12DOVE 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
Why you can trust 12DOVE
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 | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
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