Quick Look: Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask

Brobbit nailed it.

1970's Professor Layton with massive hair is awesome. Mr. Collins is hideously deformed.

Props to Ryan Davis for squeezing in the word "polygonally"

Love it. Another fine quick look video. Cheers Giant Bomb crew!

A fortnight is not a week. Like, at all. It's fourteen days. That's why it's called a fortnight.

@FadedOasis said:

A fortnight is two weeks. "Fourteen nights" -> fortnight.

Yeah, jumped in here to post that myself. Not sure if Ryan was mistaken or the game was wrong.

Oh God that bunny part aaaaahhhh my cold heart is melting must.....remain......sarcastic....... BUNNY!!!!!!

Having Vinny on this QL was the right choice. The mphfmphf-nose man stuff was some real comedy gold right there.

Oh man I completely forgot that Luke can talk to animals for no reason at all. These games are amazing.

40 seconds in, and Vinny unintentionally makes an atomic bomb joke. Great stuff already.

ATTENTION DEVELOPERS OF DS GAMES TRANSITIONING TO THE 3DS

Just because you can put more polygons in your games now does not mean that you should. Their novelty wore off about 15 years ago.

Thank you, Drew. I felt some puzzle-watching rage building up, and no one likes that guy.

Tuftie. I did a spit take

Third is a perfectly fine Portishead album @Ryan , you're crazy (Machine Gun and Silence alone makes it worth it)

Three 3DS games: Layton 5, Ace Attorney 5 and Zero Escape, all sequels to 2D DS adventure games that now have turned to 3D for their character models.

Ryan: "Hershel, I'm going to slip something into that girls drink, and YOU'RE going to distract her friends.... That's the deal!"

I love how Brobbit sounds just like Marcello from Amy. :D

Yeah, welcome pizza!

Luke, Ghoul and "Ryan" are actually one being.

Ok, I'm loving this quick look.

I think it's a combination of the game's charm, Vinny's silly voice acting, and Ryan playing along.

Persona 4 X Professor Layton would break my mind.

I want this with all of my heart and balls. 
 
Glad I pre-ordered.

"I see why that layton keeps you around"

Can't stop laughing..

tears flowing.

Love the P4 references. 
 
Also, OH GOD, MR. COLLINS.

Vinny's Luke impression sounds alot like his Ryan Davis impression.

OHHHHHHHH YEEEAHHH THAT'S MR. TUFTIE

I've only played a little of the first game but every video I see of the other game I can't help but comment on how excellent the soundtrack is.

The second portishead album is good too. Third is trash.

I enjoyed Vinny's impression of the deformed teacher way too much.

Loved how Drew shows up to help solve that last puzzle! lol

Who's the boss and Billy Joel references in the first 3 minutes. Really going after that target market!

thinking of starting a Kickstarter to get all of the dialogue in every professor layton game re-dubbed by Vinny.

how much would that cost? like $20?

@algertman:

Possibly about the same as he feels about discovering he'll become a puzzle master when he gets older.

@paulunga:

Exactly! We don't know the wheights, which means the solution should be universal. That's why I set up a 'worst case scenario' where the wheighs sum up to 40 (and I agree, the wheighs could easily be fractions. I just chose something easy).

My point is - according to the rules of the game, my example should be valid, and it shows that the games solution is not universally valid. Maybe I'm just overthinking the game, and assuming that the puzzle should be solved mathematically, but what is the point of the puzzle if the luggage havde actual wheights destributed to them, and we just have to guess what it is, by trial and error. That seems like bad design to me.

Once again - I'm probably missing something, but I can't figure it out myself. :) Thanks for your reply, though.

Never played one of these games, but I kind of want to try this one. It may not be the best, but looks ok. Uncharacteristically i want this, but I am open minded.

Ahaha... Mr. Collins! Just go to the emergency room and point at your face and go, "HELP!"

Oh my gosh... That just cracked me up.

I didn't expect the Quick Look to be this amazing.

Who needs a house out in Hackensack?

I only ever played the first Layton and I didn't finish it. This site needs more voice overs period from the bomb squad. Maybe hook up comicvine with voices for preview theatre. Keep up the videos duders.

Professor Layton and the Cock-Nosed Lisping Monster.

I want to play Vinny's vision of "Professor Layton and the Diablo's Box" with Prison Rabbit as a main character.

Young Layton looks a lot like Patrick haha.

Damn you Ryan, now I want some welcome pizza. There has to be a pizza place somewhere in the world called that

My unhealthy infatuation with Emmy continues.

My local Chinese Grill is call Monte d'Or.

Also, I'm not gonna scream at the computer monitor, because I'm FUCKING STUPID! GOD I am so terrible at these puzzle games. Love the graphics style, which is why Rhythm Thief was much more of a game for me.

This is a really great Quick Look.

well....now i have to buy this game. i should wait but im not haha 40 bones bye bye

Drew for the win. Dexterity/matchsticks +2

Also generally this was a classic Giant Bomb week. Home-run hitter Jeff was gone but all you guys still came to play. Fun great stuff. Awesome content guys.

I would pay for a fandub in which Vinny voices all the text for all the characters.

fortnight is 14 DAYS. jesus are these guys reviewers OR CLOWNS?

@WiqidBritt said:

thinking of starting a Kickstarter to get all of the dialogue in every professor layton game re-dubbed by Vinny.

how much would that cost? like $20?

The question you should be asking instead is whether or not you would want to have Vinny's constant laugh breaks included or have the straight dub. Which would be more hilarious?

@paulunga said:

@Niklas said:

Can someone please explain to me the "Sharing the Burden" puzzle? Given the rules of the game, couldn't the luggage have the following weights:

F=10, E=9, D=8, C=7, B=5, A=1

That would mean: A+B+C+D+E+F=40,

while all the pieces has different weights and weigh 10 or less, as described by the rules.

But if FCA / EDB is the solution stated by the game, porter 1 would carry 18 while porter 2 carries 22, which he can't. Maybe I'm just missing something ( - probably!). It's getting late here.

For one I'm not sure where you're getting those weights from. Secondly, for all we know they might include fractions as well. The point is, we don't know what the weight of the luggage is other than that it's sorted by weight and that there's no suitcase that weighs more than 10 pounds.

he made them up to prove his point. jesus

Is it just me, or does young Layton look like Patrick?