With Halloween just around the corner, players get ready to celebrate all things creepy. To help with the celebrations Nintendo has introduced a brand new, terrifying adventure that brings all of the latest tricks and treats to fans of portable gaming.
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask is the latest installment to the highly popular puzzle solving series is now available for the Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL systems. Players find themselves immersed in the mysteries and puzzles throughout the game with new characters, a shady villain and hundreds of challenging and entertaining puzzles that can be solved by using the 3DS touch screen. Veterans of the series or new comers will be given a brand new and engrossing mystery to solve. For those puzzle fans out there, you can look forward to 365 additional downloadable puzzles starting October 28, receiving one per day, for a whole year at no additional cost.
“This Halloween, we’re giving fans a spooky mystery that offers portable gaming fun all year round,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask is the most immersive Layton mystery yet, and it’s the kind of uniquely entertaining, brain-teasing game that’s simply not available on any other systems.”
While exploring the environment players will run into a slew of new and colorful characters, and many of these people just might hold an important clue that can help you solve the puzzle and move on in the story. Speaking of puzzles, the challenges in Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask are far more weaved into the main storyline than any other Professor Layton game before. With a perfect mixture of logic, visuals, spot-the-difference and other puzzle types the game stays up beat and players are sure to never get bored from playing this game for hours on end as they come closer and closer to revealing the identity of the villain.
Gamers and holiday shoppers alike can purchase the full game at retail locations nation-wide. Or they can skip the crowd and simply download the game on their very own from the Nintendo eShop using wireless broadband connection. No matter the method of purchase, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask sells at a suggested retail price of $39.99. Club Nintendo members who download and register this game before January 6, 2013 will be receiving a free download code for the Donkey Kong: Original Edition game. Donkey Kong: Original Edition has never been seen in the U.S. and is not available for purchase.
Don’t forget that the Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, please visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds
For even more information about Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, please visit, http://professorlayton.nintendo.com/miraclemask.
