professor layton and the mysterious village
Click to viewi am kind of madly in love with this game. c'est magnifique :) the animation is beautiful and lovingly done, a kind of mix between the old french cartoon tintin and japanese ghibli films (the dialogue is kinda sorta a mix of the two as well, as far as my brain can parse mixing french and japanese?). there are cut scenes! voice acting! everything is fluid and quick and the way everything is designed is sort of just lovely and gently addictive. the puzzles are great- not too hard, not too easy, but just enough to make you feel extremely satisfied with yourself for solving them. actually, all the logic puzzles of the game are from chiba university's akira tago, who's the author of a popular series of puzzle books- they're all perfect for the touch screen and stylus. i recommend this game really highly for anyone else who loves logic puzzles of any kind... it reminds me of being a kid again and getting to leave class once a week to go to 'gifted class' and just do logic puzzles and stuff like that most of the day *_* i've only been playing for a day and am already addicted. i wonder if this game going to be released in english? i want to get it for my dad because i think he'd like it (i got him a ds and brain age recently), but he can't read jp.
gyakuten saiban 4 and nodame cantabile ds are still waiting at the post office for me... gotta go pick them up tomorrow after work O_O
also: the new tori amos album; probably her best album in recent years, but on two or three listens, there hasn't been anything that's magnetically drawn me to it, the way her first few albums did when i was a young'un. have i outgrown tori, or is it that she's lost her zing?