Five years on from its 2021 worldwide release, Polygon has published an appreciation arguing that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is still the strongest entry in Capcom's long-running courtroom series. The spin-off, which bundles the Japanese-only titles The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures (2015) and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve (2017), follows Meiji-era Japanese student Ryunosuke Naruhodo — an ancestor of mainline hero Phoenix Wright — as he defends clients in a hostile Victorian London courtroom. The piece matters as both a five-year retrospective and a nudge to fans hoping for the series' revival.

The article credits director Shu Takumi with turning old, discarded ideas into strengths, from the "summation examination" jury mechanic and the "Dance of Deduction" (where players correct a bumbling, copyright-dodging "Herlock Sholmes") to a reworked jury system first trialled in Apollo Justice. It praises the duology's unusually cohesive, conspiracy-driven narrative and its grounded engagement with class and racial discrimination faced by Ryunosuke and his assistant Susato. It also notes that no wholly new mainline game has appeared in roughly a decade, though a December 2025 Capcom corporate report signalled ambitions to elevate Ace Attorney to a "core IP" alongside Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and Street Fighter via new releases, remakes and ports.