The Ace Attorney series is well known for its exaggerated, over-the-top court cases. Where else could you search for the Loch Ness Monster, solve a twenty-year-old murder case, and cross-examine a parrot all in the same case? Certainly not in a real world courtroom.
But in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, launching today on Steam, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch, the series leaves behind its modern-day setting and instead transports players back to Victorian-era Britain. It's a big change for the series, introducing new gameplay concepts both in and out of the courtroom, and raising even more questions about how true-to-life the judicial proceedings are.
We're no experts on law no matter the era, so we turned to a professional for help to help unpick some of the strange happenings in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicle's courtroom and shed some light on how accurate these scenes are. We showed them some highlights of the third case of the first game, The Great Ace Attorney Adventures, in which series star Ryunosuke Naruhodo suddenly finds himself defending the enigmatic and wildly rich Magnus McGilded in a murder trial.