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It’s a shame The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles it is going to go through the market as a minor game, for arriving very late to the appointment with the fans, for limiting itself to digital and, especially, for arriving without a translation into our language. It tastes really bad because the return of Ace Attorney It is one that deserved all the honors.

The saga of trials returns from the hand of a formidable reissue in which The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures Y The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, both from the defunct 3DS, come to PC, Switch y PS4 with a surprising result on a visual level. It is amazing to think that this was born from the Nintendo laptop.

Ace Attorney: more than a visual novel

It is no longer that I am little friend of visual novel, is that it has always been a genre that I have a hard time swallowing. Precisely for that reason, every time a game of that style comes to my hands that makes me click, I value it a lot more. At the end of the day, he has managed to get someone outside of that world to get hooked on something he really doesn’t like.

Maybe that’s why I have so much love for the saga Ace Attorney, for being one of those few examples that have helped me understand the importance and value of this genre. Of course, it must also be recognized that the franchise of Capcom it goes quite a few steps beyond being a mere visual novel.

For those who do not know the saga, the idea is to delve into different cases that we will have to analyze by talking with witnesses and collecting evidence in order to have the maximum possible weapons in the subsequent trial. Making use of all the information that we have we will have to face judges, jury, witnesses and prosecutors to try to clarify what happened by pointing out the inconsistencies between evidence and allegations.

This, which on paper would probably only excite those mothers who only seem to have an interest in trial movies – hello, Mom – ends up being a roller coaster full of twists and accusations that usually keep you in suspense until the end of each case.

A story that hooks

And The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles He deserves a special affection because, precisely, he embroiders that constant tension in each of the cases he proposes. Over two games we will abandon the line that the saga had taken until now to enter a completely different world.

Flying as far as possible from his latest installments, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles leaves the current era to move us to the twentieth century with all that this entails at the research level. Forget digital media or modern evidence like fingerprints. We are in an age where evidence could be easily manipulated and the best possible tool to clarify a case was deduction.

With that excuse in mind, the game introduces us an exceptional guest, a Herlock Sholmes that, paying homage to the mythical detective Conan Doyle, will meet our protagonists to help them in the investigation and provide a comic touch in the form of absolute disaster.

Sholmes is far from the idea that we have of Holmes and, in fact, he is an absolute disaster when it comes to knowing how to read each case, which will allow us to specify each of his deductions to carry the burden of investigation.

What’s new Old man?

Without much space to talk about the story, because even the first cases have huge spoilers that are worth living in the first person, the second most important thing is to highlight why The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles does a great job of turning all of this into a fun game and, above all, the most original installment to date.

Beyond the usual mechanics in which to listen to the witnesses and present evidence that deepens or contradicts the allegation, the idea of ​​being able to tinker with the evidence to discover details hidden with the naked eye adds even more weight in an era in which the The rest of the forensic tools were still in their infancy.

Along with the classic The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles He also adds the Deduction Dance that we mentioned a few lines above, in which each of Sholmes’s deductions as if he were just another witness in the middle of a trial, and the Summary Examinations that invite us to face a jury challenging their opinions or confronting each other to avoid unanimity.

Without resorting to major changes, just the leap in its setting is more than enough to turn the franchise upside down and create a great starting point not only for those who want to return to it, but also for those who have not yet dared to try it.

iGamesNews’s opinion

Seeing as Capcom has managed to turn some of its main franchises upside down, the mere idea of ​​dreaming of a similar approach to modernize Ace Attorney it would already be a gift. That would be the ideal scenario, of course, but stick with the line raised by The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles And starting from there would be more than enough to keep us hooked on future installments.

What we do have to ask of them is something more ambition, not only at the level of the game, but also in their attention to fans in other countries and the treatment that is given to the franchise outside of Japan. It may still be a niche game, but it wouldn’t be the first time such a product has exploded across the globe on the right fuel.