I've played this game twice. Once right when it came out, and another time when I played through the entire series once that Ace Attorney "HD" Trilogy came out for 3DS. I remember enjoying it a lot when it first came out, but playing it right after original three, I realized that Dual Destinies wasn't as good as I remembered it.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a fine game if you haven't played the original three in a long time. When Dual Destinies first came out in 2013, I haven't played an Ace Attorney game in quite a while, so playing Dual Destinies after such a long time away from Phoenix Wright was awesome. But after playing the game again right after playing the original three, I found that, first of all, the game is just too easy. And second of all, and perhaps more damning, is that compared to the first three games, you're not doing all that much in terms of gameplay. There is WAY more just simply reading through dialogue and WAY less actually looking at testimonies and finding contradictions compared to the other games.
In the original three games, I remember there were many times when you had multiple cross examinations for one witness. In Dual Destinies, it's often only one cross examination for a witness, followed by a long dialogue section where you're doing nothing but simply tapping through and reading, and then moving on to another witness.
But after saying all that, I still highly recommend it lol. If you enjoyed the first three games, then you'll enjoy this one. It's just I'm a huge Ace Attorney fan and after playing through it a second time immediately after playing the HD trilogy, I found some flaws in it. If you haven't played the original three in a while but liked those games back when it came out, then Dual Destinies is a fine game. Sorry for the stupidly long post for a simple question, but I tend to ramble when I talk about Ace Attorney, as it is my favorite game series of all time.
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