The Great Ace Attorney – Adventures

The Great Ace Attorney – Adventures also known as Dai Gyakuten Saiban – Naruhodou Ryuunosuke no Bouken in Japan is an Adventure game developed and published by Capcom for the  Nintendo 3DS. It was released exclusively in Japan on July 09, 2015, and was translated to English by xz11. Taking place near the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century (known in Japan as the Meiji Period, in Britain as the Victorian era).

The Great Ace Attorney focuses on Ryunosuke Naruhodo, a student at Imperial Yumei University and an ancestor of primary Ace Attorney series protagonist Phoenix Wright. He is described as a character with a strong sense of justice, but who easily ends up in danger. Joining Ryunosuke is Kazuma Asogi, his friend from university who studies law. The concept of defense lawyers was merely “years old” in the judicial system at the time in Japan, so Asogi is qualified to stand in court already, and aims to transform the legal system via study in Great Britain. 

Ryunosuke and Asogi are aided by Susato Mikotoba, a judicial assistant. She is described as being an “ideal Japanese woman“, and is also a progressive dreamer, and a lover of foreign mystery novels. The game carries on the courtroom-style gameplay of previous installments in the Ace Attorney series, including the fully 3D environments and character models previously featured in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies.

Like previous titles, the game is divided between investigation, in which players explore areas to gather evidence and testimonies, and courtroom battles, in which players must use evidence to find contradictions in witness testimonies to find the truth behind a case. Similarly to Takumi’s previous game, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the player sometimes has to cross-examine multiple witnesses at the same time, potentially gleaning new information by addressing one witness when they react to another’s statement.