Ever wonder if you spend too much time thinking about the obscure? Ponder an existence devoted entirely to solving puzzles? Add overtures of Sherlock Holmes and you get Professor Layton & the curious village.
With a weekend between two sets of exams, I picked up what I thought would be a long winded adventure game. Of course the ludicrous nature of the game. Puzzles, puzzles everywhere appealed to me. I am a freak for puzzles. Even while purchasing the game I scoffed at the warnings of the Game Stop manager, “it is pretty hard,” a situation that wet whet my appetite.
I have a sense the game was not designed for me. In less than 48 hours not only did I solve every puzzle, the entire story was laid out before me. It might take “regular’ folk longer to finish the game, especially since not everyone has 8 hours straight a day to play simple little video games.
With the exception of too-frequent audio loops, the only nuisance is how simple the plot is. Predictability is not good when the story is (supposed to be) a mystery. At least the characters are memorable and, as the final video played, I cannot wait for the sequel, supposedly titled Professor Layton and Pandoras Box. Thirty five dollars might be too much if you go insane with puzzles (like yours truly) but if taking a few puzzles at a time and thinking about the underlying mysteries while doing living your regular life sounds fun, it’s certainly more amusing than Sonic Rush was.
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