Gaspen Payne: Chief Prosecutor!? (#123)

Let me just clarify something quickly: like I said when I introduced the concept of Turnabout Talk, this won't be a TT post. This is news about Ace Attorney that's been released recently, and I'll only be using the Turnabout Talk subtitle when I'm talking about stuff in the series that isn't news and is just about something in the games that have already been released. Okay, if you've played AA5 and you haven't heard the news then I'm sure that that title's seriously bewildering you, so let's begin.

It has been reported that in Ace Attorney 6, Gaspen Payne is the chief prosecutor in the Kingdom of Kurain. After the events of Ace Attorney 5, he was fired from the legal system in Los Angeles (since he did run out of the court due to that bomb hoax in Turnabout Countdown) and decided to become an undefeated prosecutor in Kurain since there are no defense attorneys there. Weak move, Payne, weak move. I assume he'll be the first guy you face in this new country, where you'll decrown him as Kurain's chief prosecutor. That should be fun, heh.

Just look at this elegant man.

It has also been confirmed that Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice will both be the main characters in AA6, with the latest issue of Famitsu calling them 'Double Protagonists'. Guess Athena's been dumped, then. Though I guess her character was fully explored in AA5 plus it'll be nice to just have the two main attorneys again, so I'm okay with this. Apparently, the game will take place in both Kurain and Los Angeles (the main setting for all the other games), with Apollo having a case in LA before heading off to meet up with Wright in Kurain. There will be some official artwork on the game's Japanese site soon, featuring Apollo, Gaspen and the new spirit medium character who will control the water mirror device in court, Leifa Padma Kurain.

Thanks to Famitsu for this info.

Thomas