Layton: Unwound Future in HD

LEVEL-5 Inc.

About this game

Professor Layton and Luke take on a new mystery that starts with a letter from the future!

With over 17 million units sold worldwide, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future is the third installment of the popular Professor Layton Series, digitally remastered in HD for mobile devices.

— Traverse Town with a Tap of the Finger! —
Explore the world of Professor Layton anywhere on mobile devices!
Investigate the extraordinary London of the future and sleuth out puzzles with a tap of the finger!

— Now in HD —
Long-time loved puzzles now powered up in gorgeously rendered graphics!

These tricky puzzles, designed by puzzle master Akira Tago, accompany a continuation of Professor Layton’s adventure, along with high-definition backgrounds and animation!

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— The Story —
After solving a multitude of curious conundrums, renowned archeologist Professor Layton receives a rather peculiar letter.

The sender of this letter is none other than his assistant Luke...but from 10 years in the future! "Future Luke" has found himself in quite a predicament. The London he knows and loves has been thrown into absolute chaos.

Initially thinking that Luke may have simply been pulling his leg with a harmless jest, the professor cannot help but recall the terrible events that occurred the previous week...

The start of which was an unveiling ceremony of mankind's first time machine, attended by many prominent figures from throughout the nation.

During a demonstration, the time machine went out of control and engulfed the audience in a terrible explosion.

Several of the attendees mysteriously vanished into thin air, including Prime Minister Bill Hawks.

Unable to shake the feeling that the time machine's explosion may somehow be connected, Professor Layton and Luke set off to the location mentioned in the letter, a clock shop on Midland Road in Baldwin, embarking on what might be the biggest mystery they have ever encountered.

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Game Features:
• The 3rd installment of the popular Layton Series
• Over 200 brain teasers, riddles, and logic puzzles designed by Akira Tago
• Beautifully remastered in HD for mobile devices
• Engaging mini-games that include a strange picture book, a toy car puzzle, and a package delivering parrot
• Offline play after initial download
• Playable in English, French, and Spanish
• Requires Android OS 4.4 or higher.

Ratings and reviews

I haven't gotten very far in this game yet, but I have played and beaten the two previous games on my phone, and they were really good. But the calibration for the touch screen is off with this game. I'm assuming it has to do with the white bar to input text at the top of the screen, since it wasn't there with the first two games. It feels wrong to play this point-and-click puzzle game if the pointing and clicking doesn't work properly.

One of the best entries in the original trilogy. The only thing I miss about having it on the DS is that you could put the console to sleep and pick up the game later as if you never left. Here you need to jump through the title screen and a recap but that's not a deal breaker. The story too, had me gripped until the end, I even shed a tear. No spoilers here though, pick it up and play it yourself.

As a Layton fan, seeing Unwound Future in HD quality is amazing. The graphics look great. It even looks like they redid the graphics for the car minigame! My only gripe seems to be the sound effects in the Parrot minigame. For some reason, I can't hear the sounds of the parrot jumping. I know they were there in the original since I can hear them in my Nintendo DS version. Also, the text in the boxes are a little off center but it could be because of my phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 8). Great port!

What's new

-Bug fixes