Just wanted to offer up a quick review on the new Professor Layton game.  Essentially it's more of the same - walking around and solving puzzles while more of the story passes.  Puzzles on average do seem harder though.  There's a few nice changes in regards to the minigames though. You're not just assembling paintings to access more puzzles and organzing furniture now.

First there's a tea making game where you experiment with different ingredients to make new flavors of tea. Apparently there's a lot of thirsty people out there who badly need tea, but they're not so thirsty that they're still not picky as hell.  So occasionally you're given a new ingredient and need to experiment with that.  It's fun because it's a little more interactive than the others as your mixing will allow you to progress further with other characters.

Next there's the Fat Hampster game (Happy birthday Raven).  You have an overweight hampster and you have to make him walk a certain about of steps to get him to shed some pounds.  To encourage him to walk you have to put certain treats and obstacles  so that he takes enough steps to lose weight.  This is surprisingly fun too.

Finally there's the Camera game. It starts out with you just finding pieces of a camera, but once it's put together you can take pictures of certain screens. Then you compare the picture to the actual screen and start finding differences between the two. When you've found all the differences you'll be rewarded with a hidden puzzle on that screen.  Again it's a nice little touch that makes the game a little more interactive instead of just moving from one puzzle to another.

So moral of the story here is if you liked the original you'll like this one too. And if you didn't like the original you're clearly a Neaderthal who should stick to Halo.

gamingeek said:

Is Diabolical Box actually Prof layton 2?

Yikes at Kingdom Hearts.

yes, but it will be called pandora's box in europe which is a better title.

we've had that "kingdom hearts" photo before ... i remember someone wondering where that guy's hand was.

bugsonglass said:

Dvader said:

OMG Ratchet space exploration, tons and tons of Galaxy like spherical worlds to explore!  Best Ratchet game ever.

looks very promising

 I wonder what score Gamespot will give it this time?

bugsonglass said:

the gods each put one of the most horrible things they could each think of, into a box which she was to carry with her down to earth but which she was instructed to never open, for any reason, ever.  and that is the titular pandora's box.  

So like a woman she thought that the box contained a new fancy moisturiser and just couldn't resist. Bloody typical.

I bet she can't drive for shit either.

Ravenprose said:

Gamestop has these Wii Mario Bros Classic Grips for pre-order for $12.99 in four different colors:

It's basically a controller shell for the Wii Remote that works like this:

Link

Seems like an interesting concept.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Archangel3371 said:

Ravenprose said:

Gamestop has these Wii Mario Bros Classic Grips for pre-order for $12.99 in four different colors:

It's basically a controller shell for the Wii Remote that works like this:

Link

Seems like an interesting concept.

 

Why would anyone want those? For $24.99 you can get the much superior classic controller which isn't a mere shell and has all the buttons necessary for all VC systems.

 Can you play New Super Mario Bros Wii with a Classic Controller?

Archangel3371 said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Archangel3371 said:

Ravenprose said:

Gamestop has these Wii Mario Bros Classic Grips for pre-order for $12.99 in four different colors:

It's basically a controller shell for the Wii Remote that works like this:

Link

Seems like an interesting concept.

 

Why would anyone want those? For $24.99 you can get the much superior classic controller which isn't a mere shell and has all the buttons necessary for all VC systems.

 Can you play New Super Mario Bros Wii with a Classic Controller?

 

I don't see why not.

 This is Nintendo we are talking about!