Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Overview
As with previous Professor Layton games, Unwound Future is an adventure game where the player solves puzzles offered by local citizens to progress the story forward, through dialogue and around 32 minutes of full motion video. The player moves about the game through still images of locations. The player can use the DS touchscreen to tap on non-player characters to start a dialog or to obtain a puzzle, and also can search anywhere on the background for hint coins, with some areas needing to be tapped several times to reveal a secret hint coin or puzzle. Puzzles are brainteasers of many varieties, including visual, math, and logic. There is no time limit to solve puzzles, and the player can get up to 3 hints at a cost of one hint coin each; a new feature in Unwound Future is a "super hint", costing 2 coins, that can only be bought after the other 3 hints have been revealed, but that nearly reveals the puzzle's solution. If the player is correct in solving the puzzle, they gain a number of "Picarats", a form of currency within the game. Guessing the incorrect answer will reduce the number of picarats the player can get on subsequent attempts. Players can visit certain areas in order to play undiscovered or unsolved puzzles that are left behind as the story progresses.
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Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - Tips and secrets
• Hint Coins: find the 3 hidden Golden Apple-like coin recharge spots in London to get extra hint coins (there are multiple recharge points; explore thoroughly).
• Inspector's House (Diagnose the Door): complete a set number of puzzles from your inventory to unlock the Inspector's House and its extra challenges.
• Inventor's House: collect invention pieces and complete the machine to unlock the Inventor's House.
• Player's House: fully complete each minigame (toy car, pens and parrot-like robot) to unlock their final challenges.
• fanciest Restaurateur's House: download and solve all the weekly downloadable puzzles to unlock it (requires Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, now discontinued).
• Toy car minigame: upgrading the car with all found parts makes the hardest courses much easier.
• Tip: if you're stuck on a puzzle, move on and return later, or use hint coins; many optional puzzles are easier solved on paper.
• Tip: talk to every character after story progress; many new puzzles only appear at specific moments.
