Super easy.
#9 - Professor Layton and the Last Specter (DS)
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds/958826-professor-layton-and-the-last-specter
I tend to have trouble finding a lot to say about Layton games. They don’t particularly change from iteration to iterations (which I funny because I just spent two posts complaining about how Revelations didn’t change LOL), but I always find them enjoyable. The only thing that really sets them apart from each other is the story and the variety of puzzles, and in both cases Last Specter ends up doing pretty well for itself. I think the story is probably the most interesting of the four games through about the first half, but in typical Layton fashion it kinda goes off the rails at the end. Whereas I was able to accept the goofy answers to the questions of the original trilogy, Last Specter’s revelations push even the limits of my suspension of disbelief. But it’s all good because Layton’s doing his awesome Layton stuff, and seeing the origins of Luke is neat. Emmy’s not bad either. Puzzle-wise there’s a pretty good variety, even if the game leans a little to heavily on my sworn nemesis - the sliding block puzzle - towards the end and in the bonus puzzles. They did seem a little easier overall as well, I’m pretty sure I hardly used any hint coins in this one, whereas I wasn’t afraid to throw them at any puzzle that seemed too obtuse in the first three games.
There’s also this Layton Life thing included with the game. It’s billed as a 100-hour RPG or some such nonsense, which of course got me interested. In reality it’s more of a glorified (unglorified?) version of Animal Crossing where everyone looks like they belong in EarthBound. Supposedly it was developed by those guys. Point is I didn’t think it was very good so I pretty much ignored it. But that’s not important because the core game is still Layton I and enjoy myself some Layton from time to time.
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