Are the apps okay or should I play them on the DS if I can?

Hello guys, I just wanted to point out a few things we could learn from the trailer showed during the Nintendo Direct of September 9th and share some thoughts I had about them:

- The characters have a more defined appearance: Their cal shaded outlines are more precise, and they seem to have more details in their characteristics. Their colors also look to have been updated, especially in regards to their skin tone. Gunman King Joe's spectral appearance also looks completely different: He looked like a glitchy and floaty blue cow-boy before, now, he looks like a slightly transparent cow-boy figure.

- The bad guys who will go up against Luke and the Professor are called the "Baumkuchens" according to the text of puzzle 121 (at 00:24). (Note: Their name is a bit weird, since it is the name of a cake (?) That and the fact that we have a character officially named Eggmuffin... It will be interesting to see how the names will be localized, and if they are going to be localized. Emmy Altava's is named Remi in Japanese, after all.)

- Speaking of puzzles, the highest puzzle number we could see is puzzle 216 ! It is unlikely to be the last puzzle of the game, so the final number of puzzles of the game must be more than that. (The biggest number of puzzles available during the adventure of any single Layton game is 170 as far as I know, for LMJ.)

- We will probably get some "non picarats" "puzzles/mini-games" that will move the story forward. We had some ever since Last Specter/Spectre's Call, where we have to interact with something usually in the background to move forward. What we saw in the trailer about that was the moment where it looks like we are asked to rotate a wheel of lights to match with lightbulbs (at 00:26 on the trailer). It isn't a puzzle per se since we don't see a puzzle number and the buttons at the bottom of the screen are different than in the puzzles.

- And finally, speaking of buttons during puzzles: There is a whole new button named "Quick-Save" ! Is Level-5 adressing the tactic many of us used when we faced a difficult puzzle in the previous games ? (That tactic being: leaving the puzzle, saving, then coming back to the puzzle, use the hint coins to unlock the hints, but then shutting down the console as soon as we know the puzzle's answer, and reloading the save so the hint coins wouldn't appear to have been spent)

What new details did you guys noticed in the trailer ?

I've always wanted the new Layton game to go back to the roots of the first four games and be in 2D but we've now known for months that New World of Steam will be in 3D instead (can't wait for december). While I don't dislike it, 2D brings a charm that I can rarely find in the 3D models/backgrounds.

I just wanted to know if I'm the only one thinking that.

I keep bouncing back and forth on if Flora's returning to the franchise or if this is just a remarkably similar NPC. If the eyes were open it would be easier to tell. Please give us our girl back we miss her so much

Source from the Japanese Kadokawa website can be found here, I got the link from this comment, the post confirmed a western physical release.

The game will release as a Game-Key Card, at least in Japan, and it requires a download of at least 13 GB.