The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is a game in the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series of games. In this game, you play as Ryunosuke Naruhodo, a Japanese University student in Meiji-era Japan. At the beginning of the game, you are wrongfully accused of murder and need to enter into the courtroom to defend yourself. You are not a lawyer but you will need to think like one in order to avoid being found guilty.

The results of this first trial will take Ryunosuke and the player from Japan to England where they will encounter the world’s most famous detective, Herlock Sholmes. Together Sholmes and Ryunosuke will investigate for clues and present the information in the courtroom to a jury. Whether or not you as the player will be able to find the contradictions in the witnesses’ statements will determine whether or not you can swing the jury onto your side and have your defendant declared Not Guilty. 

In order to investigate, the player points and clicks on objects and talks with witnesses to gather information. In the courtroom, you gather your evidence together and carefully compare it with the statements you hear from the witnesses. This will help you find contradictions, which can be used to encourage witnesses to provide more information, or even shift the blame onto other parties involved. 

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is available for purchase now on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Steam. It is rated T for Teen; parents are encouraged to use the information from the ESRB and consider it in conjunction with what they know about their individual child. To read more about the ESRB and game ratings, please click here.