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[Professor Layton and the Curious Village] fucking buy it!
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First English trailer
Developer: Level-5
Publisher: Nintendo
Release date: A year ago in Japan, 2/10 in North America, I can't find info for elsewhere
Genre: Adventure/puzzle
Players: 1
The only English screens:
Some Japanese screens:
Trailer at IGN
There's also two sequels: "The Devil's Box" which is out now in Japan with no release date elsewhere, and "The Last Time Travel" which has no release date anywhere yet.
Anyone else looking forward to it? Despite the fact that it's coming out the same day as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, I'm buying it, even though most of my free time will be going to Smash.
Developer: Level-5
Publisher: Nintendo
Release date: A year ago in Japan, 2/10 in North America, I can't find info for elsewhere
Genre: Adventure/puzzle
Players: 1
Wikipedia wrote:A playable demo of Professor Layton and the Curious Village is available on its official web site.[1] The game is essentially a collection of puzzles with adventure style exploration between minigames. The puzzles take the form of brain teasers and are only loosely tied to the plot, although the player must solve a certain number in order to progress past some points in the game. A hint system is also included.
The game is compatible with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, allowing players to connect to the internet and download new puzzles. The first downloadable puzzle was made available on the day of the game's Japanese release, and one new puzzle has been released every week thereafter.
Chiba University Professor Akira Tago supervised direction on the game's development, with Level-5 President and CEO Akihiro Hino serving as producer.
Layton's creation was a direct result of Hino's childhood love of Tago's popular Head Gymnastics series of puzzle books, which have sold more than 12 million copies to date in Japan. The game makes use of over 2,000 puzzles from Tago's books, all of which have been modified to support the DS stylus and touchscreen. Tago also contributed 30 brand new puzzles to the game, developed specifically with the unique capabilities of the Nintendo DS in mind.
The only English screens:
Some Japanese screens:
Trailer at IGN
There's also two sequels: "The Devil's Box" which is out now in Japan with no release date elsewhere, and "The Last Time Travel" which has no release date anywhere yet.
Anyone else looking forward to it? Despite the fact that it's coming out the same day as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, I'm buying it, even though most of my free time will be going to Smash.
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I don't see this selling well at all, but they can't just not localize the sequels for us. That'd be cruel. Besides, it sold surprisingly well in Japan, so maybe the same thing will happen here.
Actually, thinking about it, you know what this game reminds me of? The Dr. Brain series of PC games from ages past. I fucking played Island of Dr. Brain for years. It was the game that introduced the Tower of Hanoi to me, and I'm sure a version of that is in here as well.
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That, and it reminds me of the early morning kids edutainment shows I gotta watch with my god son when I baby sit.
Gameplay wise? I don't really think so, no. But the presenation? Sure. If it has good touch controls and dozens and dozens of puzzles and the anime-style cutscenes are as good throughout as the clips I've seen at least.
- one basic concept, repeated over and over (e.g. Picross, Sudoku)
- "point-and-click" adventures (e.g. Hotel Dusk, Lost in Blue)
Layton, on the other hand, seems like a collection of largely-unrelated logic puzzles. It also seems to be very well-executed. Besides, even if it didn't do anything "new", there'd still be people looking forward to it...there aren't that many puzzle games on the DS, and they tend not to have much replay value, so new titles are appreciated.
This is not an unreasonable supposition, but the sales data doesn't support it. Layton was a slow burner -- it didn't exactly fly off the shelves in its first couple weeks, but it did continue putting up respectable numbers for quite a while. This sort of sales trend is characteristic of games that sell due to word of mouth, not because they were highly anticipated.
or Brawl. 4854.6102.3895 Name: NU..
I believe I _was_ wrong. IIRC, the first title didn't do well, and the series only took off with the second title.
Anyway, this game looks awesome.
Platinum FC: 2880 3245 5111
the wiki quote says the game has over 2000 puzzles in it, so i wouldn't be surprised to see the tower of hanoi in there somewhere.
But instead of your normal line up and whack 'em boss fights, you have a series of progressively mind tickling puzzles.
The one where you circle the village? First puzzle in the game, if I remember correctly.
This game...is good.
Huh, Wikipedia and a few retailers I just checked have it at 2/10 still. Does anyone know if this just changed recently, or it's always been like that? I'll leave the date in the OP be for now.
*shakes fist violently*
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
Edit: I'm dumb. Didn't read the Wiki quote.
Oh, and stop it, Nintendo.
Seriously.
I need some of this money to eat so I can buy more of your stuff later.
More screens and art here
Who's excited?
- Albert Einstein
Boughted.
A downloadable puzzle every week! That's pretty damn sweet.
Where? Just a store? Online order? It would be nice if I could pick it up today.
Yeah, my local EB games woke me up with a phone call telling me it was in.