Professor Layton and the Curious Village is Worth Your While

Are you looking forward to the release of Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm? Well, neither am I.

However, if you are looking for a game to play I highly recommend Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It is the best game that I have played in a long time. (Other than Rock Band, of course!) This is a puzzle mystery where you follow Professor Layton and his young sidekick to a strange village in order to help a family find their inheritance that was hidden by the crazy Baron before he died.

There are many reasons this game is fun. So I thought I would list them out:

The puzzles are varied and you can skip them.

This means that you are not stuck on one type of puzzle that you would never ever be able to solve without the help of a cheat before you can advance. There are so many different types of puzzles that if you hate one kind you can mostly just skip it and still win the game, yeah!

The puzzles make sense.

Most games that I have played have puzzles integrated into the story that make no sense to me. Why do I want to have a falcon catch a ring or feed a monkey a banana? Maybe I just think the monkey should be able to walk a few feet and get its own banana. In Professor Layton the puzzles are either to help someone out with a problem they have or they are puzzles that villagers ask you to solve that they have created.

The characters are developed and interesting.

You don’t get to know all the back story on Professor Layton and Luke, his sidekick, but you get to know enough that you care. I wanted to help all the people in the game solve their problems. The writing was key, which is why game writers deserve more credit.

It takes less than 10 hours to solve.

Unlike some games that take forever to solve and seem to think that repetition of the same puzzles over and over again is the way to my heart, Professor Layton is solvable in less than ten hours. If you are like me and you like to look around and see the sights it can take thirteen, but that can be fun too.

It is for the Nintendo DS.

If you don’t have one, you should. The Nintendo Dual Screen (DS) is the best portable game system out there. It is good on planes, trains, in cars, and sitting in the living room. The technology is awesome and easy to navigate. No taking forever for the load screen, no having to turn on the game system and the TV and wait for the whole thing to boot. You just open it up and go.

So there you have it. So go buy it already.