Professor Layton: Every puzzle has an answer (even puzzles that are smelly)

[myth]

A smelly man at Target sold me Professor Layton and the Curious Village about a week ago. He smelled really bad, like emergency bad, and I've had a moral crisis over the past week wondering if I should have alerted his fellow employees, or his supervisors, or the local health board-anyone in a position to break the news to him gently, to shuffle

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[zixyer]

That smelly man reminds me of a puzzle I once heard...

[casey]

I guess this is mild spoiler material (I'll keep it vague), but--

I was kind of amused when they actually put a REASON as to why people just randomly present puzzles to you with little pretense and sometimes not even as a way to challenge you before giving you what you want. The reason is kind of silly and doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it's there nonetheless.

That said, I loved the game. I just realized I want a Professor Layton userpic. I love his character design the most out of all of them.

[myth]

I'm pretty sure I want to go as Professor Layton for Halloween or something. But where do you get a jacket with a collar like that?!

[kvance]

The thing is, I don't even like brainteasers...

This is exactly how I felt. Much the same thing happens in Puzzle Quest, where you happily play the same second-rate Bejeweled game over and over... because there is an RPG tacked on!

I am also willing to admit that I wrote *two* python scripts attempting to solve a certain puzzle before I finally used my hint coins to find out it was a trick.

[myth]

It's different from Puzzle Quest, though... after a session of PQ I always felt groggy and kind of ashamed (like, did I just spend four hours doing that?). Professor Layton made me feel kinda good about myself, like I was getting cultured and smarter. Maybe that's just an illusion, though...

[faepuck]

If you haven't, yet, you should try Zack and Wiki for the Wii. It's a whole lot of hardcore point-and-click object-based puzzles with clever little gestures, making the objects more complex as you interact with them. Very fun.

[myth]

It's already high on my list of games to get when I finally get a Wii. (Has to take a back burner to SMG and MP3, though...)

[casey]

I would consider playing Zack & Wiki before MP3 if I were you.