that’s how the writer stopped worrying and fell in love with Ace Attorney again, but if you say the writer likes anime, beware of the 2.5GB .png image folder “OBJECTION!!!” that the writer has available on SSD offline!
We all know The Divine Comedy is a comedy because it has “Comedy” in the title. Britain should probably follow suit if the country’s real-life law enforcement system is 50 percent the same as in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.
Fortunately, we learn and know about it through the perspective of a pagan character – Ryunosuke Naruhodo, the ancestor of Phoenix Wright with more boring hair, screams OBJECTION weaker but looks a thousand times more “dangerous” thanks to the katana he was always by his side.
Suppose you expected that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles’ cast of characters would include archetypes of the main series but are ancient (akin to Yakuza Kenzan/Ishin). In that case, you’ll be disappointed, and here it is also the most valuable point of the game.
Before, the writer “sprayed 381518 words” to explain why Susato Mikotoba is a billion times better written, portrayed, animated than Maya Fey. You should know that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles does an act of genius from the beginning kicking Ryu with the player to a new country with strange cultural or knowledge gaps until we realize that. The people here don’t seem that different from Los Angeles /Japan of the 2010s very much.
They condescend, lie, cover up, and then have to repeat their testimony a few times or wait until the 89th minute before mentioning a “deus ex machina” evidence as to the key to the whole case.
They’re also ridiculous and act like they’re dancing in Al Hirschfeld’s caricature. Like a real anime, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles confuses you with how it dances from serious to humorous with absolute flexibility like a real ballet dancer.
When is The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles serious? When prosecutor Barok van Zieks broke a wine glass in the middle of hearing testimony. When was The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles funny? When prosecutor Barok van Zieks broke a glass of wine while listening to testimony.
The three-dimensional character models with the ability to smoothly “connect” and continue each movement together. As well as depict the smallest behaviors such as lifting an eyebrow, shaking a glass of wine, or turning the head 90 degrees, prove that, unlike the anime, Ace Attorney is beautiful in both 2D and 3D.
That is most evident in the way that Ryunosuke, a trainee lawyer with no experience defending anyone, raises his hand, trembling, his eyes darting around the court when he wants to say something. In the first cases, he smacked the table weakly, eyes darting again, saying “YES!” instead of “DEPENDING!” naively, later on, he banged the table harder, more decisively and fiercely, and of course, no longer raised his hand like a student protesting.
Just like how you can completely judge a book by its cover or whether a cat is good or not based on the owner, the animation of the characters in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is a more effective conversation.
Look at the way Susato clasps her hands, leans to the right, and closes her eyes every time she agrees with Ryu, even shoving Maya/Trucy Wright/Athena Cykes into Unreal Engine 5 will still be far from knocking players down like that.
Watch van Zieks slam his shins on the table. It tells us his determination through every steely argument and cold declaration as if whispering to Ryunosuke that “you have no age,” as well as making people players wish they were the surface table.
But we’re not here to see 3D models dancing. We come to the UK to see how creative the British can be (slight spoiler: also stopping at each other, directly and indirectly, sometimes involving flying objects that can be determined) and how deftly they argue with each other in cockney accents. Fortunately, Gina Lestrade couldn’t pronounce the “H” that rhymes with “entai” completely out of her vocabulary.
We get closer to the Western sound of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles: a form of a trial with the appearance of a jury consisting of civilians sometimes saves Ryu from time to time by mysterious coincidences. Was the defendant accused of walking on the road containing the crime scene at the time of the murder? Unfortunately for van Zieks, a jury member was a road repair worker, and he confirmed that the road at that time had a huge hole; anyone passing through would break their head.
It is one of Ace Attorney’s “contradictory specialties” in general and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. The scenarios of these games are rife with super-convenient coincidences, illogical loopholes like eyewitnesses breaking evidence by themselves without receiving punishment, or the way dialogue is stretched by exchanges. The change should have been truncated, like:
That is how the series of games gather and then “discharge” the ultimate impact on the crux of the case, but we can also call it MDMA because of the frequency with which The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles abuses this method, making people angry. I can’t help but want to send it to rehab.
Luckily it dwindles in episode 2, Resolve; the dialogue is more natural, less time-consuming, and cuts down on the anime DNA that pervades the game.
The “volume” of the court in the game also does not stop at the appearance of the jury. They have the power to decide whether the defendant is guilty based on their opinion of frequent yoyo shootings.
The game will also occasionally put two witnesses (or sometimes “threesome” or “foursome” depending on the time of the case) on the podium, one of whom will sometimes jump unsubtle in the middle of a sentence other people’s statements, and Ryunosuke can move on to denounce them.
Like the main series, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles saves the biggest climax in court, but the investigative aspect now has more depth and variety than before.
Ryu is one of those “strange” types of characters that can murder in the places he visits, and whether searching for clues or interrogating civilians is simply “clicking on things that matter.” The increasing ambiguity of cases always ensures that even the smallest information will appear in its entirety before the trial.
All good things in life, the out-of-court jump from 5 to 10, is all thanks to the existence of Herlock Sholmes.
In a new mechanism called “Dance of Deduction,” Sholmes will dance while explaining what happened on the scene most confidently and elegantly possible, under dozens of lights shining down on each evidence each time the name is called. The index finger pointed directly at the culprit like a silver bullet flying straight at the werewolf. Until we realize his reasoning is 100% wrong, Ryu must reselect every right point.
A soundtrack that makes the interior want to be ethereal and then dance camera movements and personality lights, hidden clues in the 3D environment create the most cinematic moments in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.
Of course, like the usual biases about anime, Sholmes’ misjudgments are just a front for one of the game’s themes: skepticism.
As Phoenix Wright, Ryunosuke is an honest person based on an idealistic ego that is always eager to find the truth. Regardless of the consequences, it pushes him into doubts about fragmentation. There is a difference between the West and the East: friendship, duty, and the fear of seeing the dark side of the people we respect.
That’s how The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles demonstrates the “greatness” of its title. Truth cannot be destroyed or moved; the only thing that can bend it is how we accept it.
At least 99% of it is; the other 1% is for whoever comes up with and creates Sholmes’ ready-to-arm swing.
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