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Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is the sixth and – hitherto – last game in the series to feature the archeologist Hershell Layton as the protagonist. It is, however, an uneven game that tries to offer more freedom to the player but at the expense of pacing and narrative focus. It still has its share of bizarre and tragic characters, but the narrative loses steam too soon to have the same impact of previous installments.
The story begins when Layton receives a letter from an esteemed professor that tells him of an archeological breakthrough: professor Sycamore claims that he’s found a “living mummy” in the isolated and snow-laden town of Fraenbourg. Hershell Layton, [...]
Professor Layton is a franchise that never needed constant revamps to work. Its games, after all, are about only two things: their story and puzzles – and two puzzles are never the same. The fact that The Miracle Mask doesn’t do much to reinvent the wheel, then, is far from a problem, as it still offers the franchise’s best story after The Unwound Future and a large number of puzzles to solve.
The Miracle Mask begins with Professor Layton being called by a former friend to the town of Monte D’Or, which is being terrorized by a mysterious fellow called The Masked Gentleman. After arriving in the town during carnival festivities, Layton is witness to one of the villain’s [...]