The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve

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The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve
Cover art featuring the game's main characters
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Director(s)	Shu Takumi
Producer(s)	Motohide Eshiro
Designer(s)	Shu Takumi Yoichiro Ikeda Junshi Jodai
Programmer(s)	Junichi Shiba
Artist(s)	Kazuya Nuri
Writer(s)	Shu Takumi
Composer(s)	Yasumasa Kitagawa Yoshiya Terayama Hiromitsu Maeba
Series	Ace Attorney
Engine	MT Framework Mobile
Platform(s)	Nintendo 3DS Android iOS Microsoft Windows Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4
Release	Nintendo 3DS JP: August 3, 2017 Android, iOS JP: April 24, 2018 Windows, Switch, PS4 WW: July 27, 2021 JP: July 29, 2021[1]
Genre(s)	Adventure, visual novel
Mode(s)	Single-player

The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve^[a] is an adventure game in the Ace Attorney series and the sequel to The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures, developed and published by Capcom. It was directed by Shu Takumi and produced by Motohide Eshiro. The game was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in August 2017, with Android and iOS versions following in April 2018. Resolve was released worldwide in July 2021 via The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, a compilation of both games for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows.^[2]

The game won the Famitsu Awards 2017 in the Excellency category.^[3]

Plot[]

Four months after the events of the previous game, Susato Mikotoba learns that her best friend, Rei Membami, has been accused of murdering Jezaille Brett, the murderer of John Wilson. With no defense attorney willing to help, she decides to do so. However, since women aren't allowed in Japanese courts, she disguises herself as Ryunosuke Naruhodo's cousin Ryutaro. Aided by her father Yujin, who never was sick, she discovers that Brett's true killer is Raiten Menimemo, a reporter who hated that she was to be judged in China instead of Japan. Unfortunately, with Brett's death, the reason for her murder of John Wilson remains a mystery. Susato learns that the reason she was summoned back to Japan is connected to a case she previously worked on.

In England, Ryunosuke receives a letter from Susato asking him to look into the case in question. Since he has been banned from the courtroom for using false evidence in Magnus McGilded's trial, he has nothing better to do, so he does so: Six months prior, the day after being cleared, Soseki Natsume is accused again, this time of poisoning William Shamspeare, a failed actor and fellow boarder in a building Natsume claims is cursed by the malevolent spirit of Selden, a criminal who lived in the same flat Natsume now does. Though Shamspeare survives, he sues Natsume for trying to kill him. Ryunosuke and Susato once again go up against infamous prosecutor Barok van Zieks, who has the reputation of all the people he tries dying no matter what. Ryunosuke eventually learns that Shamspeare was poisoned by Olive Green, the victim in Natsume's first case. Shamspeare had been a cellmate of Selden and heard of the treasure he'd hid in his flat. When he'd failed to rent the flat, he blew on the pipe of the building's shared gas main which filled the flat with lethal gas, killing the previous boarder, Green's fiance Duncan Ross, in the hopes of getting in, then tried the same with Natsume. When she figured it out, she covered the pipe with strychnine. After the case, Natsume goes back to Japan, while Ryunosuke finds the treasure, a diamond studded dog collar which Herlock Sholmes forbids mention of.

Sometime later, an explosion during a demonstration of a teleportation device at the Great Exhibition results in the death of crime lord Odie Asman. The machine's inventor, Albert Harebrayne, who is a friend of van Zieks, is arrested. Ryūnosuke gets permission from Lord Chief Justice Mael Stronghart to return to court and faces van Zieks, and the masked apprentice assigned to him by Stronghart, with the help of a returned Susato. During the case, they find a connection to the Professor, a serial killer who murdered people through his dog, one victim being van Zieks' brother Klint, the collar belonging to the dog. They also learn that the device was a fraud funded by Asman to get a huge grant. They eventually prove the killer to be Scotland Yard's Chief Coroner Courtney Sithe, who Asman was blackmailing over her falsely declaring the Professor dead since he seemingly "rose from the dead" afterwards. After the machine's designer, Enoch Drebber, whose life Asman had ruined by exposing him as the witness to the Professor's "resurrection", set it up to kill him and used a stolen wax figure of the Professor to fake the body's location, she finished the job when he survived. Afterwards, van Zieks sends Harebrayne away to avoid the "Reaper" curse. At the same time, the wax sculpture is unmasked and the apprentice, in shock, removes his own mask to reveal a still alive Kazuma Asogi, whose memory was lost when he was hurt and then restored by the statue's face, and who states that the face belongs to his father Genshin.

Detective Tobias Gregson is murdered and van Zieks is arrested as the prime suspect. Despite their rivalry, Ryunosuke takes his defense against Asogi, who wishes to avenge his father who was sent to his death by van Zieks, in a trial presided over by Stronghart himself. It eventually comes out that Stronghart is the head of an international group of assassins, the true Reaper, whose members, past and present, include Brett, Genshin, Kazuma, Klint, and Japanese judge Seishiro Jigoku, with Wilson, Gregson and Sithe aiding, and whose ultimate goal is a crime free England. It started with the Professor killings, which Klint actually committed. When Stronghart found out, he blackmailed him into targeting people he chose. When Genshin figured out Klint's identity, Stronghart wouldn't do anything, so he killed Klint in a duel. When Stronghart figured it out, he framed Genshin for the other murders, only for Genshin to use Klint's will that would've exposed him to facilitate a prison escape. When the attempt was nearly exposed by Drebber, Stronghart had Jigoku kill Genshin. Both Wilson and Gregson were killed to ensure Stronghart's crimes were never learned and he could be promoted to Attorney General. Stronghart sent Asogi to London as an assassin to kill Gregson, but when he was injured, Jigoku took it upon himself to do it. Though Ryunosuke finds the will, Stronghart is confident he's untouchable, only to learn that Sholmes has alerted the queen, who strips him of his rank and leaves him to be arrested. It's also revealed that Iris Wilson's father isn't John Wilson but Klint; before his death, Genshin sent Yujin to find Klint's wife, who died in childbirth, leaving the infant Iris with his partner Sholmes, who, in keeping with both Asogi and Mikotoba's wishes, made sure Iris never published the manuscript based on the Professor case. Ryunosuke makes peace with both van Zieks and Asogi, who decides to remain a prosecutor, and returns to Japan with Susato to continue his career as a defense attorney.

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External links[]

• Official website
• The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve at The Visual Novel Database