It starts off showing Layton, Luke, and Flora just concluding a case and catching Don Paulo... Then Luke starts describing the story of when they were invited to a theatre by an opera singer... This woman's friend, Melina, has somehow returned but is now in the body of a little girl.. that girl says she was given the gift of eternal life...
Layton explains the legend of the "Ambrosia" people, who used to worship their queen and her beautiful singing voice.. but then one day that queen got sick and died... Shortly after she died, they invented an eternal life elixer. so they all started taking the elixer and waiting for their queen to revive...
At the end of the performance, some unknown person takes over the stage and tells everyone they are about to play a game where the winner gets granted eternal life, and the losers will lose their lives... Inspector Grosky is there and he tries to arrest this person, but that person turns out to be a decoy balloon figure.. The whole theatre suddenly turns into a boat and they are now sailing through shark-infested waters, and being forced to play this game...
Puzzle 001: Find the oldest thing you can see. Layton realizes that doesn't specifically say it has to be on the ship, and he and a bunch of other people go to where they can see the stars in the sky...
Puzzle 002: Find the biggest crown on this ship. Luke thinks he has solved this puzzle and yells out that the solution is that big crown at the entrance... but Layton has other ideas... he takes Luke and Janice out to the dock, where a bunch of other passengers had the same idea as him... one of the passengers is treating everyone else as enemies and wanted to trick people into going to the wrong solution... They all get onto lifeboats and start rowing away from the theatre ship, until eventually they see that the ship itself is in the shape of a giant crown.
Layton, Luke, and Janice are all on the same boat as the orchestra player and Melinda... The orchestra player is the original Melinda's father, and he says that he adopted this girl because she reminded him of her... He doesn't seem to be on the same side as the villain, but this
Layton explains the legend of the "Ambrosia" people, who used to worship their queen and her beautiful singing voice.. but then one day that queen got sick and died... Shortly after she died, they invented an eternal life elixer. so they all started taking the elixer and waiting for their queen to revive...
At the end of the performance, some unknown person takes over the stage and tells everyone they are about to play a game where the winner gets granted eternal life, and the losers will lose their lives... Inspector Grosky is there and he tries to arrest this person, but that person turns out to be a decoy balloon figure.. The whole theatre suddenly turns into a boat and they are now sailing through shark-infested waters, and being forced to play this game...
Puzzle 001: Find the oldest thing you can see. Layton realizes that doesn't specifically say it has to be on the ship, and he and a bunch of other people go to where they can see the stars in the sky...
Puzzle 002: Find the biggest crown on this ship. Luke thinks he has solved this puzzle and yells out that the solution is that big crown at the entrance... but Layton has other ideas... he takes Luke and Janice out to the dock, where a bunch of other passengers had the same idea as him... one of the passengers is treating everyone else as enemies and wanted to trick people into going to the wrong solution... They all get onto lifeboats and start rowing away from the theatre ship, until eventually they see that the ship itself is in the shape of a giant crown.
Layton, Luke, and Janice are all on the same boat as the orchestra player and Melinda... The orchestra player is the original Melinda's father, and he says that he adopted this girl because she reminded him of her... He doesn't seem to be on the same side as the villain, but this
