SamuraiSam
2004
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2007
A neat idea for a game. You play as a kid who is at his friends house, and you have to beat a bunch of challenges within a series of made-up NES games. When you're not playing one of them, you can read the games' manuals and also magazines that give you hints and cheats. The dialogue between you & your friend is designed to resemble the gaming culture of the '80s. The games themselves aren't anything special though.
This is the fourth Layton game. After the excellent Unwound Future, I expected this one to be of similar quality, but sadly, it's not. The story is unremarkable. Don Paolo doesn't even make an appearance. The pacing takes a hit at the end of the game when the minimum puzzle requirement you get is really high. I also felt like there were too many math/geometry puzzles. Felt like I was in high school again.