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- The Great Departure Walkthrough: Introduction
- The Great Departure Walkthrough: Nosa And Korekuta's Testimony
- The Great Departure Walkthrough: Miss Jezaille Brett And Satoru Hosonaga
- The Great Departure Walkthrough: Jezaille's Report, Curare
The Great Ace Attorney has finally landed in our laps, bringing two chunky Ace Attorney adventures to both Nintendo Switch and PS4, finally. These games are meaty experiences that feature dozens of twists and turns per case. The first few cases are introductory courses to how trials and investigations work, but that doesn't mean they're a walk in the park.
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In this guide, we'll be walking you through all of the choices you need to make in the first chapter of The Great Ace Attorney in order to make it through. In this chapter, our hero Naruhodo Ryunosuke has been accused of murder, and he has to prove his innocence – somehow. Getting there will take a lot of negotiations, but you'll be able to make it through with this guide. If you're stuck, just take a look at our walkthrough below.
The Great Departure Walkthrough: Introduction
You first answer should be "Answer 'I do'." This is in response to who is defending you – the fact is, Kazuma is eager, but it could put him in danger should you lose. So, in this case, you must defend yourself.
Next up, a quick tutorial for the Court Record. From here you'll be able to look at all People involved in the case, and the judge will ask you to submit the name of the victim. Luckily, this is pretty easy: it's John H. Wilson, the visitor from the British Empire. After that, you'll be tasked with presenting the professor's cause of death, the Post-Mortem Report.
After this, the waiter, Hosonaga, will appear and provide you with both a photograph of the crime scene, and his business card, which has the layout of the crime scene mapped out on it. These will be important later.
The Great Departure Walkthrough: Nosa And Korekuta's Testimony
Nosa and Korekuta will now testify. In the cross examination, you should present the fourth statement with a piece of evidence. Nosa will claim that the victim was shot from the back, but the photograph disproves this. Present the Photograph of Victim against this claim to continue.
Nosa and Korekuta will follow this up with another testimony. Press the third statement, where Nosa claims you were the only people on the premises. Auchi, the prosecutor, will bring up a medical report card for the victim, which you can ask to be submitted to evidence. You will return to the testimony after this – read through it, and Kazuma will give you a tutorial on examining evidence in the Court Record so you can find new information. Examine the Medical Report Card, open it up, and you'll find the victim had dental surgery, and therefore was not allowed to eat nor drink on the day of the incident.
Now, back to the testimony. In the fourth statement, Korekuta claims the victim was dining alone. Present the Medical Report Card to prove that, despite food being on the table, he could not have been the one eating it. You'll be asking who was eating the steak at the restaurant. Select "An as-yet-unknown third party" to continue. This will cause Nosa and Korekuta to admit they were told to keep her presence there a secret. When asked who could make them keep this secret, select Satoru Hosonaga – the waiter. If you examine the business card, you'll find that he's actually a detective working undercover. When pushed to present evidence, present the updated business card.
The Great Departure Walkthrough: Miss Jezaille Brett And Satoru Hosonaga
Now that we've uncovered the third party, it's time for Miss Jezaille Brett to testify, with the help of Hosonaga. As she testifies, press the second statement, where she states that she ordered for herself alone. She will add that they also drank carbonated water – be sure to add this to the testimony. In the updated second statement, present the Crime Scene Photograph, which shows no glasses or drinks at the table. She confesses to taking glasses – absurdly – but then also tells the court that she put it in her handbag.
Highlight the significance of the handbag. A Photograph of Handbag will be added to the court record. You will be asked to highlight something significant in the picture – select the hand of the victim, which appears to have a burn mark on the wrist. You will be asked to prove its significance to the trial, and you can present the Crime Scene Photograph – the same symbol is on the victim's plate. Highlight the symbol when prompted. When asked when the burn happened, select he "Was already deceased." This is the only way it could've happened without making a scene.
This will cause Brett to uncover she can actually speak Japanese, and will begin a new testimony. Press Miss Brett on her fifth statement, where she claims that Japan's medical systems are somehow primitive. During the statement, Hosonaga will become unruly. After the dialogue ends, Kazuma will tutorialise the Pursue mechanic, which allows you to ask questions of another witness when a testimony causes them to react. Press the fifth statement once again, and this time move over to Hosonaga and Pursue him when he reacts with a thought bubble above his head. Turns out Hosonaga has been "preserving" evidence, and has the bottle of carbonated water with him, which will then be added into the court record, allowing you to examine the bottle.
Back to the testimony once again. This time, Present the Carbonated Water Bottle agains the fourth statement, implying that it could've contained poison. While it was tested and no traces were found, Susato Mikotoba, Kazuma's assistant will appear baring vital evidence, and will bring this part of the trial to a close.
The Great Departure Walkthrough: Jezaille's Report, Curare
We're getting to the bottom of things now. Susato comes bearing Jezaille's Report, which shows us what she's been working on – a mysterious chemical known as Curare, which can instantly kill a subject when it enters the body through a wound, but not through ingestion. When asked what new evidence the defence has, present Jezaille's Report. To "prove" that the Carbonated Water Bottle was clean, she drinks the remaining liquid. Assert that the bottle "Contains posion" regardless. When asked how she survived drinking it, present Jezaille's Report, and then specify Special Characteristics.
Miss Brett will claim that Dr Wilson, the victim, also drank the water in the same way, and therefore if it were poison, he would've died too. When asked why Dr. Wilson would've been killed but no one else, present the Medical Report Card. Miss Brett will rebel, smashing the Carbonated Water Bottle so it can't be examined later. You seem to be in a pinch, but Ryunosuke uses his memory and recalls there being blood on the plate next to the steak. Highlight it when asked. Hosonaga likes to preserve evidence, and luckily can bring the plated steak, just as it was, to the courtroom. There is no blood on it. Examine the steak when you get the chance, and you'll find a gold coin underneath it – just like the one Korekuta mentioned earlier in the trial. Present Kyurio Korekuta as the owner of the coin to bring him back.
Nosa and Korekuta will return to the stand, and Korekuta will say that it is his coin which was stolen and hidden from him on the day of the incident – how it come to be under the food of the victim is a mystery. When asked who stole and hid the coin, accuse Iyesa Nosa, the military man who struggles to take care of a young infant. Miss Brett will attempt to take this chance to leave, but you can stop her. She contradicts herself in her final statement, and you can present the steak from the court record to prove it. The steak has teeth marks in it – something neither the victim nor Miss Brett would be likely to leave. The one with the evidence to get to the bottom of this is the crime scene preserver himself, Hosonaga. Nosa did hide the coin under his steak, but he didn't put it on the victim's table. Hosonaga now brings out the other steak from the crime scene – and the blood stain from earlier is present, putting Miss Brett in hot water.
Under the pressure, Miss Brett will break. She admits to using Curare, knowing that the victim's dental surgery would leave a wound in his mouth. Once Ryunosuke picked up the gun from the floor, she shot at the victim to implicate someone else in his death, allowing her to escape unscathed. It was, thoretically, the perfect plan, as she knew that the Japanese authorities were not familiar with Curare as a poison. Following this, Miss Brett will finally give it up, and leave the courtroom, meaning Naruhodo Ryunosuke can only be considered Not Guilty. That's The Great Departure chapter done!
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