Professor Layton And The Lost Future
Developer Level-5 Publisher Nintendo Format DS Release 2008
Even back in the late noughties, Hershel Layton felt wonderfully off-trend. Blending logic puzzles with the kind of crowd and scored a huge hit with 2007’s . Successive sequels sensibly didn’t mess with the formula, but refined it: the third game, with its genuinely touching finale, remains the standout. It’s a trilogy-capper that still satisfies, even if it wasn’t quite the end of the adventures for Layton and his young apprentice Luke.
