This is no Brain Age game, but it challenges your mind in fun and amazing ways that you might not even understand.
You play during the game as both Professor Layton and his apprentince, Luke. What happens is that the Professor is heading to St. Mystere since he got a request from Lady Delia. What happend is that her late husband, Baron Reinhold, passed away two months ago. His will was disclosed and read something around "The Reinhold family treasure, the golden apple, is hidden somewhere beneath this village. To whomever successfully locates this treasure, I offer the whole of my estate." Naturally, everyone set out for it but after long searches, everybody came back empty handed. A little later on when you get to the manor, Lady Delia's cat, Claudia, is scared off by a mysterious noice. Professor Layton and Luke have to go get back Claudia, but when they come back, they find something horrible has happend. Lady Delia's cousin was ed, and Professor Layton just happens to be a suspect. So this game unlike Brain Age and Big Brain Academy actually has a fun and intresting plot while still maintaining the challenging puzzles.
The game challenges you in many different ways ranging from easy to tough, such as "What is the last letter of the alplhabet? Hint: It isn't Z". Not all these puzzles are easy enough for young children. Most puzzles require lots of thinking but when figured out, everything makes perfect sense.
The game has supported Wi-Fi connection. What you can do with it is download brand new puzzles every week for free of course, but it's been closly proven that it is already on the game, all you're doing is downloading a code to make it playable.
The game should take you maybe, 10 or more hours to beat, but it's still not over after that. Once you beat the game, you can unlock some more way tougher puzzles. Those should take you 10 times longer to beat maybe, but all of them are still worth a try. But it's STILL not over after that. There are some videos you can unlock which get more into the game, but sorry folks, you'll have to wait because to unlock those as those codes are in Professor Layton 2!
This game challenges you in it's own way unlike most other educational games. With an actual plot and lots of things to do in this game, this is probably one of the hardest and yet funnest educational game yet.