Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
As with previous Professor Layton games, Unwound Future is an adventure game where the player solves puzzles offered by local citizens to progress the story forward, through dialogue and around 32 minutes of…
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future is a point-and-click developed by LEVEL-5, released 27 November 2008 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 18 hrs to finish.
What Professor Layton and the Unwound Future is
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future is a point-and-click game developed by LEVEL-5 and released in 2008. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As Layton and Luke are invited to witness a demonstration of a time machine built by Dr. Alain Stahngun, the experiment goes awry, causing the disappearance of Stahngun and the prime minister, Bill Hawks. A week later, as numerous scientists have been reported missing, Layton and Luke receive a letter purporting to be from Luke ten years in the future, leading the two to a quaint clock shop in the London back alleys. Inside, the old couple show the two another time machine in the guise of a giant clock, and they find themselves in a drastically-changed quasi-steam punk London ten years from their present, where they meet the Future Luke. He explains that in this future, Layton has become…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Professor Layton series
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future is the third of 12 entries we hold in the Professor Layton series. It arrived 12 months after Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. The next entry was Professor Layton and the Last Specter in 2009. Its critic score of 93 is 9 points above the series average of 84. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 501 rated point-and-click games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 28 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 100 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18 hrs.
What it launched against
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future launched on 27 November 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Professor Layton and the Unwound Future yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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