I am a huge fan of the Professor Layton series and look forward each time anew like a little kid on the new part. Accordingly, this was once my anticipation. This was not disappointed after the first half an hour I was like tied.
Both the characters and the environment were in my opinion really implemented carefully and in detail. Especially the background appear by the 3D effect more vivid and more realistic than ever. The animated scenes are as always in very good quality and do not just this game but generally all games of the Professor Layton series to a real pleasure.
The new feature in which you can search the environment for puzzles, hint coins and curiosities with a magnifying glass I find really good job and facilitates a search tremendously. To color the orange magnifying glass you should tap the appropriate place. On this sites you will find puzzles, hint coins, curiosities or short comments of the main characters also be very funny;). I myself really had to laugh at some of the comments.
The puzzles I found very varied. Some were simple, at other widerrum I needed one or two tips as food for thought and in some I'm really in spite of advice almost one hour sitting off to these demanding head nuts to crack;) But genaus that makes it so appealing. Would all the puzzles be solved within a short time it would not be nearly as exciting.
Where we have already arrived at the next point of the story. Until the very end I mitgefiebert and was captivated by the exciting action. After about 2/3 I had a guess who could be the masked gentleman, yet I found it exciting until the end. Although my guess turned out to be right; P
The mini-games in the case of the professor made for variety. So it was never boring or monotonous.
Although I have the story already completely played out and all 135 puzzles solved in history, and half of Rästelhäuser (yes I durchgesuchtet in the autumn holidays; P otherwise I have because of my training namely hardly time), but I felt the game experience compared its predecessor a lot longer. Alone for the story I used 35h. At the call of the phantom I was after 26h season by the history. In addition, we will get a whole year every day another mystery served ^ _ ^ so if that's nothing, although downloading has initially does not work the same because the server could be reached until a few days later)
Even now I'm really looking forward to the next game (which at the same time, unfortunately, to be the last) and can only highly recommend this game.
So I hope you are interested for this round successful game to have at least woken up a little.
MFG