History VisualNovel / GyakutenSaiban6

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[[caption-width-right:350:Justice at home and abroad...]]

The sixth main installment of Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' visual novel/adventure series of games (and tenth game in the series altogether), set for release on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, similar to the [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies previous installment]]. '''''Ace Attorney 6''''' (''逆転裁判 6, Gyakuten Saiban 6''; lit. "''Turnabout Trial 6''") once more stars unflappable defense attorney Phoenix Wright.

During a phone call to his old assistant and friend Maya Fey, who is currently abroad in the Kingdom of Kurain[[note]]While it shares the [[NamesTheSame same name]] as Maya's home village, in Japanese it is written in katakana while the name of Maya's home is written in kanji[[/note]] on a training expedition, Phoenix Wright panics when the call is cut off abruptly by a scream. He quickly packs a bag and boards the next flight he can catch to Kurain but finds nothing is wrong. The situation being under control, Phoenix takes an opportunity for a tour of the local area but his 9-year old tour guide, Bokuto Tsuani, is suddenly arrested on the [[AlwaysMurder charge of murder]]. Phoenix decides to sit in on the young defendant's trial, but he is shocked to find that their nation's court system does not use defense attorneys in their trials. Instead the prosecution indicts suspects, and the court then relies on mystic oracles to presume the defendant's guilt or innocence. Unwilling to let such a ridiculous notion stand scrutiny, Phoenix leaps to his tour guide's aid and offers his defense amid heavy resistance from both the audience and even the defendant himself. A mysterious young girl, the mystic princess, Leifa Padma Kurain, is also participating in the trial, but she is neither witness, judge, nor prosecution...

Key to the game is the new "water mirror" gameplay mechanic, which is how the court system of Kurain renders its verdicts, namely by conjuring images of the last things the deceased saw or felt before their death. The defending attorney can then examine the "footage" of the event and pick out inconsistencies either from within the vision itself or with evidence of the crime. The five strike penalty system from the first game returns. The developers have said that Phoenix has no new challenges left at home, so sending him to a new land would give him a new set of court rules to work with, reigniting the sense of urgency in court. Fellow Wright Anything Agency lawyer Apollo Justice is also set to return, handling cases at home while Phoenix takes care of those in Kurain. Another agency lawyer, Athena Cykes, will also make an appearance.

The game was originally announced on September 1, 2015 and appeared at the 2015 Tokyo Game Show in a playable form. The Japanese launch is set for June 9, 2016 and has also been confirmed to be receiving an English localization.

A character sheet for the whole franchise can be found [[Characters/AceAttorney here]] (''Ace Attorney 6''-relevant characters will be added as they are revealed).

[[http://www.capcom.co.jp/gyakutensaiban/6/ Official website (Japanese)]] A subtitled version of the TGS 2015 trailer can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZOzoSEQa4 here]]. During March 2016, Capcom Japan launched a Twitter campaign to get as many Tweets as possible about the game, the prize for getting 18,000 Tweets being a special video, which was a short anime prologue. It can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO3JYwe-e3w here]] (English-subbed).

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!!This game provides examples of:
* AntiGravityClothing: Much like Dahlia's shawl, the scarf prosecutor Nayuta Sadmadhi wears floats serenely above his shoulders, adding to his mystic image (similar to fellow Capcom character [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Rose]], who is also a mystic).
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Kurain is clearly based on Buddhist and Shamanistic nations across East and Southeast Asia, such as Tibet and Bhutan, but it is located in [[UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast Western Asia]]. Not the strangest thing this series has done though.
* BadassCape: Leifa, befitting her status as princess.
* TheBusCameBack:
** Maya Fey returns as part of Phoenix's adventure in Kurain in her first main game appearance since ''Trials and Tribulations''.
** After not appearing in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'', Ema Skye comes back, having achieved her dream of becoming a forensic investigator. Interestingly, she'll be involved with both Phoenix's and Apollo's cases.
* BusmansHoliday: The fact Phoenix finds himself defending a suspect for murder in a country where he doesn't even practice law means he fell into this pretty hard. Subverted in the sense that he has very good reason to be taking cases in Kurain (due to their odd court system that probably got a lot of innocent people sentenced) as opposed to being roped into it by the coincidence of being there at precisely the right time when he's needed (although due to the AlwaysMurder nature of ''Ace Attorney'', it's still pretty unlucky someone he was associating with ends up suspected in a murder investigation).
* CallBack: The Kingdom of Kurain's method of determining guilt has shades of how the DL-6 investigation played out, [[InterrogatingTheDead since they rely on the what the dead saw and felt at the moment before their death]]. And considering what happened in DL-6, there's a lot of potential to take what they saw in the wrong context.
** A non-canon pre-order only bonus episode has Phoenix and Maya face of against Miles Edgeworth, much like the first game.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Whether or not it's darker than the last game is still to be seen but ''Ace Attorney 6'' does swing into some pretty heavy territory. Phoenix is in a nation that has completely ''outlawed'' defense attorneys, sentencing all those of the profession to ''death''. Suspects pleading for some form of representation get no sympathy from the courts, even the stone-faced 14 year old girl feeling nothing when her oracles send potentially innocent people to damnation. When Phoenix offers to save a young boy from a false charge of murder, not only does the audience loudly ridicule and abhor his actions, his ''client'' even begs for him to stop because their culture preaches the evils of defense attorneys.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Probably the worst example in the series so far (and given guys like Manfred von Karma and Kristoph Gavin, that's saying something): the Kingdom of Kurain has outlawed and executed countless defense attorneys for... daring to challenge the spirits' word in trials.
* DistressedDamsel:
** Subverted in the prologue anime, where Maya briefly gets taken hostage by a suspected criminal while she's on the phone with Phoenix, but is rescued almost immediately. Unfortunately, her phone gets broken when she's initially taken hostage, meaning that she can't call Phoenix and let him know that she's fine, which is what results in him jetting out to Kurain. Maya does however get accused of murder again in the game's third episode.
** The second episode features Trucy as the defendant after someone is found dead at a dress rehearsal for one of her upcoming magic shows.
* FarEast: Kurain, which looks like a cross between various East Asian and Southeast Asian countries...but it's located in ''[[UsefulNotes/TheMiddleEast Western]]'' Asia.
* InterrogatingTheDead: The basis of Kurain's judicial system the court looks up what the victim saw last to determine the culprit.
* KangarooCourt: While ''Ace Attorney'' remains no stranger to unfair court systems and absurd prosecution tactics, even Phoenix himself is appalled at this court system that uses unseen mystic forces to try and come to verdicts rather than letting a defense attorney challenge any suspicion on behalf of a defendant. On top of that, prior to the events of the game, being a defense attorney was criminalized in the Kingdom of Kurain, with the punishment being death. In short, all the lawyers who previously practiced in Kurain were arrested and executed.
* MeaningfulName: Bokuto's name is a play on the sentence "boku to tsua ni", which translates to "tour with me". Guess what his occupation is?
* MotorMouth: Phoenix's tour guide, Bokuto Tsuani, is said to become very talkative when giving tours.
* OjouRinglets: Leifa, again befitting her status as princess.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: 35-year old Phoenix faces 14-year old Leifa in court-[[SubvertedTrope initially]]. After Gaspen makes a fool of himself, the adult prosecutor Nayuta Sadmadhi is brought in as the primary opponent.
* PlayboyBunny: Trucy's assistant, Mimi Nanano, is dressed like one, although she's a StageMagician.
* PimpedOutDress: Zigzagged with Leifa's outfit; the dress itself is pretty normal, but what goes ''around'' it is very fancy.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Pink and purple, to be exact, are the main two colors of Leifa's outfit.
* ThePurge: According to the anime prologue, defense attorneys in Kurain were targeted and sentenced to death, apparently because they were an affront to the Kurain religion (when a rogue defense attorney is brought before Nayuta Sadmadhi, he refers to him as unenlightened and a "sinner") and defending the accused in court is considered a crime in itself. The suspect in another case pleads with the court to provide her a defense attorney, to which Leifa Padma Kurain says there is no need for one because the spirits will always reveal the truth. During the web demo, Bokuto tells Phoenix he is uncomfortable accepting his defense and the audience verbally detests that someone is claiming to be a defense attorney in their courtroom.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Leifa is a princess, but she's also a spirit medium who takes an active role in court.
* SequelDifficultySpike:
** Because of the overabundance of StopHelpingMe in ''Dual Destinies'', the developers have said they want to pursue a more challenging game this time by dropping fewer clues directly in the dialogue and letting players turn off hints. Probably an instance of TropesAreNotBad.
** The game also gives the player just five penalty points instead of the health bar system most AA games since the first one use, probably because the previous game ceased with the practice of variable penalties.
** InUniverse example too, never has Phoenix faced such a more incriminating element than the victim seeing the defendant raise a weapon to the face.
* SequelGoesForeign: This is the first entry from the ''Ace Attorney'' franchise where Phoenix goes on to defend people outside of his original country.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Maya has gotten noticeably curvier after we last saw her almost a decade ago. She still hasn't reached Mia's level of BuxomIsBetter, but her overall figure is nevertheless more MsFanservice-worthy.
* ShutUpHannibal: In the prologue anime, a remnant of Kurain's old attorney system before the new theocratic oracle system took over, angrily rejects the "prosecutor"'s offer to repent and screams "What good is a court system that ''only passes down guilty verdicts''!?"
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The Kurain Judge looks a lot like the habitual Judge from the ''Ace Attorney'' series.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Leifa's only 14, yet has a "holy and strict" air to her, and has an active role in court.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Nayuta Sadmadhi is just as much of a WellIntentionedExtremist as other prosecutors in the series (he thinks himself a champion of the deceased and avenging their murders), and yep, he has white hair.
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