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Aunque es ligeramente peor que el anterior para mí, tiene momentazos.

While the first game was alright, I started to love the series from here onwards.

Folsense off the perc after this one 😂😂

I don't like the way the train stuff segments sections of this game and I felt the ending twist was too out of nowhere to really hit right. Better than Curious Village but this series doesn't hit greatness until its third entry

The game that got me into Layton and my favorite entry to this day. Mind-blowing plot twist when I was 12 or whatever, it's crazy but the setup makes it work.


i liked it, pretty forgettable in the end though

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Love is in the air?

WRONG. Gas leak

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No eres de coña ni te están grabando tienes 80 años tu mujer te abandonó y vives en un pueblo en ruinas

A lot of solid things in this second outing of Professor Layton. However a sillier/weaker story with some obvious twists, some side stuff that's a bit of a step down, and some puzzles that just felt fairly tedious drop this one down a bit compared to Curious Village

Continuando con la saga, me rejugué este juego en directo y la verdad que me gustó bastante recordarlo

The mobile port for this is pretty sweet. Would just whip this game out do a few puzzles and put it away. Way better than checking whatever social media thing I was going to check.

The game itself is good. Had some good puzzles, had some stinkers, and the story is alright. You get what you expect from Professor Layton.

layton having a cuntress off with a vampire was for sure one of the lesser expected plotpoints of this game so imagine how little i expected the twist to be what it was

Besides a pretty disappointing final puzzle (the absolute last one in bonus), this game improves infinitely on the first game which in itself was practically perfect.

The best Layton game, hands down.
Pandora's Box iterates on Curious Village in every possible way while still feeling cozy and standing alone as its own engaging story, as well as having some of the series' strongest puzzles.

Makes me want to cry just thinking about it 10/10

ill be real i dont remember the plot? very well? i remember the twist but i dont remember what the diabolical box was

first game? that was a dessert of a game man from the art style to the puzzles it really felt like a great start of a series

this makes it look like a bitch

THIS kinda fucking murders it just based on how much they improved the story, last kinda felt like a background to the puzzles now it might make you think the other way ocassionally

beautiful music, cutscenes, puzzles, themes, characters, style, I think I like everything about this game, even the holy-shit-so-complex tea system they barge in randomly into your briefcase (works like a menu in a charmful way) kinda makes me feel alright

this WILL sell you on the other games

this game makes me happy and has no faults that I can point out fuck this is why I like gaming



Folsense makes me cry everytime

MAN. the twist in this game is so fucking stupid IUHEIRULGJA
but this game also feels very iconic in so many of the scenes, and the puzzles are still mostly quality

I love Pandora's/Diabolic Box thanks to a luxury train, Folsense mood and the soundtrack which is one of my favourite OSTs.

im still thinking about that guess my age puzzle

They should've brought some copium in those carriages tbh

The second Professor Layton game starts on a train and promises different locations to explore. While it eventually settles down into a main place, the variety in the beginning was really nice. Diabolical Box has one of the wackier plots in the series and I wasn’t necessarily as invested this time around, but still loved spending more time with the main characters and appreciated the action-packed climax (it’s the only sword fight you’ll see in the series).

The puzzles in this one are about on par with the first game. The novelty may be gone but the rock-solid foundations for this franchise help Diabolical Box be a worthy sequel and another fun adventure with Layton and Luke.

A bunch of the puzzles in this are dreadful, horribly worded shit. Where the actual puzzle isn't particularly difficult but the writers have done such a shit job explaining it that you have to guess what they meant.

The rest of the game is alright. Missing a lot of the charm of the original, try as them might there's no replicating the magic of the village.

My introduction to the series and a fine puzzle game with great art and anime cutscenes.


im telling u that final puzzle on the ds and the ending song with vocals just hits different

This was my first Layton game so I have a fair amount of nostalgic appreciation for the game's music, art and characters. It definitely refines the ideas introduced in Curious Village and I loved the setting this time around as well; train settings are always nice ways to show a lot of variety which is evident from the shift from urban London streets to the countryside town of Dropstone. Some puzzles are a bit wordy and overly complicated and some characters felt a little too unexplored (cough cough Flora) but overall the story behind Folsense and Anton was very interesting. I've given this the same rating as Curious Village but I do find Pandora's Box more enjoyable overall. A thoroughly charming experience from front to back

153/153 puzzles completed, 5,500/5,500 picarats, 230/230 hint coins collected and none used. Carrying straight on from playing through Professor Layton and the Curious Village, the second game in the series continues in much the same style, with another enjoyable variety of puzzles threaded around an enjoyable if implausible story. The puzzles seem to be weighted slightly less towards those with a trick than was the case in Curious Village, which I'd count as a positive, but otherwise, Pandora's Box has all of the same qualities of its prequel in the series.

fully forgot my 3ds had a microphone until that last puzzle lmao
great game!! i thought the train was a really good way of giving it more variation in setting in the first one, and i loved the story (even though the murder solution is kinda silly)