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Professor Layton and the Curious Village | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  142 reviews
Sales Rank: 264
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: NTRPA5FE
UPC: 045496739270
EAN: 0045496739270
ASIN: B000U5W3IW
Release Date: February 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 130 puzzles | | • | Touch Screen controls | | • | New puzzles are available weekly for download via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection | | • | Fully voiced animated scenes |
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Product Description
In Professor Layton and the Curious Village, you'll tackle over 130 puzzles as you unravel the mysteries of the village. Puzzles range from mazes and riddles to logic and sliding puzzles. Touch Screen controls make working through puzzles fun for players of all skill levels, and new puzzles are available weekly for download via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Fully voiced animated scenes bring the story to life, while the eccentric villagers and the hand-drawn art provide a charm that appeals to gamers and non-gamers alike.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 The music will stick in your head! October 8, 2008
One of the best games I've played on the DS, though it does have one huge, glaring fault. In the end, it turns into a bit of a pixel-hunt.
Overall, the game play - which integrates brainteasers with an engaging plot - is superb. It's a slow-paced thinking game, great for those of is without the reflexes needed to play a lot of the arcade-style games out there. It's also more fun than a lot of the 'train your brain' games, while making you think just as much. I was very sorry to come to the end!
The downside, though, is a big, frustrating one. They've tried to solve the worst of it by giving you a hint coin and puzzle finding gizmo towards the end, but it's rather hit-and-miss. Just because it doesn't hit on a still-unfound puzzle in one scene doesn't mean it's not there - you might have to visit the scene half a dozen times or more before you get a hint! And, of course, it seems to have a preference to finding the hint coins over the puzzles. Still, I was able to preserve and find all but one of the puzzles. The last, I have to admit, I looked to a walkthrough to find. It would be wonderful if you could 'buy' a hint screen towards the end that at least showed you what scene you had hidden puzzles left in!
A lot of the puzzles are a bit repetitive (there are several 'pitcher' and 'chess' and 'sliding puzzle' ones) and some are a little tricky and a pit finicky, but with perseverance (and an occasional hint!) it's easy enough to work your way through the whole game.
I have to admit, if the plot were a book I might call it predictable, but as a backdrop to a game it was fun and worked well. And guessing the ending is just another part of the fun!
Evidently they're making a sequel, and I will be first in line to buy it. Highly recommended for all ages!
 Puzzlessssssssssss October 6, 2008
I loved this game of puzzles. Solving all kinds of puzzles and trying to move from one place to another and trying to find clues and coins. It kept my interest till I had solved all the puzzle and also the FINAL puzzle to solve the mystery. I didn't go on line to download more puzzles, but that is an option.
Boring story but interesting puzzles October 5, 2008
The puzzles were interesting to do. I would take this game to restaurants and while my husband and I were waiting for our food, we'd figure out a puzzle together. But the story was tedious and I had to click past many screens as various characters had conversations with each other. It got more exciting as the action started picking up and we got into the amusement park and tower, whereas wandering around the village was getting tedious. I finally figured out to stay focused on my assignment rather than stopping to solve every puzzle I passed. There's some good websites if you get stuck on a puzzle, and even videos on YouTube which show exactly had to solve some of the trickier sliding puzzles.
Keeps on Giving After You're Done September 25, 2008
I second everything great review on this game. I was addicted for a month straight. It was all my free time. Best DS game I own.
But the feature I like most about this game is that unlike every other game that you play and play until you beat it and then never touch it again, P.L. and the C.V. continues to provide you with new puzzles every week! As long as you have a wireless internet connection for your DS, you can download a brand new puzzle to solve every week! The game never ends! It keeps on giving!
"Layton's apprentice saves the day!"
So annoying it's great! September 24, 2008
I love this game--emphatically. The cut scenes, what they call "movies," are beautifully rendered, and quite a surprise to find in a DS game (that stuff is usually left to the PSP). Correction: There are some games out there with movielike cut scenes but terrible game play. Professor Layton is not one of these games. The story is a great mystery, and there are several challenges posed to the gamer: trying to find all the hint coins, trying to find out who in the village will give you a puzzle (not all of them do), trying to find the puzzles hidden in the environment, and then solving the puzzles themselves.
These puzzles are not new; they're based on age-old math and logic. However, these types of puzzles challenge the way we think: I'm far better at certain puzzles than my friend, who is better at other types of puzzles than I am. It's great to learn how YOU, as the gamer, think and solve problems.
The other thing I liked about this game is the two internal "quests": collecting jigsaw pieces and collecting furniture. You are rewarded with pieces or furniture by solving certain puzzles in the game.
If that wasn't enough, if you collect all of the jigsaw pieces and all of the furniture, you unlock bonus "rooms" in a special section called Layton's Puzzles. Layton's Puzzles has five rooms, and each room has three puzzles a piece (all of them hard!).
There are great "side dishes" to this game, like the chance to rewatch the cut scenes, listen to the dialog, character descriptions, and the all-annoying Top Secret room, which requires a code you can only get when the sequel comes out! (As a matter of fact, Nintendo has confirmed a sequel entitled "Professor Layton and the Devil's Box," and there is a rumor for a third one floating around.)
Some of these puzzles are easy; some are hard. I'm not sure puzzle players younger than 12 years of age will appreciate this game, since some of the puzzles require logic that some younger kids may not yet have learned or understand. But this game is a definite must for older kids and for adults who love a good brain teaser to perplex and confound you!
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