Product Description

Love puzzle games, but also love an adventure? Now you can have both in one game with Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, an exclusive Nintendo DS adventure-puzzle game that adds a new element of fun by combining the action of an adventure game with the challenge of a puzzle game all in one.

Meet Henry Hatsworth, a quirky, light-hearted character who will guide you on your journey through a new style of gaming adventure on your Nintendo DS. In this two-in-one adventure, explore five exotic worlds, fight a variety of opponents, and venture through more than 30 levels, including nearly a dozen hidden levels while taking on outrageous world-ending bosses.

The separate worlds on the two Nintendo DS screens have a cause and effect interrelationship, and you choose when to switch between conquering the action-platform realm and mastering the increasingly challenging puzzle world. A wide variety of power-ups will help Hatsworth in both of these worlds. Complete puzzle combinations and defeat puzzle enemies in order to gain power ups, health, and energy to supercharge Hatsworth in his adventure.

• Two games in one: Keep on your toes! Make quick switches between the intense action-adventure gameplay and an increasingly challenging puzzle world.
• Non-stop action: Jump, fight, and shoot your way through more than 30 levels, including nearly a dozen of hidden levels and take on outrageous world-ending bosses.
• Everyone needs an adventure: Explore 5 exotic worlds in a mad hunt for artifacts - each of which grants new abilities for Hatsworth and ultimately unlocks a massively powerful golden mech suit.
• Puzzles galore: Solve challenging combo-puzzles in order to gain more health and energy. The more puzzle combos completed, the more you can enhance your melee and ranged weapons and transform Hatsworth into multiple powerful forms.
• Power up: Act

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1620 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-03-20
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description
Meet Henry Hatsworth, a quirky, lighthearted character who will guide you on your journey through a new style of gaming adventure on your Nintendo DS, by combining the action of an adventure game with the challenge of a puzzle game. In this twoinone adventure, explore five exotic worlds, fight a variety of opponents, and venture through more than 30 levels, including nearly a dozen hidden levels while taking on outrageous worldending bosses.

The separate worlds on the two Nintendo DS screens have a cause and effect interrelationship, and you choose when to switch between conquering the actionplatform realm and mastering the increasingly challenging puzzle world. A wide variety of powerups will help Hatsworth in both of these worlds. Complete puzzle combinations and defeat puzzle enemies in order to gain power ups, health, and energy to supercharge Hatsworth in his adventure.

Customer Reviews

Puzzle/platform hybrid fun
This not a bad game at all. It is a mix of platform and cube matching, both of which we've seen before. The Henry Hatsworth bit might be an attempt to cash in on the Professor Layton, period styleadventure...but it's nothing like that.

Takes a wee while to get into, isn't too taxing and quite frankly does exactly what it says on the cover. This is the sort of game that is ideal to pick up, play for 30 minutes, put down, do something else, pick up, play...you know the sort of thing - and it's reasonably priced to boot!

Good Show!!!
Henry Hatsworth is a blend of challenging platform and against the clock puzzling. The puzzle element is simple: match three colours to clear a line. But the puzzle is also used to gain power ups and stop enemies that are dispatched in the platform game from coming back to have their revenge! It is a bit more challenging than Super Mario but then the gameplay is more rewarding and I really think it is the better game.

Graphics are as you would expect with some fun cutscenes but the sound on this game is great with some hammed-up voices for the main characters and audio references to the gentry that sees Henry 'braying like a toff' at various points. Music is good too.

Minor gripes are that the long levels lack intermediate checkpoints so that once you've spent a good 15 mins or so battling on the platform and puzzle of a level, you get nailed by a sword-wielding foe only to be sent back to do it all over again. Although this is part of the challenge I guess and is why this isn't for noobs!

This game will keep you playing for a good few weeks and has that addictive 'one more go' feel that so many games lack now. GOOD SHOW!!!

Surprisingly Good Game
I was half expecting shovelware but had heard good things about this. It's damn fun - gets punishingly difficult much later on with some of the bosses but it has a lot of character. The best thing is that every character is brilliantly designed, not just the main character. The combat is fun and the way the puzzling on the bottom screen works is good, too - it pauses the top screen when you're puzzling on the bottom screen, and the top/bottom interact well, too (powerups affecting both screens, boss attacks which damage the bottom screen, etc).

I'd strongly reccommend this - the metacritic score is 83% and it's only got a few thousand sales worldwide!