Initially, Bill Hawks, the Prime Minister of England in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, seems to be a hapless kidnap victim who is being used merely for negotiation purposes between the professor’s team and our main baddies. However, some late-game revelations make his true involvement clear.
As part of a trio of scientists working on a time machine prototype years earlier, Hawks went ahead with testing the unfinished device solely to impress some corporate sponsors, resulting in an explosion that left many dead. Hawks, who still gained enough power from the sponsors to eventually become Prime Minister, had the incident covered up from the public to keep his reputation intact, even having Layton beaten within an inch of his life just for trying to find out what happened to his girlfriend, who was in the blast.
This ultimately results in a victim of the accident going mad and causing mass destruction in London, before Layton ultimately saves the day, and Hawks as well in the process. His response to all this? Talking about how underhanded tactics make him sick, and walking off to rule the country again. The irony here is so thick, you could eat it with a spoon.
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Published: Jun 13, 2013 03:04 pm