#37
'Professor Layton & Pandora's Box'
for the Nintendo DS released in 2009.
This game surprised me significantly. When I played it. It was amazing! And it put the series permanently on my gaming-map. I never expected it, because I bought the game used in 2011. Afterwards, I got the sequel, and the new 3DS game will be mine sooner rather than later. The game proved what kinds of games were perfect for the DS. Belated proof to me, because I got it quite late, but proof nonetheless.
'Professor Layton & Pandora's Box' has a complicated, compelling story that leaves you wondering what's next. In fact, all 'Laytons' do, but the first one I played stayed with me. I'm not sure it is because it was the first, or because I liked the setting in a train and a castle so much. The game features a lot of quirky characters, and Layton and Luke themselves are excellent protagonists.
Naturally, the plot and the characters are just vehicles to carry the main purpose of the game; solving puzzles. Real puzzles no less. Riddles and those small puzzles you would normally do with pen and paper. Of course, the first give-or-take ten puzzles are quite easy, and meant to get into the spirit of the rest of the game, but most puzzles are genuinly puzzling. Gotta search for those hint-coins. Especially the extra puzzles, those outside of the main story, those are actually hard to solve! Not only the puzzles are puzzling, the game's story's mysteries are mysterious as well.
#36 Hint
This game proves that a system's main feature, one that this particular system's even named after, isn't just for show!
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