GamesRadar+ Verdict
Pros
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Interesting and well thought out puzzles
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Animation is awesome
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Loads of weird characters to meet
Cons
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Thinking so hard
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Puzzles can't be repeated
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Need to understand Japanese
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Exercising your brain is one of the most popular activities on DS, but you’ve always been out of luck if you want to do it via a proper game rather than a load of abstract math problems. Until now, of course. Professor Layton is an old-fashioned point-and-click adventure in which every character and location has a stylus-chewingly fiendish logic problem for you to solve.
More info
| Description | You simply go through the story, solving puzzles at your own pace and enjoying the Ghibli-style artwork and high production values. |
| Platform | DS |
| Release date | 14 February 2007 (US), 14 February 2007 (UK) |
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