Ace Attorney: Ultimate Justice is an upcoming Ace Attorney and Danganronpa crossover Fan Game ported to Unity by Game Mod maker FCMakes.
The first complete chapter was released on December 17th, 2022 with the full game currently in progress. The story revolves around Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright defending the Ultimate students of Hope's Peak Academy in various murder cases in a Crossover Alternate Universe. The latest build can be downloaded here
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This game includes examples of:
- Canon Foreigner: These appear occasionally to fill out the cast, such as the first victim Poe Stahfice.
- Clock King: The first killer, Jutaro Akafuku, is a Gentleman Thief who meticulously plans out his crimes and daily life while even planning around factors outside his control like bus delays. He stalked the victim and Makoto to learn their schedules for his scheme, and his Villainous Breakdown occurs after the revelation that weeks of planning were foiled by something as simple as luck.
- Complexity Addiction: True to both franchises, the first case is filled with this. The first killer would've had far more success simply whacking the victim and running off with the loot without the extra steps, as Ace Attorney runs on Police Are Useless. Instead, he goes out of his way to incriminate someone else and comes forward to give false testimony against them, placing himself at the scene of his own crime.
- Exposed to the Elements: Komaru Naegi managed to find her way to Phoenix's agency in just her school uniform, in January of all months. (Granted, the St. Koa Girls Academy uniform she's wearing seems to be a summer uniform. And since there aren't any sprites of Komaru in her original school uniform from Trigger Happy Havoc, this was the closet thing she could wear.)
- Frame-Up: The first killer Akafuku framed Makoto by planting a fake blackmail note in the victim's pocket, wearing gloves the same color as Makoto's and deliberately leaving fibers behind, and kneeling in the snow to make it seem like Makoto knocked the victim down to deliver the killing blow to cover the height discrepancy.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Phoenix questions why Makoto would leave so much incriminating evidence behind in the first trial, Akafuku retorts that a high-schooler wouldn't have much experience with cleaning up crime scenes (which he did frequently in his home series).
- Lighter and Softer: The setting is primarily Ace Attorney, so despite the lack of Black Blood, the game has a much lighter tone than expected from Danganronpa.
- Mythology Gag: The first killer, Jutaro Akafuku, appeared in the spinoff novella Makoto Naegi Secret File. In there, he was a jewel thief who was accidentally foiled by Makoto, and the case here is no different.
- Punny Name: As one would expect from an Ace Attorney title, such as the first victim being a mailman named Poe Stahfice.
- Reverse Whodunnit: As with most Ace Attorney titles, the first case is one of these, with the murderer being shown for the player's benefit in the opening cutscene and then serving as the all-too-obvious Warm-Up Boss.
- Unluckily Lucky: Ultimate Lucky Student Makoto Naegi's luck seems terrible on the surface, even to him, but much of his supposedly bad luck is good luck in disguise because it lets him avoid something even worse. He loses his gloves on a cold day, then gets arrested for a murder he didn't commit (with Phoenix saying that they should revoke his title). However, his losing his gloves caused him to borrow his sister's which were a different color, completely ruining the real killer's attempt at a Frame-Up.
