The fourth and final game in the Professor Layton series for the Nintendo DS maintains the same high quality of the previous three. They’ve almost become an end-of-year institution, and I for one really enjoy my annual Layton adventure with brain-tickling puzzles.

The story of the Spectre’s Call takes place a number of years before the story of the Curious Village, in the days before Luke became Layton’s apprentice. So this time we are treated to a new apprentice character, the light-hearted Emmy Altava. She joins him as his apprentice just as he’s on his way to Misthallery after a mysterious letter from an old friend.

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