Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (DS)

Unwound Future is an adventure game in which the player solves riddles presented by local inhabitants to advance the tale via dialogue and around 32 minutes of full-motion video. The user navigates the game by clicking on still photos of different locales. The user may use the DS touchscreen to interact with non-player characters and collect puzzles, as well as search anywhere on the backdrop for hint coins, with certain spots requiring many taps to disclose a secret hint coin or puzzle. Puzzles are many kinds of brain teasers that include visual, arithmetic, and logic.

There is no time limit for solving puzzles, and the player can get up to three hints for one hint coin each; a new feature in Unwound Future is a "super hint", which costs two coins and can only be purchased after the other three hints have been revealed, but which nearly reveals the puzzle's solution. If the player correctly solves the problem, they receive a number of "Picarats", a type of cash in the game. If the player guesses the wrong answer, the number of picarats available on consecutive attempts will be reduced. Players can visit specific regions to play previously unknown or unsolvable riddles left behind as the tale proceeds.

As a reward for completing puzzles, the player can choose among three mini-games that support further puzzles in Layton's Trunk that can be attempted at any time. One mini-game is based on sticker books, with the goal of placing the proper stickers at the appropriate points in the book to make the tale make sense. Another involves teaching a parrot to bring goods to a character while utilizing a succession of ropes as perches or rebounding barriers. The third mini-game involves driving a toy vehicle over particular squares on a map using a series of directional markers. Layton's Bag also provides information on the tale and characters, as well as a list of completed puzzles that the player may go through and try again.

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