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Finally got this on IPad. It is no classic like the Curious Village. It is only OK. I hear on the 3DS release they cut the 3D. WTF.

Anyway, playing the first Layton game is a better use of your time. If you can find the game cheap it is OK.

On IOS it was $15.99 so I am Ok with it. No Aggie winner here.

For me the storytelling was more of a disappointment than the puzzles. The main Layton games are about large mysteries that span entire cities and lead into confrontations with larger-than-life villains. In this one you have a bunch of unrelated pedestrian cases that mostly don’t have any true villains at all.
The episodic nature also makes difficulty scaling harder (cannot do a “solve X puzzles to continue” gate) and means you have to do more work to find the harder hidden puzzles, with no Granny Riddleton and not much backtracking.

The anime has recently been explaining what happened with the Professor and is about to reunite them, so I hope an old-school installment is possible again. I appreciate that Katrielle is her own character and I do think she’s a good one, but I must say I prefer the kind of stories her father gets in.

I am playing it through. I did buy it for $15.99 and want my money’s worth for it.

Too bad I didn’t get a used 3DS copy, then I could return it. Another game series gone bad.

Mikekelly - 18 December 2018 08:20 PM

I hear on the 3DS release they cut the 3D. WTF.

Sadly, Nintendo essentially caved to pressure from concerned parent groups in the US, removing the 3D from a bunch of titles that seemed particularly likely to be played by children over fears of it being bad for their eyes. They even made a special version of the 3DS without the 3D (calling it the 2DS, a simple and apt name for an obvious step back, even ditching the clamshell design for something uglier but not as liable to be broken by kids).

Meh. The 3D was always more of a distraction than an addition. I never turned it on for more than ten minutes per game and consider it little more than a useless gimmick.

The 3D was kinda cool for augmented reality games (AR) like spirit camera. But very few of these kind of games was released on the system.

There is a deluxe 2DS for sale called the NEW 2DS XL. It has a clamshell design, large screens and is more powerful than the regular 2DS.