{"id":360,"date":"2010-10-23T01:55:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T08:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-10-24T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T01:25:39","slug":"professor-layton-and-the-really-familiar-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Professor Layton and the Really Familiar Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/layton3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-414\" title=\"Professor Layton and the Unwound Future\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/layton3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/layton3.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/layton3-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I somehow lost track of the fact that the third Professor Layton game, The Unwound Future, had finally arrived stateside a few weeks ago. Before long, I&#8217;d not just plowed through to the finish, but solved all the leftover puzzles and unlocked all the bonus content. So from that perspective, it&#8217;s another success, a wonderfully addictive blend of puzzles and story.<\/p>\n<p>But I can understand anyone who feels it&#8217;s a retread: it is. There&#8217;s a new mystery, but there&#8217;s nothing new about the format: you talk to oddball characters who keep challenging you with 150 brain teasers that you feel like you&#8217;ve solved before. And unlike the first game, which often felt like it was paying homage to classic puzzles like the Tower of Hanoi, the puzzles don&#8217;t always feel as inspired this time through. So this one gets a <strong>B+<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there&#8217;s a bit more to be said about the story, which makes some interesting, unconventional choices. That&#8217;ll be left for a spoiler-laden post later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I somehow lost track of the fact that the third Professor Layton game, The Unwound Future, had finally arrived stateside a few weeks ago. Before long, I&#8217;d not just plowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-ds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}