Professor Layton and Pandora's Box

This just screams the Orient express

The second game in the series and it starts more serious than the other. We actually have a murder case as an old friend to the professor ends up dead after finding the titular Pandora's box and Layton and Luke has to take the Molentary Express to solve this puzzle. It's freaking Agatha Christi. Travelling the train is really fun and while traveling we enter this 50 year old town and then onward to the dark and mysterious Folsense. And really, it's a bit boring to travel the town areas since it's just pacing back and forth all the time, but at least they gave you more mini games to play between the puzzle solving, like brewing tea or train the hamster.

I can't believe it either, a dead person in a professor Layton game

Admittedly Folsense starts boring, but the more you find out the more interesting it get. A town that was griped by some disease, vampires and cravings for tea. Inspector Chelmey makes his first real appearance since he wasn't actually in the last game since Don Paolo impersonated him. Flora also returns... for a while until she gets replaced by Don Paolo. Really, this Arch-nemesis of Layton has as of yet only done identity thefts. And now also two cases of theft that went incomplete. He's not really good as arch-enemy really. I wondered what he feel Layton did to him to be so obsessed.

And now we got vampires as well, best Layton-game so far

So the puzzle of the Pandora's box is that it's made out of an ore that gives away an hallucinogenic gas which somehow makes people kill themselves? It makes people very easy to suggestions. The material is found in Folsense (which I guess is a play on the words fool and sense) which is the cause of the disease and as well as the vampires since the count used the effect (unknowingly it seems) to scare of trespassers. In fact the count is caught in some eternal nightmare as he misses his wife (?) while being alone in his castle only surrounded by his own illusions. As Layton drags him out of the shadows of time he gets more mad and it ends in a sword fight between the professor and duke. A sword fight so intense that the castle crumbles around them. Now, the twist is that the duke really is around 70 (?) years old while he appears like 20-30 something due to the gas, but how the hell was he able to cut a steel chain holding up a chandelier? Must be a really sharp sword.

Well, it's not a MAGIC DUEL TO THE DEATH!

Ending is that he finally accepts what has happened to him as his granddaughter finally reaches out to him and he unveils the secret of the Pandora's Box. With the right actions you are able to open a secret compartment where he hid a letter to his loved one, but it had been switched out with her answer as she somehow got hold of the box. And this puzzle could have stumped many people due to being the only one using a certain thing the DS and 3DS have. The microphone. Yes, the very final puzzle solution is to blow the mic. And no, I didn't cheat on that one. I did on the sliding puzzles and had a huge itch to do it on the make the silver balls disappear games. The rest not so much.... oh and one puzzle needed you to use a real train ticket which comes with the game. I luckily got one even after buying the game second hand, but at that time it was at my parents place so I had to look it up as well. But overall was decent puzzles. 18 hours for one playthrough and I can't wait to play the third game.

Wait, he survived? Meaning no murder? Come on!