Test Your Brain Power With Professor Layton And The Curious Village

One of the reasons I love this game so much is that it’s easy to pick up and put down. You can play for five minutes at a time or five hours. I should warn you though, last night I picked it up for a quick puzzle in an advert break, and fell into some strange space time continum; the next time I looked up nearly two hours had passed! Probably best to keep your wits about you if you’re on the bus or train.

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Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle - DS

Despite the fact that most of the television adverts seem to be positioning the Nintendo DS as an adult hand-held console many of the games are aimed at the child or casual gamer. Having struggled to find something that might require a few brain cells to play I was intrigued by Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle. This point-and-click adventure stems from a critically acclaimed PC game series. With that kind of pedigree I figured it was worth a look.

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