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Bad Professor Layton! Very Bad!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Professory Layton is a bad game. I skipped a shower on Saturday, failed to do my laundry, cook meals (hot pockets aren't that bad actually) and didn't want to leave the house. My back hurt from spending days on the couch, I slept poorly and I took a long lunch yesterday to keep playing!!!!

This game is addicting. I bought in on Friday night and by Sunday afternoon I completed it. I was up all night until 3 am on Sunday morning, slept a few hours and wittled away my afternoon on the couch.

Although, I am still trying to locate 3 of the puzzles within the game. I clocked close to 13 hours on this stupid thing within the first 48 hours of owning it. I do admit, several of the puzzles did require pen and paper. The 33,333 was the most difficult for me. But many of the puzzles just require you to read it carefully to understand it and the answers are sort of a "DUH!" once you "get it."

The story is aptly termed "a light hearted mystery." It's fun, interesting, creative, easy to follow, but most of all challenging and intriguing.

I highly recommend this game and if you want to wait about another week, I'll be selling mine. jennw84@gmail.com

Save your dough and don't buy Brain Age, this is a lot better!

Fast Moving, Tough Puzzles, Much Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Not knowing much about the Nintendo DS that my wife recently purchased me, I decided to give this game a try since the young lady at the game store recommended it. Having played about half way through the game now, I believe this is one great game. The story line is interesting and the game offers one puzzle after another for you to solve. The puzzles themselves range from easy to hard.

Overall I do recommend this guy if you have a job like mine and can sit and think for a while. This is not a shooter game so most of your time is not walking around the town or even looking for that many clues but its about the puzzles. Be prepared to think.

Great game, but too short and no replay value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Being located in the UK, I bought this game when it came out but had to wait until a friend of mine was visiting me to be able to actually receive it. So I got it last week.

It's a really great concept and the animated sections are fantastic - they look like anime - but it was too short and seems to abruptly speed up and then end. The gameplay at first is very slow and it feels like it will be a really long (but highly enjoyable game). At one point I was estimating that there might be 300 puzzles overall in the game, based on how many I had done so far and how far I had gotten in the main game objective. But suddenly nearly all of the ten Mysteries were marked "Solved" and I realised I was nearly at the end! There are a total of 100 storyline puzzles, 20 additional "hidden" puzzles, and 15 puzzles for completing special objectives (5 categories with 3 puzzles each). I have done all of the storyline puzzles, 18 of the 20 hidden puzzles (can't find the other two), and unlocked 3 of the special objective categories and completed the 9 puzzles there...all in less than 9 hours of gameplay. If I'd known it would be that short I'd have probably waited until the price dropped. I'm hoping that the sequel will be much longer.

I'm not that interested in replaying it, as I've already done all the puzzles and they wouldn't be challenging. I'd be very pleasantly surprised if the puzzles were different the second time around but I really doubt that they'd do that.

Alas, Unbalanced

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love most of this game -- the story, the translation, the music and voice acting, the artwork, the fact that if you can read and hold the stylus, you can play it. If I love it, why do I only give it an overall 3 stars? Because the puzzles themselves are deeply unbalanced.

The game has a difficulty-rating system (called picarats) which purports to tell you how hard the various puzzles are, ranging from 10/90 to 90/90. There's also a hint-coin system, where you collect coins with which you can purchase hints. Unfortunately, both systems are broken.

The puzzles gives you instructions, then when you break down and buy the first hint, it either A) restates the instructions or B) gives you a suggestion that is either singularly unhelpful or something that you've already tried. (Example: Puzzle Sez: Three people have placed identical umbrellas in an umbrella-stand. What's the probability that one of them will grab an umbrella that isn't theirs? First Hint: You don't have to do any complicated math to figure this out! Er, excuse me? How is that a hint!?) The second and third hints are not usually much better, though they have a higher rate of helpfulness to lack thereof.

The other problem with the game is that the puzzles do not start out easy and increase in difficulty as you get closer to the end. They're randomly sprinkled throughout the town of St. Mystere, and if you get stuck on one you may not be able to advance the story. (Fortunately, there's at least one excellent walkthrough at GameFAQs.com -- it's the only reason I beat the game.)

To be fair, the rating of the difficulty of puzzles is probably one of the harder things to do -- being a very visual person with an emphasis on kinesthetics, I have a better time with puzzles that can be solved by drawing pictures or moving pieces. Logic puzzles, on the other hand, I hate hate hate with a burning passion.

So if you like, or are not bothered by, randomly-difficult puzzle and not-so-helpful hints, then this game is for you. If you'd rather play something that's less-frustrating, you may wish to look elsewhere.

It was great while it lasted!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed the puzzles and found them to be just about the right level of difficulty (for an adult), maybe a little on the easy side. The story was cute and I felt like I was wandering around a small European village. I would agree that the music gets a little repetitive at times.

I'm bummed that I finished it already, but look forward to the downloads and the next version. When's it coming?

Too easy??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I must be a moron. After reading some of these reviews of people saying this game was too easy....there were quite a few puzzles that I could not figure out (being adult it's not easy to admit). Although I have to agree with those who said it could have been longer. Between my husband and I, I reached the end of the game the day after I got it. But it does give you the option to return to the game and solve the puzzles you didn't finish or find any puzzles you may have missed.

It's got a great story, and the mystery you're trying to solve while doing the puzzles is great too. I had an idea of what the outcome would be not long before I got to the end, but not knowing what kind of puzzle will come next made it fun.

Game of the Year contender

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Just a quick summary for anybody who isn't already convinced that this is a "must own" game for the DS. Great story, great presentation (there are even video clips with excellent voice acting), nice and stylized graphic feel that sets the mood perfectly, and even a feature I have never seen in a game before - a story recap when you resume from a save game, so you remember where you were (great if you save, then pick it up a couple weeks later).

And of course, the puzzles are incredibly fun and challenging. All of these things combined make for an absolutely top notch game, one which I hope to see at least nominated for a GotY award.

Best DS Game Out There!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this for my 10 year old daughter for our long Spring Break car ride. She has quite a few ds games, but since getting Pokemon Diamond for Christmas she has steadfastly refused to play any other game... till now. I love this game because it's a series of brain-teasing puzzles set in a lush backdrop of beautiful graphics and engaging characters. She loves it and has barely been able to put it down since getting it. She works on each puzzle herself, but when getting stuck (very stuck, that is) she'll ask for my help or dad's. It's fun for us to figure these puzzles out too! As an added bonus, you can download new puzzles each week directly to the ds via the WiFi.

Alot of game in a small package!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This little game has a simple layout, deceivingly simple. Once you begin to be challenged to solve the puzzles, over 100 of them, you find out this is no kid's game. The puzzles are varied and interesting. Some very challenging, some just requiring that you think "outside the box". All were great fun. I spent over 14 hours with this game to get to the end. Even then, there is an abundance of bonus material to play with. And better yet, many of the puzzles can be enjoyed again and again. Another thing I liked about game is that there is no time pressure, I hate games that are timed, I don't like to be so commited to a game that I can't stop to grab a phone call or talk to someone who walks by. I hope they bring out a sequal.

A game for older adults

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son gave me a DS for Christmas '07. I have bought several brain games and love them all. But I enjoyed this one the best. I am 49 years young, and enjoyed the puzzles and the stories. Some of the puzzles seem simple enough-until you try to solve them. Excellent game-would recommend this to everyone!

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