To start with Henry Hatsworth is a breath of fresh air: a new platforming game with a great new character from EA, a publisher that was once famous for its release-every-year strategy. But, sadly, it turns stale after a while and becomes downright stenchy near the end of the game as the cheapness of the level design is bound to cause all but the most hardened gamer to throw down their DS in disgust.

Henry Hatsworth is the Pompous Adventurers Club’s number 1 adventurer. He’s as stereotypically 19th century British as anyone could be, complete with bowler hat, monocle and large mustache. The game begins with Hatsworth in the jungle trying to find the mysterious golden hat. His nemesis, the Pompous Adventurers Club’s number 2 adventurer, Weasleby, is also after it, but for far more nefarious reasons. It turns out the hat is a device that can straddle two worlds – our world and the Puzzle Realm, a place that looks like Tetris, or Bejewelled. This is really just an elaborate plot device to weave platforming and puzzling into one game.

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