![]() Strangely, the only character who comes from an actually colonized country is McGilded, who is used as the face of British greed and corruption despite being Irish. Though the Japanese characters experience racism and struggle with uneven diplomatic treaties, there’s never so much as a mention of people from Africa, India, or Korea who might show the full scope of colonization. But it doesn’t look beyond these to the wider crimes of its empires. ![]() The British Empire is heavily criticized by the game in certain aspects, primarily legal corruption (like in the case of Jezaille Brett) and anti-Japanese racism. Ryunosuke’s problems continue as he realizes that winning a case doesn’t necessarily mean finding the truth This racist mistrust is demonstrated to influence the decisions of the jury, although given the conceit of the game, this can only be taken so far, since Ryunosuke always needs to win for the player to continue. His primary rival in the game, the prosecutor Barok van Zieks, uses slurs and openly admits to disliking all Japanese people. Like Jezaille, several characters make claims about the untrustworthiness of Japanese people, or comment cruelly on their appearance. ![]() This barrier is everywhere: Travelling to Britain, Ryunosuke experiences both casual and targeted racism. What makes Ryunosuke unique is that his major barrier to exposing the truth isn’t a single case or person, it’s the entirety of the British Empire and its relationship to the growing Japanese one. (This is my official plea for everyone to play both Ace Attorney Investigations games. Miles Edgeworth’s redemption arc starts with asking the judge to continue a trial he was about to win because he doesn’t believe the real story has come out, and his focus on this question continues through most of the rest of the series, including in his own spinoff. In Dual Destinies, Apollo Justice leaves the team for a while, asking whether the truth is the same for everyone. In the second game, Justice for All, Phoenix Wright gets the bad ending if the player continues asking for a not guilty verdict for his actually guilty client. In doing so, the game struggles to answer them convincingly, and muddles its own messages.Ĭoming to value the truth above all else is an essential arc that unites all Ace Attorney protagonists. But its new setting, one heavily informed by the British and Japanese empires, casts those questions in a new light. It asks the usual questions about truth and justice. They already share enough of the same functional and thematic DNA. (Though packaged as one game, it includes two games, The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve.) The protagonist Ryunosuke Naruhodo is canonically an ancestor of main series protagonist Phoenix Wright, but this isn’t really necessary to tie the games together. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, recently localized after five years as a Japanese-exclusive title, is a spinoff that takes place in England and Japan during the Victorian and Meiji era. Capcom’s quest to translate The Great Ace Attorney for Western audiences
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