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    Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights Review: Inconsequential Jones

    His faithful assistant at his side, Jean-Pierre Lautrec, Doctor of Archeology at the Musée d'Histoire Natural in Paris, scanned the horizon for a hidden fleur-de-lis. Beyond that indelibly French symbol lay a labyrinth, one of countless labyrinths hidden underneath the Parisian streets. Within each were puzzles to solve and Treasure Animatus, ancient relics inhabited by dangerous and invisible magical spirits, to battle. The premise of Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights – part Indiana Jones, part Professor Layton, part Pokémon – hints at adventure and discovery flowing like the Seine beneath 19th century Paris. After teasing a MacGuffin about a mysterious treasure connected with Louis XIV, you're informed that you're far too weak to charge toward the main quest and, in typical video game fashion, side quests are in order. A few hours later, it becomes obvious that Lautrec prefers to focus the overwhelming majority of your time on these scattershot odd jobs. %Gallery-131016%

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    Shinobi 3DS review: The Atomic Sauce Challenge

    It's tough being a ninja. Every time you put your feet up and try to relax after crisscrossing the globe in battle, your master betrays you or your girlfriend gets kidnapped or your village gets torched by a rival clan. Before you know it, you're leaping from rooftops again, sword in hand, dicing up rivals and chucking shurikens at levitating magicians. As it was for Joe in Sega's 1987 arcade hit Shinobi, so it is for Jiro, his father, whose arc of the multi-generational plight we follow in Griptonite Games' 3DS prequel. Both games are conveniently titled Shinobi, and both would like nothing more than to happily accept your money and then kill you. Repeatedly. %Gallery-131247%

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