So recently I borrowed the first Professor Layton game from my cousin, and it's been quite a lot of fun. It's full of a bunch of cool puzzles, including some old classics. The main story seems a little bland, but I think it'll get more interesting as I go on.
The story revolves around famed puzzle solver Professor Hershel Layton and his apprentice Luke. They are called to a small town out in the country to help solve a puzzle revolving around the will of the late Baron Augustus Reinhold. The Baron apparently left his greatest treasure, the Golden Apple, hidden somewhere in town. And so the rest of the game goes along with Layton and Luke poking around town trying to dig up information on the Apple and solving puzzles along the way. It gets hilarious what lengths the game goes to to present puzzles to you. Often, the town's people refuse to answer Layton's questions until he has solved some random puzzle they thought up.
I love the system that the game uses to present the puzzles. As I said, everyone and their mother has a puzzle for you to solve, and the game makes allowances for when you have a brain fart, and can't figure things out. It rewards you for getting the answer on your first try, but you can try as many times as you want. There are also hint coins that you can find by exploring which let you get a hint, up to three times, on any puzzle. I'm proud to say that I haven't used them too much.
Speaking of the puzzles, they are really varied in difficulty. Of course, the difficulty is relative to how you think, so I've had more trouble with an "easy" puzzle than some of the "harder" ones.
The game uses the DS's touch screen to great effect, having you drag and drop items, circle answers, and examine the world solely through the touch of your stylus.
Well, I'm gonna get back to playing this game. Until next time,
Joseph
The story revolves around famed puzzle solver Professor Hershel Layton and his apprentice Luke. They are called to a small town out in the country to help solve a puzzle revolving around the will of the late Baron Augustus Reinhold. The Baron apparently left his greatest treasure, the Golden Apple, hidden somewhere in town. And so the rest of the game goes along with Layton and Luke poking around town trying to dig up information on the Apple and solving puzzles along the way. It gets hilarious what lengths the game goes to to present puzzles to you. Often, the town's people refuse to answer Layton's questions until he has solved some random puzzle they thought up.
I love the system that the game uses to present the puzzles. As I said, everyone and their mother has a puzzle for you to solve, and the game makes allowances for when you have a brain fart, and can't figure things out. It rewards you for getting the answer on your first try, but you can try as many times as you want. There are also hint coins that you can find by exploring which let you get a hint, up to three times, on any puzzle. I'm proud to say that I haven't used them too much.
Speaking of the puzzles, they are really varied in difficulty. Of course, the difficulty is relative to how you think, so I've had more trouble with an "easy" puzzle than some of the "harder" ones.
The game uses the DS's touch screen to great effect, having you drag and drop items, circle answers, and examine the world solely through the touch of your stylus.
Well, I'm gonna get back to playing this game. Until next time,
Joseph
