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    Professor Layton and the Curious Village

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Feb 10, 2008

    Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a point and click adventure puzzle game set in a charming village with enigmatic characters. Solve over 120 puzzles given to you by the villagers to help you solve the mystery of the 'Golden Apple'.

    damnboyadvance's Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo DS) review

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    Train your brain in EVEN MORE minutes a day

     

    Professor Layton is not just a Brain Age game. All Brain Age does is attempt to challenge you in easy ways that you learned to do in 1st grade, so easy that a 7 year old could do it (no offense). But Professor Layton and the Curious Village does way more than that. It challenges you in not only in basic ways, but it challenges you using logic. _ _ is 1,000 times _. The anwser is m, but how? This is the kind of thing that challenges everyone. You can spend 20 minutes on some of these puzzles and when you finally get it right, it will make you think "Why didn't I think of that at first?" I speak for you when I say at least 20 of the puzzles were extremly tough.

    You play during the game as both Professor Layton and his apprentince, Luke. What happens is that the Professor is heading to St. Mystere since he got a request from Lady Delia. What happend is that her late husband, Baron Reinhold, passed away two months ago. His will was disclosed and read something around "The Reinhold family treasure, the golden apple, is hidden somewhere beneath this village. To whomever successfully locates this treasure, I offer the whole of my estate." Naturally, everyone set out for it but after long searches, everybody came back empty handed. A little later on when you get to the manor, Lady Delia's cat, Claudia, is scared off by a mysterious noice. Professor Layton and Luke have to go get back Claudia, but when they come back, they find something horrible has happend. Lady Delia's cousin was ed, and Professor Layton just happens to be a suspect. So this game unlike Brain Age and Big Brain Academy actually has a fun and intresting plot while still maintaining the challenging puzzles.

    The game challenges you in many different ways ranging from easy to tough, such as "What is the last letter of the alplhabet? Hint: It isn't Z". Not all these puzzles are easy enough for young children. Most puzzles require lots of thinking but when figured out, everything makes perfect sense.

    The game has supported Wi-Fi connection. What you can do with it is download brand new puzzles every week for free of course, but it's been closly proven that it is already on the game, all you're doing is downloading a code to make it playable.

    The game should take you maybe, 10 or more hours to beat, but it's still not over after that. Once you beat the game, you can unlock some more way tougher puzzles. Those should take you 10 times longer to beat maybe, but all of them are still worth a try. But it's STILL not over after that. There are some videos you can unlock which get more into the game, but sorry folks, you'll have to wait because to unlock those as those codes are in Professor Layton 2!

    This game challenges you in it's own way unlike most other educational games. With an actual plot and lots of things to do in this game, this is probably one of the hardest and yet funnest educational game yet.

    Other reviews for Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo DS)

      Critical thinking is the key to success 0

      There is something to be said for a healthy dose of charm in a game. When a game is genuinely charming, it leaves you with a distinctly warm, fuzzy feeling that's hard to beat. Professor Layton and the Curious Village is one game that is superbly charming by any measure. Its clever brain teasers don't hurt proceedings either, and the overall package is a strong one that will have you constantly coming back for more.It's not just one thing that lends Professor Layton its charm either. The beautif...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

      An excellent addition to any DS owners' library 0

      As I--and many--argue, gameplay is the most important aspect of a game. Arguably, without this aspect a game would crumble. Professor Layton, however, excels in this aspect. Nearly every one of the puzzles made me think logically; almost all of the answers are something seemingly incorrect. Albeit there were a few easy puzzles that I solved with a mere glance, most of the puzzles made me sit down and think "how does this work?" As if the puzzles weren't enough (most any other game developer wou...

      4 out of 5 found this review helpful.

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