Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
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| Developer(s) | EA Tiburon |
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| Publisher(s) | EA Games |
| Director(s) | Kyle Gray |
| Designer(s) | Peter Ong |
| Programmer(s) | Ryan Pijai |
| Artist(s) | Jay Epperson |
| Composer(s) | Gene Rozenberg |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure game/Platform game/Puzzle game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 82 out of 100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 9 out of 10 |
| Edge | 8 out of 10 |
| Eurogamer | 7 out of 10 |
| Game Informer | 7 out of 10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | B+ |
| GameSpot | 8.5 out of 10 |
| GameTrailers | 9.1 out of 10 |
| IGN | 9 out of 10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8 out of 10 |
| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| Wired |   |
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is a Nintendo DS action-adventure and puzzle game developed by EA Tiburon. It involves a British adventurer, the eponymous Henry Hatsworth, who is on a mission to find the "Golden Suit", garb that allows the wearer to control the "Puzzle Realm". The player must solve puzzles on the touch screen to destroy fallen enemies on the top screen.
While the game is an action-platformer on the top screen, once enemies are defeated by Hatsworth, they are sent to the bottom screen as puzzle blocks. The puzzle game on the bottom screen plays much like Nintendo's Puzzle League, as blocks need to be linked in a chain of three or more of the same color to be cleared, and any blocks resting on top of the cleared ones will fall into their place, potentially leading to a chain reaction of blocks being cleared if they fall into place and end up touching more of the same colors.
As the blocks on the puzzle screen rise, the enemy blocks that touch the upper edge of the screen are revived and can attack Hatsworth again on the top screen. The player can prevent this by swapping blocks to form groups of three or more, causing them to be destroyed, and their energy to add to the "Super Meter". Certain blocks may also power up Hatsworth's attacks, or restore his health, while others may hinder the player. If the Super Meter is filled, Hatsworth becomes younger, and his health increases. If it is then filled to double its capacity, the player can activate a mode called "Tea Time", causing Hatsworth to pilot a mecha (called his Robot Suit) and become invincible until the Super Meter depletes. Using the money earned by defeating enemies or collecting treasure, the player can return to Hatsworth's assistant's shop periodically to buy various upgrades.
Henry Hatsworth, the game's protagonist, is on a mission to find the lost pieces of the Gentleman's Suit, a suit of armour that allows the wearer to control a parallel world known as the Puzzle Realm, in order to obtain the valuable treasures inside this world. The Suit was created by an ancient ruler called "The Gentleman", but hidden after no one else was capable of wielding its power. After finding a golden bowler hat that allows him to manipulate this realm, Henry causes an imbalance, and resolves to find the rest of the pieces to stop monsters from entering his world and claim their world's riches for himself. Each piece of the Suit gives him different special techniques. Later, he and Cole finds out that masterpiece of the golden suit is strong enough to seal puzzle realm and it's hidden into a puzzle realm. But Weasleby gets it first and claims it has made him as god, but Henry defeats him. Afterwards, the nefarious Weasleby gets away and kidnaps Cole. Henry travels to the tea land, final world of the game, to find Weasleby. Henry defeats Weasleby, but finds out that Weasleby was a robot controlled by Cole, who reveals that he was Henry's archenemy all along because he never gets the credit, and so, Henry faces Cole's masterpiece, The Machine, a giant robot in final battle. Henry is able to defeat him and obtains the masterpiece to seal the puzzle realm. After that he returns to place the golden hat to its original place. while credits roll it is shown that Cole puts on the hat which, unfortunately for him since he is a kid, causes him to turn into a baby. Meanwhile, Lance becomes popular with the women despite his baldness, the Captain travels to the Himalayas and LadyD marries the Weasleby robot.
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