Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

This game is a step up from its predecessor, as the game manages to incorporate a little something called the memo pad to really help you figure out the puzzles. The story is more interesting too, but still it has those puzzles that just want to make you stab that stylus right through the screen. This time around the professor and his young apprentice are on a train after they discover the professor's old mentor apparently murdered at his home. He had been studying something called the "Elyision" box. Well everything points to this train so off they go. The game is really fun there for a while as you ride the train, and stop at a little farming type town. Then you end up at the primary location and even more mystery awaits you here as you hear of ghosts and vampires that may or may not be lurking here. The puzzles are a bit better incorporated into the story, but they could still work on that for another game, and there is a nasty little stretch where the puzzles are nearly all math related and were driving me crazy. However, for the most part I enjoyed them and solved them rather easily. My favorites usually the visual ones. There are also extra things to be done such as the hamster mini game, the putting together the camera game, and a tea game that is rather interesting as well. The game is better than the first one, though I may have had an easier time with this one because a lot of the puzzles are the same just worded differently. Still, the story progresses nicely and it has a rather good ending too and it features one of the best disguised persons ever.