Weak puzzles make it hard to recommend this game for any reason other than rounding out Layton's plot. Unfortunately, I don't think it's a very satisfying conclusion. Still, Sycamore and Aurora are good traveling companions. I just wish they'd focused their attention more on a smaller environment. Trying to go nationhopping over many months feels like it's out of anything but Layton, whose greatest strength to me always seemed to be focusing on smaller stories and more limited environments so that they could be explored in great detail.