Universal LAYTON BROTHERS MYSTERY ROOM - (by Level-5 Inc.)

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  1. Sanuku

    Sanuku Well-Known Member

    iOS = Cheap, great Games, every Week. The among each Week is madness and to be honest it wouldn`t be the first time a funny, interesting Game would disappear from the first Page without everyone knowing about it.
     
  2. L.Lawliet

    L.Lawliet Well-Known Member

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    Better than no Layton... I'm downloading now.

    I hope someone who's played this before can tell us how long each case usually is. I hope this game isn't too short. Maybe like Phoenix Wright trilogy length? :)
     
  3. Pivi

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    Layton themed game with Phoenix Wright feel? TAKE MY MONEY!
     
  4. Aventador

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    Can anyone who has bough all cases comment on how long they are , would be much appreciated ?
    Game is way more polished than Ace Atorrney which looks like a lame port compared to this.
     
  5. Alister

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    #46 Alister, Jun 27, 2013
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    Wow!!This is the first Layton game that ive played and I must say,I'm very impressed..It might be the vibrant jazzy tunes,the clever dialogue,brilliant arrangement of the events unfolding,the sleuthing game mechanics or the beautiful art that really sucked me in to its world..There's just something here thats very immersive..

    As a long time fan of the Sherlock Holmes mythos,I really appreciate this game..Bravo Level-5!:)
     
  6. theblackw0lf

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    Where is the murder weapon in the first case? I've clicked in everything in the crime scene.

    I had thought I knew what the weapon was also
     
  7. Appletini

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    Just a reminder, folks: although the above is innocuous enough, please don't post answers or questions that could be construed as spoilers without using spoiler tags,
    like so
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    To answer your question,
    you'll need to remember to use the zoom function when you're looking around the crime scene
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  8. sizzlakalonji

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    I don't want to post spoilers, so I'll just say make sure that you've not just clicked everything, but also zoomed in.
     
  9. dexter77

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    #50 dexter77, Jun 27, 2013
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    Shorter than PW trilogy but long enough for its price, this game is very cheap compared to PWT, the only thing is that it's a one shot title, when you achieve the end there's no chance to play it again if the devs will not add more
    chapters, luckily the game structure it's open to allow future updates, i'm positive about this aspect, if many people will buy the full set i see no reason why this can not happen!
     
  10. orangecan

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    Thoroughly enjoying this so far, just starting the second mystery, its basically Phoenix wright slightly tweaked. So far it feels a little simpler than the Phoenix games but I'd hope that like those it reveals new gameplay elements as it goes on.
    I can't wait to play the rest the episodes and the only thing that's going to stop me buying them immediately is finding the time to play it.

    I'd never heard of this before yesterday so a very pleasant suprise, it plays very well on the touch 4th gen as well.
     
  11. Xexist

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    This deserves more attention than it has been getting
     
  12. squashy

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    Given how loved the Layton franchise is, I think enough people are buying. The thread, well it won't go anywhere.
     
  13. Schutzenegger

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    I can't find the murder weapon for case 2. I have check marks on every location but Layton still says I'm wrong. I've obviously missed something, but where?
     
  14. Appletini

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    Hint:
    Try taking a closer look at the few objects in the room that could conceivably have caused the fatal wound. You might want to take some time and think laterally.
     
  15. L.Lawliet

    L.Lawliet Well-Known Member

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    Just started the first case and played through a bit. The game is fun and I love these kinds of mystery solving cases. It's great!

    I do have problems with some of the UI. Games like these really need a save ANYWHERE function. Otherwise you have to keep investigating until you get a checkpoint and you won't know when that is. Otherwise... start over from the last checkpoint -_-

    Also the loading game is SUPER redundant. They just need a continue button. You hit start on the main screen, hit load game, pick your game file, confirm your choice, pick your case, pick reopen case option, confirm your choice.... and then it loads. Phoenix Wright, you just click the load button and pick the manual save or the auto save. Wow.
     
  16. Appletini

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    Layton uses separate player profiles (the "file of cases" you choose when you first boot up the game), whereas Phoenix Wright doesn't, so a simple initial "continue" option wouldn't work. After that you simply choose whichever case you want to (re)play, and either restart it or continue from where you left off, which isn't particularly unreasonable.

    If a "continue most recent case" option were included, it would literally only save you one tap, which hardly seems worth being bothered by.
     
  17. toxiccheese

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    I can't believe how badly translated this game is. The localization is just barely ok. I find it distracting.
     
  18. Aventador

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    Look at page 3 of this thread, bottom post from Appletini.
    Characters use different dialects and as much as it may be confusing to grasp meaning of some words and grammar when you read them for first time and they might look wrong or twisted, if you read sentence 2 or more times you'll see that there's indeed no grammar mistakes.Actually I find it refreshing for game to use other dialects apart from generic one we see everywhere, learned a couple of new words :)
     
  19. mixicat

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    I joined this forum just so I could post this question, which has been driving me crazy since I finished the first case this morning. Did anyone else understand what the killer's motive was? I felt like it started to be explained and then was abruptly cut off with the detective saying his work was done. Anyone have thoughts on that? Other than that, I loved the game. So curious about this Phoenix Wright game you are all comparing it to too.
     

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