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 inter-relationship, 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.

I found this game one day while shopping around and I thought what in the world is this? A guy with a sword and drinking tea? Looks strange I'll buy it.

I found one of my favorite DS games ever. It combines action and platforming on the top screen as well as puzzles on the bottom screen.

You can easily alternate between the two and there are times when it can get hectic. The game is challenging no doubt about it but definitely worth it.

You travel to various levels and at anytime return to previous ones.
This game seems to be getting harder and harder to find so if you have the chance go grab it.

It's one of those where you think this looks strange but you will be hooked.

People who enjoy just one genre or the other may find this game difficult though since there are times when it can be unforgiving.

Plus the soundtrack is catchy.

The puzzle part is similar to tetris games where you match same colors. If you match certain items as well you will get boosts in health, items to help in the game or even summon a robot suit to help you.
Believe me when you see that for the first time you will say "wow that's cool".

Neither the puzzle elements nor the platforming elements are very compelling on their own, and that's really the fatal flaw of this game. It's two mediocre games stapled together. The whole IS greater than the sum of the parts, but somehow I was expecting more from this mashup than was delivered. A worthy attempt that may yield a great sequel, but this one is a renter.

This game is amazing. If you're at all a fan of super polished, extremely charming sidescrollers (like Goemon or Strider or Kirby or Ristar or Rayman or Starfy or Mega Man) than stop reading and buy this game. I'm not even that big a fan of puzzle titles, and I gotta admit, the puzzle component to Henry Hatsworth had me hooked.

So the game is a sidescroller, but the bottom screen has a puzzle game constantly (slowly) going on. At any time, you can switch between which game/screen you're working on (while puzzling, the top screen is paused). As you do stuff in the platformer parts, you build up a bar that lets you stay in the puzzle game. And as you puzzle away, you earn powerups that take immediate effect in the platformer half. For example; clear a lightning block in puzzle mode, and when you return to the platformer part a lightning shock will paralyze all enemies on screen. There are tons of powerups, so you're encouraged to puzzle away, and since you only have to play it in short bursts, it gets quite addicting fast. It's frankly, brilliant. I can't believe no one has ever combined these two genres before! Let alone so well.

The game is gorgeous with personality to spare; this dude and his crazy, adventuresome, London-esque world (complete with his tea-time robot suit, and Union Jack anime-style swooshy background) is way too loveable. The art all around is great, with fantastic use of colors and loads of personalities for every character in the game. The gameplay is rock solid - this guy can platform with the best of them. The fighting is tight, responsive and rewarding, with nice amount of depth (juggles!). And the platforming is kept fresh with plenty of new moves. For example, once you find the Golden Gentleman's Trousers, you can do wall jumps - which comes in handy 'cuz you'll need 'em. The levels are really well designed. The game is fantastic!

It's original, it's charming, it's polished, it's unique - but most importantly it's fun as heck. I can't believe that Tiburon, the same EA studio responsible for Madden year in and year out, had the creativity and skill to put this together. If no one told me, I'd swear this was a long lost Konami or Capcom SNES game. It's fantastic.

Buy it!

This is not your kid's puzzle game! This game is great- difficult and just slightly frustrating. It has some depth to it- the basic gameplay is a mix of Mario Bros on the top screen of the DS, and Bejeweled on the bottom (you only play one at a time). So far I'm not even halfway through the game, and I've already played hours of it.

I ended up getting this game for free from a friend and was ecstatic about it. From the start the top screen mario-style action was consistently challenging enough to remain fun. The bottom screen bejewled-style game play was never overly challenging, but clever and fun in the way that it effected the top-screen play. After getting to the third or fourth level though I found myself completely unable to beat the level boss. I checked with a friend to discover that he had also had a lot of difficulty starting around that level. I've seen reviews from others who seem to have completed the game with no difficulty, but I was unable to complete this game as I grew too frustrated to wish to continue. This is perhaps not a good game for children or those who get frustrated easily as one might initially assume.