South America is the eight region investigated in Criminal Case: World Edition.
Encompassing the countries of Argentina, Luzaguay, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and part of the Antarctica as well, South America focuses on the Bureau digging deeper into SOMBRA's past, its origins, and uncovering how the organization became the massive global threat they currently are, all while also trying to expose the identity of El Rey, SOMBRA's supreme leader whose sole existence is a myth even among the upper echelons of the organization.
Cases Set in South America
- Ice Rage: A climate change activist is mangled with a kayak paddle in an Antarctic research station.
- Murder, He Wrote: A writer is tortured to death inside of a library in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Shadow Nation: A president is shot in the head with a sniper rifle in the almost unknown country of Luzaguay.
- Total Eclipse of the Heart: A SOMBRA agent is stabbed through the heart with a tumi in Machu Picchu, Peru.
- Cheaters Never Win: A SOMBRA athlete is poisoned with ayahuasca in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Brazil.
- The King's Shadow: A Bureau agent is crushed by a bell in the town of Campanilla, Colombia.
Tropes:
- Arc Villain: El Rey AKA Arsenio Castillo, the original leader and one of the founders of SOMBRA who decades ago started everything the Bureau has gone through the season and now has decided to step out of the shadow and make his presence known.
- Bittersweet Ending: The region ends with the Bureau successfully attacking SOMBRA's roots and dealing a considerable blow to the organization by arresting no fewer than three of its highest-ranking members, including SOMBRA's original leader. However, this comes at the expense of losing Michelle, who had just started to warm up to her Bureau's colleagues, and SOMBRA is by no means defeated yet, as its new leader is still at large unfolding the organization's endgame plan.
- Breather Episode: Although the region's final case ends up being a big Wham Episode, South America is, as a whole, a lot tamer and less fear-inducing than its predecessors, as its plotline involving digging into SOMBRA's past pales in comparison to the child trafficking, human experimentation, and traitors you've dealt with already, even if the stakes are just as high due to the region focusing on trying to bring down SOMBRA once and for all. Of course, this might just be a preparation for what's really about to come in the season's climax.
- A Death in the Limelight: Going with her officially joining the Bureau, Michelle aptly becomes a much more prominent character in this region, being the one guiding the Bureau all over South America and practically leading the investigation onto SOMBRA's past due to her previous connections with them. Unfortunately, her new dedication to the Bureau doesn't end up sitting well with El Rey, who promptly kills her in the region's finale as a payback.
- Disc-One Final Dungeon: South America is this for the Bureau (as the player can guess this won't be the finale due to the map showing there's still one region left), since it deals with them attacking SOMBRA from their roots and ends with the arrest of El Rey, who they believe is still SOMBRA's leader but has already passed the leadership of the organization to another member 10 years ago.
- Origins Episode: The region and its plot serves as one for SOMBRA, with the Bureau exploring the organization's past and slowly discovering how, when, and where SOMBRA was created and who its (original) leader is. By the end of South America, the only remaining question is just how SOMBRA managed to grow into the global nightmare you've been fighting all around the world, whose answer won't be uncovered until the game's final region.
- Recurring Character: The main recurring characters for South America are Ignacio Muñoz, George Pryce, and despite not physically appearing until the region's climax (but getting some Foreshadowing until then), Arsenio Castillo, Alejandro Pratx, and Doña Isabel Amarga.
