Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box cover

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box 2007

Also known as Professor Layton and Pandora's Box

Released: November 29, 2007
Genres: Point-and-click · Puzzle · Visual Novel
Platforms: Nintendo DS · Legacy Mobile Device
Developer: LEVEL-5
Publisher: Nintendo
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Where to buy

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Is it still worth playing?

Level-5's second Professor Layton game, in which Layton and his self proclaimed apprentice Luke travel cross country by train to solve the mystery behind a box said to kill anyone who opens it. It is an adventure and puzzle game in which you control them through several locations, exploring, solving mysteries and completing many types of puzzles, including brain teasers, sliding puzzles and logic puzzles. Each puzzle comes with a value in picarats, you have unlimited time, and there are three hints for each, each costing a hint coin. If you are wrong you can retry indefinitely, though the first wrong answers lower the puzzle's value. An enhanced mobile port came out in 2018. Every stop still has its own brainteaser, across puzzles spread along a train journey.