TouchArcade Game of the Week: 'Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Hard disk drive'

The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Calendar week is that every Fri afternoon nosotros post the i game that came out this week that we recollect is worth giving a special nod to. At present, before anyone goes over-thinking this, information technology doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Calendar week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really whatsoever other quantifiable "all-time" thing. Instead, information technology'due south more just us picking out the single game out of the week's releases that nosotros recall is the nigh noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick upwardly ane.

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Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box HD

The Nintendo DS was so wildly popular that, very similarly to mobile, it drew in an audience of the hardest of hardcore gamers all the way to the most coincidental-est of casual, and everyone in between. For the well-nigh part the DS library could be carve up off into "games for gamers" which were things like activeness titles and RPGS, and "games for everyone else" which included puzzle games, encephalon training games, and Nintendogs. Ok, I admit I loved Nintendogs to death, only you lot come across what I mean. There was also a ton of shovelware. Anyway, in 2007 Professor Layton and the Curious Hamlet launched from developer Level-5, and suddenly it felt similar the Goldilocks porridge: A game that was merely correct for anybody. It featured an interesting story, colorful characters, great voice acting and music, and puzzles that suited all skill levels. It rightly became a classic.

Last year Level-5 remastered that original Professor Layton game and in June released it for iOS and Android in Japan, with a worldwide release following a few months after. And then a few months after that, they remastered the second game in the Layton serial, 2008'southward Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box ($ix.99), and released THAT for iOS and Android in Japan. And now, about half dozen months later, the rest of the earth can finally enjoy that new remastered sequel. Following forth so far? Good.

If y'all've played a previous Layton game, there'due south not a whole lot to explain about Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box for mobile. You'll in one case over again join Layton, his assistant Luke, and a bandage of colorful characters as you solve a mystery by figuring out puzzles and brain teasers. Similar the first game the voicework and visuals are splendid, and expect especially good in their remastered loftier definition class. The game also very smartly takes the dual screens of the Nintendo DS version and lays them i on top of the other in portrait orientation on your mobile device, pregnant the game plays largely the same equally information technology did originally. Except you don't need a silly stylus for your touchscreen, and you tin can cull to play the animated cutscenes in portrait or landscape mode on the fly, which is a nice touch.

Level-five has kind of jumped around with which Layton games they've brought to mobile, but if yous're the OCD type similar me and desire to play them in lodge, it's nice to know that y'all can grab Curious Hamlet Hard disk drive and now Diabolical Box Hd, which are the beginning two games in the entire series, on mobile. While it hasn't been confirmed, I wouldn't exist surprised if Level-5 is hard at piece of work giving the 3rd game, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, the remastering handling also. In the meantime I tin can heartily recommend both Curious Hamlet HD and at present Diabolical Box HD for those who enjoy puzzles and skilful onetime-fashioned adventures.

NOTE: In some parts of the globe including Europe and Australia the game is known equally Professor Layton and Pandora's Box, and thus in that location is a different download link in the App Shop from the US version. If yous're in the US you can download using the link at the very bottom like normal, merely if you're in Europe or elsewhere where that link doesn't piece of work and so employ this 1 instead:

Non-US App Store Link: Professor Layton and Pandora's Box HD

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