A fantastic puzzle filled adventure.

User Rating: 9.5 | Professor Layton and the Curious Village DS
Professor Layton is a game that really knows what it is and sticks to it. The game is all about solving brain-teaser style puzzles and that's really what you do. Surprisingly enough, the story to go along with it isn't half bad either!

There are tons of puzzles to solve in this game, something like 130 or so and they'll definitely take some thinking. Solving these puzzles is a great way to get a little go boost because at first glance you'll probably be confused at most any of the puzzles. But eventually the pieces come together (pun!) and everything makes sense.

Solving the puzzles is really the games main focus, there is no fighting or battle system, but just a lot of exploring and puzzling. It plays a lot like a text adventure in you have fixed paths you can choose to move along and things you can interact with. Tapping around the screen will find you hidden objects and talking to people will most often get you into a new puzzle to solve.

The story is a sort of murder-esque mystery and it really takes an extreme twist towards the end. I found myself not wanting to put it down, however, getting stuck on a certain puzzle for to long will definitely cause you to put it down. The only flaw I can see with the game isn't overly hard puzzles, but some of them just plain didn't make sense to me. I found different answers for some that I didn't see any problem with even after getting the answer that matched the game and reading the explanation. I suppose it could just be me, maybe I just plain couldn't understand these, but I think there are a few in there that will stump most people.

There's no reason for me to praise this game over and over again to create a review so long no one wants to read it anyways. So, just take my word. This is an original adventure with an interesting tale, a lot of good brainteasers, good gameplay and even good unlockables. You'll want to solve every puzzle the game has to offer and you surely won't want to stop once you get into it. Don't miss it!