GamesRadar+ Verdict

Reasons to buy

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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

Reasons to avoid

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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.