Konami today released a Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights online, flash based game to announce the release date for the full game, coming to Nintendo 3DS on December 13, 2011.

The demo, reconstructed from the full game and adapted for the PC, will bring you into 19th century Paris and introduce you to Doctor Lautrec and his pesky and too-inquisitive assistant, Sophie. While not the full experience, the flash demo will give players a tune-up and tests their deductive reasoning, memory recollection and problem solving skills in a fun and enchanting world. Each puzzle, solved correctly, will unlock a new area for players to explore. But players aren’t alone in their search as a cast of malevolent characters are also on the hunt for the treasure.

To play the Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights flash game click here.

Here’s the first of what looks like a series of planned developer diaries for Konami’s Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights.
Konami’s investigative quest will give you full control over Lautrec as he wanders around 19th century Paris attempting to find treasure in caves. There are also battles to get stuck into which have you using spirits that come in a variety of forms, including human, beast and bird types. You can give these spirits orders using a circular command pad on the lower screen.

That will hopefully set it apart from competing detective franchises.

Doctor Lautrec And The Forgotten Knights will be released for the 3DS in the West this Summer.

Check out the trailer for Konami’s upcoming Parisian set, though filled with British accents, 3DS action-RPG/Professor Layton clone. Although the trailer doesn’t show it, Doctor Lautrec is meant to be a rather unlikable and immoral character with interest in little other than puzzle solving; a ‘shadow’ Layton, if you will…

Thanks to Siliconera for the info