Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
| Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask | |
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North American cover art
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| Developer(s) | Level-5 |
| Publisher(s) |
Nintendo
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| Director(s) | Usuke Kumagai Jun Suzuki |
| Producer(s) | Akihiro Hino |
| Composer(s) | Tomohito Nishiura |
| Series | Professor Layton |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
| Release |
Plus
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle, Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 82/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Adventure Gamers |    |
| Destructoid | 8.5/10 |
| Edge | 7/10 |
| EGM | 8.5/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Famitsu | 32/40 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| Game Revolution | |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
| IGN | 8.7/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| Nintendo Power | 8/10 |
| Common Sense Media | |
| Digital Spy | |
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (Japanese: レイトン教授と奇跡の仮面 Hepburn: Reiton-kyōju to Kiseki no Kamen?), is a puzzle adventure video game developed by Level-5. It is the fifth game in the Professor Layton series, the second in the prequel trilogy of games, and the first in the series to be developed for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was produced by Akihiro Hino and composed for by Tomohito Nishiura. Akira Tago provided the game's puzzles, of which there are 150 in addition to 365 made available for download via Nintendo Network. The game's ending theme, "Mysterious Flower", was composed by Yumi Matsutoya.
Miracle Mask was released as a launch title for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on February 26, 2011, becoming the best-selling game on the day of the system's launch with over 117,000 copies sold. The game was released in Europe on October 26, 2012, and in North America on October 28, 2012, both in retail stores and as a download via the Nintendo eShop. On February 6, 2013, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask Plus was released exclusively for the Nintendo eShop in Japan, containing new puzzles and added cutscenes.
Like previous games in the series, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask is a puzzle adventure game split across various chapters. Players explore areas and converse with characters to help solve the mysteries that lay before them. At various points in the game, the player will encounter puzzles that need to be solved. Solving these puzzles earn Picarats, used for accessing bonus content, with more Picarats earned for solving the puzzle without any mistakes. Hint coins can also be found which can be spent to unlock hints to help players solve a puzzle if they get stuck.
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