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My tip to anyone playing a Professor Layton game is if you don’t think you can solve the puzzle with the space provided, or your eyes glaze over reading the instructions, put up a red flag. This puzzle turned my attention, initially, to the difference between my age and my understanding of games.

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask: A Perilous Adventure, Puzzle 70 To exemplify what I mean, I’ve tried to pick some good examples of puzzles where I think the player’s age is all important. Not knowing how such a story-driven game could appeal so much to me a decade later, I’ve had a good think about my puzzling attitudes, and how I think age will change your evaluation of the situation. As such, it’s taken me years to finally play Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, one of the 3DS continuations of the story, and after playing it, I couldn’t help but notice how brilliant Professor Layton really is.Īt the grand old age of 21, I still love Professor Layton, but for a whole host of new reasons, reflected in the gameplay, puzzles, and story. And then the 3DS appeared and DS games (and series) shuffled over to their new platform I shuffled along too, but to a PS4. I couldn’t have been older than 11 when I completed the Curious Village and in coming years I devoured other subsequent titles like Pandora's Box (also known as the Diabolical Box in the USA) and the Lost Future (aka the Unwound Future). Although I played the original game long ago, I can still visualise some of the puzzles I particularly enjoyed, or swelled with pride after completing. Although I think they were at their most charming on the DS rather than the 3DS, I don’t think I could recommend a series more highly to all age groups. It proved to be a fateful moment.Įver since, the Professor Layton games – just like the DS – have secured a special place in my heart.

My mum also had a DS, and hadn’t taken a fancy to the cartoony style and dark implications contained therein, so, hungry for a new challenge, the young me scrambled to claim the cartridge and loaded it up.

As a kid, often what was advertised to me were games featuring brands like Pokémon or Mario – titles certainly respectable and family friendly – but one day Professor Layton and the Curious Village caught my eye. Preoccupying me for hours over several years, that little plastic plaything accompanied me here, there and everywhere and with it, my strange assortment of games. Like many others, the Nintendo DS has a special place in my heart.

Professor layton and the curious village puzzle 66