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Professor Layton & Pandora's Box
US Name: Professor Layton & The Diabolical Box
System: Nintendo DS
Genre: Puzzle Adventure
Year: 2009
Rank last year: 37 (v 1)
This puzzle game packed with content is good for many hours of fun. For the player who seeks out every puzzle this game has to offer, you can expect a good 50 hours worth of cerebral entertainment. Professor Layton & Pandora's Box is a puzzle-adventure game which sends Professor Layton and his sidekick Luke on a quest the dangerous Elysian Box which kills everyone that opens it, before it can be put to mis-use. Of course, this artifact is better known by the legendary name 'Pandora's Box'.
The journey is done through old-fashioned point-and-click, where the player is guided through the game by it's story. Along the way puzzles are thrown at the player which must be solved. These puzzles can range from common riddles to jigsaw puzzles to mazes. The difficulty increases as the game progresses and in later stages, some of these are really mindboggling!